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<blockquote data-quote="copey399" data-source="post: 1047620" data-attributes="member: 193670"><p>I was a non-smoker until I reached my early 30s as I was mindful of the unhealthy aspect of it plus I tried it a few times and just didn't like it. I was the outsider as everyone smoked, even my then husband but it didn't bother me. I then got a very boring job which involved a lot of sitting about and one of the girls offered me a cigarette and I liked the social aspect of it but was still worried about tarring up my lungs. Then, hey presto, the government decided that it would be a good idea to introduce "non harmful" cigarettes which nobody seems to remember apart from me but if you can't remember them here is an article on them from flickr.</p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong>1977 New Smoking Material - No Thanks!</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong>It was the loudest ‘No’ in Bristol’s smoky history after tobacco giants Wills announced the biggest revolution in smoking since Sir Walter Raleigh introduced tobacco from the New World to the Court of Queen Elizabeth.</strong></span></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 22px"> </span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 22px">By the 1970s the anti-smoking health campaign had reached such proportions that Wills and other cigarette giants decided that if you couldn’t beat ‘em, you could try to woo 'em. And Wills did so with NSM or New Smoking Material. The idea was cunningly simple. Cut down on tobacco, give cigarette smokers a substitute to puff on and, hey presto, smoking could be acceptable as a healthy pursuit once more. In June, 1977 the new-style cigarettes were launched in a fanfare of publicity.</span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 22px"></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 22px">It didn’t work. In fact it failed so catastrophically that within three months of the much-advertised launch of safer ciggies, Wills’ directors realised they had a huge turkey on their hands. What to do with all those unwanted packets of fags? Set fire to them in the biggest bonfire in Bristol’s tobacco history when more than 100 million NSM ‘gaspers’ were cremated. Wills claimed foul, accusing the government of torpedoing their new products by not allowing a price advantage over the more tar-filled standard cigs.</span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 22px"></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 22px">The public didn’t agree. NSM lacked the nicotine kick that smokers crave. . . it was as simple as that.</span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 22px"></span></strong></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">Now never having been a smoker they tasted OK to me so I'd got used to being in with the crowd and having a cigarette in my hand like everyone else in those days. When they pulled them off the market I started buying normal cigarettes <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite3" alt=":(" title="Frown :(" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":(" /> I carried on smoking until 1996 when my dear mother had a health scare and was told that she must quit so we both went cold turkey. Unfortunately she died of a stroke the following year and I went to pieces but I still didn't smoke. Then 2 years later I lost my beautiful son to a heart attack at the age of 36. Having still not got over losing my mum you can imagine what a state I was in (anti-depressants, suicide attempt, panic attacks .. living hell) and I still didn't smoke. I had gained 3 stone in weight though. I was divorced by then and my current partner decided to take me to his brother and s-i-l in Wales for a break. We were out shopping one day and my s-i-l said "hold this while I pop in this shop" and handed me her cigarette. It had been 5 years and yet I couldn't resist taking a puff and then I kept "borrowing" one off her and had to buy some to pay her back of course and by the time I came back home I was a smoker again <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite3" alt=":(" title="Frown :(" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":(" /> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">When they became priced out of my reach I took to rolling my own and as we live on the South Coast it's easy for us to do a day trip to Belgium and get ridiculously cheap baccy. Even though I started smoking the weight never came off and I always said I would tackle the weight loss and then think about giving up. So I've now lost 2.5 stones and keep thinking about packing up again. Thinking about it is as far as I get though. I know it makes sense. I think those 5 years of hell as a non-smoker are acting like a sort of "aversion" therapy and I associate it with bad things. I know that's just an excuse really <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite3" alt=":(" title="Frown :(" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":(" /> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">Sorry about the length of this post - I got carried away once I started.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="copey399, post: 1047620, member: 193670"] I was a non-smoker until I reached my early 30s as I was mindful of the unhealthy aspect of it plus I tried it a few times and just didn't like it. I was the outsider as everyone smoked, even my then husband but it didn't bother me. I then got a very boring job which involved a lot of sitting about and one of the girls offered me a cigarette and I liked the social aspect of it but was still worried about tarring up my lungs. Then, hey presto, the government decided that it would be a good idea to introduce "non harmful" cigarettes which nobody seems to remember apart from me but if you can't remember them here is an article on them from flickr. [SIZE=6][B]1977 New Smoking Material - No Thanks![/B][/SIZE] [SIZE=5][B]It was the loudest ‘No’ in Bristol’s smoky history after tobacco giants Wills announced the biggest revolution in smoking since Sir Walter Raleigh introduced tobacco from the New World to the Court of Queen Elizabeth.[/B][/SIZE] [B][SIZE=6] By the 1970s the anti-smoking health campaign had reached such proportions that Wills and other cigarette giants decided that if you couldn’t beat ‘em, you could try to woo 'em. And Wills did so with NSM or New Smoking Material. The idea was cunningly simple. Cut down on tobacco, give cigarette smokers a substitute to puff on and, hey presto, smoking could be acceptable as a healthy pursuit once more. In June, 1977 the new-style cigarettes were launched in a fanfare of publicity. It didn’t work. In fact it failed so catastrophically that within three months of the much-advertised launch of safer ciggies, Wills’ directors realised they had a huge turkey on their hands. What to do with all those unwanted packets of fags? Set fire to them in the biggest bonfire in Bristol’s tobacco history when more than 100 million NSM ‘gaspers’ were cremated. Wills claimed foul, accusing the government of torpedoing their new products by not allowing a price advantage over the more tar-filled standard cigs. The public didn’t agree. NSM lacked the nicotine kick that smokers crave. . . it was as simple as that. [/SIZE][/B] [SIZE=4]Now never having been a smoker they tasted OK to me so I'd got used to being in with the crowd and having a cigarette in my hand like everyone else in those days. When they pulled them off the market I started buying normal cigarettes :( I carried on smoking until 1996 when my dear mother had a health scare and was told that she must quit so we both went cold turkey. Unfortunately she died of a stroke the following year and I went to pieces but I still didn't smoke. Then 2 years later I lost my beautiful son to a heart attack at the age of 36. Having still not got over losing my mum you can imagine what a state I was in (anti-depressants, suicide attempt, panic attacks .. living hell) and I still didn't smoke. I had gained 3 stone in weight though. I was divorced by then and my current partner decided to take me to his brother and s-i-l in Wales for a break. We were out shopping one day and my s-i-l said "hold this while I pop in this shop" and handed me her cigarette. It had been 5 years and yet I couldn't resist taking a puff and then I kept "borrowing" one off her and had to buy some to pay her back of course and by the time I came back home I was a smoker again :( When they became priced out of my reach I took to rolling my own and as we live on the South Coast it's easy for us to do a day trip to Belgium and get ridiculously cheap baccy. Even though I started smoking the weight never came off and I always said I would tackle the weight loss and then think about giving up. So I've now lost 2.5 stones and keep thinking about packing up again. Thinking about it is as far as I get though. I know it makes sense. I think those 5 years of hell as a non-smoker are acting like a sort of "aversion" therapy and I associate it with bad things. I know that's just an excuse really :( Sorry about the length of this post - I got carried away once I started. [/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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