Pro Smoking Arguments I've heardOnce upon a time, a man walked carefully through the woods, carrying a bow and arrow on a hunting trip for his tribe. He had tracked the deer for hours now, even managed to find it, but he missed, it ran away and now he was back on it’s trail. The sun was setting and the first snows had started two months ago, and now it was the dead of winter and he was freezing. He knew he would need warmth and he would need to build a fire. He gathered some sticks and leaves, some fallen logs which he was fortunate to find and made a ring of rocks. He put the leaves on the bottom, took a stick and started drilling the end into one of the logs, after much effort the log started to give a little smoke, then more then it finally came alight. He took it and ignited the leaves with it, the leaves caught fire, then the kindling caught fire and then finally the logs, he was now warm.
Suddenly a wind blew one of the leaves out toward the man, startled, he jumped and it landed next to him, he put his face to it, and caught a wiff of the smoke coming from it, this smoke had a pleasant aroma, from these kind of leaves, he started inhaling more of it, and enjoyed it. He ignited another leave, rolled it and inhaled the smoke. He would soon relay this message to his tribe. For the caveman, he didn’t know any better that the smoke was though so pleasant, was so harmful. For him, ignorance was bliss…………….
We Don’t have that Excuse!!
Every year hundreds of thousands of people die of cigarette smoke, mostly firsthand and some secondhand. The hazard has been known for decades. Yet, WHY is it a cancer causing gum is taken off the market, but not a product that causes MANY types of cancer and also many other diseases? Why is that we must watch our loved ones suffer on a respirator while the cigarette companies get rich and profit from it. Why is that they allowed to put an addictive additive into their cigarettes that is sometimes used to kill insects and will be taken into their lungs? Why is it that children must be in presence of a substance which produces 10 times the pollution of a diesel engine for a parent’s addictive pleasure? How many tax dollars must be wasted on health care for people to rot their lungs? How many more people have to die, until we get the message that cigarettes must go? Yes, It’s time we made smoking history, and get cigarettes OFF the market!
1. It's my life, fuck off and mind your own business, leave me alone, it's my right.
2. You're going to die anyway.
3. If we have to get rid of cigarettes, we also have to get rid of everything else that causes harm. How about McDonalds? How about Caffeine? How about skateboards?
4. I can't believe people complain about second hand smoke, but not auto emissions!
5. I should have the right to let my establishment patrons smoke if they want to, if you don't like it, don't come in my establishment (here in Massachusetts, smoking is banned in any public place, (restaurants, bars, etc)
6. Yes, smokers do cause taxpayers to pay lots of money to healthcare, but if everyone stopped smoking, eventually we'd be paying for all the non smokers who would live longer and ultimately require more money for healthcare.
7. If cigarette smoke causes so much harm, then why in the 50's when most men smoked, were thier lower sickness and fatality rates among thier wives?
8. I don't blow smoke in my children's faces!
9. You'll like this one: Once I heard about a girl, who to mask the smoke on her breath, sprayed hairspray or something into her mouth to mask it. She wouldn't have to do this if the school allowed smoking (Actually, in the 70's at least some high schools did have smoking lounges, not sure now. Though I'm not sure how that's supposed to work. If it's illegal for minors to smoke, why would it be allowed in school?)
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