How is smoking justified?
411437
Justified by who? I don't think it really is but those that do it continue to because of the withdrawal effects. No one likes to feel like crap and know that relief is only a convenience store away. I quit for 8 yrs. once and during a time of stress decided to buy "just this pack"....8 yrs later the pack has never run out. I've tried to stop but besides how I feel everyone else in my family gets punished too...lol. I am cranky when I don't have one. It's a nasty,dirty habit that I wish I had never had the opportunity to start at the age of 13. I think the work others are doing to keep kids from even thinking about trying it is great 'cause when I was a teenager it wasn't so bad.
424585
Nonsmokers have some serious issues with "control" when they start talking about not smoking outside. Just walk around the smoker huddled next to the ash can, it's really not that difficult. If he's not huddled next to the ash can do that silly fake cough thing, that will show him. Sigh.
192812
Depends what you smoke. Or are you what's smoking?
79077
Well where I live you can smoke in public, and in some restraunts, but, in other states/cities you can't. We are supposed to have this thing called freedom, and the government is starting to take it away. If people don't like second hand smoke, then ask the person to blow the smoke the other way, or move. Not very hard. I am my own person and just because someone says they don't like it doesn't mean i am going to quit!
75445
I've checked the Constitution and sure enough, there it is:\n\nArticle XIVXI: people have the right to smoke.\n\nAnyway, I know what you mean so we'll go from there.  I frequently don't let people smoke during my contact with them for a few reasons.  \n\nYou've probably got to reach inside a pocket, jacket, coat or something to get your smokes.  I don't want you doing that, even if I've already searched you.\n\nThen you're going to either use a match (and throw it on the ground) or a lighter.  Lighters come in all kinds of different shapes and sizes, and not all of them are lighters.  And again, you're probably going to have to reach into a pocket to get whatever you're going to use.\n\nA lit cigarette can be used as a weapon.  Poke someone in the eye with one, and see how they feel.\n\nI generally tell people not to smoke when I have contact with them and explain that they're not going to die in the ten minutes or so I need them not to...if you think about it, it's actually going to prolong your life just a little by waiting for that cigarette.\n\nBottom line is A) you don't have a "right" to smoke, though certainly it isn't against the law and B) I can make a good case for not allowing someone to smoke around me during a contact like this, so people who refuse are likely to find themselves in jail.  Nobody has yet.\n\nFunny that you're interested in not being allowed to smoke rather than being stopped and searched.
436657
To knock the hell out of someboby or smoke a somethimg
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.
322459
Are there any samples of others you can show him that were not good? \nYou know like a long time ago to get kids not to smoke, they would take them to a hospital and show them people on lung support systems. Some had holes in their throats to be able to breathe and they would still want a cigarette because they were addicts.
1126881
No, it is a theoretical thing. The only thing that is sure is your chance of getting ill increases. You can never prove it was the secondhand smoke, bad diet, drinking. Just that it did not help.
200992
I'd like to know what the analogy is that you're trying to draw.\n\nAs a non-smoker, I'd be outraged and I just wouldn't do it.
239141
you can get 2nd hand smoke from ANYTHING! my big bro died last year from 2nd hand smoke and he NEVER smoked anything in his life. 4 years of doctors and their probing said any type of smoke, especially cig's, caused his demise. he was NOT old, just not immune to any type of smoke.\n\nSMOKE IS SMOKE..........NO MATTER WHAT KIND, IT's baddddddd.
1095660
I think everybody has missed the point here; smoking causes lung cancer, and oh-yeah, kills people.\n\nYou do what you feel comfortable doing but get this kid to stop.  As a smoker for 20 years, and spending 150 bucks a month on it-I can tell you, I wished somebody had intervened in my life.\n\nHe may pissed now but when he's older, has a family, and not smoking around them, or having them worry about his health, he'll look back and thank you
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.
431131
2 reasons:  1) History.  2) Momentum.\n\nIn regard to history, we already prohibited alcohol once in this country and it failed miserably.  For that reason, the prohibition was lifted.  Instead, we do have strict laws that greatly restrict when and how we can consume alcohol.  \nThose laws are designed to protect innocent people, even though people don't always follow the laws and people still get hurt.\n\n2)  The anti-tobacco campaign, however, is gaining huge political momentum.  The tobacco companies have lost big law suits because they lied about knowing of the harmful chemicals they were putting in cigarettes.  The tobacco industry had to shell out billions of dollars to states in a settlement and they have very little lobbying power right now to stop the local laws that are going into place.  The laws themselves don't prosecute a person for smoking per se, they only prosecute a person for smoking in a way that jeopardizes someone else's health.  So, if you are in public smoking a cigarette and someone else can breathe in your harmful smoke, you can be prosecuted... just like you can be prosecuted if you ram your car into someone when you are drunk.\n\nThe real question is... if we are holding people legally liable for polluting our air with cigarettes, why aren't we holding manufacturers strictly liable for dangerous smoke that they put into the air when there are things they can do, although more expensive, to lessen that degree of smoke?
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!
863669
Smoking should be encouraged.  It causes stupid people to die sooner and therefore use up less of my socialist security.
790151
I guess it would depend on what they were smoking.  Cigarettes are not illegal.