Damn, not soon enough.UCAbears wrote:i die tommrow
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Except that if we keep voting in a Labour government, by 2025 20 cigs will cost, at a guess, Fort Knox. So, if you quit now, by the time you get to 2067, logically with the money you've saved you'll be the richest person in the history of everything and able to bribe Death!Stopper wrote:Hmmm. I gave up smoking last Monday, and according to the first date-of-death-working-out-thing, there's only 4 years of a difference between if I carry on smoking, and if I don't. Either 2063, or 2067.
Makes giving up hardly seem worth the bother. Basing my decision on this presumably reputable website, I think I'll get a packet of 20 Regal King-Size tonight.

I LIKE that logic. Plus, I've just been for a 2-mile run, and I discovered I'm able to recreate that fantastic coughing-and-wheezing-fit effect I got every morning, WITHOUT having to buy any fags at all!Spuzzell wrote:Except that if we keep voting in a Labour government, by 2025 20 cigs will cost, at a guess, Fort Knox. So, if you quit now, by the time you get to 2067, logically with the money you've saved you'll be the richest person in the history of everything and able to bribe Death!

That's a beautiful story.Stopper wrote:Hmmm. I gave up smoking last Monday, and according to the first date-of-death-working-out-thing, there's only 4 years of a difference between if I carry on smoking, and if I don't. Either 2063, or 2067.
Makes giving up hardly seem worth the bother. Basing my decision on this presumably reputable website, I think I'll get a packet of 20 Regal King-Size tonight.
day4death.com wrote:When you will die: Monday February 8, 2083, at age of 89.
Nursing Home 43.10%
Heart disease 38.20%
deathclock.com wrote:Your Personal Day of Death is...Monday, October 6, 2081
I need no praise. If I can inspire just one other person to take up the fags again, that will be my reward.btownmeggy wrote:That's a beautiful story.Stopper wrote:Hmmm. I gave up smoking last Monday, and according to the first date-of-death-working-out-thing, there's only 4 years of a difference between if I carry on smoking, and if I don't. Either 2063, or 2067.
Makes giving up hardly seem worth the bother. Basing my decision on this presumably reputable website, I think I'll get a packet of 20 Regal King-Size tonight.
Or you could just rake around on the tops of bins to pick out some half smoked fags or big douts (cigs & butts to our American cousins) and gently tease the unsmoked tobacco out (removing the saliva encrusted filter of course!) into strips of newspaper (taken from the same bins - scraping the chipfat off first, mind) and roll them up. This way your habit won't cost you anything - except perhaps your self-respect and dignity. They don't taste that nice and they smell a hell of a lot worse but hey, there’s no such thing as a free lunch (unless you found a few left over crispy bit of chips in the folds of the newspaper wrapping, we all know they're the best ones).Spuzzell wrote:Except that if we keep voting in a Labour government, by 2025 20 cigs will cost, at a guess, Fort Knox. So, if you quit now, by the time you get to 2067, logically with the money you've saved you'll be the richest person in the history of everything and able to bribe Death!Stopper wrote:Hmmm. I gave up smoking last Monday, and according to the first date-of-death-working-out-thing, there's only 4 years of a difference between if I carry on smoking, and if I don't. Either 2063, or 2067.
Makes giving up hardly seem worth the bother. Basing my decision on this presumably reputable website, I think I'll get a packet of 20 Regal King-Size tonight.
(edit: also, if you ARE going to smoke, roll your own. Cutters Choice, 25g = £4/£5, which will make you at least 100. Filters and papers will cost you an extra £1 a week. They taste nicer and smell a hell of a lot better.)
