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I recognize all the dangers and the ill-effects of smoking, I think everybody does by now. Non-smokers think cigarettes taste like awful tar, smokers don't think they do. Arguments that they taste bad don't really work on smokers, because, like the other thread about the hot girl, it's a matter of opinion. I guess for every argument one person has against smoking, the smoker has one for it, or against alcohol.
As for smoking bringing down the value of my car and house, and affecting my family etc, for someone like myself (in the 'gray' area?) it doesn't apply. I don't smoke in a house, or in a car, and I'll only smoke in bars where it's clear that it's a 'smoking' bar, and other people are smoking too.
I can easily see how people can get addicted to cigarettes, but since I've been smoking like this (once or twice per week on average perhaps) for about four years now, and I've never once felt like I need one more, or that I want one more. But I guess here many people might say 'Ah, classic symptoms of denial!'.
I think to many non-smokers all the posts here are seen as desperate attempts to justify smoking and/or claim 'I''m the exception'. I just don't quite understand how everyone accepts that a few guys go to a bar and have a few beers on a Friday night, and think nothing of it, but when someone lights up a cigarette the accusations of addiction fly.
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