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Why is the first question you're asked at the doctors office, 'do you smoke'.

My question is, are your fingers nicotine stained, and are you afraid to smile because of stained teeth?

This new year is another opportunity for you bite the bullet. It's hard I know, I went from cigs, to cigars, to pipe, snuff, and now only martinis, all over a period of 35 years.

I never defended the habits. Merry Christmas too, and hope Jan 1st you quit, you may put on a little weight, but you may also be less grumpy.

GOOD LUCK

Why is the first question you're asked at the doctors office, 'do you smoke'.

My question is, are your fingers nicotine stained, and are you afraid to smile because of stained teeth?

(Adding my 2 cents here)

My Doctor never says anything to me about smoking. Before I go to my appointment, I have a cigarette and wash my hands. I drive to the Doctor's without smoking.

I have great hygiene and never smell like smoke. My fingers are not yellow nor are my teeth! And my hair is freshly washed.

I'm sure if I stunk from smoke, she would badger me about smoking. But since she can't smell it on me, she forgets that I am a smoker.

Good Hygiene is the ticket!

That isn't the first, nor even a question my doctor asks me.

Are you a "doctor shopper"? Looking for lots of scrip are you, to feed your prescription drug habit? So, what are you hooked on; oxycodon or something else?

My teeth look fine; I brush and floss. Do you?

Snuff? You did SNUFF and now you're a lush? Sheeeeeeesh!

Don't you know how deadly bad drinking martinis are for you? And YOU have the temerity to tell me what I should do? You've got to be kidding!

I have less than no intention of quiting smoking cigarettes and I suggest that you mind your own business, ducky. After all, you went from a using a legal substance ( tobacco ), which doesn't alter your ability to think, walk, drive, etc. to a substance that does and you dare to tell me what to do?

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I don't make new year resolutions; I find that such a juvenile and always silly thing to do. And FWIW, since as far as I'm concerned, I have yet to find any area of agreement between us, in all the years both of us have been on FR, you are one the LAST people, on the face of the earth, whose suggestions I would follow. But I will wish you and yours a MERRY CHRISTMAS and thank you for your Christmas wishes for me.

P.S. I am NOT "grumpy"; I just don't suffer fools lightly. Perhaps that's why you find my replies to you not all that "cheery". :-)