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Postby Sega » Wed Oct 24, 2007 3:12 pm

I lived in the UK. Smoking to be honest was not much of a problem because not that many people did it over there. However in Cyprus loads of people smoke, and it's cool to smoke. Which means more and more people are smoking even from younger ages. Cyprus is the second smoking capital after Greece in the whole of Europe.

With relation to the government loosing tax, I would pay extra money to ban smoking or at least make it uncool.
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Postby Eric dayi » Wed Oct 24, 2007 3:18 pm

Sega wrote:I lived in the UK. Smoking to be honest was not much of a problem because not that many people did it over there. However in Cyprus loads of people smoke, and it's cool to smoke. Which means more and more people are smoking even from younger ages. Cyprus is the second smoking capital after Greece in the whole of Europe.

With relation to the government loosing tax, I would pay extra money to ban smoking or at least make it uncool.


When everyone's taxes go up by 5-10%, we'll see what the non-smokers will say about that. :wink:
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Postby miltiades » Wed Oct 24, 2007 3:32 pm

denizaksulu wrote:Yesterday I went to my Clinic to keep an appointment. Outside the front door were 20 or so smokers obsrving the latest 'NO SMOKING' ban.

I could hardly see the door from the smoke exhaled by these sick individuals. By the time I went through the door I was coughing and spluttering having inhaled their exhaust fumes. I went to complain at the desk - as a separate - Smokers area' should have been provided. There was nobody to complain to. The smokers were all doctors, nurses and office staff and a few patients.

What an addiction! As bad as forum addiction :cry:

Did you notice that they were all foreigners !!!!
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Postby zan » Wed Oct 24, 2007 5:11 pm

70% of smokers suffer with smoking related diseases....The rest just die young.... :roll: :roll: :roll:
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Postby denizaksulu » Wed Oct 24, 2007 11:25 pm

miltiades wrote:
denizaksulu wrote:Yesterday I went to my Clinic to keep an appointment. Outside the front door were 20 or so smokers obsrving the latest 'NO SMOKING' ban.

I could hardly see the door from the smoke exhaled by these sick individuals. By the time I went through the door I was coughing and spluttering having inhaled their exhaust fumes. I went to complain at the desk - as a separate - Smokers area' should have been provided. There was nobody to complain to. The smokers were all doctors, nurses and office staff and a few patients.

What an addiction! As bad as forum addiction :cry:

Did you notice that they were all foreigners !!!!



No, they were all human beings, killing themselves.
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Postby Eric dayi » Wed Oct 24, 2007 11:31 pm

zan wrote:70% of smokers suffer with smoking related diseases....The rest just die young.... :roll: :roll: :roll:


By "the rest just die young" you mean the non-smokers, don't ya? :wink:
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Postby zan » Wed Oct 24, 2007 11:39 pm

Eric dayi wrote:
zan wrote:70% of smokers suffer with smoking related diseases....The rest just die young.... :roll: :roll: :roll:


By "the rest just die young" you mean the non-smokers, don't ya? :wink:



Nope :wink: :wink: :wink: :lol:
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Postby phoenix » Wed Oct 24, 2007 11:40 pm

Eric dayi wrote:
zan wrote:70% of smokers suffer with smoking related diseases....The rest just die young.... :roll: :roll: :roll:


By "the rest just die young" you mean the non-smokers, don't ya? :wink:


I see precisely the same lack of logic follows you no matter the subject :lol:
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Postby GorillaGal » Thu Oct 25, 2007 12:06 am

my mother died of emphesma at 59 years old because she kept smoking.

i had lung surgery 3 years ago, the doctors want to claim was on my prior smoking habits (i smoked for about 15 years total, quit about 17 years ago.)

let me tell you from experience, neither the emphesma mom had, or the lung surgery i had was nice, fun, or cool.
DON'T SMOKE ANYWHERE NEAR ME, I WANT TO LIVE, and i certainly don't want to die of any lung disease.
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Postby denizaksulu » Thu Oct 25, 2007 12:11 am

GorillaGal wrote:my mother died of emphesma at 59 years old because she kept smoking.

i had lung surgery 3 years ago, the doctors want to claim was on my prior smoking habits (i smoked for about 15 years total, quit about 17 years ago.)

let me tell you from experience, neither the emphesma mom had, or the lung surgery i had was nice, fun, or cool.
DON'T SMOKE ANYWHERE NEAR ME, I WANT TO LIVE, and i certainly don't want to die of any lung disease.



I second that GG. I lost my mom at 45 yrs of age. A bit too young wouldnt you say. I remember going to the shops as a kid buying her fags. to think that I gave her the tools of her suicide! :roll:
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