If you do smoke, why do you smoke?
do you believe the health warnings ?
2006-12-21 23:29:49 · 30 answers · asked by andylefty 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Burny, good luck!!
I quit 2 years ago after 20 years of smoking, its a lot easier to quit than you might think.
after 3 days you will have no nicotine left in your body & you go on from there day by day...
2006-12-21 23:36:00 · update #1
\\preach and moan and whinge about how much damage we smokers are doing to their health//
I don't want to do that, simply put its your choice to smoke if you want to.
2006-12-21 23:38:54 · update #2
Unfortunately, I do smoke. I started smoking when I was 16 and did not pay any attention to the warnings. Smoking is one of the hardest behaviors to quit.
I do believe the health warnings. Smoking is nasty and nobody should start. I wish they would just ban tobacco sales.
2006-12-21 23:33:23 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
Yes, I smoke and have done for about 30 years.
Why?
Apart from the fact that it's an addiction, it's also an act of rebellion. We all know the potential health risks, but it's become a bit like a born-again-breather Jihad, with the amount of holier-that-thou preaching we get. Some years back, we knew when it was unacceptable to smoke for health or courtesy reasons, but we've been educated to hell-and-gone on the health issues that it's pointless to tell us anymore. And anti-smoking Nazi's don't pay us the common courtesy to smoke - even if we go outside in the rain/snow/wind to do it. I once worked in a company(40% smokers) where the anti-lobby complained that we weren't doing as much work because we took smoke-breaks. Yeah right - while they were playing solitaire and making personal phone-calls on company lines.
The health warnings are real, but over-stated.
Our government lies to us.
They tell us that smoking is a sin.
Is that a lie, too?
2006-12-22 07:44:37 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I smoke, and I'm a nurse, so I've heard all the warnings. I don't lecture my patients, though. It's an adult choice.
When someone starts yarking at me about smoking, I point out the following: I don't drink, I never use recreational drugs, I don't hit women, molest children or run over small animals in the road. I've never hit someone who didn't try to hit me first, and I've never fired a shot in anger. In the long run, the only person hurt by my smoking is me ( I really don't buy the second-hand smoke stuff. I think they cooked the numbers.. a LOT. Besides, if you drive a car, use a gas stove or a wood-burning fireplace you're also being exposed to second-hand carbon monoxide. But no one wants to ban those things). In the greater scheme of things, considering all of the things I could be, being a smoker seems pretty harmless. So live and let live.
2006-12-22 07:42:08 · answer #3 · answered by link955 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes I do. I enjoy smoking and have been for 26 years.
I tend to ignore the health warnings - because I am fully aware of the effects of smoking.
Personally, I do not drink alcohol - I hate the smell of it, and the effect that it has on people, (in my opinion there is nothing worse than boozy breath!).
At the end of the day it is all about choice - isn't it?
2006-12-22 07:58:34 · answer #4 · answered by Claire S 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I gave up 15 years ago, unlike an old school friend who didn't give up until he was diagnosed with lung cancer. He will not go back to cigarettes as he died two years ago.
Cigarette health warnings are one of the few things from the government that I do believe.
2006-12-22 07:37:13 · answer #5 · answered by Clive 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes because I enjoy it. I know the health warnings. They say the same thing about everything else. Even stuff they claim was healthy once is actually deadly. In the late 1800s pharmacies actually sold Uranium to make your water radioactive under the guise that it would relieve stomach discomfort.
2006-12-22 07:34:12 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Yes and I wish I could stop b-cuz I do believe in the warning..My Mom died from lung cancer..........and I still cant seem to put them down! It's a gross,expensive habit that leaves your breath stinky-teeth yellow-clothes and car and house smelly and eventually it will take your life ! All I can say is that if you dont smoke DONT START ! .It's easier to never start than it is to try to quit..
2006-12-22 07:36:48 · answer #7 · answered by pammi_b 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I used to smoke ,did not take any notice of health warnings ,even tho i knew they are true, got bladder cancer ,stopped smoking, feel healthy, beat the cancer ,but only just. So the warnings are 100% true.
2006-12-22 11:22:45 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
People are strange in that you will ignore a warning on a side of a packet of tabs but go potty about drinking a pint a milk thats is over that sell by date, or washing that garment in a washing machine that says "dry clean only".
2006-12-22 07:36:01 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
i dont smoke. ive tried smoking cigarettes, cigars and weed. they all give you cancer, and all dry up your vocal chords so you cant sing! (if youre a singer like me this is really annoying.) however if youre under 30 and smoke, thats not as bad as you may think! if you give up smoking before 30, provided you havent a heart attack or got cancer yet, can save your lungs and lungs by stopping - scientists think if you give up before youre 30 your body should be able to completely recover (in a 5 years or so.)
2006-12-22 08:54:36 · answer #10 · answered by john9999999 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋