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Originally posted by Hanabal
the thing is, smoking is stupid.
why would anyone smoke if they werent addicted.
it kills you and everyone around you.
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Of course a non-smoker isn't going to be able to comprehend why you'd do it other than being addicted, but life's not that simple. People derive pleasure from it, and there are levels of addiction. I know numerous people who smoke for pleasure when they go drinking, or who might have one cigarette per day just to help them relax. Maybe they're addicted to some degree, but whether they are or not is frankly none of your business.
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a lot of people wont approach you, especially good looking girls, because they dont want to stink. your kisses taste like shit. everything you eat or drink tastes far worse after you have smoked,
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Good looking girls don't approach me anyway, so what the fuck do I care?
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i dont care if smokers think its ok if they smoke outside, its not. i can still smell and taste it when i walk past.
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Don't you think you're being a bit oversensitive? If you walk past a blocked drain and get a whiff of shit, do you want to ban all bowel movements? Your argument would make sense if we lived in a world where everyone gets to breathe clean, crisp, lavender scented air, that puts years on your life with every lungful, but sadly, we live in carbon monoxide ridden smog-holes with a ton of pollutants entering our systems with every breath, of which cigarette smoke is just one. Of all the smells that can confront you on a normal walk down any urban street, cigarette smoke is hardly the worst. Have you ever actually smelled tar as it's going on the road? It's nothing like cigarettes, and it's much, much worse.
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its one of the more expensive habits, around a dollar a minute.
your chances of numerous types of cancer increase exponentially every time you smoke. and everybody around you as well.
your eyesight gets fucked, you develop allergies.
and even if you are not addicted, there is always the risk of becomming addicted.
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I don't think second hand smoke is that big a deal unless you're actually sitting in a dense cloud of it, inhaling deeply. Catching a sniff as you walk past the outside of a bar isn't going to give you cancer. The other points, frankly, have nothing to do with you whatsoever.
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smokers leave their butts everywhere, which creates a fuck load of litter.
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I agree with you here. Those people are fuckheads.
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sure you do stuff you wouldnt without alcohol. but if you did something while smashed, and it was great, why didnt you do it while sober, were you too chicken, you need a drug to get you to do fun stuff, thats weak, and you are weak.
sorry if its too long. but its how i feel
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People do stuff for all kinds of reasons, but the main one is to get pleasure. Maybe you build model aircraft. Maybe you go skateboarding. Maybe you enjoy stapling pieces of construction paper in the shapes of Disney characters to your earlobes. The point is, it's not for you to decide how other people can get their kicks. Whether it affects their health is for them to reconcile. Say you do enjoy skating... well, surely that's hazardous to your health, but I'm not about to start calling you weak just because you happen to get your kicks that way.
The point about non-smokers being forced to put up with smoke, I can sympathise with, because I used to feel that way myself. But as I've grown up and matured, I've realised it's not actually worth crying about, unless you literally are sitting in a fog of it, which is seriously unpleasant. But if that bugs you, you find yourself avoiding putting yourself in those situations. But come on, a little whiff of smoke every so often isn't really a big deal.
People have been smoking and drinking to excess for hundreds of years, and you are not going to change that just because you can't cope with the reasons people do it. It's great that you're strong enough to 'train' yourself to feel high all the time. Maybe you should open a self-help seminar, you'd make a million overnight.