Being that obesity is now the number one killer in the US.
Obese as in 20 percent over their ideal weight(medicinenet.com)
2006-08-28 06:18:01 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
BTW: I don't dislike obese people and I do not smoke. Just trying to see past/through the contradictions of our society in the medical sense.
2006-08-28 07:02:44 · update #1
It's become politically correct to condemn smokers. It's ok to hurt smoker's feelings, but heaven help you if you hurt an obese person's feelings. I personally try not to come down on anyone, but that's not the popular view.
2006-08-28 06:22:55 · answer #1 · answered by mightymite1957 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
How do the obese get the nerve to criticize smokers?
Ahaha
There are not many targets to criticize any longer with correctness being a concern.
Everyone is so sensitive.
Smokers are still fair game though.
Fat folks have glandular or some other valid
concern that causes them to be obese so they say.Never mind the mass quantities of food they
consume, go figure.
Have a pleasant day.
2006-08-28 13:36:47 · answer #2 · answered by zurioluchi 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I guess because smoking is a little more optional than becoming obese. Everyone I know who smokes, a) started from their own choice and b) wants to give up! The difference is that I know no one who wants to be obese, but everyone I do know wants to give it up.
Perhaps it is because they realise how terrible it is to do something bad to your body like becoming obese or smoking and they just want people who have a choice to say no. That's the only counter argument to your point that I can think of. But for all the people who became obese through not caring or (deliberate) lack of exercise, well I think that is no better or worse than starting smoking.
2006-08-28 13:29:13 · answer #3 · answered by Chris 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The same way that a thin person may criticize an obese person. Do you feel that you are a better human being than the smoker or the obese? Maybe you are better than the deaf because you can hear and they cannot. Critical people are nothing more than high horse riders.
2006-08-28 13:30:50 · answer #4 · answered by Val 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
They shouldn't say anything to a smoker unless the smoker is infringing on the obese person's rights to be in an non-smoke area.
2006-08-28 13:22:33 · answer #5 · answered by Irish 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I have a really fat friend who gets really upset when she has to walk by smokers who are smoking in front of business entrances. Her being fat doesnt hurt me or you only her. But when a smoker puts themselves in an area where we have to breathe the smoke just to get by it affects everyone who walks by. Because second hand smoke is very bad and smoke stinks.
2006-08-28 13:28:40 · answer #6 · answered by 343535445 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Many people have weight issues because of health problems or medicines containing steroids. No one forced a smoker to smoke. Also, the behavior of the smoker affects many more people who also do not have a choice in the matter-everyone has to breathe.
2006-08-28 13:25:08 · answer #7 · answered by curiositycat 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
because obesity does not kill others, only themselves. Im neither a smoker nor obese. I i hate the smell of smoke and i sure dont like second hand smoke and i have watched people die of lung cancer, and that was not a pretty sight at all.
2006-08-28 13:23:41 · answer #8 · answered by thesunnshynne 5 · 3⤊ 2⤋
I quit smoking after 40 years......I am now getting obese because I eat so as not to smoke......Personally, I don't criticize anyone....I just pray for us all!
2006-08-28 13:27:37 · answer #9 · answered by Donna 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
You can not survive with out food but you can with out cigarettes.
You can also kill someone with second hand smoke along with yourself. No one that I have ever heard of has died from being around someone who is over weight...
So drop the ciggie and pick up a lolly pop...
"Who loves ya baby"
2006-08-28 13:34:31 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋