Smoking on a C-Dory

I want to be respectful, but man, that's an act I find very difficult to understand.

I liked Byrdman and Halcyon's approach to smoker pals. I spent five days cruising with a longtime buddy who energetically puffed Marlboro lights. Yeah, I probably took in a few second hand cigs, but his company was worth it. Besides, I smoked for years, and he tried to be considerate.
 
yup, that was kind of a thread stopper wasn't it..... I carry some of my work frustrations home, maybe I shouldn't sign up for committees that deal with PC stuff.....naw....that wouldn't be any fun :)
 
My name is MIKE and I AM A SMOKER!

I smoke in MY home, on MY boat and in MY car and truck. I do not smoke in other folks domain. I would not get on your boat at the dock unless first I knew you didn't object to me smoking or I had a 21mg Nicotine Transdermal Patch with me (I keep them handy for airplane rides and movies exceeding 2 hours.

I have never befriended anyone based on their "habits", only on their character.

I should mention, having grown up on a Kentucky tobacco farm where the main cash crop put clothes on my back, food in my belly and a roof over my head, that if smoking kills me, it's only fair. However I think the odds are with getting broad sided by a senior citizen (one of us) in a Naples intersection during season is much more likely.
 
Ok I'm gonna put my 2cents worth on this at the peril of ticking a few people off. My wife and I smoke. We make a consorted effort to not offend those around us. I can understand those that say they are bothered by "second hand smoke" . My issue is the large number of people that claim an alergy to the above. I recognize that some people are very sensitive to others smoking. Call a spade a freaking shovel. if you are sensitive and extremly bothered i can deal with that. An alergic reaction, however is anaphalaxis or breaking out in hives. If you don't require a benadril or a shot of epinepherin after being around smokers then you are not alergic. You are simply annoyed or sensitive. It seems to have become the PC answer to a relavant social issue. Just my 2 cents worth.
Norm
 
Hi Folks,

I hate to Brag, but I just had my Colon checked. This came after having everything else checked out. I am 66 years old, and healthwise, in the top 1% of Americans at my age. I DO NOT smoke or drink. I do not like secondhand smoke, so I do not allow it on my boat or in our house.

I hope to live to a ripe old age, sailing my C-dory around the waters of America.

If I stay out of other guy's girl friend's beds, I should live to a good old age.

If you smoke, I feel sorry for you. If you are upset with this message, tough luck.

My wife Sheila gave up smoking over five years ago. I find gum around the house. It's a lot better than dirty ashtrays.

Fred Heap
 
Ya know...because of me telling things like it is and not dancing around that big ol dumb a$$ elephant in the middle of the room at work....and telling the Chief of Staff of the AL ARNG that if folks get offended and their feelings hurt by what I say.... they should have bought ballet tickets if they wanted a nice soft touchy-feely moment. I took an oath to defend and protect...even in the PC military world... and it got me sent to one of the L O N G courses cause they know I read slow and their are not a lot of charts, numbers, pictures and/or symbols in those classes..... so my friend, and I mean that...the COS is a long time friend of mine... and the Adjutaunt General appointed me Diveristy Officer for the AL ARNG... Well... I found out the long couse was ON Cocco Beach... So I had to go tuff it out with an ocean front view of the dailey sunrises (way pretty)... and ...it put me in range to go get Jabez... my 1st C-Dory. And yes, I did hang around in the smokey ol bar room...but I do not smoke... I am just addicted to late night and sunrises. Love Ya All.... Mean it!
Byrdman
 
Hey...uh...Byrdman,

Aren't you supposed to be totally occupied performing your five days of hard labor? You should be exhausted and sleeping. It appears you're sneaking out to the barn once in awhile. Please correct your behavior before you're busted and get an extended sentence.

Love hearing from you.

Bob Cat
 
My wife and I both enjoy a good cigar (been known to have a few Cubans on board now and then ..thanks Canada) and we have friends that smoke that occasionally light up on board.

I would not want it in the cabin but I have not found it overly offensive or intolerable for anyone. Cigarettes are horrible for your health and we always cring when friends we care about persist in smoking but the alternative of not having them participate in our adventures and life is not an acceptable option.

Everyone we know who smokes is respectful in their smoking and we try to make them feel at home in our home or boat. Life is too short not to.
 
I use to smoke but quite about 15 years ago. I don't know anything about be alergic to smoke, but can tell you that it can be a trigger for asthma suffers. I've got asthma pretty bad and have to stay well upwind of any smoke. Don't try to preach about the evils of smoking,.... just try to stay upwind!

Roger & Fran
 
Art the wine man smokes.......My dilemma was that he brought the wine, paid for half the gas and escorted a drunk me back to the boat so I didn't feel I had a leg to stand on.

P.S. He only smokes in the back of the boat
 
Art the wine man smokes.......
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Besides that, you gotta keep him around in case he really does figure out how to grow Seagrams.
 
Interesting reading on the subject. I dont smoke and dont care to be near it. Have a few friends that still smoke and they are very respectful of non smokers. I've never felt a need to ask someone to stop smoking and its not an issue on my boat. BUTT?! I would like to know who are the people leaving large amounts of butts outside of stores.parking lots, sidewalks etc. I know its none of my friends but thats the sort of thing that ticks off a lot of people. Kinda like blowing your nose and leaving the tissue anywhere. Thats my $00.02 worth.
Phil
 
You folks trying to quit smoking oughta do what I did.....

Join Smokers Anonymous... Their cure is to when you feel like lighting up. :cigar :cigar :cigar ...you just call up a buddy and go out and get drunk.... :cocktail :cocktail :cocktail
:disgust


JUST KIDDING! I DON'T SMOKE AND ONLY DRINK WHEN I'M ALONE OR WITH SOMEBODY....

Charlie
 
I really like what Byrdman said, all people are different and we all have our quirps and habits, good and bad. Being an ex smoker I don't care for cigarettes either but if my friend wants to smoke, fire up outside please and be good to your mother......
Earth, Ocean and good ole Mom.

Drive it Like Ya Stole It
Hammerhead......3rd yr boatless, soon to change :xnaughty
 
No hard feelings, harrassment, preaching or any other negative. Just a quiet but firm no smoking on our boat.
 
Great stuff! Been there, and done (most of) that.

Smoked my first Camel (non-filtered) in 1948. Smoked from then until April 24, 1981.

Used to carry my cigarettes in the handlebars of my tricycle. (Pull off the handle grip, stuff cigarettes in the opening, and put back the handle grip. When it was time to have another cigarette, just remove the grip, lean the tricycle over, and shake it, and sooner or later a cigarette would fall out.)

Smoked from then on, and in early 1981 was smoking about 2 1/2 packs a day. Got up one morning after my usual smoke before I got out of bed, jumped into the shower, and blew out my left lung. Total collapse.

On the way to the hospital, I lit up a Marlborough, and took a puff, and nearly passed out. Not a good time to be smoking!

Bottom line, the doc (a 30+ year thoracic surgeon) said that he had never seen lungs as bad as mine, and told me to never smoke again. Period. If I did, I should find another doctor.

Quit that day. Been glad ever since. Quitting wasn't even all that hard to do, since I was pretty much hating it for the last few years that I smoked. It's just one helluva hard habit to stop.

No qualms against cigarette companys, parents who smoke, or anything like that. I chose, I paid, but was fortunate to have a lung blowout rather than something worse.

Smoke on my boat if you want, as long as you follow my rules. Smoke in my house if you want. As long as you're only gonna be there for a few hours. But if you can find a way to quit, I would certainly encourage it!

Ken
 
Up here in Alaska we lose a lot of folks every year in boating "accidents". Although alcohol is a reported factor in most of the fatalities, I've never heard of anyone ramming a dock, rock, or another boat because they'd lit up a smoke. I've never noticed a butt in the water, but brown bottles and aluminum cans are retexturing the sea bottom even up here. Dead things on the beaches are tangled in plastic 6-pack rings and choked on bottlecaps, but I've never seen a puffin dead from puffin. Now, I'm not a smoker, but I think the clear and present danger of drinking at the helm gets overlooked while we debate the political correctness of smoking on the swim step .. . . . So I wonder . . . .How many anti-smoking nazis out there drive their boats while drinking? Who is the greater danger? Just my $0.02
 
I cannot believe that this thread warrants three pages of replys. it should just be a nonissue as far as I am concerned
 
Roger.... go count yer tatters.....have a beer and smoke one.... See ya soon my man.
Byrdman
 
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