I was just enjoying a fag after a 13 mile training run and out of the blue just collapsed with a heart attack…
That was in 2004 and it was my last ever cigarette…
I don’t mind the smell of smoke, but not while I’m eating or in a confined space, but that rarely happens these days. It might just be a whiff of smoke when I pass some smokers outside.
If they don’t mind my garlic breath or smelly flatulence, then I don’t mind them having a fag…
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Many years ago I used to smoke . I stopped because I had a bad cold for a few days, so didn’t go near a cigarette. Getting better I thought to myself, if I have stopped for the last few days lets try for another week, this went on for month after month and the withdrawal symptoms were hell. Looking back on those days I would say to get it right out of my system so as not to even think about smoking took around 3 years
yes I went cold turkey as he saying goes . Only sheer stubborness stopped me for taking the habit up again
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I have never smoked but know plenty who had no choice but to go cold turkey know not easy , failrly brutal but if I may a heck of a movie .
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What in the world
OGF is a Brit so we must assume he’s talking about a “gasper” 
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Lol I know I just couldn’t resist .
Do not let the fact that I can barely put together a coherent paragraph fool you , I know most of the lingo from other countries as enjoy imitating England , Australia , Scotland and Ireland but no way I can fool the real McCoy’s just the locals .
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Well low and behold as that I truly did not know but will now use it .
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When I was on the orthopaedic ward (1985 - broken kneecap) ashtrays were provided at the bedside. A right old fog in there. Then came the social awareness about smoking.
In following forty years, it has gone from being able to smoke on the wards (or a common room near the wards for those who could make it there) to not being able to smoke anywhere within the hospital grounds. I still see some patients who can get outside the building smoking in the grounds though.
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Good heavens NCS Not that sort of ‘Fag’… 
I’ve never heard of the term ‘Gasper’ to describe the act of smoking…It certainly isn’t a word used in South Yorkshire Mr Smith… 
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Yes, No smoking on hospital grounds
From what I have observed, this rule is never policed.
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I’m not a smoker now, but I think it’s only the self righteous seeking the high moral ground that complain about smokers…
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That is c**p
Cigarettes stink, no more need be said.
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They might stink to you Bretrick…some people get an awful lot of pleasure out of sucking on a burning stick.
Other people find their pleasure in drinking alcohol or gambling…etc…
There will be tens of posters who can’t wait to fire up their keyboards to say “Yes but people drinking alcohol or gambling doesn’t hurt innocent people”…What about when they come home after a skinfull and beat the crap out of their wife…I’ve seen that a lot round here, and it does more damage than breathing in second hand smoke for about twenty seconds.
My daughter lived with a drunken wife beater for several years until we got her away from him…I wish he’d been a smoker instead of a drinker, he might be dead by now hopefully!
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My post was addressing the stench of cigarettes, no more, no less.
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Fair enough Bret…Nuff said…
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Strangely, it’s uninhaled tobacco smoke that stinks.
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With those who hate smoking with a passion the descriptions are…
stench
foul
vile
stink
reek
dirty
filthy
To those who don’t mind it so much, the words are not so emotive, such as…
smell
odour
whiff.
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That sounds like horrifying pain . I used to be invincible but now I even see a syringe and feel like passing out .
Did you completely recover from that ?
Yes, completely after treatment and weeks of physio. I’d like to say I did it mountaineering or something adventurous but no. I tripped over my tool case while carrying a customer’s big old Betamax video recorder. I more or less saved the video recorder from serious damage but it cut my finger so deeply the tendons could be seen moving about.
The customer was most understanding and invited me in to run my finger under the tap. While doing that, the pain from the knee made its presence known. I was taken to the hospital …only a couple of hundred yards away as it happened. The kneecap had broken into 3 pieces. It swelled up very large and the fluid was drained off. The leg plastered from foot to thigh and I was put the ward for a week. It hurt like hell but at least I could have a smoke there, which was a great comfort to me, 
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OMG that and tendon cut sound brutal . I have heard from people who have had knee breaks that the worse that and of course back .