June 27-29, 2005
The International Smokers Rights Conference
Be A Good Smoker:
Be a good smoker. Enjoy the pleasure from your smoking experience; do not let it control you.
1.- Smoke appropriately. If smoking is a pleasure, why make a vice out of it?
2.- Enjoy a healthy relationship with tobacco during your life. Smoke consciously.
3.- Don’t smoke the cigarette to the filter. The best filter is the tobacco itself.
4.- Tobacco is a symbol of friendship. Do not make it uncomfortable for your non-smoking friends.
5.- Quit if you want to.
6.- Do not give in to excess, because of the enjoyment. Everything in excess is bad. Enjoy more of the tobacco, putting it into suitable limits.
7.- When in a no-smoking allowed area, demonstrate that you are considerate, and show your tolerance. Extinguish your cigarette, pipe, or cigar.
8.- Smoking is for informed and responsible adults, not for children. Do not allow children to smoke.
9.- Do not litter with your cigarette butts. Dispose of them properly extinguished. Avoid a dangerous situation.
10.- Tobacco helps you to concentrate, as well as many other things.
Do Not Be A Bad Smoker:
Smoking is a pleasure until you allow it to stop being one. You are the one with the will and common sense, not the cigarette. Do not be a bad smoker.
1.- Do not chain smoke. If you do, you do not get to enjoy the flavour of the smoke.
2.- Do not smoke fast. Be kind to your stomach and do not upset it.
3.- Do not smoke while having a meal. If you do, you ruin the taste of both the food and the smoke.
4.- Do not light a cigarette, inhale three times and extinguish it, wait for a few minutes and light it again. You will ruin the flavour of the cigarette.
5.- Do not stop smoking a cigarette when it is half way done. Continue, this way it will begin to burn what filtered the same tobacco during the first half of the smoke.
6.- Do not worry about others. If the smoke bothers them, who asked them to sit by your side?
7.- Do not inhale deeply and not release the smoke. Do not allow the cigarette to burn to the end. If you do, the cigarette will get hot, causing a burning sensation in your mouth, on your tongue and lips, and fingers.
8.- Do not, when you smoke in the forest or on the beach, throw the butt on the ground. Maybe, besides being a bad smoker and a slob, you may manage to turn into arsonist.
9.- Do not smoke while doing physical exercises. If you want to turn into a bad smoker, run, ride a bicycle, or go for a long walk, while smoking a cigarette.
10.- Do not keep smoking at bed time. Do not risk burns and fire to your property and yourself.
Remember to enjoy the pleasure of smoking; do not let it control you. Tolerance comes from good smokers, and good non-smokers.