Smoking/smokers

[itsybitsy]

Personally, I am a clean slate. I keep genial habits and posses a robust constitution; and would not fall into such a mire.

You wanna translate that into post 19th Century English?

[bulldogeagle]

Personally, I am a clean slate. I keep genial habits and posses a robust constitution; and would not fall into such a mire.

You wanna translate that into post 19th Century English?

I think he means he dosent smoke, prob dosent drink, and dosent have any bad habits and intends to keep it that way

[Carrot Cruncher]

Some bad habits that keep life interesting

[itsybitsy]

Personally, I am a clean slate. I keep genial habits and posses a robust constitution; and would not fall into such a mire.

You wanna translate that into post 19th Century English?

I think he means he dosent smoke, prob dosent drink, and dosent have any bad habits and intends to keep it that way

Lordy! We definitely need that yawn smiley...zzzzzzzzzzzzz

[bulldogeagle]

dont shoot the translator

[nickdutch]

I have had to be told off by my doctor and dentist and then to find a way without using smoking tobacco. So now i use nasal snuff (English Smokeless Tobacco, Wilsons of Sharrow) costing DRAMATICALLY less then £6 PER MONTH and I have already got the knowledge of how to make my own from dried herb (pestle and mortar and then sieved through new ladies stockings stretched over a cup) in case I want to start growing my own tobacco and snuffing that.

[bulldogeagle]

you mean snuffing or sniffing?? must make a helleva mess of your nostrils

[nickdutch]

you mean snuffing or sniffing?? must make a helleva mess of your nostrils

Its ok. The brown stuff comes out in your hanky to the most part. It s relatively harmless apart from the nicotine.

[bulldogeagle]

yuck, i think i'd rather smoke!

[Ian]

A Quote from a pro snuff site:

"However, to balance the argument our I refer you to Dr John Hill, who in 1761 reported on the association of nasal snuff with malignancy:
"Whether or not polypusses, which attend Snuff-takers, are absolutely caused by that custom; or whether the principles of the disorder were there before, and the Snuff only irritated the parts, and hastened the mischief, I shall not pretend to determine: but even supposing the latter only to be the case, the damage is certainly more than the indulgence is worth: for who is able to say, that the Snuff is not the absolute cause, or that he has not the seeds of such a disorder which Snuff will bring into action.

With respect to cancers of the nose, they are as dreadful and as fatal as any others... It is evident therefore that no man should venture upon Snuff, who is not sure that he is not so far liable to a cancer: and no man can be sure of that."