Feel free to consider me an [derriere orifice]. I'm call people idiots when they smoke because they are wasting their potential in life. They could do so much, yet they decide to harm their bodies. I feel the same way about all drugs (with the exclusion of cannabis since it is generally harmless but that's a discussion for another topic). If you do Meth, Heroin, Cocaine, Crack, or any other hard drug like that, you're an idiot.
Yes, it is my way or the highway. There is no middle ground. I don't care if you had a bad marriage. I don't care if you lost your job. You are the one choosing to smoke. Here I am, a young adult who has had a long, hard life. I had a tumor on my spine when I was born. They didn't find it until I was five. They had to cut three vertebrae in half to cut it out of me. I suffer to this day, complications from what the tumor did to me. I can not remember a day in my entire life I wasn't in pain. My mom, was hit by an SUV as a pedestrian when I was eight. She's been suffering since, and to this very day. There are many times that other people would have killed themselves, but my mom and I have not.
I have never once considered smoking, despite being given the chance several times. Why? Because there are better, healthier ways of dealing with stress. Ride a bike. Read a book. Write a book. Play video games. Walk your dog. Play with your dog. Take a drive around town. Sketch in a notepad. Paint something, anything. Take photographs. Make small wood carvings. Make jewelry. Take a bath/shower. Clean the house. Sweep the driveway. Talk with friends. Make a collage. Go and do volunteer community service. Shovel random people's driveways for free.
These are just a few of the things I can think of that I've done to relieve stress.
I honestly do respect that you, Panama, don't subjugate people to second hand smoke. It doesn't
er, however, if you're body can handle smoking better than others. They do contain poisons that will harm you regardless of how bad or how well your body copes with it. I don't think people that drink are stupid, because unless you are an alcoholic, you are not harming your body. I only think people who willingly harm their bodies are stupid, it's wasting their potential.
Panama, would you want your kids smoking? Would anyone want their kids smoking? If you smoke, it setting a terrible example.
If anyone, Richdog, or whomever, wants to think less of me because I think smokers are idiots? Fine. Richdog, you're actually being slightly hypocritical. You talk about freedom, then tell me I don't have the freedom to speak as I want. I know this is the Internet, but I live in America. We have this thing here called free speech. If I want to call someone an idiot, I will. I don't do it because I feel superior to the person(not very easy for me to do with my low self esteem), I do it because I see someone wasting their life which is idiotic. Perhaps that is a better way of stating it.
Panama, you're not an idiot. You're just doing something very idiotic. I suppose there is a difference and I should make that clear.
Someone mentioned a pipe? Well it depends on what you smoke. If you smoke crack, well then you're a [m'kay] idiot. No exceptions. If it is just tobacco, it isn't too harmful. I mainly hate cigarettes since they are
literally loaded with poison. Cigars are better, so are pipes.
Peace.
