Why is it that every time the issue of smoking being hazardous is brought up.?
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Transportation to and from work, however, IS a necessity for everyone who doesn't live within walking distance to the places that they need to go so, whether or not automobiles put out more pollutants than smokers, smoking isn't a necessity and transportation is.
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Smokers are like any other kind of addict. If you tell them that what they are doing is harmful or bad, they have to justify it by telling you that something you do is equally bad.
I will be extremely insensitive now. Smokers are like alcoholics, crack heads, prescription drug abusers, etc... They want to get their fix regularly and other people's concerns are irrelevant. I think that smokers are only tolerated in society because cigarettes are still legal. In my opinion, I think that cigarettes should be treated like Tylenol or Aspirin and be regulated by the government. You know what you're taking when you take an Extra Strength Tylenol. The entire bottle of pills should be approximately identical. Cigarettes should only be allowed for sale when they have the exact ingredients and quantities disclosed on the package, the dose of nicotine is known, and the packaging warns of adverse effects. That would be treating it like any other drug. The next step would be to control their sale. Then, ban them all together.
Smoking is beneficial to my profession. Current smokers are my present or future patients. I don't want to see anymore old people with COPD complaining that they don't want to wear oxygen. Who smoked for fourty years to get this way? Don't tell me that you don't like wearing oxygen! That sounds like a personal problem! I hate it when grumpy old men with COPD are miserable to me because of something they did to themselves.
Smoking is a burden on society and a strain on our health care system. Why doesn't it get banned outright? In Canada, so many places are smoke-free that I think it would be hard to be a smoker in many cities and provinces. I don't smoke and my profession is specialized in treated lung disease, so I have no sympathy for people who willingly harm themselves. I think of it as suicide that takes several decades.
People who do smoke will probably argue that fat people are a burden on society. People with cancer are too. There are many other conditions that require lots of medical care. The difference is that many of them do not require you to willingly start using a substance that will eventually cause a fatal disease in yourself.
I agree.
That's absolutely correct. But, some people are defensive about certain things they do, and that's O.K. too; they're just justifying their right as free people.
People should quit smoking; it's a health hazard for all.
As well, we should everything in our power to make our transportation systems more environmentally responsible.
Hooray, hooray for you. Very true smoking is not a necessity. I hate it when you cannot walk down the street anywhere without someones smoke in my face. I have difficulty enough breathing without having to FIND fresh air to breathe. Smoker have the audacity to say that they have a right to smoke given by our constitution and I have read the constitution through a dozen times and I cannot for the life of me find where it says they have a right to smoke, I do believe it says that we all have the right to happiness and I believe that is where the right to smokers get the idea they have that right spelled out in the constitution. So, if they have the right to smoke where do our (non-smoker's) rights go? Down the crap hole?
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