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Honorable Mention
Week of 9/21/99
Category: "My top 5 excuses for not quitting smoking"
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This weeks question: (Note: This is the first "top"
list and was originally a top 5 list. Future lists will be top 10 lists.)
"My top 5 excuses for not quitting smoking"
Honorable Mention winners:
Quitting smoking would be detrimental to my health by halting my exercise
program...I WALK to the store to buy my cigarettes ;)
Elaine Roessle
Any wimp can quit smoking, but it takes a man to face cancer.
Author name unknown
Hey, I'm building a new driveway, and I need the tar!
Shana E. Higgins
My dog wouldn't recognize me by smell anymore.
Joan Cox Danzansky
I can't quit smoking because I have not tried every brand of cigarette
available. I am almost done with all American cigarettes and just bought
my first pack from Spain.
Rosemarie Ambs
I thought it was second hand smoke that killed you???
Angela S. Enslin
I am trying to develop a believable, hacking cough so the boss will buy
the story when I choose to call in "sick".
I need to smoke when I take the dog out for his walk and potty.
Otherwise I am just standing there watching.
Now that tattoos, body piercing, hard rock, punk fashion and Harley's
have all become mainstream, smoking is the only way to get people to
notice that I am rebelling.
If I quit I will have to sit with the dorks during lunch.
Deborah
Minnetonka, MN.
The car CAME with ashtrays for a REASON!!
I smoke to help digest dinner and if I didn't smoke, I would keep
eating until I EXPLODE!!
I haven't really planned for my retirement so the only way to provide
for my family is with a huge tobacco settlement.
It's part of my personal style to speak with either a cigarette or a drink
in my hand and if I give up smoking or drinking, I will be struck mute.
Frank Palmer
It's a family tradition.
Who likes white teeth??
It's a great people repellent.
There is some clean air left out there.
If I keep smoking the Doctor's won't get lonesome.
Adonis Montgomery
I'm lobbying for my right to smoke in elevators... non-smokers are the
healthy ones, so let them take the stairs!
It took me years to find a brand who's pack matches my eyes
All my friends do it, and since I was busy when they all jumped off the
bridge, I need some way to feel included (this is the one I give my
mother).
Halloween is cheaper, since all I have to do is stop for a few hours
while at the costume party and tell people I'm dressed as a non-smoker.
Andrew Miller
If you lived here you'd smoke too--
Patricia McMullen
My cigarette company just started to offer free gifts with UPC's. Just 10
more cartons and I get a free lighter.
I said I would quit when I decided to have kids. I just decided that I
don't want to have kids.
Melanie Diehl
My husband only vomits occasionally after kissing me and my nicotine
breath....
It keeps my (prissy) mother-in-law away!! (cancer beats HER any day!)
Brenda Toor
My glasses and computer screen would not be hazy and the glare would
really damage my eyes.
I am a very nervous person. I smoke to keep calm. My doctor said that
if I quit smoking I would probably die from a heart attack.
Daurie Nelson
I have 5 minute breaks between hacking my lungs out so it can't be that
bad!
Tania Page
I've only just learnt how to make smoke-rings and I need the practice.
Samantha Wallace
I haven't quit smoking yet because I got a great deal on a pack of 50
lighters.
Jennifer
We've all got to die from something!
Pete Garcia
Quitters never win, winners never quit.
I would but the first pack I bought the warning was cigarettes are
addictive and the warnings never lie.
What else am I going to do during my cigarette breaks.
Allison Moeller
I haven't quit smoking because I do not like to follow the
crowd.....everybody is quitting these days.
Selwyn Parris
I haven't quit smoking because I'm hoping to be discovered by some
agent to appear in a commercial about some new and exciting "tooth
whitening" process!
Lorraine Lewis
Stupidity dominates my intelligence.
Nancy
I can't quit smoking until ALL my teeth are the same color, again.
I can't quit smoking just yet, I almost have enough Marlboro 'miles'
for that Marlboro 'car' in the catalog".
Mialayne
Mobile, Alabama
If I quit smoking I can't count on my mother-in-law dying from second
hand smoke. I gotta keep smoking; how else can I guarantee early
retirement?
Thomas C. Putnam, Ph.D.
I have yet to quit because the surgeon general hasn't said that smoking
WILL cause cancer....or has he?
Richard Anlas
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