You make a valid point in comparing the two evils i.e. Smoking and Alcohol (drugs being the third) and assessing that alcohol has a worse social impact than smoking does BUT you are still not really getting the perspective of a non-smoker or seeing the actual real-life implications of your bad habit on those around you.
I agree that alcohol and the associated problems of its irresponsible use is a terrible thing when it comes to the death and destruction it causes but that is something to be discussed in a separate debate as this discussion deals with and is pertinent to smoking and its associated issues.
Unlike cigarette smoke and the proven passive smoke damage to second hand smoker’s lungs it’s not like my liver is damaged by someone having a beer next to me is it? It’s all fine and well to say it’s your choice to smoke and it’s your addiction “to own” and that you don’t blame the cigarette companies BUT what about those of us around you who have made the choice NOT to smoke but still have to inhale your second hand smoke?
We as non-smokers are stuck having to deal with the choices that smokers have made for themselves without recourse to not have to inhale your smelly habit.
And then off course there comes the “we are all going to die someday” brigade of “smoking intellectuals” who use this piece of ideology as their main (and often only) argument to support the validity of their habit. Please explain to all of us non-smokers why you want to die fighting for a decent lung full of air, with an emphysema ridden (if you are “lucky” enough not to develop lung cancer), cancerous (if you are unlucky) tired and spent shell of a body rather than a healthy but naturally aged one…assuming off course the “often quoted” bus one can step in front of any day didn’t actually get around to hitting you?
I will never understand the “logic” that smokers put forth to try and “own” their stinky, disgusting habit.
You make a valid point in comparing the two evils i.e. Smoking and Alcohol (drugs being the third) and assessing that alcohol has a worse social impact than smoking does BUT you are still not really getting the perspective of a non-smoker or seeing the actual real-life implications of your bad habit on those around you.
I agree that alcohol and the associated problems of its irresponsible use is a terrible thing when it comes to the death and destruction it causes but that is something to be discussed in a separate debate as this discussion deals with and is pertinent to smoking and its associated issues.
Unlike cigarette smoke and the proven passive smoke damage to second hand smoker’s lungs it’s not like my liver is damaged by someone having a beer next to me is it? It’s all fine and well to say it’s your choice to smoke and it’s your addiction “to own” and that you don’t blame the cigarette companies BUT what about those of us around you who have made the choice NOT to smoke but still have to inhale your second hand smoke?
We as non-smokers are stuck having to deal with the choices that smokers have made for themselves without recourse to not have to inhale your smelly habit.
And then off course there comes the “we are all going to die someday” brigade of “smoking intellectuals” who use this piece of ideology as their main (and often only) argument to support the validity of their habit. Please explain to all of us non-smokers why you want to die fighting for a decent lung full of air, with an emphysema ridden (if you are “lucky” enough not to develop lung cancer), cancerous (if you are unlucky) tired and spent shell of a body rather than a healthy but naturally aged one…assuming off course the “often quoted” bus one can step in front of any day didn’t actually get around to hitting you?
I will never understand the “logic” that smokers put forth to try and “own” their stinky, disgusting habit.