Smoking is bad for your health.

[Malak]

Originally posted by: Amused
You are entirely too worried about what other people do.

Live you own fscking life and realize that once in a while, you'll catch a whiff of something you don't like. You'll get over it, I promise.

So I shouldn't care about people anymore? :disgust:

I will thankfully ignore your advice and continue to try to help people.

 

[Amused]

Originally posted by: Malak

Originally posted by: Amused
You are entirely too worried about what other people do.

Live you own fscking life and realize that once in a while, you'll catch a whiff of something you don't like. You'll get over it, I promise.

So I shouldn't care about people anymore? :disgust:

I will thankfully ignore your advice and continue to try to help people.

Your problem is you try to help people against their will.

There is a difference bewteen helping people, and forcing people to live as you think they should live.

Fascism is not help.

 

[theprodigalrebel]

(Former one-pack-a-day smoker. Quit for a fortnight in Dec 06. Realized I like nicotine way too much and can't wean myself off it, so I smoke one or two after every meal and on long lonely nights, I go halfway through a pack)

All smokers have seen the videos, checked out the ads and read voluminous volumes of text on the subject. Yes, these things are bad for you. Yes, I should be more considerate towards other people around me. I don't smoke in the presence of non-smokers and I wouldn't be offended if someone asked me to throw my cigarette out (in case I lit one absent-mindedly). Most smokers I know have this little bit of etiquette.

The ones who don't - well, they suck. And I don't mind reading the email forwards and forums threads. I get annoyed when strangers (well, some random dude/chick from work I say Hi to once a week) walk up to me in a parking lot and tell me it is bad for me. I hate this queer hatred people have for smokers. What, we go around driving high on nicotine and run over pedestrians? No. We start fights in bars? No, nicotine doesn't do that. We beat up our women and children because we smoke? Nope. All we do is fvck up our own lungs and stamina - fine, our loss.

I'll throw in a retard argument: my paternal grand dad smoked two packs a day all his life and died in his sleep at age 79. Smoking kills? Yup. Does it kill everyone? No. On the other hand, my maternal grand-dad's liver failed and he died in his mid-40s - he was an alcoholic. And from what I know, alcohol is just as addictive as nicotine.

Here is my retarded proposal: ban alcohol. Make it illegal to sell or purchase. As some genius ATOTers have said in the past (about smoking), make it punishable with jail-time. Effectively shut down the entire lifestyle/nightlife-related industry. Oh wait, that is not possible.

Drinkers: enjoy getting wasted on the weekend and make sure you take a cab home. I will enjoy my occasional smoke and just ask people to stop preaching to me that I'm an idiot who is poisoning his system and am too stupid to realize the risks and deserve the slow painful death I will die.

 

[Canai]

Smokers can smoke, just not anywhere around where I am. Unfiltered second hand smoke? No thanks!

This is coming from a former smoker, 2 years of about a pack a day, starting just after my 18th birthday.

And as far as educating smokers, it is something that needs to be done, given the number of idiot kids who start to be "cool" or whatever... they don't know any better (hence the term 'idiot kids').

And theprodigalrebel, this 'queer hatred' is not for you enjoying your nicotine, it has more to do with all the toxins and chemicals coupled with your beloved drug, which you so earnestly fill the space surrounding you with. I couldn't care less if you wish to slowly kill yourself, just don't do it anywhere public where non-smokers may be.

I also believe that alcohol and tobacco are not comparable in the way you mention it. Alcohol poisons the liver of the person who imbibes it, and causes the occasional drunk driving incident. Smoking poisons everyone around the smoker, and more than one house fire has been the result of a cigarette. It also kills the resale value of a house. Ever been to a house where a long-time smoker lived? That stench is near impossible to get out in any short period of time.

 

[JEDIYoda]

Originally posted by: doze
Nice video, I like the part with the aorta. It's too bad these have no effect on smokers. Smokers know that smoking is bad for the health. It is a guilty pleasure.

I recently quit after 10 years of smoking daily (ranging from a few to a pack a day) but I still enjoy the occasional cig. in the evening with a beer.

so you really didnt quit...lol

 

[A Casual Fitz]

Everyone is aware of the dangers of smoking, yet so many people start all the time..it really boggles my mind how stupid people can be. Cigarettes aren't tempting if you've never tried one. There's no urge to smoke..

 

[irishScott]

Wow. That Tar on Healthy lung test was pretty scary.

For the record, don't smoke, never have, never will unless someone points a gun at my head and tells me to do so. Don't drink beer either. Wine in moderation is actually healthy, but the only reason to drink beer IMO is to get tipsy or drunk, not to mention it tastes like sh!t. Plus, there are NO positive effects on the body from either smoking or drinking beer.

Ironically, my Grandmother is an alcoholic and chronic smoker and she has yet to show ANY signs of health degradation (she's 72). Guess she just been lucky so far, but there's no doubt in my mind that her eventual death will have something to do with her habits.

TheProdigalRebel: Did you try the nicotine gum/patches? Nicotine in itself isn't that harmful. It's the other sh!t that causes most of the problems. If you can chew some of that a day to satisfy your cravings, would be a lot better than smoking.

 

[Compton]

It is my constitutional right as an American to smoke and to make you breathe in my smoke!!

The founding fathers are turning in their graves.

 

[doze]

Originally posted by: Merlyn3D

Originally posted by: doze
Nice video, I like the part with the aorta. It's too bad these have no effect on smokers. Smokers know that smoking is bad for the health. It is a guilty pleasure.

I recently quit after 10 years of smoking daily (ranging from a few to a pack a day) but I still enjoy the occasional cig. in the evening with a beer.

Um...if you still enjoy the occasional cig, I'd hardly call that quiting. That's like a guy cheating on his girl everyday and saying one day he quits, but on occasion, he enjoys a mistress or two. The guy hasn't stopped cheating, he just cheats less.

It's fine that you smoke and all, I'm not judging you there, but don't fool yourself into thinking you quit if you still puff a cig now and then.

I broke the daily smoking routine which consisted of a morning cig before work, AM smoke break, lunch, afternoon smoke break, leaving work, in the car etc.. so to me I have quit.

 

[irishScott]

Another Scary View on Drugs: 🙂

It's Like, I don't care about nothin man,
roll another blunt, Yea (ohh ohh ohh),

La da da da da da La, Da Daaa,
La da da da, La da da da, La da da daaa

I was gonna clean my room until I got high
I was gonna get up and find the broom but then I got high
my room is still messed up and I know why (why man?) yea heyy,
- cause I got high [repeat 3X]

(La da da da da da da da da)

I was gonna go to class before I got high
I coulda cheated and I coulda passed but I got high
(La da da da da da da da da)
I am taking it next semester and I know why, (why man?) yea heyy,
- cause I got high [repeat 3X]

(La da da da da da da da da)

I was gonna go to work but then I got high
I just got a new promotion but I got high
now I'm selling dope and I know why (why man?) yea heayy,
- cause I got high [repeat 3X]

(La da da da da da da da da)

I was gonna go to court before I got high
I was gonna pay my child support but then I got high
they took my whole paycheck and I know why (why man?) yea heayy,
- cause I got high [repeat 3X]

(La da da da da da da da da)

I wasn't gonna run from the cops but I was high
I was gonna pull right over and stop but I was high
(La da da da da da da da da)
Now I am a paraplegic and i know why (why man?) yea heayy,
- because I got high [repeat 3X]

(La da da da da da da da da)

I was gonna pay my car note until I got high
I wasn't gonna gamble on the boat but then I got high
now the tow truck is pulling away and I know why (why man?) yea heyy,
- because I got high [repeat 3X]

(La da da da da da da da da)

I was gonna make love to you but then I got high
I was gonna eat yo pussy too but then I got high
now I'm jacking off and I know why, yea heyy,
- cause I got high [repeat 3X]

(La da da da da da da da da)

I messed up my entire life because I got high
I lost my kids and wife because I got high
now I'm sleeping on the sidewalk and I know why (why man?) yea heyy,
- cause I got high [repeat 3X]

(La da da da da da da da da)

I'm gonna stop singing this song because I'm high
I'm singing this whole thing wrong because I'm high
and if I dont sell one copy I know why (why man?) yea heyy,
- cause I'm high [repeat 3X]

La da da da da da, La da da da, Shoop shooby doo wop.

Get jiggy wit it, skibbidy bee bop diddy do wahhh

- cause I'm high [repeat 3X]

(hey where the cluck at cuz) [clucks]

Well my name is afroman and I'm from east pomdale (east-pom-dale)
and all the tolweed I be smokin is bomb as helllllll (excelent delivery)
I don't beleive in Hitler, that's what I said (oh my goodness)
so all of you skins (skins) please give me more head

 

[Canai]

mhmm scary view on 'drugs'. rolling 'blunts' and getting the 'high'

😀 the afroman vinyl is see-through green 😀

 

[NaOH]

Just sent it to my friend who smokes. OWNED

 

[Googer]

Originally posted by: doze
Nice video, I like the part with the aorta. It's too bad these have no effect on smokers. Smokers know that smoking is bad for the health. It is a guilty pleasure.

I recently quit after 10 years of smoking daily (ranging from a few to a pack a day) but I still enjoy the occasional cig. in the evening with a beer.

Then you really haven't quit yet...

 

[BrokenVisage]

Use a bong.