11th July 2003, 3:53 PM
ABF's cancer claims aside, I think some of us are forgetting a major fact about smoking. It TURNS YOUR LUNGS BLACK. That IS a prooven fact, and this slowly kills parts of it and makes it harder to get oxygen, eventually it can kill people due to, not cancer, but well, the word for the lung disease caused by the blackening, you know... I forget the name... It doesn't NEED to be cancerous to be deadly.
To be honest, smoking to me is like drunk driving. If they want their precious tobacco so much, CHEW IT or something! At least that way they aren't affecting me. Big deal if other things are deadly too, why should I care? I refuse to accomodate idiocy. I'm not going to go out of my way to allow others to do something stupid to themselves. They can do as they will if I have to do NOTHING for them, and that's that.
Oh and, for those of you pointing out things like "after a meal, a ciggarette is great", what's your point? I have NO desire for any of that after I eat, so I have no sympathy for your whole "but I wanna" idiocy. Why should I care what some drug addict's prefferences in when to use their drug of choice are? And don't kid yourselves into thinking that non-smokers secretly want to. It's called addiction. If one isn't addicted, there really isn't a single part of them that desires a "smoke" at all. The part of you that desires it is the chemicals affecting your brain, and that's it. Don't kid yourselves into thinking it's anything more.
To be honest, smoking to me is like drunk driving. If they want their precious tobacco so much, CHEW IT or something! At least that way they aren't affecting me. Big deal if other things are deadly too, why should I care? I refuse to accomodate idiocy. I'm not going to go out of my way to allow others to do something stupid to themselves. They can do as they will if I have to do NOTHING for them, and that's that.
Oh and, for those of you pointing out things like "after a meal, a ciggarette is great", what's your point? I have NO desire for any of that after I eat, so I have no sympathy for your whole "but I wanna" idiocy. Why should I care what some drug addict's prefferences in when to use their drug of choice are? And don't kid yourselves into thinking that non-smokers secretly want to. It's called addiction. If one isn't addicted, there really isn't a single part of them that desires a "smoke" at all. The part of you that desires it is the chemicals affecting your brain, and that's it. Don't kid yourselves into thinking it's anything more.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)