Does Bob Smoke?

Stipey · Rat Trap

Does Bob Smoke?

Jules · The biggest Geldof fan in the world, bar none!

Couldn't be absolutely certain, but I don't think he's smoked on a regular basis. But I don't know him personally, so could be wrong!

MMbullybuddyGP · Drag Me Down

He smoked a cigar in his "Pale White Girls" video...maybe he puffs on those every now & then...

Stipey · Rat Trap

Thanks so much for the answers here. Yeah I was just wondering if he did or not. Because I never heard anything about that. Thanks again....

Miles4Miles · Lookin' After Number 1

He did go through a strange period of smoking a pipe a few years back.VERY ODD.

Jules · The biggest Geldof fan in the world, bar none!

Really? Didn't know about that. Must have looked strange, why on earth did he want to smoke a pipe!!!

_johanna_ · Drag Me Down

why would anyone wanna smoke a pipe.... actually it looks...strange, but groovy.. Bob in a nutshell, hu?

Stipey · Rat Trap

Oh, it doesn't matter to me as well if he smoked or at that still does smoke. Only Wondering thats all. Thanks......

rekamakovics · In the Long Grass

I read somewhere that he is a chain-smoker.

Is this true?

MrsRatSinger · Dave

Bob and smoking? two different things, I think. I can't imagine!

Tango · In the Long Grass

i couldn't imagine him smoking somehow.hes just too...i dunno...everyone automatically respects him and it would just be wierd if he smoked

rekamakovics · In the Long Grass

http://static.flickr.com/37/83035190_8a18d273d8_o.jpg

http://www.seegerpress-online.de/seegerpress-online-cgi/topixx?op=topixx&ID=1071594239&string2=Geldof

-- Edited by rekamakovics at 12:11, 2006-01-14

Tango · In the Long Grass

see he just looks like a prick with that thing in his mouth.bob you look like a farse mate

MrsRatSinger · Dave

smoker or non-smoker, he's a great man, he's my hippy angel!

kidneybean · House on Fire

Don't smoke Bob!

It'll kill you, and those girls of yours really don't need you to die an untimely death.

I know what I'm talking about. My mother, a smoker died a slow, painful death at 60 from a cancer almost unheard of in non-smokers. Sixty is young these days and I could have done with her being around a little longer.

Smokers always think it won't happen to them but it almost always does.

rekamakovics · In the Long Grass

Luckily I persuaded my mother to give up smoking.

-- Edited by rekamakovics at 22:43, 2006-01-14

Jules · The biggest Geldof fan in the world, bar none!

I can't be sure, but from Bob's 'campaign' against the ban on smoking in public places in the UK that he'd argue with us that it is his choice. That's if he smokes regularly. None of us know this, we only have a few pictures and a video of him smoking a cigar, so we make assumptions. Well yes it is, of course, his or anyone else's choice. No-one can deny that. And this is a free country.

Generally on the subject of smoking though, Kidneybean it is tragic that you lost your mother so prematurely due to the effects of smoking. I feel sad for you that you were deprived of her so early. Indeed 60 is nothing. I was deprived of ever having one of my grandfathers, he died before I was born through lung cancer, having been a 40 a day man. My Dad and my Uncle were both teenagers.

I used to work in a hospice and saw some of the devastating and detrimental effects it can have on a person. A couple of years ago someone I knew (not terribly well, but he was someone I admired greatly) died of lung cancer at the age of 38. He didn't smoke or drink and ate very healthily (only organic/vegetarian). We can only think that his death was as a result of passive smoking, probably hanging out smoky student bars when he was younger. How else would he have got it? He'd never smoked in his life! Shocking isn't it? He left behind a wife and small children.

Whilst it is an individual's choice whether or not they decide to smoke, maybe everyone should think first about it. Maybe everyone should visit someone in a hospice and see for themselves what it's like to die from the effects of smoking. As Kidneybean says it is long, slow painful and agonising.

Lady_Zylpha · Someone's Looking At You

He used to smoke those big cigars - the ones that look like rolled up toilet roles... You dirty rat...

Well, that's what a friend of his told me, anyway. They don't smell so bad as those chemical brothers ciggies. AND they're enviro unbleached and sustainable. As long as he doesn't wear gucci slippers while doing it...

I feel really sad for anyone who has to lose and go through the loss of a loved one - it's not easy to live with someone slowly suffering to death. Some smokers live to long age though. Maybe it's the belief system around it as well, (e.g. cancer is symbolic of deap seated anxiety, fear and anger turned inward) but saying that not negating or invalidating the illness. It is a medical fact that even with heriditary and incurable illnesses - the mental and emotional attitude of the patient contributes greatly to the outcome and suffering of the patient.

It's quite interesting that different traditional societies practice the imbibing of substances - many that have been derived to make chemical legal and non legal pharmaceutical products - but in a very managed and controlled way.

Tobacco for instance is a sacred medicine for the Sioux but they traditionally don't use it in the same way mass commercialism has marketed their dollar signs towards. They smoked for special rituals and use it as an incense. The Celtic Beltane festival and full moon festivities for alcohol... Coca leaves from a South American tribe is quite naturally taken again sporadically with special ceremonies - they even bury it in the ground - not like their powder snorting presidential family dealer counterpart who was reported in USA to be a habitual user. Role models eh?

I think Bob would probably be precise about his substance habits. He'd have his own little ritual/s. Sugar is one of the worst "drugs" because it is in everything and given at the earliest age. I meet many people in third world countries whose organs have rotted from sugar and cheap fermented sugar based alcohol. So sad and heartbreaking to live or spend time with them because they don't have money for medical treatment and die slowly. Catch 22 - they drink to numb the suffering, and suffer because of the drink. It's the worst thing in man and animal. In birds, their feathers drop out - unless they have natural nectars. So again it's also the way, type of sugar and how it is administered. Oh dear, just blobbed again. Sorry.

Tango · In the Long Grass

maybe if he smoked a pipe that'd look better, like stephen fry http://www.ananova.com/images/web/44155.jpg

http://pukka.buzinet.net/outlets/outlet_52/photos/s_3849.jpg

http://www.prnewswire.co.uk/cgi/news/release?id=98609

but it's still really bad for you, and the last thing anyone needs is a world without bob.