Why do people insist on telling me smoking takes away 10years of my life?

Question

Given that

a) I already know, and

b) It's the crappy ten years at the end that I don't particularly want anyway.

Why do they bother?

Answer 1

Because there are some people who just can't help poking their noses into other people's business. It gives them something to do and they probably have a nice warm self-righteous feeling afterwards. Ooooh don't get me started! Take, for instance, the idiot who I'd never seen in my life before, who banged on my front door the other night at 10pm to demand from me an explanation as to why I hadn't cut my hedge. I told him "because it's 10 o'clock at night and the hedge clipping noise might annoy the neighbours" and shut the door in his stupid face. It didn't seem to satisfy him though. There's no pleasing some people. You just have to learn to live with it. The stress of their nosy-parkering will, I suspect, take more than 10 years off THEIR lives. Either than or they will find themselves shuffling off their mortal coil at the end of a baseball bat.

Answer 2

For the same reason Truth spends millions of dollars on advertising every year while using veiled profanity in their WATDAFXUP campaign when they could be donating that money to cancer research etc..They're trying to annoy you into quitting.Nobody ever took a drag of a cigarette for the first time and said"dam,that hurt like hell this must be good for me.No pain no gain right?It's true that it could make those last ten years a little more unbearable but at least you can have a drink and a smoke to dull the stress and pain.The only time anyone will quit anything like that is when they've made the decision they want to.It makes people feel superior by discrediting you for something that they don't do.Just slap them and tell them to be more concerned with their own life even if quitting would make you healthier now.Some of the negative effects manifest themselves almost immediately.

Answer 3

Because the crappy ten years at the end will always be there. If you live to 80, the last ten years are crappy. If you only live to 50 because of smoking then the years 40 to 50 will be crappy. If you have that attitude with other stuff then the entire rest of you life will be crappy. Maybe your life is crappy already.

Answer 4

LOL how do you know they will be crappy you might be the exception that gets killed at 90 scaling Mt Everest. Oh but then you smoke so your lung capacity wont allow that. OK well then never mind die of emphasima or lung cancer then both I hear are realtively pain free ways to go. (well not really actually fighting for air to breath is a horrible way to go)
Enjoy that smoke

Answer 5

Well, maybe because they care about you.

But believe me smoking does more than just knock off some extra years at the end of your life. It can also seriously effect your quality-of-life leading up to the end. Just ask an emphysemic, cancer patient, cardiac cripple, stroke patient, etc., how their lives were effected for YEARS before they ultimately died from smoking...not to mention the cost involved.

Answer 6

It's a form of secular preaching. Personally, I started twenty years ago so i guess the damage is done. The secret to giving up is that you have to want to. I don't.
Got any beer while we're on the nasty topics? (oh no, sorry can't join you in one, I've had three pints already this year).

Answer 7

I don't know about that, but I've heard that for every puff someone takes off of a cigarette, it lessens their lifespan a minute more each time. Maybe the person who is telling you this is someone that just cares about you very much and wants you to be around in this world with them for as long as possible. Maybe you should listen, good friends are hard to find in today's world.

Answer 8

I've just got to say...cancer does not cause these problems, it just makes you more subseptible,..if your gonna get cancer your probably gonna get it if you smoke or not...all it does is raise your chances of getting it...emphasyma..yea it does cause it, but people who don't smoke get it all the time, and people are also born with it explain that...heart disease...yup it can cause that too..but so can hereditary and a bad diet..oral cancer isn't extreemly common with ciggerett smokers but still possible...but hey...it's still common in non smokers...

Answer 9

let them say n talk everyone is good by givin u advice but no 1 is ready to do it they just like talkin as if cigarette is their only enemy n they forgot about the chemicals things or the un healthy junk food n if its for me i dont need the 10 years with that kind of ppl

Answer 10

Because they actually care about your health - like you should.
Smoking does not just cut your life span but makes you very sick and very vulnerable to cancer.

Think about it seriously!