Why do people defend what bad things people do to their bodies ie, smoking, ..?
351860
maybe we can clone Hitler too.
242366
They are both very bad for your health. Both cause cancer. Socially, I would say smoking is worse because everyone else has to inhale your smoke as well. However spitting that nastimess in front of people is plain disgusting!
181978
because they think you are killing them. Paying no attention what so ever to the fact that we are all dying slowly anyway. I think that a certain amount of build up on the lungs can protect you from the real harmful stuff floating around in the air we breath.
191065
I smoke to wish i could quit but its hard i did for a year, but yes i agree, you know what i cant stand is when your smoking outside and someone has the nerve to complain about the smell for people that don't want to breathe it then stay away from us and everyone is happy. For the record we don't choose to want lung cancer we are just addicted and I'm sure you are addicted to something so GUESS WHAT YOUR NOT PERFECT EITHER......I have a great idea if you people don't like it then you better never leave your house, you cant tell people what they can or cannot do we are humans to and have equal rights
49298
Smoking is in fact bad for your health.  Cigarettes are the only product sold in the United States that if used according to the directions can kill you.  Think about it, I wish I had of, or that we had the information then that we have now.  However all that aside I can atest firsthand that smoking is bad for you and can kill you.
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.
126182
There are so many things that smoking does to the body. The really sad fact is that it does not just hurt the smoker. It really does effect all persons around them. \nA smoker has increased risk of respiratory and vascular complications. Smoking actually creates a tar substance in the lungs and decreases the persons capacity to take in oxygen. Also smokers veins and arteries are constricted from chemicals in the cigarettes. This puts them at a higher risk for blood clot causing stroke.\nMothers who smoke when they are pregnant usually have smaller babies. A nonsmokers umbilical cord (which supplies nourishment to the baby) is usually about wide as a roll of quarters and the smokers umbilical cord is about as thick as a pencil. \nChildren who grow up in the home of a smoker are at higher risk for developing asthma and/or allergies. They can develop lung cancer just as easily as the actual smoker can. Not to mention that growing up with parents who smoke puts them at higher risk for becoming smokers themselves. \nI have a grandfather that smokes. He is eighty. The last several years he has been on oxygen. He wakes up at night because he can't get his breath. He has a barrel chest because that is what your body does to try and help you get more oxygen. Your lungs try to get bigger so they can take in more oxygen because the cigarettes have destroyed portions of the lungs over the many years of smoking. Some people would say he has made it to eighty and that is a long time for a smoker to live. You have to keep in mind that most of his family lived into or close to their 100's. They say that every cigarette takes five minutes off your life. There is no telling how long he could have lived if he had just been able to stop smoking. \nYou may not be able to talk him into quitting. Maybe you could talk him into atleast not smoking in the house and changing his clothes before holding the baby. This will atleast help the people who have to live with this be a little healthier. Good luck to you!
1069118
why would someone ever think that yellow teeth and bad breath are cool?? and smoking is stupid neway...i mean y do that when all your doing is killing yourself and killing others as well (second hand smoke). ?? smoking is retarded
1111377
Sheesh! We'll ignore the fact that you can't spell and your grammar is atrocious. It seems some people are also addicted to putting things in the wrong category, and you appear to be afflicted with that addiction. \nThe reason people are addicted to anything, from smoking and drinking to eating peanut butter, is that when they do so the pleasure center of their brain produces endorphins, which makes them feel good. In an effort to get more of these endorphins, they repeat the action that produced the salubrious result in the first place.
181342
Second hand smoke = bad for kids.\n\nSimple
285584
I think that people who hate people who smoke are non-thinking morons.  It is stupid to hate someone because they smoke or do other things.  But, yes I bet those people who hate smokers find it easy to hate all kinds of things, people and practices.  They are narrow-minded and self-righteous.
1102234
Why do some people think that the human body is shameful?\n\nI
982908
Definately weight and obesity. Man.. after your questions yesterday, it got me thinking on the subject and holy hell are people super sensitive about that subject! It doesn't matter what the question or statement is, it seems folk go straight on the defensive without even comprehending it properly. They instantly take it personally when it isn't and cry abuse if you so much as discuss it. Even though, it's a serious health problem, it seems that we can not mention the fact that someone is overweight! Oh and god help you if you use the word 'Fat'!
14418
same reason why: \n smokers smoke\n drinkers drink\n gamblers gamble\n etc, etc, etc.....I could tell you alot more.\n \nThat is what they do. Everybody has thing that they do. It may not be healthy, but that is who they are. We all have little things that we do.
812963
Thats a good question, and that I do not have a def answer. I think its becouse people just think all drugs are bad and thats it. I don't think pot is that bad, as it has no long term effects. It doesn't make you violent. It doesn't effect any body else. Pot issn't known to cause cancer. I think the public sees drugs as very bad, and thats what people are so againts it. I used to be againts drugs when I was younger, but that is becouse I learned that drugs are bad in school. I been with my friend that does pot, and hes fine, so then I tried it. Who cares if someone gets high. Its not like exctacy, which can be used as a dape rape drug, or lsd that makes you have crazy thoughts. I say smoke away and enjoy yourself, you only live once. Who gives a f** what anybody says.
884941
We can actually make our bodies ill by the life-style we chose.\nAnd I'm not just talking about drug abuse and unhealthy eating etc. If we have chosen to do someone harm it effects our body. We all need balance and if we disrupt it by hatred or evil acts or even excessive worry then we can internalize the stress with our own pain. I know of one person who abused his position of authority and is now without his job and being discredited in our local newspaper. You know the old saying what goes around-comes around!\nOh and by the way, the last picture of him in the newspaper showed the tension in his face, he looks really sickly.
44748
Because a lot of smokers are just rude, and feel that they are being "wronged" by society, just because thier smoke is a menace to other people.  They do not seem to comprehend that breathing is necessary for life, but smoking is not.  They do not comprehend that others are not causing a problem by breathing, but they are by putting thier filth into the air.\n\nI am sure you will hear a lot of smokers whine about how they are "forced" outside and stuff like that, but they are the ones that are too weak to cope with life without their little crutch, so they choose to smoke, therefore "force" themselves outside in those circumstances.