how can you be stupid enough to smoke cigarettes regularly?
 

i mean, don't you want to live as long as you can? you only live this life once why take the chance of shortening the whole experience?

I <3 cancer sticks :)

good luck to you... :thumbsup

I don't smoke regularly. Sometimes, I smoke one every 10 minutes, sometimes I only smoke one an hour. Very irregular.

I have a feeling you carefully worded this topic...

"regularly"

didn't feel like being called a hypocrite?

Anyways...cigarettes are baaaaddddddddd...never had one...never will.

yea, by regularly i mean the people who smoke like 5 packs a day and shit. that's all bad...

I don't know. How can half of the United States be over weight? Nicotine is at least addictive, unlike stuffing your face.

yea man i tried it back in HS and i couldnt take it but you have to make urself like it. hard to quite though

people are just as dumb for being hella fat...

i smoke about 10 cigs a day....

poop on a stick

i got some time only been smoking 2 years not really worried about it till i start coughin shit up... i need them now a days to help deal with the stress

your decision, just dont smoke around your children

i get to thank my sister and parents for smoking while i was a baby. because of that i get chronic cluster headaches (extremely sharp paroxysms of pain in the same spot on either side of my head and around my eyes) and an abnormally small ribcage (which hurts my lungs occasionally and keeps me from getting common treatment for sleep apnoea)

Actually, the answer to the question should be quite clear... smoking gives pleasure, and people often prefer short term pleasure over long term benefits. Smoking may kill you, but that's not likely to happen in the next few decades. Meanwhile, the pleasure is instantaneous.

The same goes for eating unhealthy food, drinking, wasting money on porn and lapdances instead of investing it, wasting time playing video games, watching tv instead of working out, etc.

fuck cigarettes, pot is where its at

That's healthy for your lungs, too.

how can you be stupid enough to DRIVE regularly ?

i mean, don't you want to live as long as you can? you only live this life once why take the chance of shortening the whole experience?

i see your point, but it's not really the same. driving is an essential part of our lives these days, smoking is not...

many people do it for the look of it... like wearing a scarf... they think it makes them look interesting...

Been smoking 27 years - usually half a pack a day. I can still run a mile in about two hours (with smoke breaks)...and my one lung feels fine.

A lot of people who have smoked all their lives reach their 80s and 90s. My grandparents did.

Besides...if I die tomorrow of cancer you can thank me for saving the health care system long-term expenditures. :1orglaugh

Sorry, no dice. Driving has an actual benefit whether you're a driver or not as opposed to smoking cigarettes.. also being a pedestrian or cyclist instead of a driver has the exact same dangers in that you can still be hit by a car even if you never drive. Driving in a lot of circumstances is a neccessity, smoking is a voluntary habit.

It kinda does, though.
A while ago, I went out with a girl I know. I had just started smoking again after a year of not smoking, and she said it looked good on me. Subsequently, she started smoking again, too, which was a bad thing because she emptied my pack, but it looked pretty sexy on her.

http://stellargraffiti.com/My%20Pict...%20Smoking.jpg

people are just stupid, they dont think about it til they end up with lung cancer.

Aw, fuck off. Tell you what, you don't preach to me about smoking, and I won't preach to you about religion. Or porn.

When people realize what smoking has done to them its too late.

Exactly what my late uncle told me. He passed away two years ago due to lung cancer.

guess you havent seen accident stats lately..

driving is more dangerous than smoking , and neither is something you have to do..

Your much safer using public transportation or walking , but you do it because you like it..

Driving is a voluntary habit, your argument isn't valid..

People drive because they enjoy it.. IF your telling me you have never driven because you enjoy it or there was no safe method around your fibbing..

Im just being a devils advocate.. dont throw stones at glass houses.

Insert BEER in place of smoking or TWINKIES or MAKEUP or etc etc etc etc i could have used a ton of topics , point is bland statements like that dont hold much weight unless the person telling them is an angel :)

:thumbsup that about sums it up. same with booze , drugs , fast cars , fast women , and thousands of other things people do everyday that decerease their life span :)

Do we need junk food ? no but we eat it even though we know people die from it , we drive fast even though we arent in a rush and know speed kills..

addiction

no1 lethal legal drug

don't be fooled,if you are chronic smoker specially from young age you have tremendous chances to die at early age from cancer. What KRL said is true.

what a stupid bitch

The funny part: she's an MD.

People drive with the point of getting somewhere. There is nearly no point to smoking, other than a slight relaxing feeling from nicotine.

Also, if you drive everyday and smoke every day the odds are better the smokes will kill you. :)

In terms of death, only in your dreams Smokie.

Cigarette smoking is the single most preventable cause of premature death in the United States. Each year, more than 400,000 Americans die from cigarette smoking. In fact, one in every five deaths in the United States is smoking related. Every year, smoking kills more than 276,000 men and 142,000 women.

http://www.gofuckyourself.com/newrep...eply&p=9423646

All of the Americas together sees about 150,000 deaths from car accidents.

Now in terms of injury it's different.

I have never and would never smoke, It's what killed my father.

most people dont put much importance on their health until they are lying in their death beds

I see a lot of old people sitting idle, I can imagine some of them just bored as fuck passing their days...If life was a year or two shorter and you could enjoy it more would it be worth it?

I have cluster headaches too. And they're not caused by early-life exposure to second-hand smoke. They usually don't arrive until middle-age, and they're usually caused by smoking and drinking.
Do you drink?

I started smoking when I was 18. Quit last year at the age of 22. It's been 16 months since I quit. Had probably about 4-5 cigars in that time. And just recently took a hit off a cigarette (it was an Iraqi cig my friend brought home on leave recently and I tasted it).

One of the best decissions of my life. Anyway, if people want to smoke. That is cool, everyone can do what they want to. I've seen some very fucked up things in this world. Normal everyday things people do and what our current society follows. I see nothing wrong with it if someone wants to smoke.

If thats the logic you use to defend smoking in your own mind, so be it. Instead of trying to compare life's dangers to justify smoking, why not just eliminate as many as possible. Since its impossible to completely eliminate driving, be as careful as possible. Smoking, however, is something you can eliminate entirely.

Smoking is a sick habit and I've just never understood why people give in to it knowing the potential consequences. I've always viewed smokers as weak people, they knowingly are destroying their bodies yet are unable to alter their behavior. Also, to those who think its ok to just smoke sparingly, there was a recent long term study that concluded even smoking 5 cigs a day could reduce your life expectency by up to 10 years.

Because I was stupid enough to think it was cool when I started.

I will stop, but not until I hit my goal weight and goal muscle tone....one thing at a time.

Plus, did you know that people who quit smoking after many years stand a good chance of dying? It's because their bodies try to adapt for all those years and when it's denied, it reacts, instead of responds....

For those of us contemplating quitting, while cold turkey seems to be the best way, be careful that your body isn't going to have to fight a war on two fronts..the immune system is funny that way.

I agree, it is a terrible habit, and one that should be outlawed.

After 23 years of smoking, I am 3 months smoke free. I quit in December, and went through Internext and AVN as a non smoker.

The thought of being mortal finally hit me, wanting to be here for my kids when they go to college, get married, have kids, whatever is more powerful than wanting to smoke.

Good luck to those quitting, it was hard the first month, alot of physical cravings for a smoke, now it's just mental, which I'm told will never really go away.

The cure for smoking is cancer.

Holy shit she's a hottie.

How anyone can argue for smoking is beyond me.

How old are you?

It's an addiction. One of, if not the most powerful addictions ever known.

So maybe ask why tobacco companies target children with their ads.

A "habit" is biting your nails. Smoking is not a habit :) It's a drug addiction.

denial - "it'll never happen to me."

I'm a fucking idiot! almost a pack a day. Mostly when on the computer, which is all day long. Takes ten years off your life... but they are the crappy years anyway....