Do Stripping and Smoking Go Hand-In-Hand?

23 comments

• Club_Goer_Seattle

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  12 years ago

  I agree that there seems to be a high percentage, but when it comes to comparing dancers with the general population, it would be best to sample the othe component as well. Until that's done, we can only speculate. Being a nonsmoker, I have been fortunate to cultivate several favorites over the years who don't smoke. I've seen them countless times in and out of their clubs, so I know for certain they don't smoke. I appreciate that very much. Most have no tatoos or piercings either. They're also very light drinkers.
• Dolfan

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  12 years ago

  80% sounds reasonable to me in S. Fl. It's significantly over 50% without a doubt. A lot of dancers claim they only do it at work, but I my limited experience doesn't support any of those claims. I think it tends to be the younger ones who don't (yet?) smoke cigarettes. However, the younger ones are more likely to "be cool" [view link] - Neither leaves breath minty fresh... I've always wondered about it in a chicken/egg sort of way; are smokers more likely to be strippers or strippers more likely to be smokers?
• thesamurai

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  12 years ago

  The military seems to create a lot of smokers too...both professions have a lot of boring downtime.
• motorhead

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  12 years ago

  I took a quick look at some web pages. The smoking rate for 18 year old females are at historical lows. To give you an idea, a 2011 study showed the rate to be 18.7% while just 5 years prior it was 21.6 and in 1997 it was a whopping 36.5%. That's the good news. Geography has a lot to do with smoking rates. Most of my experience is with clubs in Michigan and Indiana - two states with a very high number of smokers. Indiana is number 9 and Michigan number 14 so my observations might skew high. But I think the rate is 80% without a doubt. My CF does not smoke, but that is a real rarity. One telling example that supports sinclair's question is a dancer I know very well. Not your typical stripper. Master's degree. Had a professional job. Very grounded. Not much stripper drama. Yet she smoked on weekends while working. Never smoked at home. Education might prove to be a strong correlation among smoking and strippers. In general, females with 9 to 11 years of education smoke at a rate of 36.8% while women with 4 years of college only smoke at a rate of 11.3%. A huge difference. There are exceptions, but MOST dancers, at least here in the Midwest, do not have a college education and in fact many are high school drop outs.
• gatorfan

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  12 years ago

  It depends on what we're smoking
• steve3003

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  12 years ago

  @thesamurai's got it right. When I was in the Army, long time ago, even guys who never smoked as civilians smoked. Too much time on our hands and it was a means to bond among guys. IMO, any job that's repetitive and blue collar in nature tends to promote looking forward to a "smoking break."
• snowtime

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  12 years ago

  I find it very rare to meet a stripper who does not smoke. My favorite dancer in Huntsville is a non smoker and zero tatoos. She is by far the most popular and successful girl in the club. I think every other girl I have seen in the club smokes AND has tatoos. I do not smoke, but a smoking stripper will not be a deal breaker for me. If she is cute and gives good dances, that is all I expect. I would think that the percentage of smoking dancers is north of 90%. This figure will probably come down as more and more clubs are required to be non smoking by law.
• bang69

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  12 years ago

  I know a lot of strippers that don't use any form of tabaco. Now meth crack thats a different story
• mjx01

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  12 years ago

  I think gator is right
• SuperDude

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  12 years ago

  Are strippers telling the truth in surveys of smokers? Are they known for telling the truth?
• GoVikings

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  12 years ago

  In Virginia, smoking is allowed in some clubs, but others don't allow it. In the smoking clubs I've been to, I would have to agree that it seems like most of the strippers smoke. One time I was in a club on a busy Friday night and the smoke was so bad I only stayed one hour. I HATE cig smoke. What I hate even more is when women smoke. It might sound corny, but I find it un-lady like.
• xedin5436

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  12 years ago

  Motorhead already said most of what I was going to say. Strippers, generally, are a younger population of people, more comfortable with risky behaviors, with a lower education level and probably blue-collar backgrounds. I would expect people with those demographics to have a higher rate of smoking no matter what they do for a living. 80% of strippers smoking seems high to me, but I'm in California, where you can't smoke inside. I do smoke, and when I go outside (frequently in an exterior smoking area provided by the club where dancers also go) there are usually girls out there, but nothing like 80%. Out here, it's probably more like 25%, which is still high compared to the general population.
• DandyDan

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  12 years ago

  I know at one of the clubs I go to, you can't smoke inside, so they have to go outside to smoke and 90% of the time I show up there, one of the dancers is smoking outside. It's weird because dancers have a specially designated smoking area where no customers are allowed there. Then again, to get to the burrito van that stops there on weekends, they have to go out the front door. (I've found out from many dancers there that they love the burrito van there.) Then again, the girls who aren't smoking are probably drinking.
• steve229

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  12 years ago

  Not as noticeable since the smoking ban went into effect, but yeah, I remember most of my favs smoking in the club prior to that. Sometimes I would bum a cigarette off them and lite up, like after a particularly good VIP session, lol. To return the favor, I would periodically bring them a pack of their favorite smokes.
• shadowcat

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  12 years ago

  In my favorite club, I would say that 50% smoke tobacco but 90% smoke marijuana.
• sinclair

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  12 years ago

  We have the smoking bans here, but that does not discourage it at all. Lots of dancers spend close to 20% of their shift out on the smoking patio, which is mind boggling considering they have to pay the club a fee to work a shift.
• SuperDude

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  12 years ago

  Several Detroit clubs do not enforce the Michigan indoor smoking ban, so dancers are comfortable sneaking a smoke in an unmarked zone where no one pays attention. Smoking customers frequent this unofficial zone to hang out with dancers. One manager told me that he just couldn't require a dancer to go outside to smoke in Detroit in February. That's when the loosening up began.
• looneylarry

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  12 years ago

  I do think there is a correlation, and I have heard of nonsmoking dancers start up once they start work at the club. The drop in smoking among all women is a good sign. There was a generation of girls about ten years ago that seemed to be all smoking and it may have been a weight loss thing or something. I'm glad that they got that out of their system. Many of those girls that started ten years ago have stopped. Smoking bans in clubs have been a good thing, but I just wish some of those private clubs that still allow it would see the light. It makes it hard as hell to conceal your tracks. If it is only 20% of the girls are now smoking, I will pursue the 20% unless I have no other choice. Then I go after the girls that seem to be recreational or situational smokers. I have had few lappers from chain smokers and only one was memorable for the right reasons.
• Tiredtraveler

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  12 years ago

  I think it is part off the addictive personalities many have. Did you know many with ADD have self treated the disorder with tobaco. I have a friend that started smoking in high school and after he started he got better grade because he could concentrate. I ask a doctor once and he said that nicotine acts the same as rytalin on the blood stream.
• steve3003

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  12 years ago

  Nothing sexier than kissing a smokey breath girl. Then again, I'm from a time when few girls smoked and the ones that did were the trashy ones. Natural viagra for old geezers.
• canny

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  12 years ago

  I've met a few strippers who don't smoke but they're rare. Most strippers are heavy smokers in my experience.
• SuperDude

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  12 years ago

  Visited Players in Detroit Thursday, August 9, 2012 in the afternoon. Dancers smoking all over the place, in booths and at the bar. No enforcement of the Michigan smoking ban. So I had my lunch flavored with cigarette smoke. UGH!
• vincemichaels

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  12 years ago

  Bummer, SuperDude. All I can say at this point is I agree that dancers tend to have addictive personalities.