On a more serious topic....
How is this an actual thread?
Have we ran out of things to bicker about?
Im not a fan of when people fart upwind of me.
Its selfish and there is no direct action revenge that I can do to fight against it.
Im just saying.
Select to expand quoteAdrian Roper said..Kamikuza said..
That'd be fine, if it wasn't YOUR tax dollars paying for their cancer and emphescema treatments...
Funny thing here, where most of the population seems to smoke, is in the kiters there are only one or two who do. And I wish the dickheads wouldn't stand around my kite while doing it.
Why do it? Cos nicotene is more addictive than heroin.
if you do the maths on this it does not really stack up. In NZ the government basically looks after you until you die after you retire. If you smoke heaps and die early you are actually saving the government and the tax payers money.
It has always been said that the taxes on cigarettes are to help pay for your cancer treatment etc, seems like a much bigger saving in taxpayers money if you die sooner and they do not have to pay for your retirement home etc.
haha so true.
I was thinking maybe there is actually a reason people smoke after a session. Much like how people smoke to heighten the effect of MDMA and other drugs perhaps people smoke after extreme sport to prolong their high from kiting and release more dopemine to their brains? Ever seen a movie where people smoke after sex? That's basically the same thing.
Select to expand quotesir ROWDY said..
Adrian Roper said..
Kamikuza said..
That'd be fine, if it wasn't YOUR tax dollars paying for their cancer and emphescema treatments...
Funny thing here, where most of the population seems to smoke, is in the kiters there are only one or two who do. And I wish the dickheads wouldn't stand around my kite while doing it.
Why do it? Cos nicotene is more addictive than heroin.
if you do the maths on this it does not really stack up. In NZ the government basically looks after you until you die after you retire. If you smoke heaps and die early you are actually saving the government and the tax payers money.
It has always been said that the taxes on cigarettes are to help pay for your cancer treatment etc, seems like a much bigger saving in taxpayers money if you die sooner and they do not have to pay for your retirement home etc.
haha so true.
Ever seen a movie where people smoke after sex?
yeh I smoke after sex, 20 a day habit
Select to expand quotecauncy said...
yeh I smoke after sex, 20 a day habit
You must be a busy man! 
Select to expand quotesir ROWDY said..cauncy said...
yeh I smoke after sex, 20 a day habit
You must be a busy man!
he even rolls his own
Select to expand quotesir ROWDY said..cauncy said...
yeh I smoke after sex, 20 a day habit
You must be a busy man!
packed in both years ago, one was my decision the wife made the other
When I first got interested in Kiting and started going down to the beach one thing that amazed me was the amount of cigarette smoking beer drinking fat pricks doing it. My reaction as is usual was 'if they can do it I can do it'. So I must thank all the cigarette smoking beer drinking fat pricks that kite. Ta!
apparently it takes 20 yrs for the cigarette filter to disintegrate - dispose your butts into bins so I don't have to look at or step on them...
Select to expand quotesir ROWDY said..Adrian Roper said..Kamikuza said..
That'd be fine, if it wasn't YOUR tax dollars paying for their cancer and emphescema treatments...
Funny thing here, where most of the population seems to smoke, is in the kiters there are only one or two who do. And I wish the dickheads wouldn't stand around my kite while doing it.
Why do it? Cos nicotene is more addictive than heroin.
if you do the maths on this it does not really stack up. In NZ the government basically looks after you until you die after you retire. If you smoke heaps and die early you are actually saving the government and the tax payers money.
It has always been said that the taxes on cigarettes are to help pay for your cancer treatment etc, seems like a much bigger saving in taxpayers money if you die sooner and they do not have to pay for your retirement home etc.
haha so true.
I was thinking maybe there is actually a reason people smoke after a session. Much like how people smoke to heighten the effect of MDMA and other drugs perhaps people smoke after extreme sport to prolong their high from kiting and release more dopemine to their brains? Ever seen a movie where people smoke after sex? That's basically the same thing.
Pardon me? Smoking heightens the effects of MDMA? Not in my experience old son (not unless they are menthols ).
Why do people smoke? It's because they are drug addicts, pure and simple. I was one for 20 years (even had to come in for a smoke every hour I was out on the water). So glad I buried that addiction in a smoke proof coffin.
Select to expand quotejunglist said..sir ROWDY said..Adrian Roper said..Kamikuza said..
That'd be fine, if it wasn't YOUR tax dollars paying for their cancer and emphescema treatments...
Funny thing here, where most of the population seems to smoke, is in the kiters there are only one or two who do. And I wish the dickheads wouldn't stand around my kite while doing it.
Why do it? Cos nicotene is more addictive than heroin.
if you do the maths on this it does not really stack up. In NZ the government basically looks after you until you die after you retire. If you smoke heaps and die early you are actually saving the government and the tax payers money.
It has always been said that the taxes on cigarettes are to help pay for your cancer treatment etc, seems like a much bigger saving in taxpayers money if you die sooner and they do not have to pay for your retirement home etc.
haha so true.
I was thinking maybe there is actually a reason people smoke after a session. Much like how people smoke to heighten the effect of MDMA and other drugs perhaps people smoke after extreme sport to prolong their high from kiting and release more dopemine to their brains? Ever seen a movie where people smoke after sex? That's basically the same thing.
Pardon me? Smoking heightens the effects of MDMA? Not in my experience old son (not unless they are menthols ).
Must be talking about weed.
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someawe said..
If your wife smokes during sex, you need more lube!
Or put in a bit more air.
).
Select to expand quotejunglist said..
Why do people smoke? It's because they are drug addicts, pure and simple.
Nah man, there's more to it than that.
1. It's a demonstration of man's ability to harness and control fire, something that sets us about from other animals and makes us what we are.
2. It gives the lungs a bit of what they evolved to get on a regular basis - smoke. Before we lived in houses with climate control we did a lot of hanging out around fires. We evolved to get a good dose of smoke on a regular basis, and modern life takes that away from us (although in some cities that could be argued).
3. It looks pretty cool.
I don't care if people smoke, Its not my body it's their body.
What I do care about is the fact that a lot of smokers (not all smokers) don't have the decency to stand down wind of everyone when smoking. Nothing annoys me more then when your packing up your kite or just doing anything in life and a smoker lights up anywhere near you and your air gets polluted by their second hand smoke. Why should I, part of the majority of people who don't smoke, have to suck in a smokers second hand smoke?
).
I was in Indonesia last year watching some locals smoke while kiting. Must take some skill to handle pass and not either drop your smoke, get ash in your eyes or get the smoke wet.
Select to expand quotejunglist said..
Well I dont know anybody (and I was a dance music DJ in London clubs for over a decade, so go figure) who would report that a cigarette made any difference to their high when on either MDMA or Coke.
Just personal experience, not read from a text book.
Not saying you're experience is wrong, I'm just saying that I know a lot of people who would argue different. In the end though there's evidence there and lots of people who would agree, so this is really a pointless thing to argue about especially when a lot of drugs are effected almost as much from your own perception of what they do as the chemicals they are made up of. I'm sure you've experienced that.
People know the health risks of smoking and the tax paid on cigarettes offsets increased medical costs.
If you want to smoke, go for it. None of my business. Im not precious about getting a whiff outdoors, there's hardly any legal spots left to smoke.
Just take your butts and dont ash near my kite!
Righteous folks should sets their sights on obesity and junk food. That's arguably doing more harm physically and financially now than smoking...
Soft drink is bad for you, unless mixed with spirits. Tobacco is bad for you, unless mixed with the mean green.
Wow, for a thread that has drummed up so much interest, I ask you all to reverse your red thumbs on my original post to green please.
Some people don't like alcoholics, some people don't like smokers, some people don't like imbecilic car drivers, some people don't like fat people (fat from food, not hormonal problems), some people don't like kiters.
Alcohol kills, smoking kills, car kills, food kills, kite kills and u pay tax for all that.
Like smoking is the worst and only problem it gets solved with YOURS/OURS taxes ....
Deal with it or find another planet.
Select to expand quotesir ROWDY said..
Don't eat that BigMac near my kite!!!
The vanilla shake does not in any way alter the effects of the Mac either 
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Select to expand quoteJust2807 said..
Deal with it or find another planet.
No other planets I'm afraid. But that's ok. I'll be UP-wind from smoko heads from now on to avoid hole on my kite (!! I would go nuts if I saw someone's ash doing that!!).
