Uggh my friend started smoking and ranting

FilipinoFury · June 2005

One of my friends just out of the blue started smoking. Ive got know idea why...I throught he was an intelligent adult but I guess i was wrong so i decided to go on a little rant and shed some light on smoking.

America's attitude about smoking has become more hostile then a militia member at a tax audit. Tobacco companies will stop at nothing to win the smoke wars. Now their scientists are saying some of the smoking research data is no longer valid because the contemporary mores dictate that rats have to step outside their mazes to have the smoke.

Dont blame the cigarette makers. Tobacco companies are being sued way to much. I admit they're evil poison-mongers who give evil poison-mongers a bad name. Yes, they lie about the addictive nature of their products and get rich doing it. But come on, tell the truth, we knew they were lying all along. If you didnt know cigarette's where bad for you, you're lying through the hole in your trachea. Of course it causes lung cancer. It's ***** smoke. Would you build a campfire and every hour stand over it and take a couple deep breaths. How can you not know smoking is bad for you? Is having teeth the color of carmel corn normal?

Plus, if you smoke, get to read matchbook covers and learn about exciting career opportunities awaiting you in cartooning. God gave you two lungs for a reason, so dont be an idiot. THINK.... Use one lung for smoking and another for breathing.

You know you are addictied to smoking when you are at Arlington Cementery, paying your respects to JFK and you bend over and light one up on the enternal flame or you shit pure tar.Listen, the bottom line on smoking is its really just the way you interpret things. I mean, they say smoking gives you cancer. Sure, you can be negitive and look at that as a bad thing, or you can see that smoking gives you cancer.. It gives it to you. It's a present. Here, here's cancer. . . Why, thank you very much, Mr. Cigarette.

I dont know why people complain about secondhand smoke. At nearly 2bucks a pack, you dont you realize how much money there're saving you? And to all you crazy antismokers whom I see screaming at strangers for lighting up: If you were that concerned about lungs, why the hell would you move to L.A.?

Rikimaru_X · June 2005

You feel the same way I feel about smoking. I also too know an intelligent person who also smokes and they know what they are doing to their body, but don't do a thing to stop, even though they say they will. Me nor anyone in my family household don't smokw nor drink. I really don't hang much around people who do it either.

WowTroll · June 2005

I agree with both of you. Why the hell do people even try them if they know how bad they are for you. Best of luck to your friend.

Kiamde · June 2005

Smokers will disagree with non-smokers, but it really is a dangerous and expensive habit. Nicotine is a poison. Believe it or not, boiled and concentrated pipe tobacco can kill with a few drops. Take note that the nicotine in cigarretes is 1/50th of a drop, but you get the idea that they are poisonous.

Anofalye · June 2005

Originally posted by bulldogg
I dont know why people complain about secondhand smoke. At nearly 2bucks a pack, you dont you realize how much money there're saving you? And to all you crazy antismokers whom I see screaming at strangers for lighting up: If you were that concerned about lungs, why the hell would you move to L.A.?

When I get cancer of the lungs, I will try to remember how much money I save with that secondhand smoke and the fact I never smoke anything myself.

Wow, you show great control, to breath with the lung of your choice and to not breath with the other! My sense mutant feeling is tingling!

EDIT: Unless they are family, nobody smoke in my presence, no matter what, and I can give 1 warning, not 2, I would see no troubles to evacuate the president himself should he try to smoke in my vincinity. Family is harder to deal with, and actually, I care for them as much as I care for myself, unlike when dealing with non-family where I only care for myself! And 1 thing is incredibly wrong with smoking, you do a choice for OTHERS, some of which are strangers to you. Smoking should be restricted to ''smoking stations'', not even allowed outdoor, just like drinking.

cukimunga · June 2005

Of course people know cigarettes are bad for them. If they dont they are idiots.... I smoke and I know they are bad for me. So why do I smoke.... I enjoy the taste and just enjoy smokeing things. I smoke Djarum blacks btw... yes it is expensive also I pay 5 bucks a pack. but I smoke 1/4 to a half a pack a day depending on how much I work.... Its just something for me to do when Im sitting around doing nothing.

Put it in this perspective. How many people eat Fast food? Some might eat it more than others but we all know its not good for you. So why do we eat unhealthy foods?

OmegaLet · June 2005

My take on smoking and things of this nature is I don't do it, and if other people do it thats their choice I honestly don't really care. Yes I think it would be better if they wouldn't smoke around me or just stop in general but eh oh well. We all gonna die sometime...somepeople just wanna die earlier I guess, and take a few with em on their way.

Drega · June 2005

Ive found the people who are so anti-smoking are the people who have never tried it. Regardless of what you believe smoking does release chemicals into your body that are extremly relaxing when everything else around you is overly stressful. So what would you rather have, someone who has an escape from their problems or someone on the verge of a mental snap. Instead of purely insulting them for the decision why dont you try and figure out whats wrong. Oh wait, thats the logical thing to do, nevermind.

edit: No ones immortal, and if smoking helps people get through hard times then be quiet and let them do it, its not your life.

Vercades · June 2005

Originally posted by Drega

Ive found the people who are so anti-smoking are the people who have never tried it. Regardless of what you believe smoking does release chemicals into your body that are extremely relaxing when everything else around you is overly stressful. So what would you rather have, someone who has an escape from their problems or someone on the verge of a mental snap. Instead of purely insulting them for the decision why don't you try and figure out whats wrong. Oh wait, thats the logical thing to do, never mind.
edit: No ones immortal, and if smoking helps people get through hard times then be quiet and let them do it, its not your life.

My analysis of your post. The first section is a reference to the mind of an addict. When you are addicted to something you get good feelings from doing it. People that are stressed out have many more options at their disposal then smoking. Those chemicals are released as a result of being addicted.

Second section refers to what happens to loved ones around the smoker. Most people that begin smoking do it because their friends, peer pressure. Kids that start smoking just don't know how to say NO. Some times parents aren't persistent enough with their kids to keep them from smoking. My brother started smoking because he thought it was funny to watch me and everyone else feel disappointed in his actions. Now he's addicted to it, he can't go with out one cig a day. We offered some things to get him off of it but, he didn't want it he didn't care. Nothing anyone can do for another that smokes. Its mostly up to them. My dad smoked for 2 years he quit by his self all he relied on was God for help and he did it.

Noraxe · June 2005

You people need to get off your high horses. There are many harmful vises in the world.

The main thing to remember is "All things in moderation"

Too much of anything will eventually kill you.

Smoking is a bad thing, so is alcohol, drugs, or too much salt in your diet.

Just let a man enjoy the things he finds enjoyable.

FilipinoFury · June 2005

What I dont understand is. . . Why would you start in the first place when you know its bad for you. Sure you might be in a stresfull situation and you could die for a smoke but you are probaly better of sticking the stressfull situation out then smoking and being under stress doesnt cause lung cancer or a hole in your trachea. Plus it takes more and more smokes to get the same feeling

They say every cigarette you smoke makes your life 7min shorter, and I know thats true because i had an uncle, and the first cigarette he ever smoked was on a plane. He smoked the the ciggarette, and he immedately dropped dead of a heart attack. Seven minutes later, the plane crashed into a mountain.

Im not the type of person that when i find my self in a smoke flled room and it gets to intense. I dont start waving my hands around and fake coughing and I dont start rattling off heart disease and lung cancer statistics like an autistic surgeon general. I dont lecture anybody about there lifestyle chocies....I leave the room, okay?

Razorback · June 2005

I have a been a casual smoker of all sorts of things since 17 y/o (now 39)

Up until like 2 years ago I was feeling basically no ill effects as I only smoke (max) maybe 4 cigs or 1 cigar per day + other "stuff" in moderation.

2 years ago I felt my fitness dropping rapidly, I was short of breath, wheezing etc and I didnt like it!!

I cut back a lot even though I could not be considered a heavy smoker anyway. 4 months ago I stopped smoking everything all together. I am still short of breath, wheezing on cold nights when I wake up at like 2am for whatever reason.

I miss my smoke because I did enjoy it and I have always had it under control. But I am now convinced its BAD BAD BAD! I will always look back with fondness at something I liked doing.... but its over now.... and I doubt I will ever go back.

I just hope whatever damage I have done is not irreversible, because the improvement in my fitness and breathing seems very slow at this stage.

Like Yul Brynner said "Whatever you do.... Just dont Smoke!"

http://www.yulbrynnerfoundation.org/