I remember those glamorous commercials back in the days smoking was… good (!?). Yeah, I keep on wondering… what happened to those ?! Why did they stop? I especially loved the cowboy ones. Guess what I smoke 
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Is the world slowly realizing the problems smoking brings with it? Or did it just strike them senseless !? How come it was once OK to smoke, you were considered even cool, all the bad guys were smoking in the movies (oh wait, this is still going on - like this is the final frontier), anyways, why is the new wave so against smoking?
Is it bad for you? Well, we knew that. All the smokers know that smoking is bad for you. But I am free to do whatever I want with my life, ain’t I? Well, not really… You gotta always remember that liberty is the right to do whatever pleases you, as long as it’s not against the law, human principles and old testament rules. Am I forgetting something?
I think this “new world” everybody’s trying so hard to build these days is dead set against smoking and smokers. I also think it is more set on banning smoking than it tries to prevent drugs or (why not?) fast food… Which do you think is more damaging to your health?
We could argue all day which kills you faster… I’d put my money on thousands of hamburgers not on a thousand of cigarettes, but, most definitely dope will get you before a smoker even begins to consider quitting. And before killing him, it gets all his money too. And you tend to have only dope addict friends too. As a smoker I have to admit most of my friends are not smokers. Go figure! Then why doesn’t the “new world” fight ALL the real enemies of health? Drugs, smoking, alcohol, salt, sugar, bad food, POLLUTION?
Why don’t we all STOP the car manufactures that pollute the air with their cars? Why don’t we make them build only cars with no noxes whatsoever? The technology is here. Well, because the companies that build cars are not yet so cartel-like as those in the tobacco industry. And the tobacco industry used to produce way more profit than any other industry. It still brings in many countries. What you cannot control, try to take down. Not to mention that smoking is something that everybody in their right mind (I admit I’m… different 
) would fight against. If we all saw the whole tobacco industry go bankrupt, none would care.
Just a few years back, I was allowed to smoke anywhere. Nobody seemed to mind that much. Now, I can smoke only in a few places and those are marked like everybody should keep a hundred miles away from them. In the future, I won’t be allowed to smoke in my own house ’cause it’s so bad for the plants.
I’m a smoker. But I don’t like to be tagged. Why is that in this world it’s worst to be called a smoker than a homosexual?? Why should I understand them and treat them as any other human being? Were they born gay? No, it’s a choice like so many others. Like smoking.
There are a lot of reasons to quit smoking. It ain’t killing you more than an unfulfilled dream. But if you do smoke, you’re no longer popular. You’re no longer part of this world. Better be gay. Happy 
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April 17th, 2008 - 10:50 pm
‘Why is that in this world it’s worst to be called a smoker than a homosexual??’ … .because probably passive smoking kills more people than living in the same world with persons with different sexual orientations?!
April 17th, 2008 - 11:00 pm
I do NOT have something against homosexuals. I just don’t like people that make their ideas rules, their way of living guidelines to all the rest.
I do NOT approve this new wave to uphold the homosexuals. I feel discriminated as a straight oriented person.
Whadda ya know?
April 17th, 2008 - 11:01 pm
‘Drugs, smoking, alcohol, salt, sugar, bad food, POLLUTION?’ …. because when you smoke next to me, you help me die… when you eat salt… well… go eat salt, I’m not in trouble because of that
Pollution is another problem: in fact, the main idea is that I could ‘kill you’ with my car’s pollution in the same way you can ‘kill me’ 
But since I’m not a smoker, I don’t want to start smoke just to ‘kill’ you 
April 17th, 2008 - 11:04 pm
we don’t make our rules… we just want to breath fresh air…
and we don’t want revenge, so we’ll not smoke to destroy your air 
April 17th, 2008 - 11:04 pm
Then why don’t they fight against car pollution? Like you’re allowed to drive those cars only on the moon?
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April 17th, 2008 - 11:04 pm
you see, that was one of the points of the posting…
April 17th, 2008 - 11:05 pm
I’ll do that for your health if anyone will do that
and since I don’t smoke AT ALL, can you do that for my health?! 
April 18th, 2008 - 11:15 am
Ok, so:
SALT - it is needed to give food a good taste. Try eating one week with no salt. In anything. Not even in bread. Salt is not prohibited, it is just recommended not to eat too much smoke as it can affect your health. I didn’t hear of anyone being dead because they had normally eaten salt all their lives. Cigaretts on the other hand…
SUGAR - well, here it is another story. It is known that it affects a lot your health and your looks ;). However, u can replace it with diet products or reduce the quantity you consume and it will be ok. Can u replace cigaretts with something that has the same taste and the same effect, but doesn’t hurt anybody ?
BAD FOOD - that is definetly a personal choice. You eat what you want and… You are what you eat. This is what they say at least. It can seriously affect your health, can make u tottaly unattractive, can keep people away from you and so on.
The truth about all this, salt, sugar and bad food is that it only affects you. Not the others. And this is probably the most important thing.
You are right to say you have the right to choose how you live your life and what you intoxicate your body with, but you have no right intoxicating the others.
Yes, pollution is may be the most serious issue of this century and I am totally for doing something to have a the air we breath cleaned up. But what ? And still it is not the same as smoking. Stopping car production, stopping factories from doing what they do, will affect all our lives more than we can even imagine. Maybe it would be worth it, but do we really want to lose our comfort or pay much more for what we have no with just a few dollars ? Probably not.
However, giving up smoking will not affect anything and anybody. There is nothing bad going to happen if u stop smoking. On the contrary. So… what is your point again ?
Come on ! Smoking is just a vice, which takes over your body and mind ( mostly your mind ) and it is just up to you to quit. If u really want it.