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Quote by: Flip Jackson  Techno, I think I have to agree with Matt here. Usually you have really well thought out and reasonable debates, but in this thread, you`ve been oddly defensive and your arguments don`t hold much water.
You have every right to smoke, but you can`t keep imagining that it doesn`t hurt you and other people. I`ve sen the effects in my life. My mom`s dad died at about the age of 40. Why? Because he smoke and drank. My best friend couldn`t run a mile without stopping to walk. He was about 19 or 20 and trying to get into the army. He was mostly healthy, except for one thing. He smoked.
You have to keep in mind to that every person who is close to you when you smoke is inhaling second hand smoke, which has all kinds of negative effects, including death. Passive smoking - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
You wanna smoke. Be my guest. But you gotta realize it`s nothing good. Just a habit or addiction. |
Part of the momentum behind the anti-smoking bandwagon has to do with what you discribed. Someone dies or gets sick who is a close relative or friend and they also happen to smoke. People get very emotional about this sort of topic and I can understand that. I do not wish to rekindle such emotional grief and normally avoid debating such people as your self.
My sister ( a year younger then me ) also died of cancer a year ago. She did not smoke nor did anyone in her family or at her workplace smoke ( she has been married for a long time). He social life was all about chruch and they did not smoke there ether.
I asked the doctor "why did this happen to her when I am the one who should be dieing from cancer".
He (also her husband) said that no one really knows how or why people get cancer, it is one kind of disease which is still a big mystery.
Now a lot of the brave military men who won world war one and two were smokers, they gave them free Lucky Strikes (unfiltered). I do not see how that can prevent someone from getting through boot camp or fighting wars.