Smoking versus Dipping

[Centurion1]

see you dont actually chew tobacco haha its called packing a lip. you take what they call a "quarter" (or your preferred size i tend to use dimes) which is obviously the size of that amount of money (25 cent us currency for the foreigners) and pack it into your bottom lip. then you just spit the juice that comes from the tobacco mixing with your saliva.

I just use a water bottle or something or spit on the ground if im not inside or like in a public area.

[Hosakawa Tito]

Back in the 1960's when I was a lad my father quit smoking those bad old cigarettes by taking up dipping. Back then there were no plastic beverage bottles, just glass or cans. He used to spit into an old Planter's Peanut can when not outdoors or in a place where it's socially unacceptable to spit on the ground. Many's the time while waiting at a red light he'd open the vehicle door and dump the can. I dipped for a few years as a teen after I got my braces off. I didn't like how it used to irritate my gums and inside of my lip so I quit. Took up smoking cigars instead, but only rarely now. Tobacco smoke irritates many people, and spit bothers everyone. Nowadays you have to pick the right time, place, and company to do either.

You might be a red-neck if

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you dip the same brand as your mother.

[Lemur]

Both are bad for you and kinda low-class. So I have the occasional smoke. It's probably because of over-exposure to Humphrey Bogart films as a kid. He'd have a cig, sure, but Bogie would never chaw.

[Tuuvi]

I don't do either, and to me smoking is way more annoying than dipping, because the smell gets everywhere. I spent a week at my friend's place, who only smokes outside, and when I got home I opened up my suitcase and my clothes reeked of cigarette smoke. Nasty.

[naut]

I only smoke tobacco if I'm really drunk. Otherwise, no.

[stratigos vasilios]

I'm a non-smoker though a mate of mine is a social smoker.

I'm a social coffee drinker, I don't drink coffee often but on occasion when I'm catching up with friends I'll order one

[Papewaio]

Coffee only... which I suspect is linked to my asthma.

No smoking for me (see above).

I haven't seen people chew tabacco here... I have seen beatle nut chewing in Taiwan.