Do you think tobacco industries are to blame for people smoking? If yes why?
137871
That is like asking; if the auto industries are to blame for auto wrecks. People choose to drive, just as people choose to smoke and to drink. If you blame tobacco for giving you lung cancer, that was your choice and yours alone they didn't knock you down, stuff a cigarette in your mouth, light it and then jump up and down on your chest to make you breathe it!
712543
Actually, I don't think they should stop to prevent people from smoking. That should be a personal choice that the person should make on their own behalf. This is a free country and people jump down tobacco product companies throats for what reason? Because the smoking population spends their own money on cigs. So personally, I am no smoker but I am not tempted to buy cigarettes no matter what the commercial says. If that's what an individual wants to do w/ their then so be it. If that's the case then we should stop making alcohol, we should shut these fast foods joints down, etc.... so really, smoking and lung cancer is a matter of choice.
654234
I agree with you. Although I am not a smoker, we don't ban alcohol or other things that could ''POSSIBLY IN THE LONG RUN CAUSE YOU HARM'', why do they get away with doing that to tobacco...how about Potato Chips????
288378
check out www.thetruth.com fpr all your second hand smoke and smoking ?'s . \n\n Fact \n Every 8 seconds, someone in the world dies from a smoking-related disease. \n About 90% of lung cancer deaths among women who continue to smoke are tobacco related. \n Smoking during pregnancy results in the deaths of about 900 infants every year in the U.S. \n Because of the tobacco industry’s products, about 339 people in the U.S. die of lung cancer every day. \n In the U.S., about 440,000 people die a tobacco-related death every year. \n Today, in the U.S., tobacco products will kill about 1,200 people. \n On its website, one tobacco company lists “cancer services” as one of the community programs they support. Yet they continue to make a product that leads to 339 deaths from lung cancer each day. \n Cigarettes and other smoking materials are the number one cause of fire deaths in the U.S. \n In 1985, one tobacco vice president said in reference to smoking-related deaths, “People die in their beds, therefore, should we ban sleep?”
626311
Well, I could say to start with all of the problems that arise from the use of either.   MADD ( Mother's Against Drunk Driving) is also a gret place to get information on alcahol abuse.  As for tobacco, can you spell CANCER!  Not to mention the scaring to the throat of the smoker and you have heard of 2nd hand smoke!  This will be an easy subject to create speeches on.  The youth of today is the hope of all our tomorrows,  Sadly many are influenced by the temptation of one or both of these.  Society as a whole is realizing the bad effect that tobacco has on us and currently there are fewer and fewer places on can smoke in public.  These vices can damage brain cells and have killed many.  Use the satistics to prove that statement.  Best of luck.....
90414
I knew all of the risks involved in smoking and started anyway because I simply just wanted to fit in.  Stupid I know, but I am proud to say that I quit smoking 2 years ago.  I also lost someone close to me to cancer.  It was my mother and she died of colon cancer.  She never smoked a day in her life.  Some people die from lung cancer and never smoke either.  Smoking is a highly addictive drug.  Even though people know what could happen to them, they just don't care anymore because the nicotine has control of them.  Its sad, but true.
909330
I am not a smoker, but have no problem with people smoking in designated areas in restaurants, or public places like hospitals, malls, etc. I expect people to be smoking in bars, clubs and such. I know there are people that are on oxygen, allergic to smoke, have lung problems and the smoke increases their difficulty to breath. However, everyone has the right to do what they want to as long as it does not hurt someone else. I believe their is a common ground and solution without totally banning smoking and coming down so hard on people who choose to smoke.\n\nAs for taxation, the government has that go in' on....They tax the vices they know people won't quit....gambling, Alcohol,......that's the way it goes.
1018584
Here is a quote from expert testimony regarding tobacco products:\n\n"Let me begin by emphasizing three fundamental facts: (1) all tobacco products are hazardous, (2) there is no safe level of tobacco use, and (3) the only proven way to reduce the enormous burden of disease and death due to tobacco use is to prevent its use and to help users quit."\n\nMy personal testimony as an ex-smoker is that although I am now obese (not from quitting smoking), I can breathe better, and have better endurance than 20 years ago, when I was not overweight and smoking.  The improvement in the way I feel was worth the agony of quitting, and I quit many times.  I am not even talking about health risks, but just the improvement in my day to day functioning.
339144
I think to keep it fresh. Hmmm...I guess so.\nhttp://www.tobaccoreporter.com/current/story2.asp\nRead this, it may help.
766070
I am no smoker but if someone likes to smoke then that is their business, so long as they don't blow smoke over everyone else that doesn't.....let's see the idiots in Government concentrate on something more important such as Britains overpopulation problem for instance....This is never mentioned of course since they are shit scared of loosing votes......but it will at some stage however, return to bite them up the ass.
1054144
I agree. It's usually the ex smokers too, in my experience.\nEach to their own, I say. \nI must admit though, I don't smoke around non smokers, especially my Son.
562754
Tobacco use is responsible for more than one of every six deaths in the United States.It causes over 390,000 deaths in the united states alone. Its the #1 preventable cause of death in the u.s. Incidentally, there is no hard data indicating second hand smoke to ANY detrimental health effects. Food for thought...
618655
No. Smoking should be discouraged in every way possible.\n\nBesides, some moron will sue the school in a few years because they got cancer, and obviously it's the university's fault for "encouraging" smoking.
600227
No, because I think it's more governmental fan-dance posturing. If we're going to 'put out' tobacco, the quick and easy way to do it is to slap about a 5 dollar-a-pack tax on tobacco. Put the money into smoking cessation like the nico-pops that guy made and got kicked down by the FDA for making. People smoke to get the nicotine. If you smoke, and you don't call yourself an addict, you're not being honest with yourself. I think nicotine should be available to smokers, and not that nasty gum, either. People chew tobacco, too, for the same effect. Chewing tobacco is nasty, makes your teeth fall out, gives you mouth cancer, that kind of stuff. But, people want that nicotine. So,\nisolate the nicotine and put it in a cookie or something. \nThey also have an anti-smoking pill they're working on,\nwe've seen those before too.\n\nThe problem with smoking is that people die of it, it stinks, fire hazard, the whole show. Some people think that you should be able to smoke anywhere, other people think smoking should be banned. I think a smoking ban just kind of lets businesses have something to enforce if they want the smoke to go away. I don't think it fixes the problem of the government being addicted to the tax revenue they get from it. As long as the government gets its' share of that tobacco money, tobacco will continue to be taxed, sold, and consumed.
628538
smoking or exposure to chemicals or substances such as asbestos.
1064950
Mickey: I've held different positions on this issue at different times in my life. When I was young and dating a smoker, none of this "smoke-free" stuff had been written into law. I put up with it, although I never thought it was pleasant. Lately, though, I have learned that one of the triggers of my lifelong suffering with killer migraines is...guess what? Cigarette smoke. NOW, I'm a big advocate of smoke-free workplaces and restaurants. Yes, it's self serving, but I'm not the only one who is affected by second hand smoke in an extreme degree. Do you care for your own health and the health of others around you?
196248
Drinking doesn't directly cause harm to anyone else. True, over indulgence can cause people to make irrational decisions which can be harmful or even deadly, but smoking is ALWAYS dangerous. I have had breathing issues since I was a baby and being around cigarette smoke greatly aggravates that. It's not fair for other peoples health to be constantly compromised because of other's addictions.