Just because you have letters after your name...

I use to work with a lot of Phd's at Owens Corning Fiberglas Technical Center and some of them were complete idiots with zero common sense.

We are all idiots, only on different subjects. 

I could not agree more.

We're probably of the same generation. My dad smoked a pipe, my friends parents smoked cigarettes. We should all be dead from lung cancer, but aren't. The conclussion is obvious.

My dad always smoked with the windows up in the truck. Mmm Drakkar, Coffee and Marlboro Lights... every....single...morning. My parents smoked inside, so did the rest of my family.

At the last doctors appointment for the twins their regular dr. wasnt there so we had someone else. He asked if anyone smoked in the home. I said no, not inside. He said "well, if you smoke, when you're done you should change your shirt before handling the babies. The shirt catches all the nasty stuff and poses a risk to them." My reply "you've got to be kidding me." We haven't seen that dr. again and never will.

I love when things go against what "they" want you to believe and are quickly dismissed and hidden.

Re: Josh's comment...

"The shirt catches all the nasty stuff and poses a risk to them."   That kinda Dr. I would stay well away from...cause he is a moron and it might be catching.

You got that right!!!!

I am the third... My name has III attached to it in order to tell the difference between my father's and grandfather's names. I have a title as well, though I hardly ever use it, except in professional circles and only when it is required. Given the state of things, I might never use the title ever again. Of course, this has little to do with the actual meaning of the thread. However, in typical Q fashion, I found my dilemma amusing.

Have 3 friends with DR after their names, one is nuts (love him), one is half nuts & the other is normal (Mostly)

I'm sorry to hear that you have COPD, Michael. I've known other long time pipe smokers that have been diagnosed with it as well. Did you previously smoke cigarettes or ever inhale when you smoke your pipe?

I have COPD too plus Asthma. Couple that with a Peptic Ulcer and I have to be careful regarding tobacco strength. I do not castigate cigarette smokers, they are fellow travellers.

I took a puff on a cigarette as a teenager once never went back...I cannot comprehend smoking butts.
Like Bill, I do not inhale, although trace amounts I am sure go into my lungs.
I have been training with a non smoker all week, and have not  lit a pipe once...and I am not jonesing for a smoke like a cigarette smoker would...and in the pre-employment physical...the doctor told me that I took first place in a pulmonary test...
www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/treatment-tests-and-therapies/pulmonary-function-tests





I have never fed the pockets of Reynolds or Philip Morris...who really played a big part in driving the anti-tobacco laws thanks to their actions.

And cigarette smokers have done the dirty deed of littering the world with discarded butts...it seems that precious few have the ability to discard the butts responsibly.

No...I am not in it with the cigarette smoker.

And no...Nicotene is not a narcotic.

I don't claim to be better than a cigarette smoker, but I do not qualify with being lumped into the same category as one.

Me too, COPD & Asthma. Don't inhale.
Glad to see another non-combatant.

My town just passed a no smoking ordinance for the whole town despite the absence of any evidence that outdoor second-hand smoke has any effect on health. OK to smoke on personal property and where one is "not likely to encounter another person." That vagueness would never stand up in court but I don't want to be the one to test it.