It is always a mystery to non-smokers when the person next to them lights up and begins to inhale what they can only describe as undesirable fumes. Yet a smoker will swear by the pleasure derived from the ‘cancer stick’. Yet another ‘World No Tobacco Day’ was observed on May 31. Each year health organisations conduct annual statistical exercises, which are quite disturbing.
Some statistics that I found include: Tobacco is the second major cause of death across the world, accounting for the death of one in ten adults worldwide.
If current smoking patterns continue, it will cause some 10 million deaths each year by 2020. Half the people who smoke today - about 650 million people - will eventually be killed by tobacco. However (and this is what’s disturbing), most people don’t see themselves at any risk!
Smokers, though, feel constricted. “Bars and pubs are places where smoking goes hand-in-hand with the drinking. And it’s just wrong to prevent cigarettes there.”
Cigarette smoking may be addictive, but it’s not impossible to give up. And for those being pressurised to experience ‘a high’, remember to say ‘no’ the first time, every time.
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
So apparently, smokers are the lowest form of life.
The risks of smoking have been unfairly overrated. It's true that smoking causes cancer. It's also true that tanning, microwaving your food, talking on your cell phone, using your computer for too long (and perhaps, picking your nose) also cause cancer. Being lazy will also kill you, as will drinking, driving, and every other activity you can think of.
Why are we so obsessed with living longer anyway? Haven't you heard that the world is getting overpopulated? Let some people die early already.
You are going to laugh, but picking your nose IS dangerous. This is one of the ways the avian flu gets transmitted to humans, because the germs that remain on the hands when touching the raw chicken are much more likely to enter the body through the delicate skin tissue in the nose.
I'm so glad that none of my family members smoke. I would be so upset if I had a loved one who smoked because it's such an obvious health risk.
If people want to smoke, let them. There are more important and dangerous things to worry about. If they want to get cancer (possibly), then thats their decision.
But they shouldn't be allowed to smoke around non-smokers. Yes, people can smoke if they want, but they better not smoke near me and ruin my lungs since I didn't make the choice of committing long term suicide and smoking.
It is only an issue of respect to one another: smokers must respect the health of others, and non-smokers must respect the decision of smokers.
Part of me wants to save them. While another part wants them to die off. Not being mean, but the world is getting too populated. It's survival of the fittest. If you know you can die, and you still do it, than whatever happens will happen.
I don't understand this, and I've said it before, but smokers aren't stupid for starting to smoke. Most have them have heard all of these arguments before and started to smoke anyway despite these things, or maybe in some cases because of these things. Who knows?
Regardless, we weren't living under rocks and never saw the anti-smoking ads or never heard our parents tell us it was bad and never heard about cancer risks.
I am a very considerate smoker, usually. I don't even take my ciagrettes out of the house because most of my friends don't smoke and I would rather sit and socialize with them than go outside by myself to smoke. I wasn't pressured or tricked into smoking, I went into it with open eyes and it's something I enjoy, right now, at this point in my life. If I get bored with it, fine, maybe I'll look into quitting, but right now, no way, and hearing everyone constantly whining about it and preaching "well you smoke so you must not know" only makes me want to not only light up in front of them but make sure I blow it in their face.
I'm not quite that rude, but seriously, do people think I'm just stupid? I was outside on my porch, reading a book and smoking a cigarette the other day and someone was walking on the street, a good 20 feet away from me, and started deliberately coughing loudly. I yelled out to ask if she was okay, and she said the smell of smoke bothered her with a rude look on her face. Oh please, does she really think I'm so stupid I couldn't tell it was deliberate and she was trying to manipulate me into feeling bad?
----
"Dream as though you'll live forever, but live as though there's no tomorrow" --James Dean
http://www.progressiveu.org/user/fanaile-drupal-org
I agree that many smokers are fully aware of the consequences, but I still can't understand why they choose to smoke. I consider it to be long-term suicide. In my school, you can tell who smokes, by who gets out of breath after just walking up the steps, or doing a little exercise in gym. Not to mention the lung damage, and hugh risks for emphysema & cancer.
I always do the deliberate coughing thing.
And so you know, you definitely can smell smoke from 20 minutes away.