i smoke and i enjoy it

[gum_shoe_the_3rd]

All i hear smoking this or that, gets on my goat

if you dont like cigs well that's your hard luck mate, i smoke and enjoy it, smoked 30 years ,and alot don't get it

out there, their are alot like me who can't stop, tried everything to stop don't work so i'll stick to it, untill its that exspensive i will have to force myself to stop, 

if the government really cared they'd ban it, how about raising tax on **bleep** pots

well anyhow was good to get that off my chest

have a good one.

[bushies.girl]

At least you have a bus stop lol

[amber-eyed-girl]

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@twyngwyn wrote:
and 4Corners tomorrow night has an expose on vitamins - apparently we don't know what's in those either.....it's a vicious circle....each multinational in bed with the rest

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I just watched that. It's not new...there was a big investigation of the local vitamin industry a few years ago. That one found that the advertised levels of most were not met, and some had bacteria in them...

Basically, if you ate healthily enough, most people will be fine without supplements. Because that is what they are (if what they say, they are). Supplements for what is lacking.

[amber-eyed-girl]

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@bushies.girl wrote:
At least you have a bus stop lol

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Yes...and the bus route isn't one I can use.

But...I have a regular tram within a five min walk AND a train station. Doing ok 🙂

[go-tazz]

We have a bus stop that's right out the front and it goes into town,(you ring them to pick you up).

Considering there are less than 8000 people that live in Yarra and we live 3kms out ,that's not bad,

[***super_nova***]

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@go-tazz wrote:

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@donnashuggy wrote:

How about making people eat real food for a change and weigh themselves once a week to stay in the healthy weight range?

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I can eat all the so called carp and stay in the healthy weight range,(I drink Zero Coca Cola,eat chocolate,lollies,

chips and cook in oil and it makes no difference to my healthy BMI weight range which is currently 22.2).

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I have a life long friend who used to be like that.  I was very envious of her that she can be stuffing her face all day long and remain gorgeous willowy slim with perfect skin.  Well,now in our late 60s she is obese and suffers from every disease that goes with it. 

[***super_nova***]

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@donnashuggy wrote:

 Smoking is enjoyable, smokers like it,

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But it also affects people around them, so the comparison with food is not a good one. 

And yes I think that taxing food stuff that has no nutritional value is a very good idea. 

We need more funding for health and education, and infrastructure.  To pay for all those things we all want, we need to pay taxes, so, taxing booze, smokes and rubbish snacks, which are all not necessities is the best way to go.  People have choice to pay or not to pay. 

[go-tazz]

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@***super_nova*** wrote:

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@go-tazz wrote:

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@donnashuggy wrote:

How about making people eat real food for a change and weigh themselves once a week to stay in the healthy weight range?

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I can eat all the so called carp and stay in the healthy weight range,(I drink Zero Coca Cola,eat chocolate,lollies,

chips and cook in oil and it makes no difference to my healthy BMI weight range which is currently 22.2).

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I have a life long friend who used to be like that.  I was very envious of her that she can be stuffing her face all day long and remain gorgeous willowy slim with perfect skin.  Well,now in our late 60s she is obese and suffers from every disease that goes with it. 

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There is the difference as I don't stuff my face,(I eat breakfest,tea and then most other things in moderation),

My weight range has been around the 72kg mark for the last 35 plus years and I have a 31 inch waist,

[amber-eyed-girl]

Metabolism slows as one ages. It's just sensible to not keep up the "face stuffing" if weight is starting to creep on. Health issues through obesity aren't a good thing.

What you say about increasing taxes is good in theory, but I have known people to forgo food, for cigarettes and alcohol.

Increasing taxes looks good on paper (and then fund the health system) but if people just don't get the message...it can be harmful in itself to price up what they just "can't live without".

Everyone knows by now that ciggies and too much booze is a harmful way to live. As you say, everyone has a choice. Trouble is it then often swings the balance away from being more healthy, to less, as the food budget goes more on the "rubbish".

[michellebartley]

Yes I enjoy a cigarette occassionally. Gone are the days when you could smoke ina restaurant or cafe which I miss. I remember when you could smoke on a plane.

[lurker172602]

I have been quite shocked when I have been overseas, and especially in the UK, at the number of people still smoking.  It is much more noticeable than here.  I think, on my totally unscientific and purely anecdotal evidence, that by and large this part of the world has got the stop smoking message.  And that's a good thing