Janet ..your simplifying things a little.. smoking may not be self aflicted all the time... For example I started when I was age 14 and didnt know any better... no notices saying its bad for you.. even advertisments on telly telling you to buy them... OK I managed to give up and have been given a clean bill of health.. no problems after 25 yrs of smoking...but i take no responability or blame for smoking.. i didnt know it was bad and it took me half my life to give up... but a lot arnt so lucky...
if it was a simple choice to give up smoking i believe everyone would do it./.. it aint that easy and if it wasnt really your fault you started and ya ddnt know it was bad for ya then....
there are other issues with smokers... do you turn someone away and tell them to go die in pain.. because its your own fault.. you made a mistake and started smoking now pay the price?
you ahve to take circumstances into consideration.
whats about people who are obese and its killing them.. do you turn them away saying its your own fault for eating too much?
what about someone who contracts a death threating llness while on holiday.. turn them away ..its there own fault for going on holiday..
life isnt that simple
