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Do you drink, use tobacco products, or smoke marijuana?

Check all that apply.


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I drink in moderation. *Maybe* a glass of wine a day. Just depends on if I have any or not. And on occasion, I will drink the whole bottle if I really like the wine.

I smoked a pack (or more) a day for 18 years. Just quit 2 years ago. Oddly, since I quit, my health has declined. I was at my healthiest in my 20s when i drank and smoked heavily (not to mention all of the illegal drugs). :rofl

I will sometimes take a hit off a bowl if someone offers it, but I never seek pot out any longer. I just prefer uppers to downers when it comes to drugs. Now if I can get my hands on some coke... that's another story altogether. ;) I don't really *seek* it out, but I do keep my eyes and ears open to possibilities of where I could purchase some.
 
I love smoking cigs but this damn heart condition:twisted:

Eventually I will need a heart transplant so no smoking for me:(

My sister is in the same boat. She just had to have two stents put in and the doc told her that she's smoked her last cig when she was admitted into the hospital. If she wanted to live, that is. LOL
 
there is too big a difference between 3 drinks a week and 1-3 a day.

Well, if you picked 1-3 drinks a day, that could mean that you only average about 7 drinks a week.
 
I'm too addicted to caffeine to bother with other drugs.
 
Lately, I only drink about 1-3 drinks a year, but that's mainly due to being either pregnant or nursing for a huge portion of the last 3 years. Before that, it was probably about 1-3 drinks a month. I'll might go back to where I was, depending on where my husband gets stationed, and if I get to go out more often there.

I've never smoked anything. Never will.
 
I answered the poll but didn't post my specifics.

I would NEVER smoke cigarettes. Ewwwwwwwww. (We all know how much I hate smoking.)

I smoked marijuana about 30 years ago--two times. I have never done it again.

I drink beer and wine only. I have usually 1 beer a week (although I have had two in the last week ;)) and I drink wine at least once a week but usually not more than 2 times.
 
I don't smoke, but I once did back in my club days. I used to smoke pot but haven't in over twenty years.

I drink a glass of wine or two here and there, the rare mixed drink or beer.:2wave:
 
This is a multiple choice poll, so select all that apply.

Your poll is flawed. A light drinker is 1-3 drinks a week, and a moderate drinker is 1-3 drinks a day? What about someone who drinks 5 drinks a week? And, since when is 3 drinks a day moderate?
 
Your poll is flawed. A light drinker is 1-3 drinks a week, and a moderate drinker is 1-3 drinks a day? What about someone who drinks 5 drinks a week? And, since when is 3 drinks a day moderate?

It would take 100 options to cover every different scenario. If you drink 5 to 6 drinks a week, then you are closer to 1 to 3 drinks a day than 1 to 3 drinks a week.

One to two drinks a day is medically classified as moderate drinking. In fact, in a health assessment, so long as you don't consume more than 2 drinks a day, it does not even score against your overall health assessment.
 
It would take 100 options to cover every different scenario. If you drink 5 to 6 drinks a week, then you are closer to 1 to 3 drinks a day than 1 to 3 drinks a week.

One to two drinks a day is medically classified as moderate drinking. In fact, in a health assessment, so long as you don't consume more than 2 drinks a day, it does not even score against your overall health assessment.

Did you read what I said? I said 3 drinks a day is not moderate drinking, not 2.

As far as your poll, it would have been quite easy to say 1-6 drinks a week as your light drinking category. No biggie, but many, if not most, people drink 1-6 drinks a week, and don't drink daily.
 
I drink moderately (a few times a week)
I use tobacco regularly
I smoke pot daily

Tobacco is the one I'd like to cut out.
 
I am essentially clean here.

The most recent accomplishment was the biggest, quit smoking cigs after 26 years of addiction, now 6 months smoke free and no going back.

My drinking while heavy in the past is now sporadic, and social, usually as part of a meal, I drink for the taste rather than the buzz. A nice wine or well paired beer with a meal is sheer bliss, I also enjoy the flavor of a nice scotch, so I will occasionally indulge there. all of these pleasures are done sporadically, and in moderation though. I would say less than 10 drinks a month, so essentially I am a non drinker.

Pot smoking- used to do this heavily as well, this was my drug of choice, alcohol as secondary, and when I smoked I rarely drank. I grew my own for a long time (I did not want to support criminals with my recreational drug choice). I could count the times I have smoked pot in the last 3 years on one hand. I see nothing wrong with getting high sporadically (or moderate, responsible use of anything) other than the inadvertent support of a black market, and the violence/corruption and side effects inherent in that, I despise this. So again essentially a non pot smoker.

Other drugs. been there done that - distant past, seen lives near and dear to me ruined (and ended) by them, either directly or indirectly - events and circumstances have solidified my hatred of the black market, and my conviction that the "War on Drugs" is compounding an already horrible situation and problem by allowing an unchecked black market to thrive, and creating an environment where those with problems fear the legal repercussions too much to get the help they need.
 
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I am addicted to cigarettes. I wish they would stop selling them. ****ing dope dealing government. It's like England during the ****ing chinese opium wars.:(

I don't drink. It only depresses me.:(

I never have smoked any pot at any time in my entire life.:liar2
 
I just never drank again once I quit smoking four years ago. I was afraid it would make me start it again. I was a chain smoker. And then I just never started drinking again.
 
Marijuana makes me paranoid, overly analytical of people, and anti-social. I haven't done that in many, many years.

Cigarettes do nothing for me, I'm curious why people like them?
 
Marijuana makes me paranoid, overly analytical of people, and anti-social. I haven't done that in many, many years.

It's fine though if you start out paranoid, overly analytical of people, and anti-social. I mean, for varying degrees of paranoia, you've pretty much described a large chunk of the scientific community.

Cigarettes do nothing for me, I'm curious why people like them?

Nicotine is very very addictive, along with the chemical addiction, cigarettes are habit forming. Quitting can be rather difficult.
 
It's fine though if you start out paranoid, overly analytical of people, and anti-social. I mean, for varying degrees of paranoia, you've pretty much described a large chunk of the scientific community.
I still have those qualities in manageable amounts. I haven't smoked pot in over 30 years, except for a couple of relapses for short periods of time. I know pot made these tendencies far, far worse. Pot made me get inside my own head too much. I think I was predisposed to this trait, and it must have different effects of different people.
 
Marijuana makes me paranoid, overly analytical of people, and anti-social. I haven't done that in many, many years.

Cigarettes do nothing for me, I'm curious why people like them?

It's easier to quit heroin than it is cigarettes. People who quit heroin often keep smoking. Smoking should be illegal.
 
It's easier to quit heroin than it is cigarettes. People who quit heroin often keep smoking. Smoking should be illegal.

I believe that is false. Nicotine is insanely addictive, true. But it doesn't offer the withdraws to the extent something like heroin does.

Also, smoking should remain legal. People can make up their own minds about it.
 
I believe that is false. Nicotine is insanely addictive, true. But it doesn't offer the withdraws to the extent something like heroin does.

Also, smoking should remain legal. People can make up their own minds about it.

I'm only judging from my own personal experience coming off of prescription morphine addiction.

The withdrawal was horrible. I stayed in bed for three weeks but when it was over I had no craving for morphine at all and still don't years later.

I would gladly go through the same withdrawal symptoms for cigarettes for three weeks if it was possible for me.

Of course everyone is different when it comes to addiction.
 
I'm only judging from my own personal experience coming off of prescription morphine addiction.

The withdrawal was horrible. I stayed in bed for three weeks but when it was over I had no craving for morphine at all and still don't years later.

I would gladly go through the same withdrawal symptoms for cigarettes for three weeks if it was possible for me.

Of course everyone is different when it comes to addiction.

yeah that morphine was a bitch for me as well. The cig one is tougher for me though.
 
I usually smoke ciggies or cigars on vacation. :shrug:
 
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