We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again – smoking is sexy. Incredibly sexy. And anyone who says it isn’t is lying to you.
Of course it’s also incredibly deadly – which is why we’ve been encouraging smokers to consider new e-cigarette alternatives. Of course that’s entirely up to them, however companies looking to maximize productivity and profits in an increasingly crappy economy are likely to pick non-smokers for jobs, assuming everything else is equal.
How come? Well, according to a new study released by Ohio State University, the average smoker costs businesses an extra $5,816 a year.
Surprisingly less than half of that total comes from health care costs, the researchers concluded. Most of it – $3,077 – came from all the time wasted by employees during their smoke breaks. A little over $2,000 of the extra cost was health care related, while the rest of the difference was attributed to increased absenteeism related to nicotine withdrawal.
Hmmmm …
According to the latest polling data, 24 percent of South Carolinians smoke – ranking the Palmetto State 11th in the nation in terms of the size of its smoking population. Kentucky has the highest percentage of smokers at 29 percent, while Utah has the lowest at 11 percent.
Again, we wholeheartedly support people’s right to smoke. In fact our founding editor chain-smoked for nearly fifteen years (and probably wasted a lot of other people’s money on smoke breaks). However we also support the right of companies to make hiring decisions which are in the best interest of their bottom line.
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Sexy? What world do you live in?
Sexy? What world do you live in?
just a dumb comment to get suckers like me to click and point it out. Nice move. So while I’m here let me add that perhaps your old lady’s mouth smells like the ashtray of a 1969 Impala and it just turns you on brother. And when I see a 30 year old woman with spider-web wrinkles around her lips I know that she either smokes or has sucked a load of bones in her day and both somehow just gross me out.
“…sucked a load of bones in her day…”
I haven’t laughed that loud all day.
just a dumb comment to get suckers like me to click and point it out. Nice move. So while I’m here let me add that perhaps your old lady’s mouth smells like the ashtray of a 1969 Impala and it just turns you on brother. And when I see a 30 year old woman with spider-web wrinkles around her lips I know that she either smokes or has sucked a load of bones in her day and both somehow just gross me out.
“…sucked a load of bones in her day…”
I haven’t laughed that loud all day.
Makes a woman’s mouth nasty to stick your tongue in. How is that sexy?
Keeping your tongue out of my mouth is a good reason to take up smoking.
Makes a woman’s mouth nasty to stick your tongue in. How is that sexy?
Keeping your tongue out of my mouth is a good reason to take up smoking.
Gotta agree with the first three posters. I’ve dated exactly one girl in my life who smoked – it was like kissing an ashtray. I saw her a couple of months ago, yellow fingers, pucker wrinkles and smoker skinny.
Not. Sexy.
ITBG’sHO, Women who smoke are more likely to put out….but the act of smoking, in and of itself, is kinda gross.
Gotta agree with the first three posters. I’ve dated exactly one girl in my life who smoked – it was like kissing an ashtray. I saw her a couple of months ago, yellow fingers, pucker wrinkles and smoker skinny.
As to the “costliness” of it, if you just consider the cost of smoking a pack every two days at roughly $1,000 plus gas to go get the smokes that’s a small chunk of change. The missed “cost” is the lost time smokers invariably rack up while they “take a smoke break”. They don’t pay that cost, their employers do.
I’m fairly libertarian leaning about a lot of “Guvmint” interference but I’d not utter a peep if they outlawed smoking all together. I’d rather them make smoking dope at home legal and taxing the begeebers out of it to make up for the lost cigarette tax revenue.
Not. Sexy.
ITBG’sHO, Women who smoke are more likely to put out….but the act of smoking, in and of itself, is kinda gross.
50% of bladder cancer in males due to smoking: SEXXY when they remake your bladder with a piece of your intestine and then you have to catheterize yourself several times a day. Smokers cough: SEXXY as you hork up a piece of your lung and spew your mucous into the atmosphere. Wheezing during sex because of your diminished lung capacity: SEXXY Gravelly smokers voice and premature skin aging: SEXXY!
Stupidity is SEXXY????… since the effects of smoking have been known for at least a century!
50% of bladder cancer in males due to smoking: SEXXY when they remake your bladder with a piece of your intestine and then you have to catheterize yourself several times a day. Smokers cough: SEXXY as you hork up a piece of your lung and spew your mucous into the atmosphere. Wheezing during sex because of your diminished lung capacity: SEXXY Gravelly smokers voice and premature skin aging: SEXXY!
Stupidity is SEXXY????… since the effects of smoking have been known for at least a century!
Quit that noxious habit going on 7 years ago, that’s when I got my sexy back.
Quit that noxious habit going on 7 years ago, that’s when I got my sexy back.
Smoking does look sexy when Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart do it.
Smoking does look sexy when Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart do it.
Tried smoking a cigar once, wasn’t terrible, but not my cup of tea. Cigarettes are just stupid, though. I like not having COPD, lung cancer, etc. too.
Tried smoking a cigar once, wasn’t terrible, but not my cup of tea. Cigarettes are just stupid, though. I like not having COPD, lung cancer, etc. too.
I do remember the mantra from college, however:
“If she’ll smoke a cigarette, she’ll smoke my pole”.
Always true.
I do remember the mantra from college, however:
“If she’ll smoke a cigarette, she’ll smoke my pole”.
Always true.
Smoking is slowly yet surely dying out.Most people who dont smoke are simply tired of hearing about it and self proclimed “libertarians” are doing their cause no favor by making it into some kind of civil liberties issue.Knowing that the gig is about up ,tobacco companies have been rapidly diversifying themselves.
In about twenty years or so,smoking will probably be confined behind closed doors and even those who do it wont want to be seen doing so publicly.
Smoking is slowly yet surely dying out.Most people who dont smoke are simply tired of hearing about it and self proclimed “libertarians” are doing their cause no favor by making it into some kind of civil liberties issue.Knowing that the gig is about up ,tobacco companies have been rapidly diversifying themselves.
In about twenty years or so,smoking will probably be confined behind closed doors and even those who do it wont want to be seen doing so publicly.
— nobody in the world more self-righteous than a reformed drunk or ex-smoker.
— nobody in the world more self-righteous than a reformed drunk or ex-smoker.
if you think smoking is so sexy, you should join a bunch of Europeans and Mid-Easterners on a smoke break sometime and sample the resulting concoction of fumes… it’s not pleasant.
if you think smoking is so sexy, you should join a bunch of Europeans and Mid-Easterners on a smoke break sometime and sample the resulting concoction of fumes… it’s not pleasant.
Oh, Shit! I thought we were talking about Boeing.
Oh, Shit! I thought we were talking about Boeing.
Riddle me this: I am highly allergic to cigarette smoke. I can smoke cigars all day long without any bad side effects. I think women who smoke are about as sexy as an ash-tray. However, I also don’t want to kiss a lady smoking a cigar, either. It’s like kissing a Democrat – I’ll let you fill in the blanks.
I’m surprised you were kissed that recently.
Well.. you’re probably surprised when the sun rises.. again.
Riddle me this: I am highly allergic to cigarette smoke. I can smoke cigars all day long without any bad side effects. I think women who smoke are about as sexy as an ash-tray. However, I also don’t want to kiss a lady smoking a cigar, either. It’s like kissing a Democrat – I’ll let you fill in the blanks.
OK.. apparently, that needs some defining.. the last time I kissed a Democrat (1965), she gave me trench mouth.
I’m surprised you were kissed that recently.
Well.. you’re probably surprised when the sun rises.. again.