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Originally Posted by guccilvr
I understand that it's not about being "cool" but look at the 80's when people considered it "cool" to smoke. You had alot less bitching back then. I can respect your decision not to smoke and while I think in return I should get the same respect, that's obviously a lost cause. People kill people everyday. It's a fact of life. I just think there are more issues that kill just as many people that are being pushed under the rug.
also, this quote could be used for any number of major corporations. Smoking, Alcohol, Food, Drug you name it. These companies have chemicals and other things they sell to people one dose, meal, drink, or pack at a time yet the only people that seem to get villified are the smokers. Choose how you will and what you will do and I will do the same.
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I know that there are many behaviors people choose to engage in that are self destructive in many of the same ways that smoking is. I'm not ignoring them. It's just that this thread is about smoking. I respect your right to smoke, but i don't think smoking deserves respect. I put smokers in the same category as alcoholics, or really any person who gives an addiction higher priority than personal health.
You seem like an intelligent person, i don't think you're dumb, i just don't think smoking is a worthwhile activity. I smoked for nearly a decade. I'm 23. While i know that it was enjoyable(satisfying an addiction generally is), i also know that i am probably going to live to regret it. I'm at a point where i don't want to be around smoke, and i generally avoid it when i can. I wouldn't have a problem with being exposed to smoking on a regular basis if it didn't put my health at risk. Unfortunately it does.