chemicals added to cigarettes

**cigar no baka** · 07-27-2005, 01:03 PM

Originally Posted by WinstonSpencer

I have a hard time enjoying a cigar while thinking about cancer. The hazards of smoking anything cannot be denied. If it bothers you that much, find a different hobby. Otherwise, just smoke your goddamn cigar.

Words to live by

**opie** · 08-03-2005, 11:35 AM

I jsut turned 70 and have been smoking an average of 8 Cigars a day since I was around 30 years old and my health is better than my doctors .
HELL, WHO WANTS TO LIVE ANY LONGER THAN THAT???

Amanda · 08-03-2005, 04:38 PM

Opie, I agree. The opportunity to be spared from a rest home the last 15 years of my life is actually part of the appeal of smoking for me. I bet if all these health nannies could watch a parent or grandparent turn into a vegetable from Alzheimer's disease like my great-grandpa did, they'd be less likely to see "longer lives" as such a utopian scenario. Of course, the opposite extreme isn't worth much either, but I'll take my chances, particularly considering how much I love cigars.

**MMAB** · 08-03-2005, 04:44 PM

Originally Posted by opie

I jsut turned 70 and have been smoking an average of 8 Cigars a day since I was around 30 years old and my health is better than my doctors .
HELL, WHO WANTS TO LIVE ANY LONGER THAN THAT???

Well Opie....I do. I wish I could live forever. Of course always in perfect health and mental state with the body of a 30 year-old.

Think of what you could see.

THINK OF ALL THE CIGARS YOU COULD SMOKE IN ETERNITY!!!!!!!!!!

**opie** · 08-04-2005, 04:25 PM

Originally Posted by MMAB

Well Opie....I do. I wish I could live forever.
Think of what you could see.

THINK OF ALL THE CIGARS YOU COULD SMOKE IN ETERNITY!!!!!!!!!!

Think real hard about what you just said. The thought of living forever would drive me nuts. Life is already becoming boring. I couldn't stand another 50 years.

**Drake** · 08-04-2005, 04:27 PM

Originally Posted by opie

Think real hard about what you just said. The thought of living forever would drive me nuts. Life is already becoming boring. I couldn't stand another 50 years.

i'm sorry

**MMAB** · 08-04-2005, 04:37 PM

but I can understand. I often discuss this with other folks and find that it's about a fifty-fifty split. Some would welcome living forever others not.

But I find life to be quite wonderful even though it has it's ups and downs. I would welcome the opportunity to live forever or at least several thousand years

I'm sorry that life has become boring for you. But there is so much to do and see in this world in my eyes. If I could live forever, eventually I wouldn't be bound to this planet! I could go out into the galaxy and beyond with civilization as it grows and explores. ( the theme from Star Trek begins to play in the background ) There would always be something new, something to learn and cigars to smoke!

Of course friends and family would have to be immortal too. It would suck a bit going on and on watching loved ones fade being replaced by others only to watch them fade too and so on and so on. But I think I could adjust. I think.

**Kenyth** · 08-04-2005, 04:55 PM

Ahhhh.......... to live so long! If you were also given the gift of youth and good health to go with it, you could try any number of careers! You could learn and master so much! Wow! What a concept!

The problem with this is that for it to be meaningful, your loved ones would need to have the same gift. Otherwise, you would experience a great deal of loss and guilt.

**cigar no baka** · 08-04-2005, 10:24 PM

Originally Posted by opie

Think real hard about what you just said. The thought of living forever would drive me nuts. Life is already becoming boring. I couldn't stand another 50 years.

The heck with that, I've lived 38 years, and I find life interesting enough and varied that I could live ten times that number and never get bored!! Too many wimmen to meet, too many cigars to smoke, places to go, books to read, history in the making to see, and experiences to enjoy!!

**opie** · 08-05-2005, 09:43 AM

Originally Posted by cigar no baka

The heck with that, I've lived 38 years, and I find life interesting enough and varied that I could live ten times that number and never get bored!! Too many wimmen to meet, too many cigars to smoke, places to go, books to read, history in the making to see, and experiences to enjoy!!

Been that age and had those exact thoughts. Want to know why you feel that way???
Because you are not 70.
Raced cars, jumped out of airplanes,skied down a mountain, Dived the Canyon in the Bahamas, made love to more women than I can remember, seen a sunset in Hiwaii, had 3 wives, 5 grand children, been poor, been middle income, been poor again, been to RTDA, smoked a Padron 1926, had a trophu wife, been to more Herf's than I can remember, what the hell else is there left to do???

**MMAB** · 08-05-2005, 09:29 PM

There's an entire world out there.

**cigar no baka** · 08-06-2005, 04:23 PM

Originally Posted by opie

Been that age and had those exact thoughts. Want to know why you feel that way???
Because you are not 70.
Raced cars, jumped out of airplanes,skied down a mountain, Dived the Canyon in the Bahamas, made love to more women than I can remember, seen a sunset in Hiwaii, had 3 wives, 5 grand children, been poor, been middle income, been poor again, been to RTDA, smoked a Padron 1926, had a trophu wife, been to more Herf's than I can remember, what the hell else is there left to do???

Well, I can think of a few hundred things but don't have the time to type them all.

**Roham** · 08-04-2005, 04:07 AM

Originally Posted by opie

I jsut turned 70 and have been smoking an average of 8 Cigars a day since I was around 30 years old and my health is better than my doctors .
HELL, WHO WANTS TO LIVE ANY LONGER THAN THAT???

There is a quote worth keeping!