[geeks] now Health Care

[Dan Sikorski]

Phil Stracchino wrote:
> I've never been able to understand why anyone starts smoking in the 
> first place.  It's surely gotta take a lot of peer pressure to 
> overcome the sheer discomfort of sticking a tube of smoldering leaves 
> in your mouth and inhaling the smoke.  I get a scratchy throat just 
> from being in the same room with a smoker.
>

I smoke an occasional cigar.  I like the taste, and i find the overall 
experience very relaxing.  There was no peer pressure involved that i 
can recall.  I also really like the smell of pipe smoke.  It's 
unfortunate that the most popular form of tobacco seems to be the lowest 
quality.

> (And frankly, most smokers *stink*.  I can think of few worse turnoffs 
> than going to kiss a girl and realizing at six inches that she smells 
> like an ashtray.)

This is why i don't smoke regularly, and don't smoke in the house.  Last 
year, i accidentally left my ashtray in the garage after smoking instead 
of dumping and cleaning it out.  The smell in there the next morning was 
AWFUL. 


    -Dan Sikorski