Smoking is Cool!

[Huey Kruthas]

I just love it when the forums bunch up together and start trash-talking smokers.


It's the COOL thing to do!

Shoot yeah it is, you ain't cool if you don't bash smokers.

[Borman]

I could care less if people smoke, it is their lives, under the condition that they keep it the hell away from me. Ruin your life, not mine

[GundamGuy]

I could care less if people smoke, it is their lives, under the condition that they keep it the hell away from me. Ruin your life, not mine

Agreed. I do think that smoking is stupid, but hey do what you want.

[nek_]

I'm glad we could all take this time to come together against those nasty, nasty filthy smokers. They should be hung.

On a serious note, science has just proven that air is deadly. Stop breathing now, or you will die.

[Mistral]

So's water. After all, inhaling it can be fatal, it's a crucial component in acid rain and nuclear reactors, it can often be found in the lungs of people with pneumonia, and it's found in many household chemicals. I haven't seen many people banning dihydrogen monoxide...except that place in California, which must have set speed records in overturning that law. If you do it right, so to speak, anything can be deadly. If anything, I just dislike smoking because there isn't exactly much in the way of healthy use about it. Doesn't mean I'll stop others from doing it if they want to, but it doesn't mean I will start.

[energy_keeper]

Again, smoking isn't the best thing you can do to your body, but to team up and say that "smokers are loosers" ISN'T the right thing to do. Its chilidh. Any one who smokes is well aware of the dangers that ciggerettes / cigars / pipe tobacco pose. After all those surgen genral's warnings are there for a reason.

True that anything can be deadly, but this is something that isn't acidentaly related. death due to some form of water is either an acident, or murder. (and lets not go there). Tobacco products are unhealthy by nature. Their use is dangerous, and unhealty.

There is no need to gang up on us smokers. And to say that your wont talk to / date / be friends with a smoker only shows your maturity level is somewhere below the IQ of a mushroom, yet possably above that of Pond scum. This only shows that you are judgemental. Because they (we) choose to smoke does not mean we are loosers.

If the author Dean Koontz, or Stephen King smoked would they be loosers?, no, because they are great authors that are well respected for their work. They would simply be smokers then, (if it was even relevent). Most would look right past this.

As stated I smoke, (I've managed to drop from 2 packs a day to a half a pack a day which is great ((20 smokes to a pack here in the US)) .. ). So Am I a looser for tring to do the right thing? Remember that ive been smoking since most of you's were still a wet dream. (since I was 12. im 22 now).

Don't call someone a looser because the smoke.. call someone a looser because they have no life, or because they shower with out touching the soap. not for making 1 bad decision. That's unfair, and imature.

[Koichi]

Smoking is an awful thing. You can get lung disease, cancer, yellow teeth, emphyzema (sp?), and all sorts of horrible diseases.
Honestly, hon. If you're contemplating taking up smoking, please don't. You'll make me want to put a new hole in your head.

[gamefreak777]

What I think is funny is how the surgeon generals warning on some ciggeratte brands will say "SURGEON GENERAL'S WARNING: Smoking by Pregnant Women May Result in Fetal Injury, Premature Birth and Low Birth Weight." Oh cool I'm not pregnant, so its totally safe and healthy for me to smoke.

There is things that is really good for you that can harm a fetus, so its not a very good warning. I'm surprised that they are not required to put a better warning.

[Norgus]

lol al tha smokrs r lame i wud nevar b frendz wif 1

No but really, I think smoking is stupid, but I don't scorn people for it. I'm freinds with quite a few as well. (it used to be the case that over half my freinds smoked)

Smoking is not cool, bashing people for a weakness is not cool (although there are some exceptions I find)

[Stark]

While smoking is definatly not cool, it should make the person who does a social leper either, we all have our vices, and should not be made to look worse for it, in an earlier post I said that m79 made a good point and made me giggle. but only on the point of coolness, on its own I would hold it against a person, I would have to hold it against my whole family, and I really don't fancy disowning them, sound like I'm going to far? well if this discussion elevates further, this will pale in comparison

[energy_keeper]

I agree 100%

It would seem that some feel that only the lowest liforms dare smoke... thus.. I am an ameba(sp?)

That also isn't the only warning that is found on the side of a pack of smokes.
I think there are a total of 3 different warning that manufactuers put there. The pegnacy thing is 1, another mentions empozema and the third siomply states that ciggerette smoke contains carbon monoxide, which everyone knows is the same stuff that come out of the tail end of a car.

being addicted to anything is not a weakness, it only shows that a persons will power to give it up isn't there. Or there is the chance that they just don't care.

I for one and one of those that don't care. Given the right situation, I could and probobly will quit. (As I've reduced how much I smoke dramaticly over the course of about 2 weeks).

Situations include child birth. Should my wonderfull wife of 2 years give birth to a mini-me I would have to quit, only because I'd not want my child to inhale such toxins. (I';d also shampoo everything that is .. well.. uh.. shampoo-able in my house. (carpets, couch, chair, and what not.

Another situation is Illness. When I have a cold / Flu, I don't smoke at all. why?.. because it hurts my throat and that satifying feeling genrally provided by a ciggerette is no longer there. It is replaced with a screaming pain in my vioce box that makes me want to cut my own head off to spite the pain.

True: For smokers, smoking helps calm the nerves when upset.
True: Every smoke, raises your blood pressure (slightly).

How is this possable you ask?. Sinple, Stoping to have a smoke gives you the added time you need to think about the sitiuation at hand. Thus allowing you to think of an apprpriate response to the situation. That NOT to say that non-smokers do not do this also, but taking that time assures that your thinking.

So in truth smoking doesn't accually calm your nerves, but most smokers would believe that it does.

And that's about all I feel like typing about this right now.. so comentt.. and hopefully a slight change in topic (as such) will stop the endless bashing of smokers.

[Huey Kruthas]

Again, smoking isn't the best thing you can do to your body, but to team up and say that "smokers are loosers" ISN'T the right thing to do. Its chilidh. Any one who smokes is well aware of the dangers that ciggerettes / cigars / pipe tobacco pose. After all those surgen genral's warnings are there for a reason.

True that anything can be deadly, but this is something that isn't acidentaly related. death due to some form of water is either an acident, or murder. (and lets not go there). Tobacco products are unhealthy by nature. Their use is dangerous, and unhealty.

There is no need to gang up on us smokers. And to say that your wont talk to / date / be friends with a smoker

I was just joking about making fun of smokers, but I can't hang out with my buddies that smoke cigs (while they are smoking) for a long time, I have allergies

That doesn't, however, mean that I think that they are losers and deserve to be banned from everything. In fact, I usually ignore the fact that they are smoking, only to be punished while trying to sleep with a stuffy nose :p

[Saeveo]

Have u ever sat down and took the time to figure out how much cash u spend on smokes
Most cigarettes have more than 4000 different chemicals which can be found, among other things, in weedkiller, rocket fuel, nail varnish, disinfectant and petrol. Would u drink any of those..? Didn't think so.

[Elmdor]

I'm dissapointed that the lot of you are so lame, destroying your body is one of the coolest things you can do. Smoking IS cool, Snuffing IS cool, Shaking when you eat anything with sugar without ever telling your parent or the doctor IS cool and iregular (how do you spell that anyway?) heartbeating is probably the most cool thing you can have.

[Huey Kruthas]

You spend 2,473 American dollars a year if you smoke 1 pack of cigs a day. Now its more here at least, because they have upped the tax. That was figured out a few years back, so with the upped price, you can figure a larger amount. How cool is that Tranced?