Topic: I use this for my ciggies maybe I shouldn't?

[Pain]

This one is lovely so why do I use it.  Id please.  Thick heavy bowl come ashtray on a clear glass pedestal base.  To look at it has a clear outer casing but is actually opalescent (is that the right word?) when you lift it up.  Yellow inner which when held upto light turns to orange. 

[langhaugh]

My first reaction is that, if you like looking at it when you use it as an ashtray, why not continue to do so. It was designed as an ashtray, after all, although that I know for most it's an ashtray in name only. You ciggies don't seem to have hurt it so far. Should we only use ugly functional pieces, and I don't mean just glass. It's a nice piece, but it's hardly so exceptional that, for the sake its cultural value to humankind, it should be preserved in a pristine state. I'm also sure that there are others who disagree with me.

David

[Ivo]

I'm also sure that there are others who disagree with me.

stop smoking...

[Pain]

IVO hmmm maybe one day 

[Paul S.]

also.................remember that if you smoke in bed, then one day the ash on the floor may be your own!   However, I have sympathy, I was once a puffer.   and if I can give up then anyone can.   Paul S.

[obscurities]

I quit 14 years ago...  cold turkey from 3 packs a day......  I smoked from 15 until I was 44....  

I never met a cigarette butt that could injure a piece of glass.... and god knows I met more cigarette butts than I ever should have, and lived to tell about it....

Here is the science of it:

Temperature without drawing:
Side of the lit portion: 400 deg C (or 752 deg F)
Middle of the lit portion: 580 deg C (or 1112 deg F)

Temperature during drawing:
Middle of the lit portion: 700 deg C (or 1292 deg F)

The above figures are averages of measurements which varied by as much as 50 deg C.

May not damage glass, but sure will cook human flesh!!

Craig

[Paul S.]

you only think you enjoy tobacco - its the addiction that is talking.   side effects are not always immediately terminal, and can include such joys as....emphasemia, chronic bronchitis, heart disease, high blood pressure, gangerine, narrowing of the arteries, a variety of carcenomas which may affect anything from the lips to the (other end) - and anything in between, premature aging of the skin and bone problems.   Aside from a loss of smell, loss of taste, loss of money, and having to stand in the rain for a fix because you have become a social parriah.   But I always remember the first one in the moring  -  inhaling deeply and feeling the monoxide and nicotine hitting the blood stream  -  feeling dizzy and almost keeling over.     Yep, fags have a lot going for them.   stop now.     Paul S.

[Anne]

Ummmm this topic will be heading off into the Cafe shortly...  :hj:

[Pain]

Ok doctors orders to smoke - dont ask!   But what about the glass lol  :rn: