We Get It Smoking Kills
@crossbones27 (52905)
Mojave, California
August 16, 2015 11:34am CST
Society, please do what you have to do. Do not want people to smoke in public. That includes the city streets. Businesses want to discourage people from smoking by not having any smoking sections for their employees. Have at it. Their business to do what they please with it. Certain stores do not want to sell cigarettes. All fine and dandy to me.
Teach kids about all the bad ingredients and thousands of chemicals that are from smoking. That is all good. My point is I am 39 or will be here shortly. I know everything that is in a modern day cigarette. I smoke outside in my own house. If I smoke in public... It is away from other people. I know it can kill you. I do not need to be reminded every two minutes of the harm it can cause. I am reminded every time I buy cigarettes. Some of us just enjoy smoking as crazy as that sounds. My body, my decision.
It drives healthcare costs up. Simple solution to that also. Make people who smoke pay out of pocket or just do not get covered for treatment that is caused from smoking. Our price to pay for wanting to smoke. Just please stop telling us things we already know. They sure do not seem to have a problem with smoking when they get all that tax money. Of course, I only speak for myself. Teach your kids not to smoke, but grown adults should be allowed to make their own decisions as long as it is not harming anyone else. My rant for the day.
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@rusty2rusty (6771)
• Defiance, Ohio
16 Aug 15
I have no issue with smokers in general. I hate when a parent lights up in the vehicle with kids strapped in a car seat. Those kids don't have a choice. The adult does. I have some family who do not care and will light up anywhere.
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@crossbones27 (52905)
• Mojave, California
17 Aug 15
That is true adults choose and kids do not. Some people are just disrespectful like that.
@Rollo1 (16676)
• Boston, Massachusetts
16 Aug 15
With only 20% of the population smoking, and considering the fact that it takes 40 years of smoking (on average) for them to develop lung cancer (about the same age that everyone else is also using up lots of health care because they have diseases of old age - diabetes, cholesterol, etc) I don't really believe that it is a major driver of healthcare costs. It's a piddling drop in the bucket. But that's the line, that's the spiel, that's what they teach everyone to recite to you. Do what you want, it's a free country - well, mostly free, at least for now.
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@crossbones27 (52905)
• Mojave, California
17 Aug 15
You have a point have to keep that money rolling in,
@SIMPLYD (90717)
• Philippines
17 Aug 15
Smoking is an adult's discretion . But it's really should be prohibited for children.
@yukimori (10193)
• United States
16 Aug 15
I agree that it's your body, and your decision. It's not one that I personally understand, but if you choose to smoke that's your business.
I have relatives who are heavy smokers. They're currently quite mad at me because I won't allow them to be around my kids, and part of the reason is the smoking. They exposed me to second- and thirdhand smoke when I was a child. I had no choice, but I do when it comes to my kids. I choose to protect my kids from those toxins, even if it means they don't have contact with relatives who smoke.
Too extreme? Maybe. It's something I feel very strongly about, though.
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@crossbones27 (52905)
• Mojave, California
16 Aug 15
Yep, I am not sure why people want to smoke around kids anyway. People can still visit people without smoking around their kids. I do it all the time and funny because sometimes their kids did not even know I smoked until their parents tell them. Same with adults too. It is usually people that come into my smoking area. That is their choice also because they know or can see I am smoking. They just tell me it does not bother them.
