Oct 252009
How many cigarettes are smoked daily for people to be considered smokers? I heard people claim smoking one cigarette a day does not make them smokers. Also in research journals, how many cigarettes a day are they talking about when referring to smokers?
Thank you.
Let’s put it this way:
Either you’re alive or you’re not.
Either you’re pregnant or you’re not.
Either you smoke or you don’t.
If a person smokes every day, they are considered a smoker, regardless of how many cigarettes they smoke per day.
One a day would be considered a smoker.
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Hmmm I’d say anything > or = one..
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Let’s put it this way:
Either you’re alive or you’re not.
Either you’re pregnant or you’re not.
Either you smoke or you don’t.
If a person smokes every day, they are considered a smoker, regardless of how many cigarettes they smoke per day.
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probably about 3; morning, mid-day, night
1 a day is not really smoker
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I’d say, to be taken seriously, you need to smoke at least half a pack a day. Anything less, you’re just out to please your friends.
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I remember surveys years ago when the "Nonsmoker" category said "<10 cigarettes per day". People nowadays think they are heavy smokers if they smoke that much!
But I would say 5 cigarettes per day makes you a smoker.
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Well’s what i figure is the following: if you only smoke once in a while, socially let’s say, or when you’re really really stress, it means you smoke, but are not necessarily a smoker. Just like if you have a glass of wine, it means you drink, but not that you are an alcoholic. So i guess that if you have one or two a day or just a couple when you’re out to dinner with your friends, you wouldn’t be considered a fully fledged smoker. More than like 2 or 3 a day, though… well yea. a light smoker, but a smoker none the less.
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it only takes 1…
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 11 1 1 1 1 1 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111
to be addicted…
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None. I think a smoker is somebody who will accept a cigarette if offered one.
The regularity doesn’t matter, it’s whether or not you will choose to do it if given the chance.
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There are different levels of smoker, social smokers (only smoke with other smokers), heavy smokers (pack a day or more), etc.
As far as a the cigarette companies see smokers, they’re interested in the people who smoke 9 cigarettes a day or more; I’ve taken surveys about smoking where if you ‘only’ smoke 1-8 a day they’re not interested (i.e. you don’t qualify). It’s not a black or white thing such as… well, very few things are black and white, not even if you’re alive or not (temporary death where major systems stop and body seems dead; vegetative condition i.e. mind is no longer having any activity except to keep body alive, etc).
If you smoke on a regular basis, I’d say that you are a smoker, whether that is 2 packs a month, 3 cigarettes a day, etc. If you smoke 10-20 cigarettes a year, then no, not a smoker. It’s very relative.
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Personal Experience with Smoker Surveys
Between five and ten. I do eight and I consider myself a smoker.
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