The war against smoking

I don't care much for smokers or smoking. As long as it is done away from me (Or anybody in public), go and smoke as much as you want. It is just the idiots about it who bug me. I remember a few years back at school, I'm going towards my locker. There had to have been at least 50 people all crowded near eachother. And some idiot student walks by with a cigarette in his hand. It is crap like that that bugs me.

 

Atleast here in America it going to be almost impossible right now if you ask me to stop stores from selling cigs.Just outright stopping the selling of them would be very bad for many long-term smokers as well as you said.Alot of people cant just stop cold.

Im all for people not smoking,dont smoke myself,but it is a personal choice and the government should not have asay in that.Plus I am pretty sure they make a good bit of money on the taxes,so I defintly doubt they would do anything other then talk about it,just for votes.Im sure they would take a hit there if they actually did it though.

As I said I dont smoke,but I do have friends who do.As long as they dont let it out in my face Im usually fine with it.On a completly different note,its a turnoff,but everyone has their own thoughts on that.

 

All I know is that in Japan where I am currently stationd... Everyone smokes, they allow it in resturants, hotels, ect.

 

eh,maybe.Might be like alcohol then back in the 20s.You can technically smoke,but you cant actually buy it legally.Then whatever act/admendment/whatever would eventually be repealed.

For resturants,I rather have my food not smelling like that type of smoke if it has a smokey smell at all,if that makes any sense.But places with smoking and non smoking never seemed to have a problem as far as I could tell.

 

Although it is not possible to ban smoking in all public places, it definitely should be. Second hand smoke is not only harmful for non-smokers health but it is also disgusting! There is nothing like "Och you take our rights! We have right to smoke whenever and wherever we want to!". NO, Your rights ends where other man rights begins and remember that. If you have choosen to smoke, it hasn't been our fault. Deal with it. End of story.

 

Then smoking terrorists need to be careful.I agree with noz on both sides having respopnsibility.You dont have to stand next to someone who is smoking,and there are smokers who are considerate of others who do not like that habit.Of course you will have the idiots who dont give a damn,but you get that with everything.

As for health,while smoking does have bad effects,it doesnt manifest in everyone.Still not gonna smoke,but not everyone who smokes is gonna die of cancer.

 

second hand smoking is a urban myth.

 

No it isn't. It's probably exaggerated quite a bit, but there are serious health effects that can develop with prolonged exposure.

I'm biased against smokers really, so my opinion isn't worth much. It's a horrible habit. My father has been a smoker since he was 14, and I can see the health effects really wearing down on him at 45. He has a constant cough, he's spending thousands a year on cigarettes, he looks physically older than he should, etc. He has tried multiple times to quit without much success. I firmly believe that children should be 100% educated on what it can do to you so that they think twice before taking a puff.

I'm also very terrified by the idea of addiction, and this spreads beyond simply cigarettes -- it encompasses things as small as coffee to things like painkillers and harder drugs. I don't like the idea that people need these things to function.

That being said, if the law says it is alright and you're not smoking around non-smokers, I can't say that I'm going to be rallying the ban of cigarettes. It's unreasonable really to think that all of the smokers in the world will just say "lol k" and forget all about it. They'll turn to other methods of acquiring these drugs that will be more dangerous and expensive. If you want to kill yourself that's your choice, I'll be honest, I'm going to think less of you, but to each one's own, right?

 

Here is what I think. Smoking is just wrong! It kills you from the inside. I mean who want's to inhale that tar and smoke! I learned in health that on ciggeret takes 7 minutes off of your like. Now once you hear that you must think you have to stop. but no!!!! People are just so stupid enough to take 10 to 20 years of there life.

And then there is 2nd hand smoke. I think it's exagerated, but still it can have bad effects.


So to put it in simple terms, people are stupid enough to shorten there life by 10-20 years and possible shorten a non smokers life.

 

On that,Im not sure how they found that out,maybe thats just an average for most people,but not everyone will be like that.There are people in their 70s,80s,and older who have smoked and are of course still alive,just as there are those who didnt make it past their 20s.Everyone is different,though as far as i am aware the bad effects tend to affect you atleast by your 40s for most people.Depending on when you started of course.

 

I heard about it in health class. But yes maby those peopl lived to 70 they might have tookrn off 10to20 years of there life.They might have lived to90 or100

 

I thought it was five minutes, I can't remember learned that shit last year. Anyhow, I'm fine with smokers as long as they don't go off bugging the non-smokers on purpose. If they do, then I have a problem. I've never smoked before and wouldn't if my life depended on it, it just seems horrible. Though I guess not to those who smoke, they wouldn't really go for banning cigarettes. It would just cause problems and people would illegally sell it. So yeah good luck with that one.

 

It is a persons choice to smoke but it's not necicerily the right one!

 

I dont care what anyone elses opinion is, SMOKING IS HORRID PLUS IT WILL KILL YOU. Sorry but I would rather live a long happy life than a short life with no money and not being able to breath.

 

Did anybody learn about a little thing called Prohibition? Alcohol was banned for the very reason of people trying to ban smoking: it's dangerous. Soon the country would be free of this "vile drink"...or would they? As soon as that amendment was passed, people started bootlegging alcohol, riots broke out in the streets, and even the creation of the modern American Mafia was the result of Prohibition (Al Capone, anyone?) If Prohibition done that much damage, imagine what a ban on smoking would do. Please, hate to tell y'all this, but all of these drugs like smoking and alcohol make up our drowning economy. Without them, we'd probably be even worse off than we are now economically speaking.

@ace: Uuuuh, smoking doesn't automatically make you a poor person. >.<