what's the deal with hippies and cigarettes?

my favorite is the circle of them smoking tobacco out behind the health-food store.

Free Your Mind ... so you can become enslaved to a chemical?

I don't know anyone who has grown old and is so glad they smoked cigs all those years.

And I know it is why hippies are so broke all the time. "Boy, I wish I could afford that cool jobsite radio" - "30 packs of smokes and it's all yours"

I worked in Montana last summer at 8000 feet - smoker's can't handle that and there were none around. When I got home to Michigan, after about three months I realized that every single person I had spent time with socially or at work (I hire a lot of hippies) - was a smoker! Yuck! They stink! And I can skip showers with the best of 'em.

Instead of encountering 1 out of 6 people being a smoker, around hippies it is 5 out of 6. I'm over it.

 

Well its kinda like how my parents have talked to me in the past. You could go live in an igloo in alaska and survive on you own; fishing in the cold. But your not going too. Its not about what you can do without what you need. Its about getting what you need so people dont have to live in igloo's anymore. Unfortunately this world cycles back with pain and it appears that people have "breaks". However the stress that happens to that "old" 10 year old cave man, cycled back to his kid, which cycled to his kid and continues to a baby today taking pain from past bringing it on forward into the future. Instead of thinking of it as years, which would make time appear to have breaks; think of it in seconds. If you draw a line with sections in it, draw loops that loop back to the past. Thats how suffering in this world works. Every second loops back to someone else which loops to someone else and so on and so on. So until the cycle is broken with world peace there will be people who complain about someone evil and keep looping the suffering back around and there will be people who need something to make them happy then. Like buying a pack of ciggarettes instead of working hard with a group of people that you would have to lie about your beliefs around; making your life harder because lying sucks and being around people like you is better.

 

Get over it.

 

Not all hippies smoke . . . cigarettes.

 

cigs are harder to quit then heroin.. boy am i glad i quit, smoked for 5 years and been clean for over 7 months now, will never touch another one again, good riddance...

 

It probably has something to do with being rebellious in high school.its not like any sane, reasonable person starts smoking when they're older. Its a habit picked up in school by rebellious teens who may later grow up to be hippies.

 

so usually you have like 1 smoker out of 6 peoples you know, that's really small. How can you judge them because they smoke cigs ???

 

I'm an Old Hippie, half the hippies I know do not smoke anything. I do smoke, if you dont like it stay the fuck away from me. High Holy non smokers 'suck' worse then smokers do.

So you dont smoke, good for you. That doesnt mean you get to tell other ppl what to do as a self appointed ciggarett cop, it aint up to you to decide what is right for everybody. Y'all can kiss my 'butt' lol..

I just might close this offencive thread, it's offencive to smokers.

 

I never buy cigarettes, most of the time I can tolerate cigarette smokers in my place but I really dont like the smell of burned paper and toxic gases from plastic cigarette filters.
Sometimes I accept when somebody offers me a cigarette but I smoke so rarely that people gave up offering me cigarettes...

 

meliai>

Back in the mid 60,s - I started smokin cigts to be cool- -now its soooo uncool, unheathy, not to mention you cant even light one up indoors anywhere-
I try to stop every now and then - its no easy task.
The cigt companies used to send cases overseas to us - which we got for free or pd like 25cents a pack- Not that they got us hooked- but it didnt help, and it was a way to pass the time -----
I dont know about your percentages- all I know is that I hope to quit this habit one of these days- In NYC they cost like 12 bucks or more for a pack-

 

It's a choice, like so many other things. We probably all do something that annoys or inconveniences someone else. I prefer to tolerate other people's choices rather than isolate myself in a sterilized bubble. Smokers or non-, drug users, drinkers, vegetarians, meat eaters, on and on and on. What's the difference? We're all people and we should all be free to make our own choices. And I'll put up with yours that I may not like, if you'll tolerate mine.

 

I hate how rude non-smokers can be. I quit my pack-a-day habit about a month back or so, and I'm proud of myself...but GOD I hope I never become one of those smug non-smokers or self righteous ex-smokers.

OP, I'm sure you have some nasty habit or other that your stinky smoker friends overlook, don't turn your nose up at people just because they smoke. Not smoking doesn't make you better than anybody else.

 

I do the same thing ^ . I hate cigarettes however. You sure they wre smokig Tabbaco in that circle? Lol

 

And lol at how people call the health food stores. In all reality all stores should be like that and we should be eating fresh and organic fruits ad vegetables and fresh cut meats. I don't mind smoking Indian reservation cigarettes since they aren't made to cause cancer.

 

i quit afew months ago.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9ySCcnoo3c"]Bill Hicks - non smokers - YouTube

Stay Brown,
Rev J

 

What's the deal with those sporters, torturing their muscles to no end?

 

This comment makes no sense at all. Are you implying MOST hippies are "broke all the time"??? Hippies' finances are as diverse as any other "label" of people...

 

Rev J, I think I lurve you.