Good on you. I don't do any sort of drugs or smoke and never have and drinking is a bit pointless for me too these days, since all that happens is I go from 'hardly any effect' to 'half dead' in the space of about one drink and feel like crap for about a week after! Still, I am not particularly anti-other people drinking as long as they keep out of my way when they are doing it to excess. And I do like the very slight buzz from one very, very (increasingly very) small glass of red wine etc. Though more than that is unwise. I am very glad the people I know who encourage me to drink are out of my life again.
And that's another in my list of reasons why I am glad I am no longer in my job since any after work events with free drink were bound to end in tears. It's obvious in retrospect that when I did drink too much of the free stuff at these events it was mainly because the job was making me so miserable.
I get very narked with smokers who still believe it should be their total right to make everyone else suffer their smoke though. One acquaintance (a comedian) thinks that anyone who doesn't like smoking in bars is a nazi (his words). He gets quite vehement about it even when I explain patiently that it makes me feel very ill indeed almost immediately and for some time after, and so I (and many others) have very good reason for objecting to passive smoke.
Mentioning my dead uncle who never smoked or drank but did hang about in smoky places and ended up dead at 41 of lung cancer and a note on his death certificate that cites passive smoking as the cause, just makes them say 'oh there's no evidence'. I don't know - provide them with an example and they get even more defensive and weird about their addiction. Smoking is probably worst of all because it seems to affect brain chemistry so badly and makes most smokers very unreasonable indeed. Also they have to keep getting a hit so very often, and with still a great deal of public acceptance (in a way other addicts don't get). It is insidious.
The best reason for not smoking drinking or doing drugs though is probably the vast amount of money you save. I would certainly be in far more debt that I am if I did any of these things (I recently found a calculator online that worked out how much you 'have saved since you quit' and used it to see how many cigarettes I would have smoked and how much I might have spent if I had smoked since I was legally allowed. It came to almost 30,000 pounds if I was on 20 a day!)
It was odd that so many people on my friends list got so upset at the recently announced ban on drinking in tubes and trains - since I was under the impression it had always been illegal (and it certainly should have been if it wasn't).
Anyone I have ever seen drinking on public transport has either been pitiable, scary, stinky, violent, ridiculous or all of the above, so I am not sure why anyone would want to.
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And that's another in my list of reasons why I am glad I am no longer in my job since any after work events with free drink were bound to end in tears. It's obvious in retrospect that when I did drink too much of the free stuff at these events it was mainly because the job was making me so miserable.
I get very narked with smokers who still believe it should be their total right to make everyone else suffer their smoke though. One acquaintance (a comedian) thinks that anyone who doesn't like smoking in bars is a nazi (his words). He gets quite vehement about it even when I explain patiently that it makes me feel very ill indeed almost immediately and for some time after, and so I (and many others) have very good reason for objecting to passive smoke.
Mentioning my dead uncle who never smoked or drank but did hang about in smoky places and ended up dead at 41 of lung cancer and a note on his death certificate that cites passive smoking as the cause, just makes them say 'oh there's no evidence'. I don't know - provide them with an example and they get even more defensive and weird about their addiction. Smoking is probably worst of all because it seems to affect brain chemistry so badly and makes most smokers very unreasonable indeed. Also they have to keep getting a hit so very often, and with still a great deal of public acceptance (in a way other addicts don't get). It is insidious.
The best reason for not smoking drinking or doing drugs though is probably the vast amount of money you save. I would certainly be in far more debt that I am if I did any of these things (I recently found a calculator online that worked out how much you 'have saved since you quit' and used it to see how many cigarettes I would have smoked and how much I might have spent if I had smoked since I was legally allowed. It came to almost 30,000 pounds if I was on 20 a day!)
It was odd that so many people on my friends list got so upset at the recently announced ban on drinking in tubes and trains - since I was under the impression it had always been illegal (and it certainly should have been if it wasn't).
Anyone I have ever seen drinking on public transport has either been pitiable, scary, stinky, violent, ridiculous or all of the above, so I am not sure why anyone would want to.
It's a very attractive design too!