Which is more expensive (not compters)

[ddrueding]

...the 750ml bottle of Belvadire I just consumed, or the medication I will consume tomorrow to combat this beast?

Sorry I won't be around to read the responses, I'll be playing driving sims until I pass out.

 

[CougTek]

Not knowing what Belvadire is, I googled it and it seems to be a kind of Vodka. 750ml of 40% alcohol should make you quite sick. I hope you're weighting more than 125lbs or you better call an ambulance right away and still conscious.

 

[Mercutio]

I have yet to comprehend the appeal of drinking. Especially given the cost of the alcohol and its side effects.

 

[ddrueding]

Ugh....sorry for the drunk post guys....

Belvadere is a very nice Vodka. So nice, in fact, that 750ml+195lb male+2L water = no hangover. It's known as being the purest (filtered through a thin sheet of marble IIRC) and deserves it's rep as a hangover-free beverage.

 

[LiamC]

Better than Absolut Peppa?

 

[ddrueding]

I like it better than anything else I've tried *shrugs*

 

[Tannin]

Belvedere used to be a brand of cigarettes: imported American ones, moderately exensive, longer than usual (about 1.5cm longer than standard king size, as I recall), packaged in an attractive slightly dulled gold box. The flavour was attractive if a fraction bland for my taste, and with just a touch of that faintly exotic fresh-burned straw taste that American cigarettes seem to specialise in - L&Ms were paticularly rich in it, so much so that as you drew on them they used to crackle and spit alarmingly from time to time.

Theses days, were I to sample one, I would find it almost as bland and tasteless as I find all other cigarettes, no doubt.

 

[timwhit]

What kind do you smoke now Tony?

 

[Tannin]

A pipe, Tim. Pipes area vastly more civilised way to smoke: restful, unhurried, and full of flavor. They smell nice and, unlike cigarettes, are not a fire hazard and produce no litter - which while it doesn't matter in the city, is a significant factor in the bush. I could never go back to cigarettes, save for the odd one once in a while by way of a novelty, and I have no idea why I didn't make the switch years ago.

I always used to think about giving up smoking, and from time to time would do so, sometimes for a year or so at a time, but was never settled either as a smoker or a non-smoker. But not any more: I'm quite comfortable to enjoy my pipe from time to time, feeling healthier than I have in years and missing cigarettes not in the slightest.

 

[timwhit]

I quit smoking back in July, hopefully I can continue to not smoke.

What kind of health hazards exist from smoking a pipe? Do you inhale?

 

[blakerwry]

I imagine smoking a pipe would be healthier only because you do not "chain smoke" on a pipe most likely... but I could be wrong.

I imagine Tannin smokes after dinner and maybe once during the day... but that's just how i'd imagine it... in reality he might wake up with a pipe in his mouth and keep it lit all day long until he goes to bed (wearing nothing but a still smoldering tobacco filled pipe)

I think cigarettes are just too easy and lead people to become chain smokers.. which is a very very unhealthy habbit. i dont think there are any adverse negative effects from smoking say once a week to once a month. Smoking once daily might not be good, but it's not terrible. Most likely somthing else will get you before the smoking does.

 

[Tannin]

Most pipe smokers inhale seldom or never. There is no nood, a pipe has far more flavour than a cigarette. Like all tobacco products it has health risks, but not in the same order of magnitude as cigarettes do.

I smoke as I feel like it: infrequently if I am doing other things, incessantly f I have nothing else to occupy my time with (such as, in recent weeks, when I am driving a very long distance).

It's not really practical to smoke a hurried pipe the way one grabs a quick cigarette. It takes time to fill it, time to light it, perhaps 20 minutes to smoke it. This means that I seldom have the opportunity to have a quick smoke in between customers anymore - which is entirely a good thing, as when I have finally pushed the last one out the door, I can sit down, make a bucket or two of tea, relax and do it properly.

 

[Pradeep]

IIRC pipe smokers tend to have a higher incidence of mouth cancer, whereas ciggie smokers get the lung cancer.

 

[CougTek]

IIRC pipe smokers tend to have a higher incidence of mouth cancer,...

Same's true for cigar smokers. But the cancer rate should be quite lower for mouth cancer than lung cancer because the mouth is a far less vulnerable area than lungs are. At least that's how I see it.

 

[timwhit]

Plus, it is probably easier to detect mouth cancer than it is lung cancer.

 

[i]

Well hey, no problems then! Smoke away!

 

[me]

Dude, i, you need to stop posting first thing in the morning.

 

[i]

Ugh. Sorry. Wasn't meant as a flame (hah).

When I was younger, my parents knew a family with a son who somehow developed mouth cancer. I don't know whether it started that way, or if he had cancer initially somewhere else that later spread to the mouth. I don't think you can say that one kind of cancer is necessarily any less awful than another (not that anyone here was making that statement directly). In fact, with mouth cancer, I'd think it'd be worse than lung cancer in one respect. At least with lung cancer you can't see, feel, or taste the results directly. Think about that when you think about mouth cancer, and you'll understand how freaked out I was when I was younger and I heard some of the details about what happened to that poor guy.