Do you smoke?
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follow_the_reaper
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yeah. =-*( my house smells like smoke becuase my mom, and therefore i smell like smoke. im constantly spraying my room with febreeze because i hate it.
follow_the_reaper
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Well I believe that smokers are discriminated against in the same way black people used to be. smoking may be a "stinking and disgusting" habit which carries certain health risks - although these have been somewhat exagerated by the scaremongering tactics of the anti smoking industry. In the UK the government are currently painting a completely blackened image of smokers. At the moment it feels like smokers are as bad as sex offenders and murderers and we have to ask ourselves whether this is justified.
After reading that introduction you're probably wondering "how can you compare smoking to race?, you choose whether you smoke or not". This is true for the most part but there are people who have an extreme passion for smoking and an alarming number of smoke fetishists such as myself who find women who smoke to be more attractive. A lot of those people would claim that smoking is part of their sexuality and not something they choose. These people can be found at Smoking Passions - 100% Free Dating & Personals for Smokers Whereas people with other difficulties such as interactional problems and certain mental health problems find smoking to be an outlet which can keep them "sane in an insane world". Even if you still believe that most smokers choose to be a smoker then does that mean we should discriminate against people who choose to drive cars? Probably not because some people genuinely need cars but a lot of drivers, especially young ones drive just for the sake of it because it's "cool" and "impresses the girls". So this is acceptable despite the fact that car pollution is one of the main causes of asthma and is thought to cause 20,000 deaths per year? Should we discriminate against the elderly who have decided to live a healthy life? Of course we shouldn't despite the fact that they cost the government £22billion per year, 20 times as much as smokers have ever cost and one of the reasons the NHS is £500million in debt and in such a pensions crisis. There are many choices which people make which are more costly than smoking and to some people smoking isn't a matter of choice, so why exactly is such hatred shown towards smokers by society?
I will write the rest when I can be bothered. I am a very slow typer because due to my head injury I can only type with one hand and my brain thinks slower than most, sp that's enough information for you to digest and respond to at the moment.
After reading that introduction you're probably wondering "how can you compare smoking to race?, you choose whether you smoke or not". This is true for the most part but there are people who have an extreme passion for smoking and an alarming number of smoke fetishists such as myself who find women who smoke to be more attractive. A lot of those people would claim that smoking is part of their sexuality and not something they choose. These people can be found at Smoking Passions - 100% Free Dating & Personals for Smokers Whereas people with other difficulties such as interactional problems and certain mental health problems find smoking to be an outlet which can keep them "sane in an insane world". Even if you still believe that most smokers choose to be a smoker then does that mean we should discriminate against people who choose to drive cars? Probably not because some people genuinely need cars but a lot of drivers, especially young ones drive just for the sake of it because it's "cool" and "impresses the girls". So this is acceptable despite the fact that car pollution is one of the main causes of asthma and is thought to cause 20,000 deaths per year? Should we discriminate against the elderly who have decided to live a healthy life? Of course we shouldn't despite the fact that they cost the government £22billion per year, 20 times as much as smokers have ever cost and one of the reasons the NHS is £500million in debt and in such a pensions crisis. There are many choices which people make which are more costly than smoking and to some people smoking isn't a matter of choice, so why exactly is such hatred shown towards smokers by society?
I will write the rest when I can be bothered. I am a very slow typer because due to my head injury I can only type with one hand and my brain thinks slower than most, sp that's enough information for you to digest and respond to at the moment.
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I don't smoke. I smoked a few cigs and one joint in my entire lifetime, it doesn't interest me at all.
^ is too complicated for most of the people here to digest
edit: post jumped x2
Anyway - Ohio just passed a law that was voted upon by the public. There is NO more smoking in any public buildings. Not bars or restaurantes. Today is the first day that it is to be abided by.
That's the shit in Norway too. It sucks to say the least. So it's like one beer, out to smoke and so on.
Anonymous
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We've had that for a few years I think. No smoking within buildings or within 50 ft. of any public building.
We have that policy in some bars here to..not many...dont leave the beer tho...drink it up or smt...some sicko may put shit in it...a girl got drugged in a town called Karlstad 6mils from here...she had to go to the hospital in a ambulance
-[chop]-;5658211 said:We have that policy in some bars here to..not many...dont leave the beer tho...drink it up or smt...some sicko may put shit in it...a girl got drugged in a town called Karlstad 6mils from here...she had to go to the hospital in a ambulance
I always finish my beer. That stuff sucks..poor girls getting drugged so some pathetic low-life can get himself some.
Fetzer
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I was going to write something like that.
Less intelligent cause you smoke ? Let me laught.
"Intelligence" as in QI doesn't exist. QI is bullshit for Private College. "Intelligence" cant be count, you can't be more or less intelligent than someone, it would be fucking too much complicated to analyse.
So, a Healty Perfect Person is more intelligent than me ? Why, because he decided to don't take a risk of me, who decided to smoke sometimes because I like that ? So it means that if somebody live his life like he wants, that means ON HIS OWN WAY OF THINKING is less intelligent than someone who can be influenced by social aspect and propaganda ?
How many times did I heard: Drug, alchool and tobbaco is bad. "Why ?" Because... it's bad.
You count the intelligence of someone ? A smoker can be damn stupid for the same reason:
Why do you smoke ? - Because it's... it's cool...
It's useless to categorize people this way: Intelligent and non-intelligent. Everybody make his own way...
