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11-07-2012, 06:55 PM
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I was puffing away on a menthol Benson & Hedges in my taxi one day, and my fare said "those make you BLEED inside" (her emphasis). That was 1976. I didn't smoke cigarettes again til my divorce began in 2005. Then it was months of Swisher Sweets!
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11-07-2012, 07:12 PM
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I go kinda OVERBOARD on smoking 'cause my Mom died SO Hard... Emphysema is a nice, quiet, EASY way to die...It just kills you a Little Bit every day, nothin' so you'd notice..No problem, right ?!? Until you realise that you CAN'T walk the 50 feet from yr bed to the bathroom w/o WHEEZING...Mama died over 15 years, just a little every day...Had to have oxygen w/her 24/7..I used to make my living growing tobacco & printing cigarette labels...But now, FUCK 'Em...They need to be shut down..Period. No ifs,ands, or butts..Mama got off EASY...She never had Lung Cancer..I understand that's a fate WORSE than death...She never had pain, but Lung Cancer, I understand, is VERY painful..
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11-07-2012, 07:36 PM
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im going to name a few things I believe are bad and cumulative and avoid besides cigarettes. soft drinks, artificial sweetener, fluoride, non ionizing radiation (wireless phones), aluminum cookware, vaccines, solder smoke, aluminum based deodorant, Teflon lined cookware, brake dust, used crankcase oil, asbestos, GMO food, fast food, smoking anything etc I could go on all day. The fact is we are exposed and bombarded with toxins all day everyday, much more so than your grandma was in her day. Lets just call it low level eugenics
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11-07-2012, 09:20 PM
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Does not sound like "low level" to me....
But I agree, everything anymore is bad for you. It seems like in the process of making things better and life simpler that "man" is causing more problems then he fixes. Nothing in life is natural or unadulterated and that is the problem... Why can't we leave Well Enough Alone...
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11-08-2012, 07:06 AM
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the way to quit smoking if you want to is take the pack in your pocket, throw it away, along with the cartons stashed around the house. Then NEVER light up again. Cold turkey, and never slip up to have just one while on the road or in the bar or what ever. everyone started with just that 1st one. I quit when I was a teen after smoking for a few years. When I see young kid smoke today they just look foolish as I am sure I did. But I was lucky I had a girl friend that hated them and she wanted me to stop. So one day while out walking I took the pack out of my pocket an threw it away. That was over 30 yrs ago, but I still consider myself a smoker and will never lite up again, not even just one, and I do not hate them so I know I could get started again if I slipped up.
I will post some pics soon to try and get off smokes and back to a less deadly addiction, tv's 
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11-08-2012, 01:46 PM
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the 3A3 cup was broken on one of the mounts to the socket, I used some epoxy to glue it back, seems like it will hold. should get the 47meg and 130pf for the fly today. Got all the wires ready to hook up to the fly so if all goes well I hope to try it out no later than this weekend.
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11-08-2012, 04:38 PM
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I was a real bad chain smoker for many years until one day I felt SOOO bad I said to myself "it just aiin't worth it any more", and cold turkey'ed. It was the day after thanksgiving 1989, and I haven't touched a damn cigarette since. I do miss sharing cigars with folks, including my daughter lol, but cannot touch the nicotine for fear of winding up on the cancer sticks again. And yes, I do have COPD, and it sucks. My own fault.
 If you who still smoke can muster the strength and will power, QUIT!! It won't be easy for some, but it beats suffocating to death slowly and painfully from the inability to breath.
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stromberg6 Last edited by stromberg6; 11-08-2012 at 04:42 PM.
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11-08-2012, 09:28 PM
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I NEVER worried about "Cool",the hiskule I went to, about aLL the cigarette smokers were l Delinquents/ bad seed.. We tended to STAY AWAY from 'em..
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11-09-2012, 09:50 AM
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Never smoked(directly) here either. But my brother and I did a band gig back through the 90's. Needless to say the second hand stuff we took in was pretty yucky. Of course we drank a few beers to balance the effect. I do know that second hand smoke and loud noise alone can give one hell of a hangover. But hey, it's all part of the natural aging cycle.
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11-09-2012, 03:34 PM
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I used to smoke a cigar about 2-3X a year just to remind myself how badly I HATED them. Ever since my stroke, I absolutely cannot stand to be around cigarette smoke of any kind...Even going into a barn where tobacco is hung, curing, gets me.
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11-09-2012, 05:45 PM
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test run with HOT and VOT pulled went well, B+ came up, filter caps seemed ok, tuner audio working. I don't have a yoke handy, if I did I was going to just hook it up and then meter the HV and see what happens. I will just install it in the set, just about as easy, maybe later tonight.
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11-09-2012, 06:40 PM
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had a bit of fireworks by the service switch, seems like one of the terminals has a bit of a short to ground, maybe a carbon path, I was tempted to just let it burn out, but will replace it. may have one in my stash if not looks like something rat shack may have otherwise off to the surplus store again.
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11-10-2012, 04:29 PM
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looking good. color working sweep looks good, fly not getting hot. just a fast check. have dirty pot on color but so far so good. the Colorama CRT that did not test very well seem to be making a pretty good pic. will work on it some more and get some pics.
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