Smoking Cigarettes, The Most Disgusting Habit?

[moraldeficiency]

For her to quit? Yeah, it was. When she got pregnant, her hormones changed and she couldn't stand to do it anymore. Thankfully, she's not gone back to it now that my son is born.



Thor, you may never be able to spell properly. Some brain damage side effects are permanent.

jag

Dude, I asked you if it was really that hard after a pregnancy line. Do I have to give you connect the dot one-liners now? Five minutes in time out for not picking up on that properly.

I think once you quit for long enough it's pretty easy to stay off. My girl relapsed a few times but I never have. (though to be fair I do like the sweat stinking weed)


Thor Odinson bringer of unenlightened stupid statements-

All DNA changes on a daily basis due to envirnmental and internal stimulis. The chance of you picking up lung cancer due to a habit you've quit and not touched again after many years is laughably small. Jag's cancer blocking switches have all been reversed by this timeframe. You'd have better chances now of getting lung cancer due to the amount of natural carcenogins in fresh clean air. So careful when you breathe.

 

[BlueLightning]

I hate cigars, smoke and everything. But I admit there are worse habits than this.

 

[moraldeficiency]

Cause, I can only afford like an hour at a time.

You should try some asian countries, dollars go a lot further.

 

[Erzengel]

You should try some asian countries, dollars go a lot further.

They only look like girls.....

 

[SuBe]

I do hate smoking, and I hate the attitude some smokers are.
I remember some teacher telling us that it was fascism that our government had banned smoking in public places...

***** please, you've no right to hinder my health just because you are too much of a dumb**** to realize what you are doing to yourself.

The First Government to Ban Smoking WAS Nazi Germany.

 

[moraldeficiency]

They only look like girls.....

Ludacris- "quit discriminating and have another drink"

^wise words from a wise man. Plus they can't all be dudes.

 

[Erzengel]

The First Government to Ban Smoking WAS Nazi Germany.

There you have it SB believes Hitler was right.

 

[The Senator]

I do not believe smoking is the most disgusting habit. I actually think alcohol and other substance abuse is far worse, both for aesthetic and health reasons. Smoking obviously has its consequences, but I don't see the reason why our society has come to treat smokers like lepers.

 

[SuBe]

There you have it SB believes Hitler was right.

I type this while smoking a cigarette, and I just finished 2 cigars at the same time.

 

[jaguarr]

Dude, I asked you if it was really that hard after a pregnancy line. Do I have to give you connect the dot one-liners now? Five minutes in time out for not picking up on that properly.

Har har.

I think once you quit for long enough it's pretty easy to stay off. My girl relapsed a few times but I never have. (though to be fair I do like the sweat stinking weed)

It has been for me. Every once in awhile I'll be tempted, but not to the point that I can't control it.

Thor Odinson bringer of unenlightened stupid statements-

All DNA changes on a daily basis due to envirnmental and internal stimulis. The chance of you picking up lung cancer due to a habit you've quit and not touched again after many years is laughably small. Jag's cancer blocking switches have all been reversed by this timeframe. You'd have better chances now of getting lung cancer due to the amount of natural carcenogins in fresh clean air. So careful when you breathe.

Most people's diets and lifestyles, smokers or not, are what do them in. Sloth and gluttony and consumption of, for all intents and purposes, garbage as a dietary staple contribute more to instances of disease. That's doubly true for things like cancer, and I find people who will say tragically and painfully moronic things like Thor did are usually the ones who do so with a double-bean burrito from Taco Bell and a large Diet Coke in their hands and have never exercised a day in their life. Cell sluf***e and regeneration throughout the body happens continuously and having a clean, healthy diet and regular exercise only help to ensure those processes happen efficiently and properly without mutations. Does that make immune to diseases like cancer? No, but it absolutely does improve their chances.

jag

 

[Bubonic]

The First Government to Ban Smoking WAS Nazi Germany.

Pfft, not talking about banning smoking, just banning it in confined spaces shared with non-smokers who have the right not to want to be assaulted by smoke, considering the hazardous nature of it.

 

[Morg]

I do not believe smoking is the most disgusting habit. I actually think alcohol and other substance abuse is far worse, both for aesthetic and health reasons. Smoking obviously has its consequences, but I don't see the reason why our society has come to treat smokers like lepers.

Maybe because smoking actually harm people around them? I know several people who don't smoke but got lung cancer due to working around smoker's

 

[Anubis]

The most disgusting habit? No. That would be leaving "yogurt" on the back of peoples chairs and necks in movie theaters.

 

[Bubonic]

I think most smokers understand that it's bad for them.

The fact that they disregard the health of others pisses me off.
I actively become enraged when someone blows smoke in my direction.

 

[Bubastis]

Pfft, not talking about banning smoking, just banning it in confined spaces shared with non-smokers who have the right not to want to be assaulted by smoke, considering the hazardous nature of it.

Assaulted, huh?

 

[moraldeficiency]

Har har.

You dropped the ball and you know it. I expect better from you.

It has been for me. Every once in awhile I'll be tempted, but not to the point that I can't control it.

Congrats man, that's great. To be honest cigs now smell far too nasty for me to bother with even considering.

Most people's diets and lifestyles, smokers or not, are what do them in. Sloth and gluttony and consumption of, for all intents and purposes, garbage as a dietary staple contribute more to instances of disease. That's doubly true for things like cancer, and I find people who will say tragically and painfully moronic things like Thor did are usually the ones who do so with a double-bean burrito from Taco Bell and a large Diet Coke in their hands and have never exercised a day in their life. Cell sluf***e and regeneration throughout the body happens continuously and having a clean, healthy diet and regular exercise only help to ensure those processes happen efficiently and properly without mutations. Does that make immune to diseases like cancer? No, but it absolutely does improve their chances.

jag

Not all mutations are bad, I could go for some laser eyes.

If you've never read it, you might want to check out "Survival of the Sickest" by Dr. Sharon Moalem. It's got some pretty good stuff on cancer, genetic markers, the constant evolution of the human body and Ipods. I think you'd dig it, mostly theory though and you need to keep an open mind which you're good at.

http://www.survivalofthesickestthebook.com/

 

[The Senator]

The fact that they disregard the health of others pisses me off.
I actively become enraged when someone blows smoke in my direction.

One or two plumes of smoke aren't going to kill you.

Additionally, non-smokers should also learn to use their eyes so they can figure out where to avoid in case a smoker is lingering around. City sidewalks are fairly wide, it doesn't take too much to walk around the smoker.

Also, people who hang out with smokers constantly by choice and then end up with health problems get very little sympathy from me. Get new friends, find a new place to hang out... otherwise, the only thing those folks should be complaining about is their own short sightedness...

 

[moraldeficiency]

Maybe because smoking actually harm people around them? I know several people who don't smoke but got lung cancer due to working around smoker's

How can you be sure they got it from 2nd hand smoke? I'm not debating it's bad but people get lung cancer from plenty of other stuff. There are far too many pollutants in the air and too many sources of pollutants to narrow something like that to one source and that's throwing out genetic predisposition. I am sorry about those people though, cancer sucks, it's a horrible way to die.

Also all those things Jman mentioned harm others, some in far more violent ways. Drunk driving is a good example of something like that.

 

[Morg]

How can you be sure they got it from 2nd hand smoke? I'm not debating it's bad but people get lung cancer from plenty of other stuff. There are far too many pollutants in the air and too many sources of pollutants to narrow something like that to one source and that's throwing out genetic predisposition. I am sorry about those people though, cancer sucks, it's a horrible way to die.

Also all those things Jman mentioned harm others, some in far more violent ways. Drunk driving is a good example of something like that.

cause one of them was working in a office with a smoker and since she doesn't smoke seems a good chance she got it while working there

 

[AndThePickles]

I don't care if people smoke outside, but I'm SO glad it's illegal to smoke indoors and in bars in most places where I live. It's nice coming home after a night out not reeking of smoke.

 

[Anubis]

Was the person she was working with smoking right there in the office?

 

[SuBe]

One or two plumes of smoke aren't going to kill you.

Additionally, non-smokers should also learn to use their eyes so they can figure out where to avoid in case a smoker is lingering around. City sidewalks are fairly wide, it doesn't take too much to walk around the smoker.

Also, people who hang out with smokers constantly by choice and then end up with health problems get very little sympathy from me. Get new friends, find a new place to hang out... otherwise, the only thing those folks should be complaining about is their own short sightedness...

I agree, if it's a smoking bar you and your friends are hanging out in, umm... Don't go. Nothing is forcing you to go there.

 

[Eggyman]

The fact that they disregard the health of others pisses me off.
I actively become enraged when someone blows smoke in my direction.

lol

'I actively become enraged'.

lol

 

[The Senator]

cause one of them was working in a office with a smoker and since she doesn't smoke seems a good chance she got it while working there

My uncle had lung cancer (in addition to brain cancer) and he wasn't a smoker. Was this person in contact with any aerosols or air-borne chemicals which could have affected her health?

 

[moraldeficiency]

cause one of them was working in a office with a smoker and since she doesn't smoke seems a good chance she got it while working there

Not from car exhausts, power plant pollutants, construction pollutants, standard carcenogens in the air, etc? I agree it didn't help but to connect the dots on something that broad with that many possibilities seems a bit too cavalier for you. If the house next to you gets major renovations, you don't even want to know how many carcenogens are released in extremely heavy doses into the air but it dwarfs what's in second hand smoke by a hundredfold.