Posted by strepsils on 9/11/2011, 5:53 am, in reply to "What amount of smoking do you feel defines a 'smoker'?"
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This really scares me as a closet smoker - I really like being able to say with some degree of truth that I'm "not a smoker" even though I do technically smoke, but it's usually literally like 3-5 cigs a week, and that's during weeks that I do smoke (extra stress, breaks at work etc). But recently I had to fill out an insurance thing and under smoker their definition was if you had smoked at ALL, even one cigarette, in the past YEAR. And my doctor applied a similarly stringent standard when I had to get a prescription. I know that's not the universal standard and by the looks of these responses, v far frm the majority opinion, but I guess on a certain level it makes sense: if you smoke you are a smoker. Esp if you've got your own pack and aren't just bumming a cig off a mate once in a blue moon when you're drunk enough. Kind of a sobering perspective and makes me really want to quit.
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: I've heard figures all over the place on this
: one. Some people think 10+ cigarettes a day.
: Others consider someone who smokes even one
: cigarette a day to be a smoker. And yet
: others feel that anyone who would be willing
: to smoke at any time (regardless of how
: frequently that might be) is a smoker. How
: do you feel about this? At what point do you
: feel that someone becomes a smoker?
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