The study found that an average of 18% of adults in Tennessee have either smoked 100 cigarettes in their lifetime, smoke daily or smoke sometimes.
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Yeah well, tobacco is a big part of our economy, although that's shrinking year by year. Damned near everybody either smokes, chews or dips.
Myself, I quit smoking when a pack of cigarettes hit 2 bucks a pack, but I do love my Copenhagen. Back then I was smoking 3 packs daily which would run me between 20 or 25 bucks in today's prices, but my Copenhagen habit nowadays is about 15 bucks a week, if that.
And no, I'm not one of those people that are constantly spitting. That shit's disgusting. Matter of fact, I've been dipping for so long, I don't have the urge to spit at all.
Gotta have the Copenhagen. I like the long cut straight. I don't know if they make it in a wintergreen but I could never do that type. For years I chewed Redman so when I started dipping I liked the tobacco taste I guess.
ReplyDeleteSmokers are less likely to contract the coof, I wonder what the spreadsheet looks like with the 'coof' rates in high smoker populations?
ReplyDeleteChutes Magoo
Wintergreen Copenhagen is called Skoal.
ReplyDeleteMy great aunt Hazel dipped Skoal. She said it was more ladylike than Copenhagen.
DeleteI was one of those so called square kids in high school. Never got into trouble, did everything right, nice to everyone. An athlete, so smoking or drugs were obviously a no go.
ReplyDeleteFast forward to the age of 30, I was going through a divorce, started playing in a rock band with 5 other people who all smoked.
Within 3-4 months, I was smoking. I actually loved smoking, but we all know it is bad for you. I went from cigarettes to those little cigars, when the price went way up. Those little cigars are still around $2 a pack.
I quit in 2014, after starting in around 1990. In a 12 hour shift pouring steel, I could sometimes go through 2 packs. Due to the different things involved with my job, I often would light up and within a minute or two have to put it out and do something with the steel.
Oh and in the State of Michigan's infinite wisdom they made all workplaces smoke free, sometime ago. Trying to fix our health, don't you know. The fact that we could actually see the air we breathed at times didn't play into the decision at all, apparently.
I never could chew tobacco, after playing in independent league baseball, sort of the minor to the minor leagues. Our pitcher rounded third, ran toward home and tripped near the plate, swallowing a huge chaw of RedMan. He rolled two or three times, touched home plate, and promptly puked all over the batter's box. None of us laughed at him, of course. lol.
The smoking lamp is lit. Smoke 'em if you got 'em. I gave 'em up cold turkey when the price of a pack 50 cents.
ReplyDeleteSmoked 2+ packs of Camel (the original unfiltered) and Lucky Strikes (same unfiltered, but only when I wanted to "cheat") until I had a MI and was forced to stop. I still have habits that show up, like holding the pencil when I am keeping score at the bowling alley, or when I am having pizza and beer. I do miss it, but daughter/princess/queen of the house keeps me in line.
ReplyDeleteI started smoking at age 7, stealing cigarettes from my mom and whatever uncles were unwise to leave an open pack, all unfiltered. Smoking four (4) packs a day I stopped cold turkey when I was 47 after watching an old friend die of lung cancer; that was more than 35 years ago.
ReplyDeleteI loved the high I got after just one puff and if it wasn't so d*mned expensive, I'd begin again tomorrow; after all. what do I have to lose
What's a can of Copenhagen Long Cut Straight go for these days?
ReplyDeleteI gave it up when the state I live in started grossing more revenue off of a can of Cope than the people that grow the tobacco, process the tobacco into a product, distribute the product and retail the product do combined. Complete and utter bullshit.
Robertson County in the fall is wonderful. Go out on the bike & ride round, and every couple of miles is a barn firing tobacco. I'm a lifelong Tennessean, & I've never tired of that smell.
ReplyDeleteOf course, you have the occasional Yankee newcomer calling 911 about a 'barn on fire'.
--Tennessee Budd
Why is a rankings story news? One state will be first, probably Kentucky, 2nd WVA and TN or NC third. People smoke tobacco. It's legal, it's taxed and grows like a weed. I just am tired of non stories filling the webs. Half of every news site should just be about our massive debt and coming fall off a cliff and a quarter or more to our loss of freedom.
ReplyDeleteNo complaint about your citing it, it is a jumping off point for these responses which are fun.
But isn't almost everything in the media a distraction from the oncoming catastrophe?
My only argument is that tobacco does not grow like a weed. Working tobacco was one of the most time-consuming, intensive agricultural processes I’ve ever seen and I was only the underaged hired help.
DeleteWest Virginia is number 1. Feels good to be the best at something however, I would think we dropped a place or 2 when I stopped. I was up to about 3 packs a day of Camels, the hard core ones. I tried a pipe for a while but my mouth was so damned raw I didn't stick with it. I would chew, trouble was I was smoking at same time I had a mouth full of Red Man. Ran out of Camels, tried rolling the Red Man, not good. Now I have coronary artery disease, some stents and some other problems but, am still alive
ReplyDeleteDaryl
I don't smoke and never had. I enjoyed chewing tobacco, but during "The First Election COVID Pandemic" (tongue in cheek here) I lost my taste for it and thought a good time to quit.
ReplyDeleteI always thought it was ironic the way .gov has treated the tobacco industry since the full on press promoting "anti-smoking"/smoke free environments, . After all, the country was built on tobacco.