I don’t like when doctors ask, “do you smoke cigarettes?” I don’t know, where am I? who am I with? was the cigarette free? is it a cold winter night outside a dimly lit bar? I need details.
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I usually say " No but thanks for offering, you go right ahead, it's your office."
mar 20, 2025, 7:42 am • 3 0 • view
I quit smoking 28 years ago and I still dream about smoking.
mar 20, 2025, 6:50 am • 1 0 • view
The war has been going on for so long I can't even remember how or why it started. I am laying in bed with a sex worker who barely speaks my language, and I know I am going to be hungover tomorrow morning when I head back to front. She holds out a cigarette and asks "Do you smoke?" "I do tonight."
mar 20, 2025, 3:26 am • 11 0 • view
is this that Sam Rockwell monologue from White Lotus
mar 20, 2025, 3:40 am • 7 0 • view
Maybe it subconsciously inspired me, but that was just me riffing. Love White Lotus though.
mar 20, 2025, 5:38 am • 0 0 • view
“Do you see me smoking one now, doc?” “…also, I need a light.”
mar 20, 2025, 3:18 am • 4 0 • view
Sometimes the cigarette smokes you
mar 20, 2025, 10:33 am • 15 0 • view
Do you identify your self as a smoker? Cause you might be in a smokers body that is not you? :)
mar 20, 2025, 6:24 am • 0 0 • view
For real though, jokes aside I can’t blame occasional smokers for not wanting that in their charts the way insurance companies are, and considering it’s just a binary yes/no
mar 20, 2025, 9:35 pm • 2 0 • view
"who's asking? The doctor or the insurance vultures looking for reasons to deny payment down the line?"
mar 20, 2025, 4:59 am • 5 0 • view
Details matter!
mar 20, 2025, 2:44 am • 1 0 • view
Exactly!
mar 26, 2025, 1:57 pm • 0 0 • view
I used to smoke 2 packs a day. If you need all that information to answer the question, you’re not a smoker.
mar 20, 2025, 4:06 am • 1 0 • view
Have I had several whiskeys? Do I feel like I need to have a serious discussion with the bass player? This could go any number of ways.
mar 20, 2025, 3:13 am • 19 0 • view
Oh I can smoke during the examination?
mar 20, 2025, 3:06 am • 9 0 • view
“Have you seen the demolition of the constitution?” I haven’t smoked in 13 years but am about to start again
mar 20, 2025, 3:22 am • 5 0 • view
Who can afford to?
apr 5, 2025, 3:33 pm • 0 0 • view
“You need one?”
mar 20, 2025, 3:12 am • 3 0 • view
They need to be more sneaky. Like an 80’s spy movie. Ask if you ‘have a light’ or how much a pack is and where is the cheapest by you.
mar 20, 2025, 6:34 am • 1 0 • view
My response: “Occasionally.”
mar 22, 2025, 4:07 pm • 1 0 • view
“Not if they contain tobacco.”
may 10, 2025, 1:44 pm • 0 0 • view
is it so much to ask
mar 20, 2025, 6:47 am • 1 0 • view
You should give that as an answer. May not be quite what they’re looking for, but it would be funny.
mar 20, 2025, 8:42 pm • 1 0 • view
My reply would be, "what else would I do with them? Wait a minute. Did you hear something?"
mar 20, 2025, 5:34 am • 0 0 • view
I only smoke when I'm trapped inside of a piece of fiction and it is thematically appropriate and meaningful for my character to be smoking.
mar 20, 2025, 3:10 am • 45 2 • view
It was integral to the plot.
mar 20, 2025, 3:22 am • 12 0 • view
The cigarette was like a third character.
mar 20, 2025, 6:00 pm • 3 0 • view