Raise your pipe in celebration
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Windrider
Plus-sized tuxedo model
Not to be a spoil sport, but I used to smoke. I stopped many years ago but have since battled two forms of cancer (prostate and bladder). The first thing both of the doctors who treated my cancers asked me is, "Have you ever smoked?"
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So please tell me what does not cause cancer anymore?
jaya
Active Member
I will smoke a pipe on a rare occasion. I have an old pipe stand that I gave my granddad when I was little so I bought a pipe to put in it. I love the smell of some good pipe tobacco. As for cancer, it is said that it is not if you will get cancer or not, you will get some form if you live ling enough. I have seen men smoke pipe and cigars all their life and not get cancer from that. I have seen people who have never smoked anything in their life die from lung cancer. I will agree that smoking is not good for you. However, neither is many things we do. It is amazing that many of us are alive today with not wearing helmets when we road bikes as kids, did not sit in child seats, played tackle football without pads, and many other things that is outlawed today.
Windrider
Plus-sized tuxedo model
Well, I believe an Oncologist over a minister any day when he told me that if I had ever smoked my risk of bladder cancer was increased by a factor of two hundred.
I'm not trying to start an anti-smoking campaign here. We each have the right to put whatever we want in our bodies that our society allows. I would rather my brothers not have to go through the treatments and fear of an early death that I have. I like you guys and would rather see you than view you. In any case, it's certainly your choice, I'm just trying to do a little to make it an informed one.
Duncan1574
Lodge Chaplain & arms dealer
I am on my 29 year of quit.
I am a pipekeeper and on occasion take part in First Nations ceremonies where I use my wambli (eagle in Lakota) pipe.
Keepers of the Sacred Tradition of Pipemakers: deticated to protecting the Great Pipestone Quarries for all tribal people which covers: Pipestone Pipes, Native American, Pipes, Indian, Dakota, Sioux, Pipestone, Educational program, Native American or
I am a pipekeeper and on occasion take part in First Nations ceremonies where I use my wambli (eagle in Lakota) pipe.
Keepers of the Sacred Tradition of Pipemakers: deticated to protecting the Great Pipestone Quarries for all tribal people which covers: Pipestone Pipes, Native American, Pipes, Indian, Dakota, Sioux, Pipestone, Educational program, Native American or
PatrickWilliams
I could tell you ...
Freemasonry.
Nomadic Logic
Member
Some lodges are old and probably contain asbestos, mold, and/or lead paint. Therefore, Freemasonry = cancer.
PatrickWilliams
I could tell you ...
Well, goodness ... if you're going to be that way about it, then EVERYTHING causes cancer. And indeed, it probably can.
Bob Franks
Past District Deputy Grand Lecturer
I found that one of the time I quit smoking cigarettes, that I was smoking cigars and pipes like I had cigarettes, inhaling the smoke. In a few days, I had very dark sputum!
When I was able to quit tobacco for the last time, 12 years ago, I had to quit all forms.
S&F
When I was able to quit tobacco for the last time, 12 years ago, I had to quit all forms.
S&F
Nomadic Logic
Member
I was completely kidding. My apologies - the sarcastic look on my face didn't come through the screen. :1-smile:
Duncan1574
Lodge Chaplain & arms dealer
A new scientific study has discovered what causes cancer in lab rats.
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Technicians!
:1-wink-grin:
Bob Franks
Past District Deputy Grand Lecturer
Many years ago, a doc I worked for, who was retired from 3 different pharmaceutical or medical equipment companies, told me, "What we need is a healthier grade of lab rat!"
S&F
hawkeyedan
Member
I do smoke pipe, but not on a regular every day basis. Only on occasion, mainly once a week after a lodge meeting when visiting with lodge brothers on a night when it's nice enough to enjoy sitting outside. The pipe stays unlit during the cold winter months that Iowa has to offer. (Yeah). I do enjoy the smell of pipe smoke as I grew up with a grandfather who smoked pipe.
