Wow.
@ Belly_Dancer, thanks for your difference in opinion. I was beginning to think I was the only person who didn't think kissing a smoker was equivocal to licking ashtrays.
I was whole-heartedly against smoking, coming from a complete loss of understanding as to why anyone would do it, until I met the girl who would be come my girlfriend and smoked. I've always been an open-minded person, and not one to shut people down for anything they can justify, so it wasn't surprising that the girl smoking didn't turn me away. I'm trying to quit now, which is hard around someone who smokes; however, she's away for a couple months, and I have time to hopefully kick the habit before she returns-- and this time around, I won't get sucked into it (.. again).
Smoking isn't something I'm proud of, but I think that a lot of people have ... "unjustified" reactions to smokers. I've heard the whole "ashtray" response
so many times, and I'll even admit that I was almost lulled into that closed-minded view when much younger, but ... well, I'll pose this as an honest question: have any of you people who assume smokers always stink and taste like ashtrays actually kissed a smoker?
I've made out with a few people in my day, smokers and not.. and I can honestly say I've never felt like I was anything close to licking an ashtray. And as a smoker (or perhaps simply as a person who's not proud to be a smoker), I take extra caution (above my normal self-consciousness on odors) in making sure my breath doesn't stink. And I haven't met a smoker yet who doesn't sip a drink, chew some gum, pop a mint, or in some other way try to mask the smell before going out and breathing all over potentially non-smokers.
I hope my post doesn't come off as an abrasive reaction to responses I solicited-- that certainly isn't my intention. I suppose that now I'm simply curious as to whether many peoples' responses are rooted in stereotype or previous experience.
To the haters' credit, I
will admit that I've had a (
a ) negative experience when tasting bodily secretions immediately after the other person had smoked. I'd heard/read the rumors & research/commentary that smoking can impact the taste of secretions, especially with guys' cum. I wasn't really thinking about it at the time (it wasn't like an experiment), but I went down on a girl very shortly after she'd smoked and there was a definite difference in how she tasted after her fluids started flowing. It was the only time I've ever had even remotely close to an unpleasurable experience with eating out a girl. She tasted great all the rest of the times, though
.