Smoking does have HUGE health risks, but that doesn't make a person wrong for smoking. They know the health risks they are getting themselves into, hence why you have to be 18 & aware to legally smoke.
It may be hazardous, but that doesn't make people wrong for doing it. Alcohol is just as hazardous.
People are wrong for doing it. They are basically killing themselves, as much as I know, suicide was never considered "right". And don't get me stories of your thousand years grandma which I don't care about, there are approximately one billion people around the globe smoking, one may be lucky enough to survive, but there are almost seven people dying every minute because of smoking.
LOL, dead at you saying I'm trying to be the ''cool kid''. You don't even know my story behind it and I find it very relaxing. You can't change my opinion/behavior on that RudeBoy.
Some people just do it just because they can. It's not anything more than that really.
To be honest considering my friends and I are meant to be 'intelligent' uni students we're fairly stupid when it comes to health. To be honest you only live once. I think if I'm 19 and I want a cig then I'll have one, if I want to get ridiculously drunk I will, because at the end of the day I'm going to die at some point. I'd like to enjoy myself whilst I'm still young, if I have to pay the price later then so be it but I'd rather not deprive myself. Plus there's the fact I don't think I really smoke that much for it to kill me either way. That's just my personal take on the thing, I should probably care more but I really don't.
LOL, dead at you saying I'm trying to be the ''cool kid''. You don't even know my story behind it and I find it very relaxing. You can't change my opinion/behavior on that RudeBoy.
One of the reasons why people smoke; it's also connected to weak personality. Anyhow, I know how this discussion is going to be, people who smoke are going to give laughable excuses for smokers, yet the people who do not smoke will stand against it.
All I can say to the smokers - Enjoy your slow death.
People are wrong for doing it. They are basically killing themselves, as much as I know, suicide was never considered "right". And don't get me stories of your thousand years grandma which I don't care about, there are approximately one billion people around the globe smoking, one may be lucky enough to survive, but there are almost seven people dying every minute because of smoking.
Well, not everyone who smokes a lot literally "kills themselves" from dying of smoking. Some people die other ways. Just because you smoke cigs doesn't mean that the only death you will have at the end of your life will be tobacco related.
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Originally posted by StarryEyed
To be honest you only live once. I think if I'm 19 and I want a cig then I'll have one, if I want to get ridiculously drunk I will, because at the end of the day I'm going to die at some point. I'd like to enjoy myself whilst I'm still young, if I have to pay the price later then so be it but I'd rather not deprive myself.
All I can say to the smokers, enjoy your slow death.
You're acting as if everyone in the history of well, everyone, who has ever smoked a cigarette have all died of cigarette smoking. That's not the case here.
Smoking... Smoking.... Smoking... We can't change peoples behaviors around smoking. But we try and we fight for it because we care for people we can't just stand there while people are doing something that they know is bad for there health. Now I apologize I don't want to get anyone mad but my family had a bad experience with smoking