Tobacco Card Collectors Who Use Tobacco Products

[GoldenAge50s]

I smoke & collect, I swear & collect, I drink & collect. I used to have sex & collect, but I got too old so I gave up sex.

[Ease]

Originally Posted by GoldenAge50s

I used to have sex & collect, but I got too old so I gave up sex.

Fred, they have pills for that.

[Jacklitsch]

Two pipe smokers??? You guys must be old!

Me, I smoke.

[Clark7781]

I chose "no," but on occasion (less than a dozen times a year) I'll enjoy a cigar.

[Runscott]

Originally Posted by Jacklitsch

Two pipe smokers??? You guys must be old!

Me, I smoke.

I started when I was around 30. A friend used to smoke his pipe while we worked on our old cars - my '67 Firebird and his '66 Chevy. It's a good association.

[brianp-beme]

I smoked a half a cigar once. Does that mean I have to vote that I used to smoke but no longer do?

In my collection I have bunch of cards that I picked up over ten years ago from a heavy smoker that still smell smoky.

That is all I have to offer on this subject.

Brian

[bn2cardz]

I have never smoked and did start to feel a conflict when I wanted to use vintage tobacco cards to decorate my children's room. I was looking at the 19th century actress cards. I found myself opting for ones that already had the advertisement trimmed off.

The thing that makes it easier is I just am glad that the brands aren't still in business.


Also if there is a survey I use to be a bubble gum chewer but have quit and still collect gum (R-) cards. I do still eat caramel and chocolate candies and collect E cards as well. I do eat bread, ice cream, cereal, and other food but don't currently own any D- or F-cards. I use to read the newspaper and still do occasionally and do collect M- cards. I do not strip but own W- cards

[Jason]

Originally Posted by bn2cardz

I have never smoked and did start to feel a conflict when I wanted to use vintage tobacco cards to decorate my children's room. I was looking at the 19th century actress cards. I found myself opting for ones that already had the advertisement trimmed off.

The thing that makes it easier is I just am glad that the brands aren't still in business.


Also if there is a survey I use to be a bubble gum chewer but have quit and still collect gum (R-) cards. I do still eat caramel and chocolate candies and collect E cards as well. I do eat bread, ice cream, cereal, and other food but don't currently own any D- or F-cards. I use to read the newspaper and still do occasionally and do collect M- cards. I do not strip but own W- cards

I was waiting for someone to come out with your last paragraph!

[t206blogcom]

I like a good cigar now and then, but shouldn't since I'm asthmatic.

[I Only Smoke 4 the Cards]

Contrary to my name, I don't smoke. It was a health choice.

[dabigyankeeman]

Put me in the NEVER category, and I am glad I there.

[GoldenAge50s]

Originally Posted by Ease

Fred, they have pills for that.

Eric---do cards come w/ them?

[Ease]

Originally Posted by GoldenAge50s

Eric---do cards come w/ them?

They include one of these with every script.

[GoldenAge50s]

Originally Posted by Ease

They include one of these with every script.

I'm calling my Doc in the morning! It's back to collecting & sex for me!

[jcmtiger]

I quit smoking in 1965 at 24 years old. My Grandfather was born in 1886 and smoked all his life, but he rolled his own cigarettes, He had his own cigarrette rolling machine. no chemicals. He also drank beer everyday, early years from a a bucket, warm beer, that's how they did it in those years. Died at 88 years old. My Dad smoked and did not drink but was involved with asbestas from cleaning out some some school ceilings. He died of lung cancer at 73 years old. Unfortunately, it is a combination of things that cause lung cancer. My cousin, who was my best man at my wedding died of lung cancer at 33 years old in 1976, he smoked, but worked at a diamond cutting factory and missed his annual chest exray. Still miss him.

Sad but true
joe

[deadballfreaK]

By the time I was 19 I smoked 2-3 packs a day. Started working in an underground coal mine at 20. Can't smoke underground. I cut back to 1/2 to 1 pack and started chewing snuff and scrap. I always promised myself I'd quit but I didn't even when my Dad died from smoking. Finally three years later my dentist told me he was concerned about the sores in my mouth. Turned to be pre-cancerous lesions. Didn't have to hit me over the head then. May 6, 1996 I smoked and chewed my last. To me giving up the cigs was easy, but I still crave a lip full of Copenhagen today.

[Ronnie73]

I never have and never will. I just never got into it. Same thing with alcohol. I always figured more money for collectibles. That and i've been very unhealthy my whole life and didn't want to add to my problems. When I was young, I didn't collect any vintage because I connected them to tobacco and felt like there was a minimum age requirement to collect or even show interest in them. I never gave other non tobacco vintage any thought either because they were always with the tobacco cards. I know now that it sounds kinda funny but I was a wierd kid that carried a book bag to school and was called the walking tag/yard sale and never had school stuff in my book bag but did have coins, stamps, cards, and comics to sell or trade in it.

For the people that get cards from others that have a smoke smell, get a Sharper Image Air Ionizer or other brand and just set the card on a table next to it over night. By morning, the smell will be completely gone.