Originally Posted by MMACH 5 (Post 9823057)

I actually do what I can not to smoke around other people. On the particular day I mentioned, I even went to the other side of the parking lot, so as not to subject them to it.

Originally Posted by lil brown bat (Post 9819483)

...and everyone who has to deal with the butts that you litter all over the landscape. Who told smokers that this was okay, anyway? Every time I see a smoker just flick their butt on the ground like their mom was following behind them cleaning up, I want to punch them in the neck. I want to punch their mom in the neck too.

Originally Posted by Mr_Fred (Post 9821303)

Don't worry, I don't throw butts on the ground. I usually toss it over the bridge into the East River.

Originally Posted by steve0257 (Post 9823626)

When I smoked I smoked while riding. If you want to get a real reaction light up at the half way point in a half-marathon. Did that once when I used to run and the reaction from some of the other runners was that of wide eyed disbelief.

Originally Posted by Mr_Fred (Post 9825594)

You should see the reactions from a cancer walk (fundraiser).

Originally Posted by chephy (Post 9823900)

Indeed. I don't know why smokers think that cigarette butts are somehow not litter.

Originally Posted by Gene2308 (Post 9827072)

Mr. Fred - I suspect you are really not much more than an educated troll just messing around, probably for lack of anything else to do.

If you are actually serious - please don't contribute to the gene pool.

Originally Posted by fredgarvin7 (Post 9821332)

nice to see all the "tolerant" anti-smoking fascists. As a former smoker, (free at last) i have noticed that the most virulent critics of "the filthy weed" are ex-smokers, not non-smokers. It's like they "got religion"! The only way that tobacco smoke from someone outdoors moving at good clip could bother anyone is if they were drafting. So don't draft the smoker. Geeze! In nj the state would go broke w/o cigarette tax revenue. The excise tax is over half the cost of a pack, upon which sales tax is then paid. Taxing taxes! In nj, they want smokers to buy cigarettes, just don't smoke 'em!

And smoking does not= littering. They are 2 separate acts. Let he who has never tossed a gum wrapper cast the first stone.

Originally Posted by Totaled108 (Post 9818555)

The picture you paint makes me smile, kind of looks funny in my head. I don't smoke, but I'd like to see this. The only thing that would make it more funny is if you were riding a recumbent, but I imagine you don't. Good times

Originally Posted by wheeldeal (Post 9828958)

I smoke regularly, but have never done so on a bicycle. I am too lazy to go through the hassle of taking a cigarette out, putting it back in my pocket, find my lighter, etc.

But a recumbent looks like the perfect vehicle to ride while smoking. I've never seen one in person. How does it ride? Is the balancing similar to riding a normal upright bicycle? Can you ride a recumbent safely (being in control) at a slow 3 - 5mph pace (like a regular bicycle)? If so, it would make a wonderful leisurely morning coffee/cigarette ride!

Originally Posted by jonas604 (Post 9829320)

Pipe tobacco and cigar tobacco smell good because they are simply cut and cured leaves. Some pipe tobaccos have aromatic oils and other fine smelling additives. Still basically real tobacco leaves. Cigarettes are a different type of tobacco and are processed differently and much more intensely. They are also full of other junk i.e. chemicals, paper, etc.

Originally Posted by fender1 (Post 9827991)

I hate to hit the bumps and spill the bong water......makes everything stinky.