Hello mdw2007

LISTEN to all this advise. I remember when I was in 7th grade and a man came to school with x-rays of black lungs from smoking! I did not smoke until my senior year, and have been addicted (32 years) until 2 weeks ago when they cut out half my tongue, and cut me from ear to ear and removed a golf ball sized tumor from under my chin. All caused by smoking. I can't believe it, but now, somehow, by the grace of God, I have lost my desire to smoke.

August made me laugh when she said go right now, not just to the trash can, but to the sink. Do you know why she said that? It is because you will go dig the cigarettes out of the garbage later, and scrape any crap thats on them off and smoke them. Even if the filter is broke, you WILL smoke them. By "soaking" them, it makes it almost impossible to smoke them. I did say ALMOST. I found that 1 minute in the microwave would do the trick. It would get you a few hits until you could go buy another pack.

I finally gave up wetting them down because I would just have to go buy another pack, and being thrify as I am, I saw no reason to waste a good pack of cigarettes. Throwing them out of a moving automobile is effective, but don't get caught. ($500.00 littering) And you will just buy another pack at the next store anyway.

So my advise is to quit now before you become so addicted that you will dig in a garbage can to get a "hit". For the sake of averages, let's say cigarettes never changed cost in the last 32 years and they cost $2.50 a pack. Well I smoked 2 packs a day. So, let's just add this up for $hits & giggles! 2 packs 5.00 x 365 days = $1,825.00 x 32 years = $58,400.00! WOW! If I had put that in a 401k, I bet I'd have almost $150,000.00. Almost, but not quite enough to pay for the surgery & radiation treatments. WOW! Just makes me want to light one up!

CIGARS, CIGARETTES, CHAW, CANCER ANYONE???

"He may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot, and smoke like an idiot, but don't let that fool you. He really is an idiot."