I hate smoking.

Death rate extrapolations for USA for Smoking: 440,000 per year, 36,666 per month, 8,461 per week, 1,205 per day, 50 per hour

Average life years lost from Smoking: 12 years

Death rate is 2-3 times higher than non-smokers
Estimated to cause 10 million deaths per year worldwide by 2020 (WHO Web Site)
1.2 million deaths in Europe (The European Heart Network)
45,000 African American deaths each year in America (CBCF Health Organisation, 2004)
1.2 million deaths from smoking in Europe (The European Heart Network, 2000)
400,000 deaths annually in the US (Mayo Clinic)

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how can anyone read those statistics and want to pick up a nasty smelly and trashy cigarette?? eww. your teeth will get yellow, your hair brittle, your health dramatically compromised and your running with suffer. say no

i hate smoking too, and i really hate second hand smoke. loads and loads of people smoke in hk, so theres loads of it >.< i suppose the reason people smoke is similar to the reason why people eat unhealthy foods. they're both bad for you, but people do it anyways, because they enjoy it.

i hate smoking, y would a person want to pollute their body?!!!

My dad smokes and I really wish he wouldn't =[

Its really $ too, its kinda like tanning. Why go and pay a bunch of money for something that will eventually give you cancer? makes no sense.

Yeah, my Dad smokes too. He almost stopped last year--no luck.

I'm not so into that stuff.

Give him Nicorette.

back off you guys. If people want to smoke that is fine, it might be somewhat dangerous, but smoking can help people relax, and maybe it gives them something that they aren't getting elsewhere. I know when I go on my breaks I really wish I could light one up, but I choose not to, and I respect a persons right to choose to.

YOU LIBERALS SHOULD TRY TO BE MORE ACCEPTING OF PEOPLE'S DIFFERENCES.

I'm not a liberal.

The Bee's Knees wrote:I'm not a liberal.

STFU, not a liberal.

ProtestTheZero wrote:

The Bee's Knees wrote:I'm not a liberal.

STFU, not a liberal.

you use to be nice, now your almost annoying

Ya, liberal bullshit ruins everyone and everything.

ProtestTheZero wrote:back off you guys. If people want to smoke that is fine, it might be somewhat dangerous, but smoking can help people relax, and maybe it gives them something that they aren't getting elsewhere. I know when I go on my breaks I really wish I could light one up, but I choose not to, and I respect a persons right to choose to.

YOU LIBERALS SHOULD TRY TO BE MORE ACCEPTING OF PEOPLE'S DIFFERENCES.

-shrug-

I don't have a problem with it, but it makes me sad....

Kugar wrote:

ProtestTheZero wrote:back off you guys. If people want to smoke that is fine, it might be somewhat dangerous, but smoking can help people relax, and maybe it gives them something that they aren't getting elsewhere. I know when I go on my breaks I really wish I could light one up, but I choose not to, and I respect a persons right to choose to.

YOU LIBERALS SHOULD TRY TO BE MORE ACCEPTING OF PEOPLE'S DIFFERENCES.

-shrug-

I don't have a problem with it, but it makes me sad....

same I dont really care is someone does it, but I just wish they wouldn't.

ProtestTheZero wrote:Ya, liberal bullshit ruins everyone and everything.

are you calling me a liberal?

Don't ask him, he'll answer you the same way he did me.

I don't really like Smokin but, I will take the smokers side because I hate one-sided debates.

( 1 ) - Smoking is a long standing ritual for shaman religions.

( 2 ) - Smoking can reduce our reaction to stress, and stress is the number one health hazard in America.

( 3 ) - Smoking and the smell of tobacco on our body helps to keep away blood sucking insects that carry dreaded illnesses when they bite you.

( 4 ) - Smoking keeps away people who are control freaks while normal people will still hang out with you. So you can drive off people with evil spirits and they will not bug you all the time. Smoking works like bug spray to get rid of the "goodie two shoes" kinds of people that would otherwise suck you dry emotionally.

Smoking can be used for bonding with your peers.

ProtestTheZero wrote:back off you guys. If people want to smoke that is fine, it might be somewhat dangerous, but smoking can help people relax, and maybe it gives them something that they aren't getting elsewhere. I know when I go on my breaks I really wish I could light one up, but I choose not to, and I respect a persons right to choose to.

YOU LIBERALS SHOULD TRY TO BE MORE ACCEPTING OF PEOPLE'S DIFFERENCES.

i'm with this guy, lets let people waste money to kill themselves.

AudienceOfOne wrote:

ProtestTheZero wrote:back off you guys. If people want to smoke that is fine, it might be somewhat dangerous, but smoking can help people relax, and maybe it gives them something that they aren't getting elsewhere. I know when I go on my breaks I really wish I could light one up, but I choose not to, and I respect a persons right to choose to.

YOU LIBERALS SHOULD TRY TO BE MORE ACCEPTING OF PEOPLE'S DIFFERENCES.

i'm with this guy, lets let people waste money to kill themselves.

No, you're right, lets have the government step in and tell people what EXACTLY what they need to do all of the time, since they can't make their own decisions. People should have as little free will as possible, because teenagers on the internet think they are stupid :/

futureNIKErunner wrote:i hate smoking, y would a person want to pollute their body?!!!

why do you eat fast food?

yeah, i hate smoking so much, when my dads friends smoke around me i start fake coughing and leave the room, because its so annoying, smoke outside, not in my house.

Smokers annoy me. Second hand smoke bothers me. And the worst part, unlike America, people's smoking DOES affect me. Thier smoking causes them to use the health care system more, causing my taxes to go up, and also limits the amount of care that other people can recieve. For example, it took my mother 14 months to have her hip replaced. Don't say it doesn't affect me personally.

i just think its gross lol.

ProtestTheZero wrote:back off you guys. If people want to smoke that is fine, it might be somewhat dangerous, but smoking can help people relax, and maybe it gives them something that they aren't getting elsewhere. I know when I go on my breaks I really wish I could light one up, but I choose not to, and I respect a persons right to choose to.

YOU LIBERALS SHOULD TRY TO BE MORE ACCEPTING OF PEOPLE'S DIFFERENCES.

on the argument of relaxing it actually doesnt.

Running With Scissors wrote:

futureNIKErunner wrote:i hate smoking, y would a person want to pollute their body?!!!

why do you eat fast food?

got me there, but no i dont a lot actually.

We have a public smoking ban here. No smoking allowed in any public buildings. I don't smoke ciggarettes, but I hate the law. If someone wants to set up a bar or club which allows smoking, let them! No one is forcing people who don't like smoking to go into them.

But yeah, smoking ciggarettes is pretty stupid. The fact that it gives you cancer is enough reason.