God I would love a cigarette

[Troll]

Is it not preferable to choose the route of your own demise, guarantee you will not long survive into old age thereby sparing yourself incontinent pads, dentures, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, arthritis etc.

What value is there prolonging life when all means of enjoying it has gone, who would look forward to an extended time in a Home staring at the TV all day drugged up to keep you quiet

Surely better to live for today?

[Gonzo]

Is it not preferable to choose the route of your own demise, guarantee you will not long survive into old age thereby sparing yourself incontinent pads, dentures, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, arthritis etc.

What value is there prolonging life when all means of enjoying it has gone, who would look forward to an extended time in a Home staring at the TV all day drugged up to keep you quiet

Surely better to live for today?

This is what I have thought for a long time.

Smokers are generally pilloried for being a drain on the NHS, when in fact we pay a whole load of tax on the cigarettes and are the only ones doing our bit to solve the pension crisis.

It will be interesting to see, in another 30 years time, if the youngsters that end up having to pay taxes to support us all reaching a grand old age come to the conclusion that reaching the age of 100 is not something that it is worthwhile aiming for.

[OwlHoot]

This is not good.

If I wasn't wearing pyjamas and a snoopy tshirt I would go and buy some.

FFS.

I'm the last person to criticise anyone for smoking (unless they're driving a petrol tanker or something), but is it such a good idea when you have pneumonia?

[NickFitz]

When I first replied to this post, I'd forgotten that Lucy was suffering from a medical condition that precluded the use of cigarettes, and I'm sorry for winding her up over it

FWIW, when I worked with Age Concern in the Eighties, I visited (on a weekly basis) smokers in their early eighties who were dying a slow and painful death from emphysema, and smokers in their early nineties who didn't even have a chesty cough.

I think Lucy's original post is about the fact that she is fed up because her current lung-related medical condition precludes the option of smoking, rather than about trying to garner sympathy over the difficulty of giving up smoking.

<- for Lucy

[rhubarb]

I've not had so much as a puff in about 4 years now.

I could bloody murder one every single day.

Rhubarb.

[Board Game Geek]

I've not had so much as a puff in about 4 years now.

Congratulations on your celibacy. :-)

[BrilloPad]

I had my last fag on 22nd DEc 1989 - and I still miss them.

poor Lucy - I do hope things get better.

[Churchill]

I've not had so much as a poof in about 4 years now.

Rhubarb.

Oi "Hairy Arse Guy", see? Another one in denial!

[EternalOptimist]

I had my last ciggie in the school gates when I was five years old. It was my first as well, I nearly coughed my lungs up.

I just wish I had had a few pints as well, maybe I wouldnt be such a beer monster

[Lucy]

Busted

The first one since January.

I know it's a very bad idea, and it's probably too early to be drinking?