Why do people think smoking is "cool" ? It obviously is just killing people and giving them cancer.?

Question

Maybe someone that does not care about people and just worried about money is behind your little habit? Did you ever think about that

Answer 1

Did you ever think that smokers are sick to death of being lectured about our choice to pursue a perfectly legal activity?

I'll make this really easy for you to understand.

There are plenty of things that are bad for you.

- Exhaust fumes, but I'm guessing that won't stop you from driving or riding in cars.
- Fast food (cholesterol) but I'm guessing that won't stop you from eating it.
- Salt, grease, fat, etc.
- Caffeine ... drink pop or coffee lately? How about tea?
- Alcohol .... kills your liver, alters brain activity, causes more deaths in a single year from drunk driving accidents than most small wars)
- Hair spray, aerosol material, numerous other household products.
- Most brands of paint
- Inhaling dust particles

Get the idea?

If a smoker chooses to smoke, as an adult, they have every LEGAL right do so without being hounded by hypocrites who preach about the dangers of smoking yet hop in their cars and pollute the air.

Answer 2

I have cancer of the larynx which is normally attribued to smoking but people find it strange when I do not hold cigarette smoking as the culprit behind my problems. I smoked as I enjoyed smoking and not just because it was an addiction. When I got the cancer six years ago, everyone went on about my smoking and thought I was crazy as I went through my entire initial medication - radiation and chemo smoking as usual - 10 to 15 a day. I then gave it up more out a pressure from my family then anything else. I find it strange that everyone feels smoking will lead to cancer. If this were so, I do think cancer would be most wide spread disease in the world. Aids would not come even close. Do look up and browse the net and find me one site that claims they have complete proof that smoking causes cancer. Yes smoking does create problems later in life - such as with your lungs, breathing, stamina, thickening of your arteries etc. but nowhere will you find a statement from any well known medical site that smoking causes cancer.
As I said people think I am wierd but that is the truth. I was a smoker so I got cancer - both my brothers and cousins are smokers and they never got it - why? The doctor who treated me attributed my cancer to lifestyle - voice abuse.
People use smoking as a excuse for cancer- to put off people from smoking which I feel is a great thing that they are doing as it does do harm and it irritates other people . I am in agreement that smoking should be banned for social reasons but not because it causes cancer. If so ban drinking as well as drinking is also supposed to be a cancer forming addiction.

Answer 3

Did you know that almost 85% of the food you eat is laced with cancerous additives, preservatives and chemicals? Guess what, You're body wasn't designed to handle this massive overload of chemicals and cannot release it in the normal fashion, It then manifests itself into Cancer, Diabetes, obesity, hair loss, "common cold"..the list is infinite. Look at the statistics Smoking has gone down BUT the percentage of people getting various forms of cancer has dramatically increased. Most countries in Europe have banned most of the Chemicals and artificial additives that the U.S still uses in EVERYTHING. The only safe food is Organic food. Did you ever think about money grubbers and the pharmaceutical companies being behind your sickness and addiction to food? There should be a label on every box of cheerios, Twinkies, stoufers...everything that you can find in a grocery store. What about them?

Answer 4

I think you have some issues you need to deal with. Sounds like you may be paranoid...."someone that does not care about people and just worried about money is behind your little habit" that sounds like a paranoid statement to me. If you are not a smoker than do not worry about why people smoke. If you do not like smokers then stay away from them. But smoking is not the only killer out there and smoking is not the only way you get cancer...So deal with your own issues before worrying about someone else's...

Answer 5

Most long term smokers do not think it's cool. They are addicted and they don't care about impressing people. Kids think it's "cool" to take risks. It's the same reason they drink, try drugs, speed and don't wear seat belts. Unfortunately, not caring is "cool". I have known a number of younger people who still think it's cool to smoke even though they are addicted. They seem to think it shows the world how extra stressful their life is. Like they've got it so much worse than everyone else so they need to smoke. It's similar to when people (mostly kids) brag about being alcoholics or try to out do each other with depression/suicide stories. It shows how "hardcore" they are.

Answer 6

What smoking does to the body is give the brain a boost, so thats why people think its cool! However when it wears off it causes fatigue and depression so the person is quick to smoke another cigarette so as to avoid this feeling.
The nicotine that's present in cigarette's is one of the most addictive drugs known to medicine. What it does is cause the nervous system to release adrenaline in the blood. This adrenaline increases heart rate,c onstricting blood vessels and prromotes heart attacks.
Tar, which is also a component in cigarettes thichkens the epithelium of the bronchioles that spreads throughout the lungs by causing rapid cell division, it is thi rapid cell division that causes lung cancer.
I think people just dont care anymore, they look at things and say-oh, well i'm gona die anyway. However i think if we are able to rub it into their faces everyday...they'll probably give a damn!

Answer 7

Smoking coolness derives from social skill enhancement and permission to "take it easy" while taking a break and similar to alchohol, to protest the status quo. Ever heard of a "smoke break"? It is more acceptable to society than "Lets take a break!". Much of the smoking habit has been picked up by the cool people in cool circumstances, for instance war....soldiers, servicemen....in and around combat, where they were sometimes drafted into terrible wars and then Uncle Sam, in days gone by, purchased them to calm the nerves. Cigarette smoking is something you usually do while you communicate. It is a magic wand that you move around at the same time you talk, that you have to be careful with that you don't burn yourself or anyone else while you do it, hence you are seen by others as being capable of handling danger as it were? And a cigar, well that is more manly...more fire, more danger etc ...of course right into drugs that are smoked also. Today's society is filled with pressures of change. For industry workers, there is more and more potential of this dangerand exposure to long term dangers such as toxins and the like, so cigarettes match the mastering of the danger behavior. A cigarette is a hypnotic device. When you talk and move it around, especially when you have to try hard to enunciate your words with a side of your mouth, it gives people the impression that you are trying harder than them and that you must really know something more, because of that effort illusion. Cigarette smoking pushes your body a little harder, puts a load on the respiratory system and the body in general, so that with this load, you are brought from a tolerant sleepy mode, into action, so you are ready to load your body up with the next task, matched effort stream as it were. In case of a chemical spill that would displace oxygen, regular smokers have been shown to tolerate low oxygen environments because their bodies are used to low oxygen environments and the toxins from the cigarettes. Cigarettes match the environmental dangers of mining, ship work, general laborer work, high stress office work where there is competition to move up the ladder etc. Cigarette smoking places you in a denial mode often because people tolerate your bossiness and crankiness if you haven't had a cigarette....it becomes a good excuse for others to give you your way. Your sense of urgency becomes both an intimidation and a sympathy issue at the same time. So as you can see, cigarette smoking is cool from the perspective that the illusion of your roller coaster ride on earth in life is enhanced to allow you to appear to be more active, even when you are not, and to place yourself in denial....of the hazards of it and most other things that are hazardous in your life...charging on as it were, makes you a keener thinker under pressure, or at least appearing to because of the magic wand effect and tolerance in the old days of a smokey room environment when the non smokers would "choke" as it were. Cigarette smoking links smokers with their adolescent lifetimes and a rebellious nature that they are attempting to control because that is when most of them picked up that habit, either then or in the military, so it makes them feel young. So when you think of all these advantages and how smokers mix so well in their breaks and parties with other smokers and how they begin to drink alchohol and smoke and eventually use drugs too challenging even more their stability and their bodies while doing their life's work, they are cool. They have more things under control than non smokers, or at least they appear too, and all they have to do is belong to some social organizations that have many people doing this and they have the perfect reason to push around those that don't smoke and do all the work and just stay in denial that they do this and point the finger at those that don't and say ...."you have freedom of choice" hanging on to a few tenants of their organizational belief system, talking out of the side of their mouths and justifying their successes for the rest of the illusion of the rest of their lives! It is a great habit wouldn't you say? Only thing that can stop this is the military and insurance companies. But will they? I mean it does make your life to appear easier, til later on, right?

Answer 8

its true. smoking starts by being cool, but after a while it gets an addication and if you are a heavy smoker you will get problems. Its sad!

Answer 9

yes its a bad habit everything nowadays is killing people may as well die happy

Answer 10

I asked a similar question a while ago and got some 'human rights' type answers. People think they have the right to kill themselves and pollute the environment for everyone else. I guess they're just stupid.