Poll: Should smoking be made illegal?
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We live in America. If I want to smoke and take a gamble on getting cancer, I damn well will. This country was founded on "Do what you do." Unfortunate that people have gotten on their high horses and started trying to tell people what they should or should not do. I will smoke. I will smoke weed. I will drink. I will do what I please with my life because it is, after all, my life.
It's ignorant people like yourself that nearly get Sarah Palin elected. Yes. Everyone that smokes is guaranteed to get cancer and die. All of them. The boogeyman is real too. So is God and Santa.Blitzwing said:
One day your body will go through changes, and it's called puberty. After that you might realize that you're wrong about 99% of the things you thought you knew. Please disconnect yourself from everything until then.
He may have been being somewhat hyperbolic, but the link between smoking and a huge variety of health problems is well-documented.Tony Wartooth said:
If you already know this, then I apologize, but I wasn't sure if someone who doesn't understand exaggeration would know.
Only until you start negatively affecting others. Your freedoms don't allow you to take away the rights of other people. You want to do that stuff in your own house, fine. But that doesn't extend to doing whatever you want it public.Tony Wartooth said:
it shouldnt be made illigeal! Its the person own personal choice to smoke or not, aslong as they smoke in designated areas
The difference between being hyperbolic and that statement is I've met many people that share the same views. It's self-entitlement and an overinflated ego.QuantumT said:
While yes, smoking does increase chances of diseases and health issues; it, like all things, are on a person by person basis. Some people do, some people don't. Statistics don't mean anything to the individual. Though with those "Truth" commercials blaring their contrived messages, of course people would believe whatever it says.
It does indeed extend that far. People make rallies blocking off traffic over "chemtrails", I'll smoke and make my own little rally of "Mmmm. Freedom tastes good and makes me want to kill less." Though if you're going on the "people shouldn't negatively affect others" then the right to vote should be decided by an IQ test. It isn't however, because we're not living in Berlin circa 1942.
I am. You're QQing after all. It is "you're" btw. I just got you a C+ in middle school spelling kid, you're welcome.Blitzwing said:
Yet telling others what they can and cannot do is completely logical to you. Or that one person deserves to live more than another. I insult you because what you say is stupid. Also, I secretly hope you have a low self esteem and kill yourself, because hell, with your logic that's completely justified. Correct?Blitzwing said:
That truly is the dumbest thing I've seen in quite a while...Jiraiya72 said:
OT: No smoking shouldn't be banned or heavily taxed.
The only reason that smoking wont be banned and never will be banned is because the government makes far too much money off the taxation of cigarrettes.
Sigh... yet another person who doesn't understand statistics...Tony Wartooth said:
I will agree that those commercials are excessive.
I brought it up before and I'll bring it up again. Why does your right to smoke trump my asthmatic friend's right to be in public?
He's right though. Limited amounts of alcohol consumption have known health benefits. Smoking is bad for you in whatever amount you do it in.Xavier78 said:
Going against the majority and being severely flawed in the fact that what you say lacks logic or depth are very different. Cute angst though. Sidenote: the majority voted on "away from public food places", hence why that's a law. So...yeah. There's that. I worry for the next generation. I need to put stock in velcro clearly.Blitzwing said:
You could use a vaporizer instead of burning the entire plant. Otherwise I'd agree with you.AwesomePeanutz said: