I was in Boulder when they banned smoking in bars. Probably one of the first place in the country in 1996.
The Scumdowner said fuck that and instantly became the bar of choice.
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I was in Boulder when they banned smoking in bars. Probably one of the first place in the country in 1996.
The Scumdowner said fuck that and instantly became the bar of choice.
have you not been to Idaho recently?Quote:
Originally Posted by Percy Rideout
Hell yes we were bump skiers!Quote:
Originally Posted by warthog
(but it was easier to share a grit with the girls when it was a Camel/Marb light)
No trash with a no filt, except in yo lungs.Quote:
Originally Posted by BmillsSkier
I still can't believe we would huff heaters in neg 10 degree weather and then rip top to bottom Chute runs over and over again all night.
Go BILLS!!!!
Cigarettes are stupid, so is too much government. That's a tough one.
for the longest time, the Sundowner had a room that was the "smoking room", hanging out in that thing could give you lung cancer in an hour flat!Quote:
Originally Posted by warthog
The pool hall on the Hill allowed you to smoke so long as you were kinda in the back and weren't by the entrance.
Right?!? In our defense we were young and invincible.Quote:
Originally Posted by warthog
And if the heaters weren't enough, the cheap beers and shared bowls would help keep things properly lubed up for a lively night of ripping bumps with your crew.
MJ was NEVER legal anywhere in Canada except the federales AKA the RCMP would just confiscate your bag but never proscuted you for small amounts of MJ becuz there was too much paper work for a nothing crime so unless it was one of half a doz charges cuz you are a criminal no charge no record no arrestQuote:
Originally Posted by stuckathuntermtn
That Trudeau fella the guy who everyone wants to fuck made MJ legal everywhere in Canada
the thing is MJ didn't just suddenly become not illegal it became A PRODUCT like booze or cigarettes so much jumping thru hoops, growers had to certifyed, , MJ retailers had criminal checks, taxes, proper packaging yada fucking yada, but you could grow some and I know people making tincture form what they grew
I still recommend you DO NOT bring your own MJ into Canada over an international border but i am not sure why , if you are doing a hut trip goggle the location of an MJ store most small towns will have an MJ store,
we will soon have 2 MJ stores in a small town, ironicaly its owned by the anesthetist's kid
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Originally Posted by stealurface831
Good riddance. Cigarettes are evil.
with full leaglization it was easy to buy Gummies of all potencies instead of smoking MJ great cuz I cant really take the smoke
The saddest thing I've ever seenQuote:
Originally Posted by Dantheman
Is smokers outside the hospital doors
maybe it was mentioned earlier, but if they lower the nicotine per cigarette... doesnt that just mean smokers need to buy and smoke more ciggarettes to get their fix?
this seems like a money making ploy by big tobacco aimed at wringing out every last ounce of profit from their existing smoker base, before they fully pivot to the smokeless tobacco/vaping generations.
existing smokers might turn to things like the patch, or yeah, maybe they just smoke more.Quote:
Originally Posted by californiagrown
but new smokers are much less likely to keep smoking, and will have a much easier time quitting when they decide it's time to quit, if the cigs don't have much nicotine.
i was risking life and limb just being on the premises. last year one of their employees was inflating some sort of heavy equipment tire outside of a cage and got blown to bits when it exploded. pretty sick shit.Quote:
Originally Posted by J. Barron DeJong
You can buy liquid nicotine easily, why couldn't people just drip some of that on their butts?
Even a few years ago there was always a group of docs & nurses smoking outside LDS Hospital near my folks placeQuote:
Originally Posted by Dantheman
I've heard from multiple docs that there is a higher percentage of physicians that smoke than most other professions. Supposedly, since when they start out they all want to be surgeons, they pick up the habit since nicotine calms the nerves and they perform better, but then a significant percentage of them can't kick the habit once their career path is set.
A lot of the older MDs that are now of retiremnet age were smokers
PGRH chief of surgery told me he would write his operating schedule on a pack of player's and tack it over the scrub tub , he died of cancer
Might be time to consider a different garageQuote:
Originally Posted by stealurface831
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Originally Posted by AdironRider
Huh?Quote:
Originally Posted by AdironRider
From the article: ‘ The FDA estimates that nearly 13 million people—more than 40 percent of current adult smokers—would quit smoking within one year of the rule taking effect.’.
The article implies that FDA has researched the impact of 1 mg nicotine vs the current max of 17, and 1 is low enough that a lot of smokers will say Fuck it, not worth the money if I’m not getting a buzz. Going from 2 packs a day to 20 or 30 packs a day to get similar nicotine levels would indicate an impressive level of commitment.
I don't believe that ^^ people who are as addicted as fuck will continue to smoke
and miss out on the chance to witness a sick ass explosion?Quote:
Originally Posted by dan_pdx
I'm just relaying what a doctor told me while we were outside smoking, after I was like hey doc, wtf you doing out here? I'm sure its bs and they just end up liking it.Quote:
Originally Posted by civilcoconut
I'm not sure people smoke for the "buzz" and will stop because they aren't getting a buzz anymore. I think the effect of this change, if implemented, will lead to many people going through some heinous withdrawals unless they get the patch or the nicotine gum. But yeah, many many smokers wish they could quit but try and fail. This change will make it much easier for them to succeed because it is forcing the withdrawal on them and smoking will no longer be able to defeat that withdrawal. So all they will have to do to quit is to beat a habit, not beat an additiction.Quote:
Originally Posted by frorider
The Rack! I spent a ton of time in that bar 99-03Quote:
Originally Posted by Danno
As someone with childhood asthma smoking at restaurants meant my parents couldn’t take us out to most places.Quote:
Originally Posted by Percy Rideout
Going all the way to 1mg maybe too extreme but gradually ramping the nicotine down would be a good strategy. Smoking has such a massive negative health impact that it makes sense to regulate it down.
The cynic would point out that cigarettes are what kept Social Security solvent for many decades (although it hurt Medicare).
The smoking room was so disgusting.Quote:
Originally Posted by warthog
David Lynch a life time smoker just passed at 78 from emphysema
The whole place was the smoking room when I was there. They didn't play by the rules for a while because there were no windows for the cops to catch people in the act.Quote:
Originally Posted by alias#?
by 2001, maybe 2002, they had a "smoking room" and didn't allow you to smoke elsewhere.Quote:
Originally Posted by warthog
I don't think I would have gone there before 2000 or maybe 2001 and you could not smoke outside of the room. Was The Rack the one across from the bookstore that was kind of in a basementQuote:
Originally Posted by Danno
I for one cannot wait to have a low nicotine cig. A real one will be a nice treat when I vacation in other countries.
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Originally Posted by stealurface831
I used to work with guys who lit their ciggies with an acetylene torch.
And argon is not flammable.
At the same time, we had a mechanic clean a bunch of stuff with solvents, then struck a torch and the spark/fire ignited his solvent-soaked coveralls.
He was tagged with the nickname “Fireball” when he returned to work after the hospital stay.
upon further reflection, i shouldve bummed one and smoked it alongside him. live and learn.
Whole ride is good, but if you’re in a hurry jump to 2 minutes in...
Much like many of the tales told here, everyone seems to know that one place that raised a middle finger to indoor smoking bans when they rolled around.
I can recall one such place, the Happy Hallow Inn that had a collection jar on the counter for every time the state would come in and levy another $500 fine. The residents, er, patrons would happily chip in and light up another while sinking back into their plastic lawn furniture chairs that adorned the inside of the neon sign and wood paneled interior.
Your clothes would smell like an ashtray for a week, but damn if that place didn't have character.
Anyone else notice that smoking grits seems to have caught on again among the younger folks these days, especially the bros? I'm at the tail end of Gen X so I grew up with everyone in HS at least smoking at parties if not buying packs of Marb Mediums at 2 for $3 at the BP station on the edge of town where they didn't care. Then smoking went away for a very long time which was nice; indoor and public space bans, a general tack towards the healthy lifestyle, etc. Then it seems lately that there's 2 classes of people that regularly smoke anymore: (a) the very affluent (not the showy influencer nouveau riche types, the actual my family hasn't worked in 4 generations affluent); and (b) the average modern frat or post-grad bro type guy - it's almost like they do it to be ironic, but then you watch them run around asking to bum one outside bars, tailgates, etc. It's weird.
Yeah, my daughter and coterie, very athletic and living in NYC, are all into that.
I can't get mad, they'll be lucky to make it another 25 years the way we're going, and I think they know it and are saying fuck it.
Odd since cig smoking rates among those under 25bhave plummeted from 19% in 2011 to 5.5% in 2024. Cigs (not evapes) are not trendy in the under 18 either, lowest rates in over 25yrs. You guys might be catching anomalies.
I've been nicotine free in since 1998, I had smoking dreams of being out in the bars and lighting up a couple nights ago.