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The despicable habit SMOKING

Last comment by homeslice614 4 months, 1 week ago.

I feel that smoking is a despicable habit.on the list of this i want to do in my lifetime smoking is the last thing i would ever want to do. in fact on the list of things i would want to do in my lifetime smoking is not even on the list. people think that teens are into stuff like that. i'm not. i absolutley hate smoking and are strongly opposed to those who do it.

i feel that if you have to smoke you should do it in the privacy of your own home(preferably with no children around you). smoking in public is not an option. people already have enough problems with the air to have you come and pollute it even more by smoking. no one asked you to lace their lungs with nicotin and tobacco. just because your outside that does not mean the smoke just disperes in the air exactly after you smoke it.no it hovers in those few precious seconds your enjoying your fix someone could walk by and inhale. it coud be someone with a small child.you live in a worls of billions you can't just smoke all willy nilly on public property.

which leads in to the next thing i want to say to the peoplewho own public property in which people are going to end up in close proximity of each other. put no smoking signs on your building.some of you people like to be slightly hypocritical. like a certain hospital that has a special smoking gazebo. what in the world is that? if that isn't the most hypocritical thing i have ever seen in my life. its almost as worse as seeiing your doctor smoking.

also if you ever need a somke break you are ADDICTED.that word means you need the patch,or the gum or what ever works for you. i don't care how you put it cigarettes are a drug and you are addicted if have to have a fix.THEY ARE A DRUG.

to the kids and teens. smoking does not make you look cool. if you ever think it does you are sadly mistaken. it only makes you look like someone who is trying to look cool which in turn makes you look even lamer than where you started.

until next time,

opininated1

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siafulinux commented on Wednesday, Jun 27, 2007 at 00:01 AM

Yup, smoking is nasty. I used to smoke some years back and tried to quit for nearly a year. Nothing worked. Finally I began eating fruit during my 15 minute breaks (to help with energy) and then of course I had to have my smoke; YUCK! I couldn't finish that cigarette and it took all but 2 days and I haven't touched one again.

It's not a good habit to develop, but it is hard to leave <i>because</i> it is a drug. It's best not to start, but who hasn't experimented at some point? A lot of people have and I know a lot of really good, decent people who smoke.

Anyway, good post.

Siafu

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Pat Watkins commented on Wednesday, Jun 27, 2007 at 15:11 PM

Opininated1,

I'm a former smoker and am glad to see that you don't plan to light up. It is a terrible and nasty habit.

Don't be too hard on smokers, though. It's a tough habit to break. When I quit, after about 35 years, I was out of commission for a month or so. I got my work done, but was totally in a fog and could only sleep when I was not at work. Luckily, my family and friends supported me.

And even now, nearly 10 years after quitting, I still crave a puff on a cancer stick every now and then.

pat

homeslice614 commented on Friday, May 30, 2008 at 14:18 PM

You only have to watch one person you care about die the slow, debilitating death of lung cancer to never want to smoke. What fails to be mentioned when talking about lung cancer is that by the time you find out you have it, your lungs have already sent the cancer to other parts of your body via the bloodstream. You may "cure" the lung cancer, but the cancer in the other parts of your body as a result are the ones that often end your life. I grew up in a home with a chain-smoker and watched the results of that habit as her hospice care-taker when my father could not do it by himself any longer.

Smoking is probably more addictive than any other drug habit out there. But it is indeed a drug habit, and just as surely will destroy your health like heroine, crack, or meth. It is just a slower, more subtle death. Don't start if you havent, and find help to stop if you do smoke. Treat it like a drug habit, not as a socially acceptable addiction and fight it just as hard.

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