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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fladian" data-source="post: 115106" data-attributes="member: 5833">EDIT: For some reason, the quote signs don't work :/ I knew someone like that too <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin    :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /> Together with a few friends, we tried to visit him at his 'work place' a few times. But we can't get in anymore.Oh, it was our accountance teacher, mind you. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite7" alt=":p" title="Stick Out Tongue    :p" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":p" />Great guy though. When you get him started, you could forget about all other classes for the rest of the day. The guy could talk for six hours straight - that's the longest I've been part of, I'm sure he could go on, but it is forbidden to stay at school than a certain hour <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite7" alt=":p" title="Stick Out Tongue    :p" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":p" /> - and we all loved him for that. Great guy, I wished I could thank him for the fantastic three years. He is without any doubt, one of the best teachers I've ever had.Let me give an even better example. I have some friends who are addicted to it too, not that I really mind or anything, but most of my family smokes as well. In the worst scenario, my mother will die soon because of it. There is practically nothing left from her lungs. The moment she's gone, I'll probably will have a hard time.Yes, and no. A couple of friends tried one, didn't like it, and didn't continue. Another friend - who is addicted to it nowadays - tried one, liked it, and kept going. That's... two years ago.I'm not encouraging, but I happen to know someone who says the opposite. =) I guess he had his reasons for it...Exactly.Sorry, but I tend to sleep around 5:11 AM <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite7" alt=":p" title="Stick Out Tongue    :p" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":p" /> You'll have to find me on a good school/work day to find me awake during that time. But even then, I rarely listen to Dennis or Menno. But I tend to wake up from time to time during such an hour. 5:00 AM, is close to 6:00 AM, the time I am supposed to wake up. But I'm rambeling. Sorry 'bout that.Of course. Smoking isn't the best option to take, no matter what is going on. Despite that I considerd to start smoking more than often, it definitely isn't an option to take.It won't. As a matter of fact, it may make you happy... for a while. Take other drugs as example, it will definitely make you happy for a short amount of time, but in the end, it will only be the end of you. Perhaps not physical, mentally, but it will financially.That is definitely the best description that can be given.Nonsense. Such things are best not told, or you'll get me started, and this is where I live up <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite7" alt=":p" title="Stick Out Tongue    :p" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":p" />"Booze" was made for different reasons, just like all others. Nearly everything has a (good) reason why it was created. I never really specialized in such things, but as I recall, "cigs" were only made for the financial good of it. Not for anything else. When you look at what it is originally made of, I can hardly say it had any good reason why it was created, except for the money.The 'coolness' it had in the early years is very out dated nowadays.In saying "they don't care about people's health" is not completely true. A lot of "drugs" are also made for other stuff, medical mostly. "Booze" isn't all that bad for the health, but does not exist out of the same materials as the "cigs" either. I'm very unfamiliar with all English terms of the material where it is made of, unfortunately, so I truly have a hard time going into details when it comes to this.Excuse me? Wasn't I the one who smoked pot here?I highly suggest that you don't take that chance. Especially at your age it may sound "cool", but the backside of it is a lot tougher than can be described in words. I am experiencing someone who is living with the consequences and definitely won't have long to live anymore. To make matters worse, that person is one of the few persons I care for the most, even though it may not always look like that.Oh, actually, it is. If she starts smoking, I might be mad enough to get out there, and personally kick het butt! *always wanted to go to Australia anyway* <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite7" alt=":p" title="Stick Out Tongue    :p" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":p" />Good night. I'll take it over from here.We can't stop her, that's true, but that was clear from the moment she said she wanted to start. Warning her is the best thing we can do, but when someone's mind is set on something, it is hard to get through.Why, exactly do you want to smoke anyway? To feel a thrill? To look "cool"? Just finding out what it "tastes" like is nonsense, and you know it. Trying something that kills from the inside works just as well. "You might as well try to suck on the back side of a car" (- a friend, who's name I won't say because no one will believe me anyway <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite7" alt=":p" title="Stick Out Tongue    :p" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":p" />)Smoking has far more bad points than the good ones. What Xeridanus gave as example, "finding a guy, who'll get ticked off because of the smoking" is a great example. An example I can relate to, as a matter of fact. Though I have been brushed off as a "clueless guy" when it comes to girls for quite some time, little of it is true. Because I smoked "pot" (yeah -_-) I broke down something good that I do regret. Why did I start to smoke it? Because I wanted to feel a thrill, I wanted to know how it tastes like. Only a short time after I started, I stopped because I saw the downside of it. Smoking "pot" and smoking in general are two different things, and I agree with it. I never really smoked a normal "cig" in my life, because I have a living example of what might happen.I considerd many times of starting to smoke. It would result in me going out some more, because I used to be very addicted to the computer - RSI - and had little ways to avoid it. In the end, I didn't try it, though I did keep a lighter with me for quite some time. Though the lighter was just as useful as the bullet I keep in my other pocket. The bullet is a lucky charm and a memory of someone, nothing special. I don't see you with the same problem as me for a reason to start smoking. My RSI was getting worse around the same age as you, so I can easily relate to it. Now that my arm is fully recovered, I am happy that I never did start.Smoking for the thrill of it is complete nonsense and I won't hesistate to get mad for those who would start for such an impossible reason. The thrill you'll have is shorter than a fragment of a second, if there is any at all.There is no possible valid reason to start smoking, or even try it, without having a disability or anything similar to that. Even with it, I'm against it, but I do understand why someone with it, would start smoking. As far as I know, or am concerned, you do not have any of the kind, and no particular reason to start it.-Fladian</blockquote>

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