Does being a tobacco smoker lessen the dating pool?

[Amati]

Re: Does being a tobacco smoker lessen the dating pool?

If you do, I'm not likely to vote - I like the anonymity. Maybe you should take a poll on how people prefer the voting to be structured...?

You know that's a good idea ... a poll to see if someone will vote on a poll where they need to identify themselves. Although, most responders won't "really" be identifying themselves, because being on HT itself is anonymous for most.

One thing that I was pondering is about HTers who "visit" the threads but do not usually comment, I wonder if they do participate by voting in polls? For example, in the "Smoking Dating Poll", were the respondents the usual HT posters, or were there "non-posting" HTers in the mix?

NOT that it matters, just for interest's sake.

[Leo Lakio]

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Next time I do a poll, I might use the option to see who is voting (I think that was an option...).

If you do, I'm not likely to vote - I like the anonymity. Maybe you should take a poll on how people prefer the voting to be structured...?

[Random]

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No matter, now she goes out with a man who understands her lifestyle. Even with the windows up because it is raining, it's all good.

Yeah, we know who wears the pants in your relationship.

But if that's alright with you, then more power to you ... or maybe her.

[Amati]

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This was my first poll that I started, it has been an interesting process. Next time I do a poll, I might use the option to see who is voting (I think that was an option...). This poll will close in a couple of days, and the figures I did in an earlier post are still almost the same now. The results seem to indicate that smokers eliminate about 1/2 of the dating pool due to their smoking.

[AlohaKine]

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Before my girlfriend and I got together she was going out with this guy who had a BMW. As they were driving along she wanted to smoke and this dude said she couldn't smoke in the car and she'd have to wait. She told him to pull over, got out of the car and started walking. She never went out with him again.

No matter, now she goes out with a man who understands her lifestyle. Even with the windows up because it is raining, it's all good.

[Barry]

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Disgusting advice but it might help quit ? Dunno ?

I collected all my ash trays and put them into a coffee jar. When I felt like a ciggy, I used to take the lid off and sniff it,,,, "Saying,, That is Me."

All my £'s that I had spent on ciggies, I put into a jar every day and then at the end of the month,,,,, I got the 'A' cleaning team into my house.

Expensive, but worth it. I never realised that the ciggy smoke was embedded into the wall paper. ?? I had all my clothes professionally washed and ironed.


Last week, I had to go to my doctor for a Flu injection. On her monitor its says that I have been a non-smoker for 18 months !

I don't think of it like that,,,,, when I get up in the morning, I just think,,,, hmmmmmmm I don't think I will smoke today.
Sort of a day at atime.

Barry

[cynsaligia]

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neither eric or i smoke cigarettes, 99% of the time, mostly bcs we've had beloved folks in our lives die from lung or other cancer. we'll readily admit we've had our moments, during exceedingly stressful and angry moments of who-gives-an-ufk-edness where we've bummed a cig or two off a friend outside a bar. we do enjoy a cigar now and again. one of the things i am most glad i brought home from my summer trip to the philippines was a box of don j. urquido robustos.

eric and i both have dated smokers - the cigarette kind - but none of those forays lasted very long. in the end, for us, a smoker turns on all kinds of genetic warning bells for us, and--practically speaking--if we wouldn't deign to spawn with someone, why get involved seriously?

[Random]

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I smoked for years, but I quit not too long ago. My husband still smokes. I don't care for it, but what are you gonna do? I really wish he'd quit, but I totally understand that nagging a smoker is tantamount to poking snake with a stick. However- the whole time I smoked, I NEVER smoked in my house, and limited the number of cigarettes I smoked it the car, just like Jason does now. That really cuts down on the smelly factor. Yeah, it is like kissing an ashtray, but he knows I won't kiss him after he smokes, so it's his choice. I try very hard not to be a snotty ex-smoker. Sometimes if I'm in a bar or other place where it gets to be too much, I have to step out for a while, but otherwise I'm usually okay. And every so often, if I've been drinking, I may have just one.

You're not snotty. You have every right to be selfish when it comes to your relationship.

[surlygirly]

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I smoked for years, but I quit not too long ago. My husband still smokes. I don't care for it, but what are you gonna do? I really wish he'd quit, but I totally understand that nagging a smoker is tantamount to poking snake with a stick. However- the whole time I smoked, I NEVER smoked in my house, and limited the number of cigarettes I smoked it the car, just like Jason does now. That really cuts down on the smelly factor. Yeah, it is like kissing an ashtray, but he knows I won't kiss him after he smokes, so it's his choice. I try very hard not to be a snotty ex-smoker. Sometimes if I'm in a bar or other place where it gets to be too much, I have to step out for a while, but otherwise I'm usually okay. And every so often, if I've been drinking, I may have just one.

[AlohaKine]

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How timely an offer - smokers you can increase your chances in the dating pool by buying a $3600 "weekend":

http://www.starbulletin.com/news/200...sort_stay.html

"For those who have tried everything to quit smoking with no success, the American Lung Association of Hawaii offers pricey, but luxurious, counseling.
The Breathe Weekend will be held April 3-5 at the Ihilani Resort. Between sessions, participants will enjoy spa treatments and other amenities available at the luxury resort.
Participants are asked to pledge $3,600, which covers materials, the weekend stay, all meals and spa treatments. Funds raised will support the association's programs, national research and advocacy."


Does this seem sort of a strange undertaking by the Lung Association, their putting out big donation dollars for a luxurious resort weekend?

They'd have to pay ME $3600 to not smoke for a whole weekend. I likely pocket the cash and then just sneak it.

What's more the money gets stuffed into "advocacy" pockets. So my hard earned money can get stuffed into some professional lobbyist's pockets so they can make smoker's lives even harder then they already are while trashing our hospitality industry.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! ALA BOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

[Amati]

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How timely an offer - smokers you can increase your chances in the dating pool by buying a $3600 "weekend":

http://www.starbulletin.com/news/200...sort_stay.html

"For those who have tried everything to quit smoking with no success, the American Lung Association of Hawaii offers pricey, but luxurious, counseling.
The Breathe Weekend will be held April 3-5 at the Ihilani Resort. Between sessions, participants will enjoy spa treatments and other amenities available at the luxury resort.
Participants are asked to pledge $3,600, which covers materials, the weekend stay, all meals and spa treatments. Funds raised will support the association's programs, national research and advocacy."

Does this seem sort of a strange undertaking by the Lung Association, their putting out big donation dollars for a luxurious resort weekend?

[Walkoff Balk]

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I wasn't sure where to put this ? So here it is in the Environment thread. Feel Free to move it.

Are you sure you smoked tobacco because of your craving for Panda burgers? This posting might be suited for dating a pot smoker thread.

[Amati]

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Here is what I figure is the (current as of today) results of the survey. I am not a statistician or mathematician, but I figure:

Approx 25 % of population are smokers, who will [probably] date another smoker. So, out of a group of 100 people, a smoker has a built in pool of 25 people to date.
According to the poll, of non-smokers there are 25% who will date a smoker. So, of the 75 non-smokers in the group of 100, 19 people will date a smoker.
25 smokers + 19 non-smokers = 44 potental people to date [44/100]

Guess the odds are not THAT BAD, if the smoker is satisfied with having in a room full of [otherwise elegible] potential dates there is a 44% chance of one of them being willing to date the smoker.

But, on the other hand, in a room of 100 [otherwise elegible] people, the smoker has 56% of the people NOT WILLING to date them due to their smoking. That cuts out alot of people from the dating pool.

Please correct my math if it is wrong ..... I'd hait for Bub Jones too not onli tink I canot spel but thet my mathe is bad to.

[AlohaKine]

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Freedom from secondhand smoke is my goal.

Freedom from being forced to breath smoke free air is mine. If my girl ever quit and banned it from her place, I'd dump her on the spot. However, she's not like that.

I'm all for most places not having smoking, I just tend to stay away. I know there is a segment of the population that wants to have venues like that to choose from. However picking on our portion of bars that we can still go to and our homes is unacceptible.

[Barry]

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Hey ! Sorry if I posted in the wrong place

Nearly 2 years ago, I quit smoking with the help nicotine patches. At the same time, I quit coffee and tea because the first thing I did every morning was to get up and have a ciggy and a cuppa. An association thing ?

I still get craving moments but they pass.