POLL: Do you smoke cigarettes?

WOW....big participation on this one! Thanks all for satiating my nosy curiosity! Very interesting poll

You're very welcome, Gina.  Anything else you wanna know?  Just do another poll.

Joyce

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I smoked for 26 years and quit cold turkey....
No one believed that I could do it....I smoked a lot....

It's been at least 5 years since I quit....I don't even remember anymore?

My Grandma smoked for about 26-27 years too...then she found out my Mom was pregnant (with me!) and quit cold turkey that day. She never went back and it's been 23 years!

I can't stand cigarette smoke and have never had the vaguest urge to put a cigarette in my mouth. There are 20 people in my office and not one of them smokes with any kind of regularity, although I've heard the boss smokes occasionally. I probably wouldn't loathe it so much if more smokers disposed of their butts thoughtfully. The litter butts create is unbelievable, and they start fires! Just a few years ago a huge tract of land up near my parents' house was burnt out due to someone throwing a cigarette butt out of their car window on the freeway on a hot and windy day. It was declared a natural disaster zone afterwards. Just imagine all the animals that died as a direct result of the fire and of starvation and exposure in the weeks following the fire.

One time someone disposed of all their cigarette butts in my gym bag I had left in the stands while I was ice skating. I've never been so repulsed in my life. Except for maybe the time someone dropped a large glass jar filled with cigarette ash in the bin room and the smell was so strong I could taste it even while I was holding my breath and taking shallow breaths through my sleeve. Yuck. It's nothing personal, smokers, I just HATE cigarettes, and I do feel annoyed when someone near me is smoking and the smoke is drifting into my face.