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[NT] NT: Opinion on Smoking?

What's your view on smoking?

  • I personally smoke

    Votes: 10 31.3%
  • I don't personally smoke; I feel indifferent when others smoke

    Votes: 12 37.5%
  • Smokers are either really stupid or really self-conscious and think they need to look cool

    Votes: 10 31.3%

  • Total voters
    32

ptgatsby

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1. I personally smoke
2. I don't personally smoke; it doesn't bother me when others do, though
3. Smokers are either really stupid or really unsure of themselves and do it to look cool


I don't smoke;

I don't like smokers in general... however, it doesn't bother me significantly until it's in a confined space with a lot of smokers. That is to say that if given a choice of going out to a smoking/non-smoking place, I would rather go alone to a non-smoking place than with a smoking friend to a smoking place. Likewise, I would rather spend time with the non-smoker in a situation where the smoker would be smoking.

I think smokers are irrational... But I think we all are to some degree. That's just an observation and doesn't carry over to other parts of their character.

I didn't vote because none really reflect how I feel.
 

digesthisickness

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What do NTs think about smoking?

that whether or not you do and how you feel about it when others do has nothing to do with MBTI.

so, basically, my answer is a question, why are you asking NTs specifically?
 

ptgatsby

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that whether or not you do and how you feel about it when others do has nothing to do with MBTI.

so, basically, my answer is a question, why are you asking NTs specifically?

I wouldn't agree with this entirely - there are different views on things that tend to correlate to MBTI/other models. They can be social, political or economic... I'd be curious how other NTs view smoking, for example, because I've heard both sides of the argument from a lot of people... and there does seem to be some connection to the T part at the very least.

(The NT and S/N component I'm not sure of.)
 

htb

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The third response, technically, doesn't distinguish between smokers and non-smokers. And it might read "thought at one time that they looked cool."

If there is anything to introverted feeling's catalyzing a visceral reaction, it's been in my response to smoking since about age three. The habit disgusts me, and I've worked hard to sublimate, into acknowledgment of the addictive properties of nicotine, the cross between contempt and lurid fascination I used to feel for smokers.

Frankly, smokers are rarer these days. I know one definite INTP who is a smoker; another who claimed to be an INTP but in hindsight could have been an ISTP or INFP. Both, last time I checked, were simply resigned to the practice.
 

Varelse

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It's annoying, it smells bad...if people want to do it, well, whatever.
 

Zergling

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I don't smoke, don't care too much unless it's right around me and forces me to smell it/breathe it in.
 

The Ü™

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I don't smoke, but I don't care if you do. It's not like you're gonna live forever. ;)
 

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I voted the last option because I hate people smoking around me and I think smoking is a stupid, disgusting, and often inconsiderate thing to do.

But I have to clarify that I don't think smokers are dumb or shallow or self-conscious, just unwise. And everyone's unwise in some areas.

And I don't particularly care if people I don't care about want to smoke somewhere where I can't smell the smoke. Ehh maybe I should've voted option 2. Too late.
 

rivercrow

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None of the options are applicable to me. Next.
 

Totenkindly

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Protest.

Impersonally, I'm not sure of any real benefit to smoking besides enjoying the taste/experience.

Personally, I have mild asthma; my father always used to smoke around me all the time as a kid despite my protests; and I can still smell someone light up in the space of a few seconds across a crowded restaurant (i.e., I find the smell annoying and intrusive, because everyone nearby is basically smoking your cigarette along with you)... but I do not see smokers as being particularly stupid or needing to look cool.

So a no vote here.
 
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