SMOKING: YES OR NO? Why or why not?

Question

Smoking, yes or no, why or why not. Points go to whomever has the best theroy + a websight to back it up.

Answer 1

A big emphatic NO to smoking. Why?

My mother died from smoking related lung cancer this past February. She died a horrible, painful death. She had been a smoker since she was 18 or so. She quit when she was in her late 50s or early 60s. When my father passed away unexpectedly in 1997, she took it up again. She died at the age of 74.

At the time of her death, she weighed less than 80 lbs. She was hooked up to an oxygen tank and had a morphine pump. She was also taking other drugs to counter any pain.

It was just horrible to watch her waste away.

If that isn't a decent argument (I really don't' care about the points), I don't know what is.

DON'T EVER START!!! Give yourself a break- give yourself many more years of life! Don't smoke.

Answer 2

I live where they've put some pretty strict limits on where people can smoke. I personally am happy about this and my reason is because I have asthma and at times going out to eat or having to be in an office or someplace I couldn't leave right away and being exposed to the smoke would cause me to have an asthma attack. Sometimes a minor attack, but sometimes I would end up in the ER. No one can look at another person and tell if they have respiratory problems unless they're actually hauling around an oxygen tank with them. You just never know how harmful your smoke could be to another person.

Answer 3

It's not the tobacco that is the worst part of smoking it's the chemicals they treat the tobacco with that gives people cancers. In the website I chose, this lady has had a lung removed. A LUNG! She now considered herself lucky to be alive and she was, because so many people die from smoking. This lady eventually died from smoking when the cancer from her lung metastasized in her brain and adrenal gland.

I was raised in a house filled with cigarette smoke. I was a smoker on and off for years and years. I smoked when I was happy, sad, bored, excited, after a meal, before a meal, in place of a meal, to celebrate being with friends, to give me something to do when I was nervous around other people, and on and on. It's hard to quit. But I did it, because once you start feeling your lungs hurting, you get past the fact that it's hard to quit. You should not have to feel your lungs EVER. It is a rare person who can smoke for 50 years and not experience cancer and those numbers continue to go down and the death rate rises. Smoking kills, period. It is proven time after time.

Smoking: NO.

Answer 4

Yes.

In most public places today (office buildings, restaurants, malls, grocery stores, etc.) smoking has become banned. If someone is concerned about second hand smoke because they walk past a smoker who is standing outside the entrance to a building that they (the non-smoker) has to enter, to me that's ridiculous. I SERIOUSLY doubt that the *teeny* bit of smoke they inhale in these circumstances is going to cause them to die a horrible, painful death from lung cancer. I think these militant anti-smokers should be more concerned about the noxious fumes they breathe in daily from dump trucks, city busses, factories, oil refineries, automobiles with broken mufflers, etc.

Second hand smoke is a concern when a non-smoker LIVES with a smoker. I don't hear any of these people complaining. It's always the people who (as I said earlier) have to walk past a smoker outside of a building who are the most vocal about it.

Sorry--no website to share. This is my personal opinion. :/

Answer 5

Smoking-NO
I do not have a website, but the cigarette makers have the
warning on the carton and that should be a caution flag for you.
I have not smoked (tried once) and I do not look as old and
wrinkley as my friends do. I do not have a cough and I can
beat you running anywhere. Maybe the long term positive
effects will win this delima. Make the best decision, you'll
know what to do.

Answer 6

Sure why not...If it makes you happy. On average you give away 5-6 years. With global warming, natural disasters, countries at war...smoking should be the least of your worries. I know a 94 year old man who smokes and he loves it...Who am I to tell him no? It works for him...Hell, you could die crossing the street. I don't smoke but I'm probably more likely to die from a drunk driver than second hand smoke...People need to lighten up.

Today’s 60 year old male non-smoker can expect to live, on average, until he is almost 84, but if he smokes that age reduces to just over 79. A female non-smoker of the same age has an average life expectancy of just over 87, which falls to just under 81 if she smokes.

Besides, who wants to live to a hundred...not me...

Answer 7

No. This is just my personal experience. I despise cigarrettes!!! I can't be near them, touch them, and the smell...it's just too much for me. I've been like this my whole life, it's like the aversion is in my blood, I just can't stand cigarrettes, I think it's disgusting and ultimately absurd. I simply don't get the concept of holding that thing between you fingers and then inhaling this substance, with the purpose of what? Another useless invention of men. I guess it's too abstact for me.

Answer 8

NO NO NO...It is the ugliest habit ever. The best looking person in the world can smoke and quickly become the ugliest! Not to mention your health!

http://www.odq.qc.ca/dossiers_sante/tabagisme_en.html - - click where it says photo in red letters on this page

http://www.finalsmoke.com/whyquit.html

Answer 9

No. I am assuming that you mean tobacco.

1. Who is stupid to burn money?
2. It destroys one's health (contains more than 20 poisons)
3. It is addictive.

Other smoking, "NO" to them also!!!

Answer 10

No, becuase you die way younger then your supoosed to, your lungs get all black and ugly, you can get all sorts of cancer, your teeth get all yellow and ugly, and your sex drive will not work anymore