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Originally Posted by Black Francis
I really hate how expensive cigarettes have gotten and all this propaganda to demonize cigarettes and smokers.
As i recall in the 1940's and 50 the tobacco industry and the media shoved cigarettes down our throats to the point even Fred flinstone advertised Winston cigarettes and after hooking an entire generation on cigarettes now they demonize them and say cigarettes have cat pee in them.
it's like a dealer that sold you drugs and got you hooked on them now looking down on you and calling you a junkie. >_>
And those electronic cigarettes? ****IN PLZ i don't care if they will help me score with Jenny Mcarthy i want the harmful cigarettes that i smoke fully knowing they are bad for me.
if you are gonna raise a moral issue about the products we consume knowing full well they are not healthy for us why just single out cigarettes? why not demonize the candy industry giving diabetes to ppl? or the fast food industry for contributing to the obesity problem?
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What a bunch of bull. I'm sorry, but eating candy and fast food is not 100% proven to cause diabetes or obesity. You can have it everyday for a year and as long as you exercise, there's no problem.
Smoking cigarettes is not the same thing. It IS 100% proven to cause lung cancer, lung disease, it is detrimental to your arteries, etc...
My granddad smoked everyday for two or three years when he was a teenager, then stopped when he got married. And now,
40 years later he's had to have 2 surgeries to place stents in arteries in his legs due to damage to the arteries from smoking.
Also, eating candy and fast food in the vicinity of other people does not affect other people.
Standing next to someone smoking IS detrimental to other people–a fact well supported by science for decades.
I understand that this thread is for bitching, but don't expect people to buy what you are saying.
Also also, E-cigs are pretty cool looking actually, I must admit. They do not have tar either, so you can probably add a few decades to your life by smoking them instead of normal cigs. At least, until the nicotine addiction ruins your life.