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Old 04-03-2008, 03:08 PM   #21
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worse, actually. if used in the same regularity as cigarettes.

think about having your lower jaw removed because of cancer... just saw a case like that last week. he was 41
is one or two times a day going to hurt me much? as opposed to the almost pack a day i was smoking?
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Old 04-03-2008, 03:12 PM   #22
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dude its all relative... all i can tell you is statistics, not your future.
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Old 04-03-2008, 03:15 PM   #23
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dude its all relative... all i can tell you is statistics, not your future.
damn it. i thought you were supposed to be good at that shit.
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Old 04-03-2008, 03:16 PM   #24
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That is actually kinda true. You know you automatically have something in common no matter how small so its easy to start a conversation. Dipping is even more of a common ground, because normally people who dip are from small/country towns from what i've seen. And if you offer someone a dip they are automatically like a friend.

at about $9 a tin they better treat you like a friend for a dip. they should also juggle you tackle for one too.
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Old 04-03-2008, 03:18 PM   #25
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9 bucks a can?! grizzley is just under 3 after tax and skoal/cope are about 5. I would tell you to stop smoking and just dip and slowly stop that too but that would be even more expnsive.
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Old 04-03-2008, 03:19 PM   #26
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is one or two times a day going to hurt me much? as opposed to the almost pack a day i was smoking?


Christopher Reeves wife died of lung cancer and she didn't even smoke...

lung cancer is far worse then mouth cancer when oit comes to the fatality rate.
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Christopher Reeves wife died of lung cancer and she didn't even smoke...

lung cancer is far worse then mouth cancer when oit comes to the fatality rate.
true. but of all COPD cases more than 90 % are caused by smoking.

stating the exception, not the rule, is a crutch smokers have been leaning on since cancer statistics began.
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9 bucks a can?! grizzley is just under 3 after tax and skoal/cope are about 5. I would tell you to stop smoking and just dip and slowly stop that too but that would be even more expnsive.

I quit smokin for 6 months once and started dippin. then I started smokin and dippin. man it was tough to quit dippin since I could do it while working whereas I had to go outside to smoke.
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I quit smokin for 6 months once and started dippin. then I started smokin and dippin. man it was tough to quit dippin since I could do it while working whereas I had to go outside to smoke.
that is certainly a plus to it. What is actually really fun is what me and some guys call a nicotine patch. Put in a dip and as soon as you start feeling it, light up too. Not overly healthy, but fun none the less.
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Old 04-03-2008, 06:02 PM   #30
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Smoking isn't fun at all nowadays. When I smoked, you could smoke on airplanes. I couldn't wait until the No Smoking sign went off so I could light up.

Most of the time, I would only use my lighter once a day to light a cigarette. But I would light the next cigarette off the last one. Three packs would be gone by the end of the day. That's chain smoking.

My friend had his leg blown off in Vietnam, so he was retired. I would drive him to the PX to buy cartons @ $2. Then I had my mom, a nurse at the VA hospital buying me cigarettes at $0.23/pack. It still wasn't enough, and I had to buy smokes at the store for 0.32/pack. When they went to 36 cents a pack, I quit cold turkey.

Been over 34 years now without a cigarette. The first seven years were the hardest. Most of my friends who continued smoking are dead. Since I quit, I've run hundreds of races including two marathons. Like most things in life, if it isn't hard to do, it ain't worth doing.
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