Is it normal i smoke cigarette butts i find on the sidewalk?

i was fired from my job last summer and now i can only relieve anxiety by smoking cigarettes but can't afford them. i ride up to the dollar store on my bike and smoke people's cigarettes.

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Based on 76 votes (14 yes)
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  • donteatstuffoffthesidewalk

    dontconsumestuffoffthesidewalk

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  • thegypsysailor

    For about half a century I had to have enough cigarettes to make it through the 24 hour day, or I'd become a fucking nut job. This included planning for ocean voyages of up to 35 days.
    But I never once picked up a butt off the street that some stranger had smoked. That shit could kill you!

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    • wigz

      'I smoked for over 50 years and I have greater concerns over what's in a random dropped smoke than me inhaling burnt stuff directly into my lungs for a half century'

      Never heard of anyone dying from a snagged butt.

      Go buy a pack and tone down your bitch factor. You're practically dead already so why do you even care?

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      • Ellenna

        Hey hey that's nasty to tempt gypsysailor back on to the nicotine when he's only just managed to give up.

        Why do you say he's practically dead? He's only the same age as me and I'm still very much alive

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        • wigz

          Go. You are not party to this.

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          • Ellenna

            I am party to anything I want to be party to and I take orders from no-one

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    • TheAmputatedLegCollector

      You know what else could kill you? Filling your lungs with deadly inhalants for half a century. You'll need a lung transplant soon. Hopefully, surgeons can do basement calls.

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      • thegypsysailor

        Wow, you're a brilliant one. Damn, with your quick pick up and deep insight into what was obviously a put on, I'm amazed you aren't running for president right next to that other idiot, Trump!

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        • green_boogers

          Hey Bud, just wondering. Are you still tobacco free?

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          • thegypsysailor

            Yes

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            • green_boogers

              Good. That means you are still in the top 9% that have successfully quit cold turkey like me. Being an ex-addict is miserable but at least we have denied the tobacco monster victory. I don't know about you, but if I were ever to start again, I have vowed that I would never quit again. My vow has worked. I've been clean for 35 years, 7 months, 13 days, 10 hours and 45 minutes. Still feel like having a cigarette every now and then.

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    • Ms.Dempsy

      Damn grandpa your not liked much around her aren't you? You voice your opinions from your own experience like any one else. Don't explain yourself or prove anything to these people. Your words are welcomed just as much as the next person.
      #Old people are wise people
      #Salty Codgers know better
      #TEAM GYPSY
      #Dick- riding for no reason

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      • thegypsysailor

        Thanks.
        It was supposed to be funny, but these cretins live such miserable, lonely, fucked up lives they can't see humor in anything.

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        • wigz

          It wasn't funny. What's funny is rubbing an unfunny joke in your face and watching you spaz out and blame others for your fail. You fall for it every time and based on your proven inability to learn or introspect I have no doubt that even after outright telling you this you will still remain susceptible.

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        • Explosive_Diarrhea

          I see humor in how many times I've watched you flip flop your opinion for popularity points, why when you first start commenting your idea on "equality" between genders was one I could respect, equal in all things or none.

          Now it seems like you actually believe in the horseshit concept, again just for popularity points. Well it aint HS dipshit, and no one cares.

          I'm not laughing with you either.

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          • wigz

            No. No. He rarely flip flops for points, usually it's only to condemn others and absolve himself.

            See, he was 'technically' a child until 21 (his words). But he feels very strongly about children under 18 merely messing around and violating TOS's online. They should have honor!!!!11 But....

            He's fine with child rape as long as the child is naughty. Never said one word against the rapists but blamed a child for getting into the situation.

            He was taught wrong things in school so that is excusable but anyone else? Nooooo. No consideration given. No extension of understanding for others who have heard misinfofmation.

            I could go on and on. His only purpose here is to insult people. He thinks he is doing it in a way that is undetectable because he is so smart. So much smarter than everyone.

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        • Beep_Beep

          Yes. From birth to age 18 we have been raised in day care. We are zombies void of emotion. Pathetic is our friend. I hear that Vietnam was pathetic. Everything is pathetic. So is your rubber duckie.

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    • AwesomeDude1

      When you don't smoke cigarettes, you begin to have crazy thoughts, such as Hitler being Jewish, forcing abortions on young girls, and that your basement is actually a boat.

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    • Steve_2

      Aye lad. Ya can't smoke at sea, ya know. Ya have to keep yer sturdy sea legs focused on the ragin' seas. There ain't no time for lightin' a stub when yer wee sailboat is rockin' in the waves! Ya'll smoke yer last one, 42 years yer junior, before ya be damned to Davy Jones and becomst a friend o' Gawd, ya will! Then I'll grab yer ship and sail her to me basement!

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    • Leonard_Hatred

      "I had to have enough cigarettes to make it through the 24 hour day, or I'd become a fucking nut job"

      So nothing's changed then?

      ;-)

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  • deepdankstickygoo

    That is homeless/junkie status.

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  • Arm0se

    Good luck with mouth herpes.

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  • GG19

    Thats not healthy would if. Someone was sick?

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  • spankrocket

    I guess it's normal,

    but it will kill you quicker than normal smoking, I heard of a guy who died when his cigarette dropped to the ground on Rat piss,

    he picked it up not realising what it landed on, and he collapsed a a few days later!

    be careful man.

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  • MissKira

    I smoke a lot and sometimes I need one really bad but ran out, so I find one off the sidewalk or nearby ashtray...

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  • Eat.My.Fuck

    You would be better off investing in a dollar pack of rolling papers and taking the tobacco out of the butts and rolling it. Otherwise you are risking getting herpes from those butts. Also, you're going to find that refried cigarettes are much worse for your lungs than anything else. You should try to smoke less these days if you can't afford it.

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  • Steve_2

    Does lung disease have a calming effect or something?

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    • Ellenna

      Not in my experience and cigarettes didn't either. It's a myth that they calm anyone down, all they do is calm down the withdrawals from the length of time since the previous smoke, nicotine is actually a stimulant not a sedative

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  • Ms.Dempsy

    When I first started smoking I did this but not butt butts more like shorts and I always burned the tips.

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  • Leonard_Hatred

    Yes it's normal, that's how I started smoking as a child.

    We'd hang around outside the local massage parlor, pick up discarded butts that some low life discarded, take all the tobacco out and roll it up. Then we'd sit by the local open sewer and smoke it together.

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  • wigz

    I used to do that as a kid. My parents smoked and I'd forage decent sized butts out of the ashtrays and garbage when I couldn't swipe whole ones for one reason or another. I did it in public too if I saw a nice one. I hit gold at a hotel on vacation once. There was ashtrays outside of the elavators and people put out nearly whole smokes before entering. I made excuses to leave the room to go smoke my little heart out.

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  • xfg14

    You could buy cigarettes and sell them individually to kids at a 300% markup. Or sell them cough syrup. So many ways to make money.

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    • Mytwin295

      Or this person could try for another job.

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