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Smoking and the bass

#41
oboylebass said:
When YOU sit there and watch a family member die of double lung cancer (from cigarettes), you too my become an "anti-smoking nazi".

Until then, fight the good fight.
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Listen, I don't want to hijack this thread or be a jerk, but only about 15% of male smokers (not heavy smokers) develop lung cancer and only about 0.2% of non-smokers develops lung cancer. Sorry, that's just the facts.
 
#42
LOL my dad died last January of lung cancer and 2 years before that my grandpa and me and more than half my family smoke still. Not in the house but still we smoke. The day I wake up worrying about health problems or dieing is the day life is not worth living. Now calm down and smoke a j and suck all that cancery goodness into ur lungs. Have a beer while ur at it!
 
#43
jay43 said:
Just wondering I'm contemplating above in with my girlfriend. She smokes. Will the smoke affect my basses? Should I protect them from the smoke like will it dry out the wood warp the neck etc?
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I read most of the thread, and all I can say it I am amazed you seem unconcerned about the health effects of the smoke on her and yourself.

Smoking destroys health and lives. That is guaranteed. All smokers get COPD.
 
#48
jay43 said:
Just wondering I'm contemplating a move in with my girlfriend. She smokes. Will the smoke affect my basses? Should I protect them from the smoke like will it dry out the wood warp the neck etc?
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IMO, you should be more concerned about the effects of cigarette smoke on YOUR HEALTH.
Back in Jan-March of this year, I was taking care of a patient (home healthcare). He was dying (and died in March) of lung cancer from smoking.
The scary part?
He quit smoking in 1971.

Maybe it's just me but basses or no basses, I wouldn't move in with her if she won't give up smoking. You could be putting your own health at great risk by breathing her 2nd hand smoke.
 
#49
totallyfrozen said:
Maybe it's just me but basses or no basses, I wouldn't move in with her if she won't give up smoking. You could be putting your own health at great risk by breathing her 2nd hand smoke.
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Not to lecture, but my dad was just diagnosed with emphysema.

He never smoked a day in his life, but he was a weekend gigging musician for 30 years. The doctor told him the COPD was from 3 decades of breathing second hand smoke in bars and clubs.
 
#50
Not to mention, smoking prematurely ages you. So unless you like dating wrinkled old hags who smell like a 40 year old jock strap and taste like an ashtray when you kiss 'em, you should think about going "non-smoker". Nothing's hotter than a healthy woman who still has the soft, smooth skin of a teenager.

It's only 2011. I realize the whole "smoking is bad" thing has only been around about 40 years. Maybe you GF just didn't get the memo yet. :D
 
#53
Duuuuuuuuuude said:
Listen, I don't want to hijack this thread or be a jerk, but only about 15% of male smokers (not heavy smokers) develop lung cancer and only about 0.2% of non-smokers develops lung cancer. Sorry, that's just the facts.
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Unless my quick calculations are wrong, according to your own statistics, a male smoker is 75 times more likely to develop lung cancer than a non-smoking male...

To my knowledge, heart disease is an equal concern for smokers, with throat cancer to a lesser extent...


- georgestrings
 
#56
I can't say whether it would do much or not, but I will say that I wouldn't want my electronic equipment including basses in a smoking environment. Smoke always leaves a nasty film on stuff, which can't be good for electronics.

My P bass was owned by a smoker, it's got a nice little headstock burn from putting the cigarette behind the strings at the nut, and the whole neck is a darker shade of maple than they usually are. I actually like the way it looks, it gives it character.
 
#57
See if your girlfriend would agree to only smoking outside the house? Maybe she could give it a try for a while at least and see how it goes. I know smokers can be quite territorial when it comes to stuff like this but make the point that she would benefit from it too.

I quit about 2 years ago but I stopped smoking in my home 6 or 7 years prior to that, basically when my friends starting having kids - I didn't want them to have to bring babies into a smoky house. I soon realised I much preferred living in a house that wasn't being smoked in, and nipping out of the back door to smoke wasn't a massive inconvenience. It also helped me cut down.
 
#60
As mentioned, smoke will probably discolor your instrument. And make it smell funky but I'm guessing you'd have to chain smoke with the windows closed in a small room with a bass for that to happen.

Also, basses are made of wood.
Wood burns.
Cigarettes can cause fires.
Wood burns.

:)
 

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