How Many Bikers Smoke?

**SARGE** · 24th August 2005, 19:10

Originally Posted by John

Was in the shop getting some cancer sticks couple of weeks back, and got asked 'why do all bikers smoke', I know a hell of alot dont but just wondering how many do?

smoked up to 3 packs of Marlboro Reds a day.. down to about a pack a day now..ive been smoking since i was 12.. 30+ years .. i have tried quitting but fuck it.. (why is it that you are a " recovering Alchoholic" .. never a "recovering Smoker")

when i got here to NZ .. i was used to paying US$2.35 a pack.. got here and HOLY SHIT!! .. $12.00 a pack??!!...im still smoking though..

i also smoke Cigars ( bigassed Cubans.. thats a FELONY back home.

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i just smoke to piss everyone off now.. actually had a lady at the mall the other day give me heaps cuz i was SMOKING OUTSIDE while sitting on my bike..

"fuck death and the lung cancer he rode in on"
John Wayne

**Navy Gixer** · 24th August 2005, 19:19

If some one has never smoked, they cant understand how hard it is to stop, for a packet a day smoker they cant understand why someone wants to give up. I'm a smoker thats in the process of giving up and after 15 years it's not easy.

**Rainbow Wizard** · 24th August 2005, 19:20

Originally Posted by zooter

Choice has nothing to do with it. Nobody chooses to become a smoker. Nicotine addiction is the only reason people inhale the toxic fumes. The fear and suffering of "giving up" is all that keeps them going. Choice doesn't come into it.

You friggin whimp! And a con man, but only of yourself. Starting smoking IS a personal choice, continuing to smoke IS ALSO a personal choice, albeit coerced by nicotine addiction. BUT, people do give up, and good on 'em. The human animal is capable of things so much greater than the ability to stop contaminating this vessel we are born with.

This poll proves one thing anyway; that non smokers are more motivated than are the smokers as regards voting on a smoking poll. Wonder if guilt has anything to do with that.

**Big Dave** · 24th August 2005, 19:40

Originally Posted by Hitcher

I don't smoke, but I still get hot...

Haven't smoked since the days of Mild 10s in the Seventh Form common room. That's some considerable period of time...

Shit! Radioactive isotopes have shorter half lives.

**Big Dave** · 24th August 2005, 19:41

I don't smoke cigarettes - too dangerous.
Oh well - going for a ride now see yas

**WINJA** · 24th August 2005, 20:57

I QUIT ALCOHOL FIRST THEN CIGARETTES, THE ONLY ADDICTION I CANT QUIT IS BIKES

**froggyfrenchman** · 24th August 2005, 21:04

aaaah, the smooth taste of acrid smoke filling my lungs. Hav smoked since 14

**k1w1nzl** · 24th August 2005, 21:12

..."Ride'n Down the Highway"

**MadDuck** · 24th August 2005, 21:13

Hell yeah I smoke since 13 (brief respite while competing at sport)...what else ya going to do while you waiting for the other bikers to catch up....lmfao

Also have a tattoo and drink too much as you can tell from most of my responses on here but it dont make me a worser person - just smelly

**nagaraya** · 25th August 2005, 00:12

oh the cash i could've saved from not smoking... could've gotten a 2005 gsxr250 hehehe... But seriously, for me i think it's just willpower plus the company you keep. If you hang around smokers all the time then the temptation just keeps building. I quit for about 3 months but unfortunately most of my friends were smokers. Couldn't resist the temptation... But as Navy Gixxer said:

Originally Posted by Navy Gixer

If some one has never smoked, they cant understand how hard it is to stop, for a packet a day smoker they cant understand why someone wants to give up. I'm a smoker thats in the process of giving up and after 15 years it's not easy.

**mstriumph** · 25th August 2005, 00:45

Have nothing against smokers; I've smoked.

I reckon that what people want to do with their own plumbing is their own affair.

What stopped my 'habit', cold turkey, was calculating what the government tax 'take' was per pack & deciding i was already paying enough tax i COULDn't avoid ... without volunteering to pay more. That and my not liking anything to be in control of me except me.

I still find pleasure in the occasional decent duty-free cigar - but it isn't something i have to have.

The thing that really DISGUSTS me is governments raking in the tax on these things with one hand and, with the other distributing shock adverts spouting mealy-mouthed platitudes about how AWFUL it is and doing their best to turn smokers into despised fringe-dwellers.

Excuse me - smoking is legal. As such, fairness demands that smokers receive the same rights and considerations as everybody else. If governments aren't prepared to promote that - offer free quit counselling, patches and suchlike, then make it illegal like other drugs [but realise that you will also have to outlaw your other cash cows, booze and gambling]

ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh - i'm ranting, arn't i?

sorry.

**scumdog** · 25th August 2005, 00:53

How come it's dumb-fuck females that are the main smokers.
Has ANYBODY ever found that smoking cigarettes enhances their looks/longevity/bank acount etc????
And what dick-whack ever thought that smokes 'improved' his chances of 'procreatin'.
All losers smoke- but not all smokers are losers!!!!!

**Gremlin** · 25th August 2005, 02:02

Originally Posted by zooter

Choice has nothing to do with it. Nobody chooses to become a smoker. Nicotine addiction is the only reason people inhale the toxic fumes. The fear and suffering of "giving up" is all that keeps them going. Choice doesn't come into it.

Sorry, going to disagree. You CHOOSE to light that cigarette, you CHOOSE to put it in your mouth and suck in the smoke. Nobody ever forced you to do that.

That said, I'm a non-smoker and completely against smoking. Those ads put me off and I have never considered taking a puff...

I might be missing some things having not "been there, done that", but life is always about choices.

**mstriumph** · 25th August 2005, 02:21

you referin to me, friend?

Originally Posted by scumdog

How come it's dumb-fuck females that are the main smokers.
Has ANYBODY ever found that smoking cigarettes enhances their looks/longevity/bank acount etc????
And what dick-whack ever thought that smokes 'improved' his chances of 'procreatin'.
All losers smoke- but not all smokers are losers!!!!!

**Beemer** · 25th August 2005, 10:07

I'm the only one in my family who has never even tried smoking! My brother has given up now, but the rest of the family still smokes. No one in my husband's family smokes and neither does he. My eldest sister is only 14 years older than me but at my wedding this year, someone mistook her for my mother! The women all get those horrible deep lines around their mouth and it really does look revolting - ugh!

I figured if I hated the smell, it wasn't likely I was going to like the taste, so I never bothered trying. My mother and my brother bought one of those quit smoking hypnotism tapes and I sat there while they were playing it. I fell asleep and have never had any desire to smoke, while they smoked all through it and my mother is still smoking today!

When in the third or fourth form at school, we had a visit from some health speaker who brought along two lungs in jars. The diseased lung of a smoker was put on my desk. That helped put me off, it was disgusting!

I love the new anti-smoking laws - I used to hate going out for dinner and having someone light up while I was eating. I much prefer going to pubs now too, because I don't have to come home and wash my hair to get rid of the smell of smoke.