BS: Poisoned fags

Subject: BS: Poisoned fags
From: Davetnova
Date: 15 Dec 04 - 03:22 AM

I'm glad I'm a non smoker now, especially since this new health warning. Apparently if you buy smuggled cigarettes and don't pay tax on them they have large amounts of harmful substances in them. Once you pay the tax they're just antisocial.

Subject: RE: BS: Poisoned fags
From: GUEST,John O'Lennaine
Date: 15 Dec 04 - 03:29 AM

Unfortunately, I am still a smoker.
Am I to understand then, that the cigarettes I buy from the shop do not have large amounts of harmful substances in them?
That's a relief.

Subject: RE: BS: Poisoned fags
From: GUEST,Sooz (at work)
Date: 15 Dec 04 - 03:40 AM

They're all poisonous!

Subject: RE: BS: Poisoned fags
From: Blissfully Ignorant
Date: 15 Dec 04 - 05:23 AM

I want my fags to be poisonous. I want to be left coughing and retching. I want the most carcinogenic, cyanide-filled, evil smelling cancer stick availiable. Namely, Marlboro...

Subject: RE: BS: Poisoned fags
From: GUEST,Mingulay
Date: 15 Dec 04 - 05:30 AM

Marlboro?

Nothing beats Capstan Full Strength or Gitanes.

Subject: RE: BS: Poisoned fags
From: Blissfully Ignorant
Date: 15 Dec 04 - 05:35 AM

Never heard of them. Must be some geographical or chronological thing...

I did seee some Woodbines, but they were dead expensive and far too small.

Subject: RE: BS: Poisoned fags
From: GUEST,Mingulay
Date: 15 Dec 04 - 06:57 AM

Capstan are chronological and may no longer exist. Gitanes are French and made from finest Algerian camel shit and old tram tickets.

Who needs cannibals raisins?

Subject: RE: BS: Poisoned fags
From: Blissfully Ignorant
Date: 15 Dec 04 - 07:14 AM

Seriously though, i dont think us smokers are in a position to complain about toxic substances in fags...i mean bloody hell, what did you think was in them? Vitamins?

Subject: RE: BS: Poisoned fags
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 15 Dec 04 - 07:35 AM

I was smoking 30-35 a day until 1991 when I packed in...In 1995, I developed an allergy to cigarette smoke..Ironic really.
My Mum who has smoked for most of her life since her teens, gave up about ten years ago but has just recently been diagnosed with lung cancer!
Glad I gave them up and just feel sorry for those who can't find a way to do the same. Believe me I know how hard it is.
Best wishes.

Subject: RE: BS: Poisoned fags
From: GUEST,non so pure as a reformed whore
Date: 15 Dec 04 - 08:19 AM

dirty habit!

Anyways I read that the characteristic aroma of French ciggies was indicative of their drying method (slightly baked - or did I mean half baked). As a result they have less harmful substances in them. As delineated by the cancer stats in France.   But it is all relative.

still dirty habit.

Subject: RE: BS: Poisoned fags
From: GUEST
Date: 15 Dec 04 - 08:21 AM

I wonder what the yanks make of the perfectly innocent UK statement of "Rolling your own fag"

Subject: RE: BS: Poisoned fags
From: GUEST,Mingulay
Date: 15 Dec 04 - 08:25 AM

Or the equally innocent "can I bum a fag from you".

Subject: RE: BS: Poisoned fags
From: Strollin' Johnny
Date: 15 Dec 04 - 08:35 AM

Or even 'eating faggots' (they're a minced meat food item here in darkest Lincs.) (Faggots - mince!! Oops, a not-very-pc non-intended pun there).

Subject: RE: BS: Poisoned fags
From: Once Famous
Date: 15 Dec 04 - 09:57 AM

Don't feel bad Strollin' Johnny. when I saw this thread, I thought it was about homosexuals who had bumped into some ricin.

Subject: RE: BS: Poisoned fags
From: Strollin' Johnny
Date: 15 Dec 04 - 10:02 AM

LOL!

Subject: RE: BS: Poisoned fags
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 15 Dec 04 - 12:44 PM

ROFLOL

Subject: RE: BS: Poisoned fags
From: Blissfully Ignorant
Date: 15 Dec 04 - 02:32 PM

That's nothing, my stepdad once asked an American if he could borrow a rubber...and then confounded matters by announcing he was going out for a fag.

Subject: RE: BS: Poisoned fags
From: annamill
Date: 15 Dec 04 - 02:50 PM

It's just as funny the other way 'round. I was working as a waitress outside Woodstock waaaay back when and some Englanders ;-) were here working at IBM and had come to my hotel for breakfast.

They asked if I worked everyday and I told them "No, I'm getting off tomorrow".

Evidently that means something entirely different in England then here. They proceeded to laugh themselves silly as I stood there looking absolutely purplexed. Hmmm....

Love, Annamill

Subject: RE: BS: Poisoned fags
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 15 Dec 04 - 02:55 PM

So in my ignorance...when I was running a certain Child Care establishment...I had two female students from America working with me for several weeks.
I asked them ...after they had been here some while, if they had seen the town (Preston) or been out with some of the staff and they said no..so I offered to take them out for the day!
I told them I would knock them up at around 8am in the morning and was greeted with howls of laughter.
To knock someone up in US apparently is to get them pregnant.
O.K so I took them out to a nightclub and one of them asked me "Do you shag" which allowed me to have my own back...Shag was at that time a dance in US which had not reached UK...Shag in the UK was well we all know the answer to that.
Best wishes.

Subject: RE: BS: Poisoned fags
From: Once Famous
Date: 15 Dec 04 - 03:15 PM

shag is a type of carpet.

What this thread is really showing is even though English is shared, it's not really the same. In fact we speak American, not English. We are 300 million.

Subject: RE: BS: Poisoned fags
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 15 Dec 04 - 03:24 PM

And to think you are all from British roots!
Best wishes.

Subject: RE: BS: Poisoned fags
From: Cluin
Date: 15 Dec 04 - 03:27 PM

It's nice to be in Canada where we can understand EVERYbody.

Subject: RE: BS: Poisoned fags
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 15 Dec 04 - 03:30 PM

Nicely put Cluin....respect!
Best wishes, Mike.

Subject: RE: BS: Poisoned fags
From: Donuel
Date: 15 Dec 04 - 03:40 PM

In the US shag carpet has yarn/pile about 10 - 12cm long.
hey sell a special rake to groom it down to the bottom of its piles.

Subject: RE: BS: Poisoned fags
From: PoppaGator
Date: 15 Dec 04 - 03:40 PM

I don't think that payment of taxes removes any carcinogens from factory-made cigarettes -- do you?

The question still remains whether today's most popular and widely-sold tobacco products contain more harmful additives than in the past. Many sources contend that they do. I know that arsenic is among the substances found in cigarettes, along with a whole lot of other stuff with unrecognizable names.

The reason for "enhancing" smokes in this manner, supposedly, is to make them even more addictive than they already are -- a pretty insidious marketing ploy. Smoking straight unadulterated tobacco -- if you can find any without growing it yourself -- would probably be downright *healthy*, compared to inhaling the fumes generated by commercially-manufactured ciggies.

Subject: RE: BS: Poisoned fags
From: Cluin
Date: 15 Dec 04 - 03:44 PM

Yep, I've always thought cigarettes had some extra additives to increase their addictive properties. Cigar and pipe smokers don't feel the compulsion to light up every 20 minutes.

Subject: RE: BS: Poisoned fags
From: Peace
Date: 15 Dec 04 - 04:37 PM

Nicotine is one of the more addicting substances know to humankind. If you don't smoke, don't start.

Subject: RE: BS: Poisoned fags
From: Gypsy
Date: 15 Dec 04 - 10:06 PM

Yep, i AM a United Statian, and strange thoughts went thru my head when i saw this thread. Catastrophe on Van Ess? Someone finally nailed my former employer? Who still USES that word in this so PC age? These, and other questions HAD to be answered!

Subject: RE: BS: Poisoned fags
From: LadyJean
Date: 15 Dec 04 - 10:36 PM

Many years ago, a friend of my mother's went to a resort in New Jersey. Many of the restaurants and hotels had signs that said, "No Fags". The lady thought it was a ver odd way of banning smoking.

Incidentally, my mother died of lung cancer. It hurt like Hell. Quitting smoking is a great idea!

Subject: RE: BS: Poisoned fags
From: Metchosin
Date: 15 Dec 04 - 10:42 PM

My old grandfather always claimed that it was the stuff that was put in the paper that made manufactured cigarettes burn faster, that was the problem. We were young and stupid and we believed him.

As kids we used to stare in wonder as he nodded off in his chair with a lit cigarette, that never managed to burn down to his mouth and a pile of ashes on his chest. He might have been right, he lived to 87, but I would put it down to blind luck.

Subject: RE: BS: Poisoned fags
From: Paco Rabanne
Date: 16 Dec 04 - 05:17 AM

Yo cluin, some tobacco has as many as 250 different additives. A chap I know grows his own tobacco, and it is NOTHING LIKE commercially available stuff. God, I need a fag now!

Subject: RE: BS: Poisoned fags
From: GUEST
Date: 16 Dec 04 - 05:26 AM

"In fact we speak American, not English"

MG you speak English not American, you live in America, go and enjoy a fag.

Subject: RE: BS: Poisoned fags
From: Blissfully Ignorant
Date: 16 Dec 04 - 06:36 AM

Roll your own if you're that concerned about it. I think there's less crap in Golden Virginia and the like, it doesn't taste so chemically and it burns much slower. In fact, sometimes it goes out completly, which is annoying when you used you last match to light it and can't light it again....

I still don't think there's much point in complaining; if you don't want to smoke yourself full of chemicals, then don't smoke...

Subject: RE: BS: Poisoned fags
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 16 Dec 04 - 07:02 AM

a special rake to groom it down to the bottom of its piles.

Nice to see Carry On style smut transends trans-atlantic differences! Thanks for that Donuel:-)

Cheers

:D

Subject: RE: BS: Poisoned fags
From: GUEST,KB
Date: 16 Dec 04 - 07:58 AM

Someone told me that the manufacturers put sugar into cigarrettes to make them more addictive given that sugar is highly addictive. Anyone can verify that???
Someone else then said that could be why people take up sweet-eating when they give up smoking.

cheers

Kris

Subject: RE: BS: Poisoned fags
From: Strollin' Johnny
Date: 17 Dec 04 - 08:19 AM

Someone told me that MacDonalds put a secret ingredient in Big Macs that makes you want a second one. Doesn't work for me.

Don't people eat sweets when they pack up smoking because they need the comfort of something in their mouths? NO SMUT PLEASE!

Subject: RE: BS: Poisoned fags
From: Blissfully Ignorant
Date: 17 Dec 04 - 01:47 PM

I heard they put sugar (or some kind of sweetener, sugar tastes like crap when it burns) in fags to make them more attractive to kids. I think that's a load of bollocks, personally...they're attractive enough as it is.

Subject: RE: BS: Poisoned fags
From: Once Famous
Date: 17 Dec 04 - 05:13 PM

I don't smoke Guest, but you sure do blow.

Subject: RE: BS: Poisoned fags
From: catspaw49
Date: 17 Dec 04 - 10:07 PM

It's an old story, but if you haven't heard it............

On "You Bet Your Life" Groucho was provided with easy marks as contestants so that he could ad lib for laughs. He never had a script, but he knew some background so he would be ready. One of his best one liners never made it to the air although the laugh they recorded from the audience was used as laugh track for many years.

A couple named Story were the contestants and they had 26 children. The show was the first to film with 3 cameras and so could take as long as they wanted to let Groucho get the best out of each situation. Not much had happened with the Storys until Groucho asked Mrs. Story why they had so many children. She replied, "Groucho, I just love my husband." Without missing a beat, Groucho quipped, "I like my cigar too but I take it out once in awhile."

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Poisoned fags
From: Metchosin
Date: 17 Dec 04 - 11:05 PM

LOL. Which reminds me of a time when I was with a friend at the local museum with 5 small children in tow, when she nipped off somewhere and I was left to tend the brood. A gentleman came up to me and exclaimed "Madam! how did you manage to have so many children?" to which the line from a movie I had just seen popped out, "We rutted away like crazed weasels."

Subject: RE: BS: Poisoned fags
From: GUEST
Date: 17 Dec 04 - 11:31 PM

Nothing can F-Up a fag more than Analy-Injected-Death-Serim, (AKA AIDS.....what a currious correlary ..... black women don't have clue when their man is gay....because carrying a condom would be an admission...so the disease is returned home to family.

Subject: RE: BS: Poisoned fags
From: LadyJean
Date: 18 Dec 04 - 12:37 AM

I'm doing my Christmas baking, now, and I can tell you, burning sugar has a very powerful, very distinctive aroma. You'd know if there was sugar in your cigarettes.

Now, a friend of my mother's was in a resort town in New Jersey, and kept seeing signs that said, "No Fags". She thought it was an odd way to prohibit cigarettes.