Why are tobacco users so vilified in the modern world ?

Question

I was in an so called educational building this morning, it has a "smooking room" . I use this term advisedly, it was a smalll.. ( not much bigger than a single bed ) space, smelly , dirty with plastic seats, the uncomfertable type !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

no answer so far exolains the treatment of these addicts! ?

SO far there is a belief that I`am a smoker. I`am not. read the question!

Answer 1

You're not villified.

We just don't want to have your habit inflicted upon us.

Answer 2

I think it is because so many smokers have quit, so it seems fair to say that anyone who still smokes is weak and pathetic. It is the new morality order and it is sad.
I know a lot of people who would be dealing with life-threatening health problems right now and if not for their smoking to relieve their stress, they could have been dead already. Alternative medical doctors will tell you the same - if smoking handles your stress, then don't quit until you can find another relief..
What people don't realise is that tobacco is not really bad. It is all the chemicals the cigarette companies are putting into the packaged 20's which will harm you.
Smoking areas are horrific. I photographed as many as I could in the various International airports I had to be in. Hong Kong was really bad. It made me think that going inside that room was bad for my health! Narita (Tokyo) and Heathrow were the best.
Smokers ask for no pity. They run the risk and either quit or continue.
There will always be a scapegoat in society and a lot of bullshit propaganda goes into the programming of that. Right now, smokers are on the list with quite a few other "personal choice" issues.
Thing is, what is it all for? Two of my aunts smoked throughout their pregnancies and produced healthy, normal children. My father gave up smoking and died from a heart failure due to the stress he wasn't able to handle without the relief of the ciggy.
I thought Japan was the last refuge for dedicated smokers. It was until now. Suddenly the ventilated and spacious smoking rooms have been erased from the hospitals and sick people have to go outside to smoke. Doctors too. Is this not more damaging to the health? I am sure everyone has known a person who chain smoked all their lives and died at 90 or whatever.
Smokers are the new targets on the propaganda witch-hunt. Opium consumption was stopped because of political reasons, even though it helped to produce some of the finest literary works in the U.K.
Where do we go next? Politically speaking. It can't be coffee, because even though it was blacklisted for ages, it is back on the health list. Can't be fat either, as good types of fat are proved to be needed by the body. Eggs were out, but are now back in.
Who do you believe? So much brainwashing out there!
Let people smoke if they want to! Life is short anyway. You have to play hard and fast and just be happy. .
P.S. I was raised in a smoky environment and it did me no harm. And everyone with their head screwed on the right way knows the Govt. is backing someone with the power to try to unscrew it.

Answer 3

I used to think that, but then i used to smoke. Its one of those things...im sure murderers wonder why everyone gets so uptight when they kill people, lol. Just kidding, im not a "bitter" ex-smoker who still wants one like the desert wants water! I think the more unpleasant society makes it for smokers, the better. I decided to quit for two reasons: one, i had been smoking for ten years, which was just way too long, im not a teenager anymore, and its not cool. two, it is, as you say, getting really unfashionable. You cant smoke in public in a lot of countries, which i think is one of the best things any government can do. Its not the users who are being vilified really, its the product. And from the openminded perspective of someone who smoked ALOT, its a filthy habit. I would spend hours getting ready for a nite out, hair, makeup, classy clothes, and then light up a cig and ruin the whole feckin effort, cuz smokers stink like nothing else. Seriously, its rank. It smells SOOOOOO bad. Its choking. And thats just the first negative, im sure you know the rest, cancer, the fact cigs contain arsenic, etc. So generally, theyre looked down at cuz theyre fuckin deadly, and nobody should smoke.

Answer 4

Villified becuase they enforce smoking on others (passive smoking) who do not want to smoke.

It would be the same with anything else, if someone who drink went around spilling their drink all over you or forcing you to drink their drink people would feel the same. And yet that isn't even detrimental to your halth whereas smoking can be.

Some smokers are considerate, i.e they will go outside or away from other people. Others (and i'd probably have to say a large number) smoke carelessly around other people and children and then just throw their cigerette butts on the floor (even when bins are nearby).

You talk about the smelly ditry room, but to a non-smoker, when someone is smoking the vicinity they're in becomes dirty, smelly and unpleasent.

Answer 5

They are a convenient target, and, pardon the pun, an excellent smoke screen. The U.S. government has long attempted to control people and the smoking bans have been the most successful. They are taking away rights under the guise of benevolence. There is a thin line between smoker's rights and gun owners rights. In looking through history, we find other examples of governments being benevolent towards there people by instituting bans. Examine this translated quote and guess who spoke these words:
"1935 will go down in history. For the first time, a civilized nation
has full gun registration. Our streets will be safer, our police more
efficient, and the world will follow our lead into the future."

The date probably gives it away, Adolf Hitler. Hitler utilized the gun registration law to find legal gun owners and then, confiscate their weapons. The rest is History. So, the government is not vilifying the tobacco user, they are simply building a case for controlling your life.

Answer 6

Because it's a public health hazard which the government has a vested interest in reducing/eliminating, due to the enormous burden of cost and manpower it places upon society's system of medical care. People who smok ein public are also seen as inconsiderate, since they place getting their nicotine fix ahead of the health & well-being of those around them.

The best way to prevent undesirable behavior isn't to reward it, but rather to discourage it by making the consquences of such behavor unpleasant. Hence, the small, smelly rooms as opposed to the spacious clean areas that one could enjoy if NOT lighting up.

So...

Choice A = smoke, go into the nasty little closet

Choice B = don't smoke, enjoy the nicer areas

People are free to choose, but it's clear which option is the preferred one! It's not the people who are vilified, but the practice, the activity- and rightfully so.

Answer 7

It wasn't like that till it became a "smooking room" It is only now smelly and dirty. The good seats had to be replaced with ones that don't rot away with constant battering from your foul breath. incidentally the reason why it's small is that cancerous self-seekers who don't care about anyone only their nicotine "fix" are by far in the minority - the majority with will power have stopped and the non-smokers have a brain!

Answer 8

Because it is the most widespread 'socially accepted' habit that has been medically proven to increase people's chances of cancer, high blood pressure, heart disease, and a boat load of respiratory diseases.

In some countries there is something called National Health Insurance or a Social Healthcare System - and when people continue to smoke, flouting the costs of medical research and treatment for these diseases, placing a heavier tax burden on the rest of the society they inhabit....... well we just try to make it as uncomfortable as possible for them to enjoy their disgusting, dirty, anti-social, disease-ridden habit.

Perhaps the same conditions should apply to various other disgusting habits people continue to engage in - but one at a time right?

That good enough for you?

Answer 9

I don't know. I'm not a smoker & I don't particularly care for smokning in public places. But I do feel that tabacco companies are unfairly targeted. Cigarette & tabacco commercials aren't allowed on television, yet there are alcohol commercials. You can smoke a pack of cigarettes & get in a car & still be a safe driver, yet if you drink a 6pk or case of beer or any alcoholic beverage & you can get into a vehicle & possibly kill someone. Doesn't that make you think that there's some political agenda there?............. Just food for thought from a non-smoker & a social, yet responsible drinker.

Answer 10

Smoking is bad news for everyone.

Passive smoke inflicts harm on innocent bystanders.
The smoker inflicts grave harm upon themselves.
Smoking raises the cost of insurance for everyone.
Smoking screws the resale value of any place where it is practiced.

The reason the room was so bad is because it reflects what your life could become when smoking finally gets you.

Remember: Sooner or later everyone quits smoking.
It's your choice as to how and when.

Answer 11

If the smoke did not flow elsewhere with odor that permeates clothes and lungs other than your own then you would have freedom to kill yourself in every imaginable setting; but as that is not the case and more and more people begin to break the habit of smoking and acknowledge what tobacco and the industry that sells it have done to so many your "rights" get curtailed as they should