Yeah its amazing that the Tobacco industry is the only one that has to pay for commercials vilifying its products, but yet people enjoy it so much they still sell them. I love to smoke and i cant stand anti smoking evangelists, whats even worse is an ex smoker who acts like he/she is a saint now cause they quit. Whoopdee doo, im gonna have a cigarette and make you squirm inside with NEED.
I'm 20 and I'm at the point where I'm really considering quitting, but it's a tough call because I do enjoy it so much. I usually have like 5-6 per day...these discussions are just starting to get to me.
While former smokers are annoying, I just cannot understand where the rest of your rant comes from. You really do make yourself to appear to be a hateful person. I hope that appearance is wrong.
The tobacco industry has made 10s of Billions off the addictions of the masses at the expense of their health AND THE HEALTH OF EVERYONE AROUND THEM. The tobacco companies are putting out these ads and STILL making $$$$$ hand over fist. They get no sympathy here.
Go tell a baby to hang out somewhere away from their 4-pack-per-day mother. Or go tell a child (who now has asthma from their parents' smoking) to go find another place to live.
Im not a hateful person at all. And obviously anyone with a brain would know that mothers who smoke with their children in their car etc are pretty freaking horrible.
What gets me is our lowest common denominator society we are creating, it’s the same bs as the people who complain to the FCC about whats on the radio, you don't like it, change it, you don't like smokers don't hang out with them.
To the person who said smokers shouldn’t hang around other "Humans" all i can say is WOW. I am one of the most respectful smokers on the face of the planet, i stand back from non smokers, i don't blow my smoke in peoples faces, i hold my hand up in the air if it looks like even a little bit of the smoke from the end of my cigarette is going to go in someones face, but none of that matters since smokers arent "humans" just some of the greatest contributors to the economy EVER. The taxes i pay on my smokes pays for tons of your crap, so just think about being human yourself next time you talk to a smoker.
IF you want someone to pick on that is really damaging their children, look into parents that force veganism or vegetarianism on their children, thereby giving them anemia and a whole slew of other diseases that makes smoking look like a trip to disneyland.
Vegetarians are pretty stupid too, but they don't harm other simply by being vegetarian. Your example would be valid if all smokers forced their children to smoke too.
Malnutrition and anemia are curable to a great extent. Can you clean up that soot sponge that you call your lungs?
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Damnit. I am trying to quit smoking and every time I see a stop smoking commercial or an online post it just makes me want another cigarette.
You can get thru it. It's a bitch, but worth the effort. Keep at it, don't give up!
Yes, please don't give up.
For your sake - and everyone around you.
I see no reason to give up something i enjoy, i have two a day. My health, my choice.
Gotta love the social stigma though, all the anti smoking propaganda is laughable.
Yeah its amazing that the Tobacco industry is the only one that has to pay for commercials vilifying its products, but yet people enjoy it so much they still sell them. I love to smoke and i cant stand anti smoking evangelists, whats even worse is an ex smoker who acts like he/she is a saint now cause they quit. Whoopdee doo, im gonna have a cigarette and make you squirm inside with NEED.
I'm 20 and I'm at the point where I'm really considering quitting, but it's a tough call because I do enjoy it so much. I usually have like 5-6 per day...these discussions are just starting to get to me.
@Tsing Tao:
While former smokers are annoying, I just cannot understand where the rest of your rant comes from. You really do make yourself to appear to be a hateful person. I hope that appearance is wrong.
The tobacco industry has made 10s of Billions off the addictions of the masses at the expense of their health AND THE HEALTH OF EVERYONE AROUND THEM. The tobacco companies are putting out these ads and STILL making $$$$$ hand over fist. They get no sympathy here.
Go tell a baby to hang out somewhere away from their 4-pack-per-day mother. Or go tell a child (who now has asthma from their parents' smoking) to go find another place to live.
Im not a hateful person at all. And obviously anyone with a brain would know that mothers who smoke with their children in their car etc are pretty freaking horrible.
What gets me is our lowest common denominator society we are creating, it’s the same bs as the people who complain to the FCC about whats on the radio, you don't like it, change it, you don't like smokers don't hang out with them.
To the person who said smokers shouldn’t hang around other "Humans" all i can say is WOW. I am one of the most respectful smokers on the face of the planet, i stand back from non smokers, i don't blow my smoke in peoples faces, i hold my hand up in the air if it looks like even a little bit of the smoke from the end of my cigarette is going to go in someones face, but none of that matters since smokers arent "humans" just some of the greatest contributors to the economy EVER. The taxes i pay on my smokes pays for tons of your crap, so just think about being human yourself next time you talk to a smoker.
IF you want someone to pick on that is really damaging their children, look into parents that force veganism or vegetarianism on their children, thereby giving them anemia and a whole slew of other diseases that makes smoking look like a trip to disneyland.
I just can't call this human D:
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=smoker's%20lung
Vegetarians are pretty stupid too, but they don't harm other simply by being vegetarian. Your example would be valid if all smokers forced their children to smoke too.
Malnutrition and anemia are curable to a great extent. Can you clean up that soot sponge that you call your lungs?