Cigarette and Health

[kliker]

As we all know smoking is not good for health, while searching on how severe smoking
can be for human lungs and other organs I came across this video.

Note:For those who think smoking makes them look badass...Please, reconsider and do
some research why you think so.

Here is the video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPAFtxZA7MM

Glad this isn't going into my system anymore.
They should show things like this in school to middle school students.
May have made me think twice back in the day.

 

[x EvilErmine x]

We know smoking is a dirty filthy habit and it makes kittens cry. You don't need to keep reminding us that we should quit, and no one has ever thought that smoking looks badass since probably before i was born.

People who smoke will quit when they want to. Nothing can make you do it but will power, well done on quitting your self but don't preach it comes across a little crass.

 

[Queen Michael]

I don't smoke. I've never smoked. I don't ever plan to smoke. But I still don't argue against smoking with this kind of argument, because this kind of argument implies that smokers simply don't know that it's unhealthy to smoke.

They do know. Trust me, they do.

 

[WWWLUCIFERCOM]

I smoke do I tell others to smoke no. Do I know it?s bad for me yes. Then why is it that as an adult I need to keep being told that I shouldn?t smoke. People who have made a conscious decision to buy and smoke cigarettes know it?s bad. I get so sick and tired of people trying to make people stop smoking. Why don?t we go up to obese people on the street and say your fat stop eating so much its bad for you? Because apparently it?s ok to discriminate against people who smoke and drink etc. but not obesity which can lead to diabetes, heart problems, high cholesterol, strokes, and other such problems. (only using obesity as an example there are other such examples like how pollution can do the same to your lungs)

 

[BiscuitTrouser]

Because apparently it?s ok to discriminate against people who smoke and drink etc.

People say smokers "know" its bad for them. But i dont believe this is true. At all. Lemme tell you a story.

My grandfather I believe had cancer from being a pretty hefty chain smoker. He survived fortunately (died before i was born though when it came back so what can you do) but I think the experience kinda haunted my dad. His father never got to see his only son. He almost (and then did) lose his dad. I know my grandfather was pretty anti smoking after suffering the pain of cancer. Its similar to the whole "christians need to stop badgering me". They honestly believe your immortal soul is on the line. And unlike their kinda wafty claims my grandfather knew the personal agony, and by extension my dad knows the horrible loss smoking can cause.

Sure some people are horrible assholes desperate to preach at you and feel superior. But some people know that smokers may realise the pain on paper but not know the pain in reality. Its easy to agree to be punched in the face for money by signing a signature, the actual punch is a different matter. You can know a punch will hurt, you can know cancer sucks, but until youve gone through it its only hypothetical pain. Its not really real to you. Its some imaginary future pain. It is for everyone.

I wont preach anti smoking whatever at people but I understand that from some people it comes from a place of very personal pain and loss. From their perspective, to not use their own suffering to try and stop others experiencing it would be immoral.

I imagine when I finish my medical studies and I treat, and eventually lose, my first smoking related cancer patient ill become more anti smoking whether i like it or not. When I have to explain to their family that they died from their smoking habit and see that pain first hand I imagine it will be hard to remain passive like i am now. I imagine it will be exactly the same for drugs, alcohol and obesity. I dont think anyone could experience that and still not feel uncomfortable when they see a friend smoke or whatever after being so close to the death it causes.

I dont agree with people hounding smokers. But i understand that for SOME of them, perhaps its a very small minority, it comes from a place of genuine care and remorse rather than stupid teenage elitism. When i feel genuine concern I feel for the anti smoking crowd. Sometimes I see people who just love lording their lifestyle over others. And thats not cool.

 

[Marter]

Yeah. Smoking is bad for your health and you shouldn't do it.

That's why I don't smoke. That and the smell. Oh, my, the smell.

 

[farscythe]

oddly enough all the people that have died of cancer in my family have been non smokers.
all the smokers have died of different issues. (my dad died of the ridiculous ammount of medication he had to take for his polyneuropathie (translates to...err super rheuma i guess) and bothe my granddads died of heart failure at 57

but..ot..im a smoker and im fit as a fiddle (sure i cough up a lung every now and then but ive got like 14 of them so its no biggie)

seriously though... prettymuch everyone who's smoking now knows what they're doing to themselves.
(its even stopped being cool at school)
so yea..slowly but surely we be moving to a smoke free world..(kids will just move to crack or bath salts now)

 

[Xan Krieger]

As a smoker I know what I'm doing, we don't need to be reminded because this stuff has been hammered into our brains for decades. Know the biggest drawback to being a smoker? It's cold outside right now so to enjoy myself I have to freeze a little. I only smoke once or twice per day so it's not an expensive thing, especially given that I get my smokes for $1 per pack. I enjoy it and do it alone so nobody else is being exposed.

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

They do know. Trust me, they do.

That's why I don't try to persuade anyone. I'll just refuse their offers to smoke anything. If I know them well enough, I just say "I don't know why you do that to yourself." and leave it at that. I'd only take away cigarettes physically if someone I know who was underaged was doing it.