Why are drug addicts considered as victims while smokers are considered as villains?

Question

Hard drugs are illegal, yet facilities to use clean needles are available for addicts.
You are more likely to be mugged/burgled/assaulted by a drug addict than any other member of society.
Tobacco is sold legally. My generation was positively encouraged to smoke by allowing TV advertising for so long.
The (disputed) link between passive smoking and cancer does not worry as many people as the fear of being mugged/burgled by an addict or assaulted by a drunken yob.
What hypocrisy.

Do drug pushers force you to take your first fix. Or is it your choice to try it?
What rubbish.

Answer 1

I've thought that. Smack heads leave dirty needles in back alleys, lock up garages, and even play grounds. Yet they are never as villified as smokers are.

Smoking is banned in public places. What more do the 'anti' brigade' want?

Target anti smack, and anti crack - both dirty vile drugs that completely change the persona of the addict and make them into desperate pathetic selfish junkies.

While we're at it, stamp out crystal meths too. Have you seen what that drug doe's??

Answer 2

While we're on the subject, how come a drug like alcohol is absolutely fine socially, despite the suffering and anguish it causes, and weed isn't.

I mean, who gets stoned and wants to fight/smash up the place/ do anything other then sit down, eat and talk crap. I cant for the life of me see how the health problems caused by it are worse than alcohol, especially with the purely alcohol related violence on every high street on a Friday and Saturday night... but there we are.

But, to return to your question - you are quite right. There is a culture growing of rewarding people for making a mess of their lives, the welfare state supports people who, in many cases, cant be bothered to work, or for having children they cant support.

Drug users is a fine example of this paradox. Bless 'em they had a hard life so they turned to drugs. Its just another way of dodging responsibility. Do what you want to do, be it drugs or booze, but take responsibility for it, and for your actions as a result.

Once upon a time, when people DID'NT, the state would come down on you like a tonne of bricks, now it seems to not only allow it, but actively encourage it.

Anyway, got to go. Need a cigarette (can you tell?)

Answer 3

Hahaha....I worked community mental health for many years (which is nothing more than a warehouse for drug addicts who pretend they are mentally ill to sponge off the system). Anyway, the percentage of those people who smoked was 100%.

Answer 4

I don't haven't got a clue, but you know what? What I don't understand is why people get SO much praise when they have quit smoking or stopped taking drugs or stop being an alcoholic, what about the people who don't smoke, drink or takes drugs, ever? We get a 'Oh right.' Oh it grates me!

Answer 5

In my circle of friends smokers are addicts not villains, I quit
smoking 5 months ago and don't miss it at all, I smoked
for over 40 years of course I had help from the VA.they
gave me the patches and now cig. smoke is even worse
than poo poo smell to me.

Answer 6

Wov. ......... after a long time a good question ! ! ! !
smoking is start of any addiction. this is the first step towards the drugs. I don't know when our high officials will understand it and will ban the tobaco growing andwill launch a compaign against smoking. (I myself is smoker Ooopsss)

Answer 7

i agree....
i herald the day when all addictive vices especially drinking, are banned. you can't say one is ok but another isn't, like you say, it is hypocrisy. either ban them all, or legalise them all and don't complain about the consequences.
i think the drinking vs. smoking is the worst hypocrisy and a real sign of the times we are living in. ie. it is ok for israel to break the geneva convention but it is not ok for muslims in the middle east to be pissed off with the west meddling in their affairs. or it is ok for the US and Brits to lie to justify a war in iraq, but it is not ok for everyone else.
hmmmm, one could go on forever! suffice to say the stupidity of it is overwhelming, and no doubt will come to a head eventually.

Answer 8

More people smoke than do drugs. It's out there, in the open. You can see who is a smoker. You can't see who is an addict.

Know what, smokers are addicts too. I'd much rather have to hang out with a junkie coming clean than a smoker without a cigarette.

Answer 9

They see smoking as a choice, and drugs as a true addiction.

it is a double standard. It sucks.

Answer 10

tobacco is a hard drug(nicotine one of the most addictive substances) if it were illegal people would be mugging others for it too.