Smoking Inside

and the sun's coming out.

Last night, at Ben's. He'd come take drags -- he doesn't smoke.

my hero

Nothing feels more wrong than smoking inside a house. Balcony of house: okay. Bar: yeah! Airport smoke lounges: too hilarious not to love. But in a house...? It's this lingering sense of wrongness.

There have been times I've wanted to smoke in my house – I could under my lease agreement – but it reminds me of my revolting, evil neighbors who moved away earlier this year. Decrepit emphysematic creed all taking his oxygen tubes out so he could smoke a Kool and accidentally ash all over his naked, hairy, third-nippled chest. THAT is a person I NEVER want to be. Ash gets everywhere! It's like glitter in that regard.

Also, I don't have a sense of smell, so I'm terrified if I did smoke indoors all my belongings in the entire world would smell foul. I mean, I paranoid that I smell all smoker-gross just smoking in the great outdoors. :(

That's what gazebos were invented for.

That and NEW ORLEANS BRASS BANDS!!!!!!!!!!

too soon.

I remember my parents smoking like fucking MAD in our house and shop. Highly funny since now both are mouth frothing anti-smokers and we had/have a ANTIQUE (lace) shop.

wow that sounds like a great shop

I've smoked in every single house I've ever lived in, except the current one. Which is actually kind of nice.

between the sun and your filthy habit, yer livin' the dream, sur

but when you finally do that cigarette will be one of the most delicious youve ever had xp

i bummed a cigarette off of some people last night, and i blew their minds, (ok, not really) because i was wearing a touristy Newport, RI t-shirt, and the only smoke they had to offer was a Newport antifreeze lung-busting Newport

it was the first time i've ever felt truly alive. (with pleasure)

is that menthol is 1000x worse for you thing true? i mean it makes sense but ive never actually read anything about it, its just seems to be a kind of received wisdom

yeah, dunno. i assume the fiberglass filter thing is bullshit, but am too laZy to internet research it

No smoking inside the house, but I have gotten lax in my no-smoking-in-the-car policy.

smoking in cars is its own brand of amazing

here's what can be wonderful: when you're stressed to the limit, and then you realize it. you can just light a cigarette, right there, if you're at home, b/c it's not like, the end of the world.

I'm not allowed to smoke in my new house (bf is non smoker, not evangelical about it at all, but is just worried about the walls staining). Last place I and many of my flatmates smoked indoors like chimneys. Shouldve seen the state the walls were in when I left. And I'd dry my clothes indoors, so everything must have smelled. I never really cared, but nowdays I kind of do.

really?! i didn't know that about the walls!

doing this so much lately. i keep my windows open all the time. cups full of water and butts = nasty. but it's such a luxury.

nice to break it up with an outside smoke... sidewalks, neighbors chatting, air.

Sur: oh yeah! The tar and tannin in cigarettes will give your walls a lovely sickly yellow patina if you smoke indoors enough.

And by enough, I mean pack a day every day for 5 years heh.

And yeah, I was naughty and smoked half a pack inside on sat night cause I had the house to myself. Windows open + kitchen exhaust on the whole time mind you.

i truly miss smoking in bars.

"really?! i didn't know that about the walls!"

WAIT TILL YOU SEE YOUR LUNGS. ;-)))))))))))))))))))))

i miss smoking soooooooooo much full stop. still breast feeding you see.

You know what I love? Friends who don't smoke anymore who still go out and hang out with you while you smoke outside.

i wld hang out w all u guys

We smoke outside, but we have a really nice front porch and a "fit for two & a cat" back stoop. The only time that really really stinks is when it's 100+ or really cold.

You know what I love? Friends who don't smoke anymore who still go out and hang out with you while you smoke outside.

It is a kind little thing. I can dig why someone wouldn't tho.

My backyard is nice, but has no cover/overhang, and its been raining lots lately ;_;

i want a cigarette

Where can you still smoke inside? Virginia?
I'm thinking the south and tobacco.

Also Russia. I'm pretty sure you can smoke inside in Russia.

Also China, Japan and South Korea. and Indonesia.
I need to get out more.

You can in the Phillipines, my best friend just came back from visiting his family and said it was awesome, ppl smoke everywhere there: shops, restaurants, church (lol probably not that).

I have to say I hate smoke around food even as a smoker.

my friend just came bak from there as well! she got me a carton for the price of a pack

here. the price of a pack here.

Hahaha I got all my sisters-in-law American Spirits as stocking stuffers and they were amazed and delighted. It wasn't too hard to figure out – I mean, they smoke them every day.

I'm always secretly hoping someone will get me some fancy-ass cigarettes – like Natt Shurman's (sp?) 'hint of clove' or something, or Camel Reds, for my birthday.

shermans R good

Smoking indoors is rad its a shame it causes damage and foul odors.

Why am I not your sister in law Abbott. I'm pretty much a fan of the blue. Sometimes it's funny to ask for them by color.

I enjoy the Export A Golds for a fancy pants smoke. Nat Shermans are more like cigarillos.

Cigs are so expensive here now, my local milk bar is charging $14 for a 30 pack of the ones I smoke FUK DIS SHIT.

(I can get them for $10.50 if I hunt around tho)

i totally burnt some in-your-face incense tonight, b/c i realized while walking up the stairs to my place that it's nothing short of a miracle that my fellow tenants have never previously complained about the burning tobacco scent that i've foisted upon them

The only regular cigarette I can tolerate is Parliament! Which is weird because I was never a Parliament smoker. And I have smoked many a brand.
There IS the saltpeter factor. American Spirits don't have that - additive free. Also awesome because those suckers last forever.

I like Parliaments packaging - it's very neat and trim.

I have opinions about cigarettes. That's sort of scary.
I hate marlboro lights. I won't even bum one.
I'm trying to think of all of my brands. I was very devoted to Old Golds for many years. very classy packaging.
I think I smoked benson and hedges (very ladylike!) and then Marlboro Red and then Camels. Also some intervals of Drum rolling tobacco.

I started smoking when I was twelve, so ...I pretty much have smoked all of the cigarettes.
I remember smoking an Eve cigarette. They were marketed to women, and they were flavored. I was probably twelve or thirteen - I recall getting the pack for free, and then realizing why they were giving it away.

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my mom smoked benson and hedges. marlboro lights are chemically and weird. reds are good, so are mediums and milds. i like parliaments but i used to find the taste sort of chemically too. now i don't mind it, and the packaging is great.

matt u should buy a cute ashtray

aw dell, you're probably ok. hope my upstairs neighbors are ok w/ it (haven't heard a complaint yet)

x-post that's a very good idea :D

i'm really liking parliament regs (not lights) and marl. 27s. i liked camel lights until they changed the taste, now they're kind of like m. lights (bleh).

Sorry about that failed link.
Thanks for talking cigs with me Sur! (and others!)

Eves were the nastiest, which is saying a lot.

i've never been a smoker but i miss smoking in bars too! gave that final patina to an evening of debauch

You can in the Phillipines, my best friend just came back from visiting his family and said it was awesome, ppl smoke everywhere there: shops, restaurants, church (lol probably not that).

When we went to Germany there were cigarette machines or tobacco shops on pretty much every corner. Not sure if you can smoke indoors (nobody was smoking in the restaurants, can't remember about bars), but there were people smoking in the zoo and leaving cigarette butts everywhere. Doesn't seem right to be huffing on the carcinogens a foot away from endangered animals.

A local pub removed an airconditioning unit from the ceiling and it was amazing the colour difference between the newly uncovered ceiling and the rest of it, just from the smoke. There's a mural all round the walls and ceiling and you can barely see parts of it now, they're so yellowed. (It's 40 years old, so it's not just the smoke, I know.)

I roll my own and buy fancy-schmancy tobacco, and I smoke in the apartment, and during the summer it doesn't matter much because the windows are open most of the time so it never collects much. But even so, I have this theory that the tobacco I smoke does not smell as bad or linger as long as commercial cigs, and this week I got to test it. My brother is staying here for a week, and he smokes Marlboro menthols, and I can't very well tell him not to smoke in the house, since I obviously do, but god almighty that shit stinks. Like feet that have been up an ass. I have been lighting incense, and I usually only do that to buy another day before I buy more cat litter.

haha, i love the crazy-seeming disconnect that is northern european ppl being totally eco-conscious while at the same time polluting the fuck out of their lungs

kenan, that makes me feel a little better, i guess? i only smoke the fancy am spirit rolling tobacco, and i only smoke when i drink, which amounts to two, maybe three, days out of the week...but i still wonder sometimes if i'm bugging the hell out of my downstairs neighbors

You know what I love? Friends who don't smoke anymore who still go out and hang out with you while you smoke outside.

that happened the other night at my friend's place, but it was almost embarrassing, b/c there was a total gender divide-- dudes all smoking, ladies not (probably too busy rolling their eyes at their spouses bad behavior)

I do love smoking in the house, but I have rules about it:

* Fan in the window to exhaust the room air
* Never smoke in bedroom so clothes and bedding never smell

I've had the gamut: from roommates who were shrewish about the least hint of smoke blowing in from a window I was leaning out of, to now, when anyone can smoke anywhere in my current apt. Either way: classic, with limitations.

Really I find that a few cigs smoked in a breezy room seldom stay around at all.

uh oh!

I feel a story is about to happen.

I hate having to smoke standing up in a huddle outside a bar. I like a few benches - because I don't EVER want to smoke standing up outside. It's a sit down thing - like eating and drinking.
And, of course, it is the best activity to do sitting after eating while drinking.

I just have never been a smoker who smokes at a bus stop, or on a "break".

Tellme more about this uh-oh!

Oh noes, uh oh means a little fire, no? :-(

Aimurchie, I agree. Although I'm not a smoker at the moment - breastfeeding and cigs don't mix - I find/found it crap to stand outside smoking. Like you have the bubonic plague or sth.

I just have never been a smoker who smokes at a bus stop, or on a "break".

Me either. I can't smoke during the day, it makes me kind of dizzy or something, but after work, relaxing with a drink, thats the ticket.

uh oh... i lit up inside again ;) that's all. it felt like an uh oh at the time.

Yay.