How Cigarettes are both evil and bad for you:)

[sk8bloke22]

lol.

they could put more and more restrictions on tabaco, but tabaco companies refuse to let them do so, they still use the ridiculous arguement that cigarettes aernt addictive. anyone seen the film The Insider...well thats based on a true story about the tabacco industry...wkd film.

 

[2fast4u]

they still use the ridiculous arguement that cigarettes aernt addictive. anyone seen the film

the problem here is that tobacco companies a study (for which they paid :sleepy: ) 'prove' that tobacco isnt addictive and so on. that way they have a scientific backing in court. it may not stop the process against them but it slows it down, imo.

 

[Gent]

I Smoke & Always Have as far as i can remember.
I Don't Drink, I don't see the Point of going out & drinking yourself silly & acting like a Fool
(Just my Opinion.)

But people still do it.

One Addiction Instead of another. ???

 

[Tri-Force]

"well you know i dont smoke cigarettes
I dont see the point
but if you're gonna put smoke in your lungs
you might as well smoke a joint"

Thats by Edwin-Frickin-McCain

 

[Josep]

I don't think we can be overzealous towards ciggies, If people want to smoke let them, if people don't like it then don't offend them with it.

it's just a matter of personal choice

you have to remember though you're exposed to just as dangerous carcinogens in every day life, brake pads use asbestos and hence that dust gets into the air, petrol contains a bounty of various organic molecules containg aromatic rings which are on the whole carcinogens (unless bound up into large stable soilds like kevlar), exhaust fumes produce nasty chemicals too

/me thinks living is bad for you.

i'm sorry i have to bring this up again, i've kinda got caught behind, and YES making cigarettes illegal would be VERY dumb, instead, i would agree with more harsh restrictions on them, and raise the prices on them. Raising prices might do more harm than good, but at least it'll make people realize how stupid it is to buy something so exspensive. WOW!!!! BLIZZ?! you must be one of those smokers...its obvious, people defend what they believe or not at all you guys want a few qoutes??

-They add licorice and cocoa, which sound innocent, except when you burn them they act as bronchodilators -- which makes you inhale more smoke so the nicotine gets further into your body.

-The product they sell kills more people than AIDS, murder, suicide, fires, alcohol and all illegal drugs COMBINED.

-Smokers are admitted to hospitals twice as often as nonsmokers.
Tobacco companies put ammonia in cigarettes which makes your brain absorb more nicotine than it normally would.

Do yourselves a favor if you think the world out there has more pollution than cigarrettes and a bunch of other convoluted stuff and go to: thetruth.com 'nough said

 

[Josep]

yee-HAW the truth comes out even though i don't see many tobacco adds nymore

 

[Ketil]

all my friends smoke. that's why i started too

 

[Josep]

all my friends smoke. that's why i started too

thats sad, you fall into the crowd of the 90th percentile that starts from pier pressure...im' not mocking you, thats just sad

 

[Ketil]

thats sad, you fall into the crowd of the 90th percentile that starts from pier pressure...im' not mocking you, thats just sad

Thank U. Now lets continue keeping this thread serious

 

[2fast4u]

hes right, has nothing to do with being serious ... :sleepy:

 

[Remote]

I don't smoke on a daily bacis but picture yourself at your local pub or club, or on a party or similar... You are looking at a couple of beatiful ladies and don't want to repeat and / or humiliate yourself by repeating last weekends pick up lines... So what do you do? Easily, you walk up to them and ask for a smoke...

The only reason women smoke is that they want guys to come up to them and ask for a smoke, and the only reason why guys smoke is that they become addicted, both by ladies and smokes, after a couple of weeks of serious partying...

 

[Hacktarux]

I am totally agreed with Josep but THE thing i will never understand is how people can accept to pay so much money on tabacco. I don't know how much it costs in your country but in france it costs more than 3 euro and it is unbelievable how much it costs per month to a smoker. And i know that there's country where there's much more taxes....

 

[blizz]

man all I do is a post for people to accept a persons choice whether it is destructive or not, hey you let people drink beer and eat processed foods don't you? yet you don't complain about the health effects then do you?

Actually you've been pretty pathetic, unable to accept a person's decision because it's different to your own.

If you stop people smoking what next? Chocolate? It's addictive. Sugar? That's certainly addictive, or how about driving too fast? no wait people have tried that and it doesn't work.

edit:

btw no I don't smoke, and no I don't think it's a good idea.

 

[Gent]

Yup blizz.

Everyone should not be so quick to judge a book By its cover,
Or so quick to condemn someone for what they Believe In whats right for them.
It's their Life not yours people, Now chill.

Smoking don't make me a worse person Then if i was a non Smoker.

Us smokers Know Smoking can Kill,
but also the same goes for Over Drinking & Fatty Foods, Or Even Stepping out on a street & getting run down.

Shite Happens.

I only have 2 major Addictions in my Life
1: Smoking
2: Helping people who need my Help.

Ask my Wife What is the worst one When im getting to rest at 7am in the morning

 

[Josep]

yea, it is your life, and it is respectful to let people do what they want to do, BUT how it can be evil is that MOST smokers, from MY personal experience say they know it kills them, BUT they just can't stop, and they really want to stop! Its a scary thing, and i didn't mean to directly insult you blizz, even tho i did Its just that people around you that smoke pisses me off, hell i had that happen to me today, some guy just sat by my friends and i and i just told him to put it out or just move away and he moved away. I'm all for living your own life and having your own values and stuff, But of course there are allot of people out there they don't like the view of other people and try to evoke their opinions of life on them. For me to accept someone that smokes is fine, i could be great friends with a smoker, BUT me accepting the fact that THEY accept smoking as a part of living i would have to step in...ok now im just rambling...

 

[Macca]

Smoking is not good for you and people do it. these people may indeed want to quit bbut due to lack of will power, addiciton or bordem they fail. Yhe question is what can be done to help them?
Well alot has been done down here i must say and the problem has not dissappeared. First there was a 'Quit' Line, a free phone call for advice. then came the national Quit day, a day dedicated to quitting smoking. Now there are laws banning it from most indoor places, resturaunts, shopping centres and cafes. All of this as well as the constant advertising of nicortte patches on tv, radio and all other forms. Even afte all this people still smoke.

I ask, what more can be done? its no good bithing about it and saying that nothing is being done, when in realitity alot is. Come'on and give a coulpe suggecstions to what more can be done to reduce the amout of smoking. just list away

 

[sytaylor]

if people wanna smoke fine, if they wanna do it round me they can f*ck off, i didnt spend 17 and 3/4 years avoiding the stuff to have some person do it right next to me... fine its persona choice, but smokers can choose to smoke somewhere else than near me... thats personal choice... they wanna smoke, i DONT so i dont see why i should have to be subjected to it when im doing nothing wrong.

the worst thing is when people preach about choice and then insist on using that as a reason to ask me if i wanna smoke?! "oh ones not gonna hurt" FOR F*CKS SAKE I DONT WANNA SMOKE, is that so hard for people to grasp?!

everyone knows why smoking is bad for you, im not gonna ramble on about that, but im sick and tired of people trying to tell me its ok when they know for a fact it isnt... so as i said earlier... no disrespect to smokers, but if youre gonna smoke, get the hell away from me when you do it

 

[Gent]

if people wanna smoke fine, if they wanna do it round me they can f*ck off, i didnt spend 17 and 3/4 years avoiding the stuff to have some person do it right next to me... fine its persona choice, but smokers can choose to smoke somewhere else than near me... thats personal choice... they wanna smoke, i DONT so i dont see why i should have to be subjected to it when im doing nothing wrong.

lain: Choice is something that is out of the Window for me.

As for smoking around People who Dont, I dont !
People who Smoke Near Children, That pure wrong,
but preaching at people who can do without your one sided Views is also Pure wrong.
You wanna Preach, Buy A Chapel.

I dont judge People.

If they are respectful to me, I am back
I treat poeple as i want to be treated in return.

Believe me I'm very Open Minded, If i wasnt & didnt give a Danm.
I would of told you to go see an agony aunt (Or A Shrink) over your recent misfortune.
But as i said, Im not that misunderstanding in Peoples personal Battles.

Gent

 

[Eagle]

I Smoke & Always Have as far as i can remember.
I Don't Drink, I don't see the Point of going out & drinking yourself silly & acting like a Fool
(Just my Opinion.)

But people still do it.

One Addiction Instead of another. ???

So killing yourself is better than drinking yourself silly?

 

[Eagle]

Yup blizz.

Everyone should not be so quick to judge a book By its cover,
Or so quick to condemn someone for what they Believe In whats right for them.
It's their Life not yours people, Now chill.

Sorry to keep slamming you Gentleman, but its not just your life. Second hand smoke kills too. And even if it didn't affect others, to say "Its their life" is a comon cliche used by drug users. I suppose we should leagalize crack, speed, and other drugs because "Its their life"