"Do you smoke?"

[mphstteach]

I am honest with my Doc I just worry about the insurance aspect because I have never said "yes" because I smoke so infrequently

 

[edgreen]

I was going to give my answer, but then I remembered I'm on the internet. So, I'm just on this forum to meet people

and I picked this one at random. :wink:

 

[numbersix]

I have not been to the doctor in a while, but believe it or not I don't recall ever being asked the question. I suppose if I am asked, I would probably say "the occasional cigar".
Reason being that I don't want the word "smoker" going on my permanent record and yet, in essence, it is not a lie.
I think when people hear "I smoke a pipe" - they may not know exactly what that entails. Many people aren't very familair with pipe smoking and may equate it with cigarettes. Whereas cigars do not carry the same reputation that cigarettes do.
Most people know that you do not inhale a cigar.
As well, an occasional cigar is something many people, including doctors enjoy. Even Arnold Schwartzeneggar (who once headed the President's Fitness Initiative or whatever the hell it was called) smokes cigars.
My guess is that they would check off "non-smoker" (as they should under those circumstances) and yet you're really not lying since the effects of cigar smoking and pipe smoking are the same.

 

[blazze]

phil67 Wrote:

Cortez wrote:

I'm of the opinion that you should get a different doctor if he has to ask if you smoke.

I strongly disagree. It is absolutely necessary for your doctor to know if you smoke or not. Of course when they do so, or if the question is on their questionnaire it’s usually in reference to cigarettes. Why on earth would one wish to hide something that is obviously detrimental to your health in so many aspects from ones doctor! And this is coming from someone who is a 50+ year cigarette smoker. Hell, if I went to a new doctor and he didn’t ask if I smoked I’d promptly walk out of his office!

I think he meant you should get another doctor because he should be able to figure it out for himself...

 

[phil67]

I think he meant you should get another doctor because he should be able to figure it out for himself...

That's possible, but not necessarily true. A co-worker of mine had severe emphysema and never smoked in his life, and a good friend of mine died from lung cancer who also never smoked. It's just common sense not to hide something of that nature from ones doctor, and some others feel that its none of a doctors business which is something I can't for the life of me comprehend. If your going to hide something from your doctor then why bother seeing him in the first place. Of course I'm referring to cigarette smoking here. If I only smoked an occasional pipe I might very well not place it on a questionnaire, but I might possibly tell my doctor and make damn sure to explain that I didn't inhale.

 

[smokeybear]

If some one asks me "Do You Smoke?" i would ask them to write the question down on paper. Then i would break it up into my pipe and Smoke it. Random Thought ::

 

[gphenry]

I smoke a bowl a couple times a week......and I let them just mull that over.

 

[crazypipe]

When ask do I smoke I say ,I'm A pipe smoker ::

 

[mphstteach]

I smoke a bowl a couple times a week......and I let them just mull that over.

I bet you get some really fun looks from the nurses lol

 

[ravkesef]

Do you smoke after sex?
I don't know, I never looked.

 

[jimbo69]

With my present employer, the HR policy for non-smoker is less than once a week and no more than 3 times a month. As I am a weekend cigar/pipe guy (and not every weekend), I am honest with it.
I've read stories with companies checking nicotine in pee tests. Crazy.

 

[phil67]

I've never quite understood just how one is supposed to study for a pee test?

 

[sablebrush52]

If asked, I say that I smoke a pipe outdoors.
If a studio ever decided to enact a non-smoking employment requirement it would go out of business.

 

[mphstteach]

I have never heard of a company not hiring a smoker, but I have heard of companies not giving a smoker a designated smoke break. My problem is with my insurance company, not my job.

 

[necron99]

I don't give smoke breaks. On jobs such as hospitals and schools where ya can't smoke and work do it at lunch on ya own time. But what you do on ya own time is up to you.

 

[mphstteach]

I think that is very reasonable; I don't think people deserve extra breaks for smoking.

 

[allan]

As I am visiting doctors more and more frequently, I get asked, almost every single time, 'do you smoke?' and when I say I smoke a pipe, I get that sudden frown (almost every doc I see is way younger than me) and what looks like a lecture starting.
To the young, smoking anything that contains tobacco is all the same. It's no use having a discussion about it; the brainwashing is thoroughly ingrained.

 

[igloo]

If they cant tell from the burn holes in my shirts I just say yes but I try not to .I mark no on all forms so I don't become a statistic on a government chart to be skewed worse than global warming from cow farts .

 

[ahpui]

"Do you smoke?"
Smoke what? Ribs??
If they specify cig, you are out of the loop.