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.
