Since you are not allowed to smoke at the chess board you should smoke on the other players time.- Wormdrink chocolate is suppose to be good for you. It is the fat and sugar that is suppose to be bad for you. You could try Chocolate Soy Protein or Chocolate Whey Protein. If they are not sweet enough for you ,you could sweeten them with artifical sweetner. You could also ( like me ) eat half the Chocolate Bar today and the other half tomorrow.

aristeidis9 wrote:

I will suggest a movie for all of you,very relative with this topic:"Thank you for smoking".A funny comedy about a man who is working for the tobacco companies and his job is to promote cigarettes!!Very clever and funny man...

Calvinhoddesliker said "actually, a saw a "smoking room" in airports on my way to india and back a few months ago".

Yes and i bet 100% it was awful..I found one in Qatar's airport and when i opened the door a huge cloud of smoke came from the inside of the room..I am not kidding,I felt very bad about this...I just didn't went inside to smoke even if i had hours to smoke..

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 if it was India their is quite a chance it was meant for water pips

Il check up on that  movie, I believe iv seen it already...

Actually treadmills wash away blubber.  It's too bad there is nothing in the gym for cancer.

I haven't got cancer, but I have got a trim 32 inch waist.

I have a 36, no complaints here.  If you like playing the cancer lottery, then have fun!  Just make sure you have good insurance so you don't hose your family if you happen to hit the jackpot.

Being a non smoker doesn't mean you won't get cancer. Being a smoker doesn't automatically mean I will. You may not suffer a heart attack or stroke due to your weight.

then again, why inprove the ods?

TonyGas wrote: Being a non smoker doesn't mean you won't get cancer. Being a smoker doesn't automatically mean I will. You may not suffer a heart attack or stroke due to your weight.

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 This may be.  I was merely providing a response to your request of debate for "the stupidity and the virtues of this pleasurable, noble, age old habit. "   Which in my humble opinion out weigh (pun intended) the virtues.

Thank you Wormdrink. My reaction was merely a response to your opinion. Your views certainly add weight to this debate.

Also, well done for giving up. It isn't easy.

Maybe smoking is humanity's way for providing an "unnatural disaster" to thin some of the population?  Afterall...there's only so much space on this planet and at the rate we're going we're really pushing our limits.

When ppl often tell me of how horrible smoking is or how it shortens your life and that of everyone around you i often cant help of thinking what soldiers would think in WW2 who smoked cigarettes.  I also often like to think of someone nowadays going up to someone like a real cowboy and being like do you know how bad that is for you?? and the cowboys mouth just like opening and the cigarette falling out.  Sometimes i think that modern man is just becoming a giant wimp babied by the comforts and social norms of our society.

I'm not particularly defensive about a fat person eating chocolate.  In fact, I find that one my personal weaknesses is that I'm biased against fat people, much more so than smokers, as I was once a smoker.  Regardless, you haven't addressed my argument as I attempted to address yours.

I gave up smoking, and a week later I had a heart attack, and a double by-pass, which caused what?

The Marboro Man in the old cigarette commercial on TV died of Lung Cancer.

"There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry."

-Mark Twain 

calvinhobbesliker wrote:

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actually, a saw a "smoking room" in airports on my way to india and back a few months ago

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 Get them in the pubs quick! They're trying to take away our outdoor heaters now aswell due to them contributing to global warming... Don't anti smokers have anything better to do? Like stop complaining about us harming your health. If you're that bothered get out the pubs and go for a bloody jog instead...

I think both smoking and over eating are ridiculous both eventually lead to bad health a poorer quality of life and smelling bad i believe everything in moderation if you smoked once a month or went out to a feast every month it would be fine or at least not to bad for you. But to become so addicted that you need something every day to the point of ruining your health that is just weak i see no excuse for it.

But alot of smokers have a different subconcious reason for smoking. Like... to reveal hidden laser traps.

 

We don't need an 'excuse' for smoking. Its a legal activity that people have engaged in for ages, the health concious can stick to whatever they're doing, and we'll stick to what we're doing. Trying to prevent it seems just so 'police-state'y.

 

I don't understand the health argument though, I mean, you think telling a smoker that smoking harms him is gunna make him turn around and say "Holy Crap, I didn't realise! I thought they were cleaning my lungs."  

See, here is where cigarettes can save your life. If you were a CIA agent or FBI agent or whatever covert ops guy you were and you were sneaking into the Chess.com headquarters to change your rating, or make the Boungcloud opening a standard opening available in the turn-based games setup (hint hint), you could smoke and get past ALL of Erik's security systems! That is BRILLIANT!!!! Lasers will never stop me now.