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Originally Posted by jaysay
Having once been a smoker, I know full well the havoc smoking can cause, although when I started it was cool and the done thing, but the first time I was told by a doctor to cut down, because it was damaging my health, I gave up, that was 35 years ago next month. To me anything which puts people off smoking is a good thing, but I would never be so presumptive to preach to people the error of their ways if they smoke, its an individual choice.
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It's the preaching horse manure that really pees me off ... Smoking is a health "issue" (hate that buzz word; should have a warning label on it), and that's it ... period. But to the smoking nazi assholes, it is a moral and ethical issue. They preach as if, somehow, smokers are "bad" people
No they are not; they are ordinary people who happen to have an addiction. One, by the way, which is legal. Not only that, it is one that puts billions into government coffers, way more money than it costs to treat those who suffer from the ill-effects of smoking.
Put more money and effort into educating the young ... try to catch them before they start smoking. Forget the bs labels; they don't work. Like the one we had for a while here: "Smoking is Addictive" ... no shiite Sherlock; I always wondered why I smoked the damn things.
When warning labels were minimalist ... you know, the ones across the top of the pack ... a buddy of mine made some up on his computer, ones which you could stick on over the real ones. I remember a couple of them: "Warning, Smoking Makes Your Penis Grow"; and "Warning, Smoking Enlarges and Firms Up Your Breasts".
