voted smoke-free for both indoors & out.
Me too. I see that nearly half the voters agree with that option too.
I'm still amazed that so many people still take up the habit, now that so much is known about the harm it does to your health. Not to mention what a huge waste of money it is.
A friend of mine finally gave it up a couple of years ago. Part of his bargain with himself to help him through the withdrawal stage was to put aside the same amount of money that he used to spend on cigarettes, every day. The second part of the bargain was that he would spend that money, as it accumulated, on things for his kids and for himself and his wife. The idea was that seeing the goodies they bought would motivate him to stay off the fags. As you can imagine the house fairly quickly filled up with computer games, a big TV and a DVD player, etc etc. And he hasn't smoked since. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
Another friend (who happens to be a professor of psychology at the Uni where my wife did her psych. degree) also made a bargain with himself. He wrote out a large cheque for an organisation that he disliked, put it in a stamped addressed envelope and stuck it on his mantlepiece. His friends and partner were told to take it down and post it if they saw him with a cigarette. being a man of honour he would have posted it himself too, but he quit successfully and didn't need to.
In his case, the cheque (which was a significant amount of money, even for a professor) was made out to a very conservative local organisation which is well known for it's strong anti-gay stance (the prof is gay).
My dad never smoked, but in middle age he worked out one day that he'd saved himself the price of a new Jaguar by never smoking. So he bought one. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />
So, whatever it takes, if you smoke and you're reading this - please give up. You're wasting your money, wrecking your health, and you smell bad too! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/puppyeyes.gif" alt="" /> Of course you might think that's nobody else's business. But people who live in your area and share the same public places with you have their clothes end up smelling of your smoke, their lungs breathing some of it, and their taxes partly paying for the additional health care costs that smokers eventually incur.
Nah, smoking sux. Quit while you can - if you're strong enough! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/badsmile2.gif" alt="" />
