Community Profile

This is a community for tobacco smokers of all stripes to discuss brands, accessories, post links, and discuss the various social trappings and experiences of smoking. The atmosphere here should be generally casual.

If you wish to quit smoking, please discuss the proper methods for you with your doctor and supportive friends, and please feel free to create or join another community where quitting is the focus. No offence, but I'd rather quitters and aspiring quitters not come in.

Attention "Quitting Preachers":
We all are adults and know how bad this is for us, but the community maintainer feels that casual or occasional smoking, kept to a moderate minimum, reduces many risks associated with tobacco smoking — the fact of the matter is that the vast majority of studies and surveys explaining smoking risks tend to concentrate on those who smoke heavily. Logically, heavy smokers are at greater risk, and so studying those who smoke heavily will produce a study group with the greatest amount of smoking-related health problems. Yes, it then follows that not smoking at all (or at least quitting) will greatly reduce or eliminate altogether certain health risks, but only three or four cigarettes a week isn't likely to increase one's health risks too significantly — that's just basic logic.

Legal Notice:
*This community is marked for users eighteen or older, in age, because underage smoking is illegal. If I find out that you're underage, you're at risk of being booted from the group because I've contributed to the delinquency of enough minors, and I figure if I'm going to continue to do so, I want a personal interest in the kid — no point in getting fined or going to jail over a stranger.
*ALSO, keep all discussions to tobacco smoking, with rare exception. Current exceptions are: Herbal cigarettes, "red light district" cannabis lounges, historical hemp and opiate smoking.