Whats wrong with smoking?!?

Question

Why should I stop smoking when other people get to drink? When people smoke they don't loose control of their state of mind and do stupid things? I say if smoking is illegal then drinking should be too just like all the other drugs out there. Sure I may ruin my lungs but people who drink ruin their liver and brain cells.

Answer 1

I agree. People are taught about the dangers of smoking from the time they are kids. If they want to smoke it is their choice. People need to stop complaining because it's the taxes that smokers pay on their cigarettes that produce a lot of funds for a lot of states. By the way, I'm not a smoker, but I am a firm believer that people should be able to smoke without having to listen to other people judge them for it.

Answer 2

Smoking is not illegal, except to those under 18. The reason smoking is banned in some places is because the the effects of second hand smoke to others. Non smokers should be able to enjoy a nice place to go without having smoke blown in their face or smelling it while they are enjoying their meal. They might as well be lighting up themselves. People get to drink because it is not banned in most cases. Other places may not choose to offer alcoholic beverages. Yes, you are ruining your lungs, but it is by your choice. If you continue to smoke, at some time or another you will develope cancer and deprive a loved one or your children of someone very dear to them.

Answer 3

You know, alcoholics aren't exactly "off the hook" either. It can equally be bad for you. But think about it this way when you have a cigarette, it's filling you're lungs with tar. However, when someone has one beer, they may feel tipsy or a little looser. However, they have direction of what they are doing and so do you. Smoking is very dangerous as is drinking but why should you care about what other people are doing? It's none of your business what other people are doing. And those other people do not care about what you do either. And why should alcohol be illegal when there are some very reasonable drinkers out there. Well, I only have one piece of advice for you left, quit smoking.

~queenpan1295

Answer 4

There is nothing wrong with smoking if it is your choice, so as long as you are aware of the dangers. Second hand smoke can also be a health risk for non smokers. Drinkers are allowed to drink, but not drink and drive, because they could hurt someone. Second hand smoke is the reason smoking is being outlawed in public places. Now, I'm a smoker and although many of the new laws really suck, I can understand them. I hate to think I'm forcing my bad habits on others with second hand smoke. If us smokers were more mindful of non smokers, maybe the government wouldn't have to step in and pass legislation.

Answer 5

When you smoke, you make others around you breathe it in and that's not fair to others. My Dad just had a heart attack recently and he did not smoke. However, he was taking in second hand smoke for years from my Mom. Every doctor mentioned him smoking and we had to keep saying he was not a smoker. I guess his arteries and lungs looked like a smoker because of his 50 years of living with second hand smoke.

Every time I visit a home where there's a smoker, I come home and my clothes reek like smoke. It's a gross and disgusting habit and anyone that smokes should stay away from non-smokers. If you want to smoke, smoke, but don't be inconsiderate and smoke around non-smokers. It's not fair to them.

Answer 6

Comparatively speaking, to alcohol, smoking is better - EXCEPT it is illegal. I know someone who got picked up for unpaid traffic tickets in Fair Oaks TX and now has a felony 3 conviction because he forgot about, according to the police report "a nickle bag of stems and seeds" in his boot when they took him to jail. Anywhere else this would have been dismissed, but in these little towns they want to set precedence. He had no priors and was 18 years old. Now he's a felon.......Yet I know someone else with 6 DWIs and he's still driving around drunk!

Answer 7

It stinks. Why are you justifying your vice by pointing at someone else's. It is up to you, if you feel like you should quit smoking to lengthen you life, then Kudos. But if you want to smoke it is your choice. But please be a respectful smoker and stay away from the front entrance of walmart and other places of business. I agree that drinkers are ruining their bodies, but so are you when you smoke.... I realize that both are addictions and people get sensitive in discussion. Good luck, I hope you quit for yourself.

Answer 8

Your right, drinking should be illegal. It's equally as bad as smoking. Btw, Smoking increases your risk for ANY disease. It lowers a certain vitamin that protects you from them. Maybe you should talk to someone and try to get a bill written to get drinking outlawed.

P.S. For everyone else, drinking hurts others too. Driving drunk kills others, being drunk gets you in fights. Sure drinking doesn't effect others if you stay away from society, but smoking doesn't hurt others as long as you confine yourself in your own room and smoke there. But they both hurt others emotionally. Knowing that a family member is slowly killing themself hurts others.

Answer 9

I don't think there's anything wrong with an adult doing what they want to as long as it doesn't interfere with another person, so smoke yes but don't smoke near anyone else and drink is ok but if that person becomes incapable of staying sober and is then abusive to others or threatening then that also is wrong

Answer 10

It's not about the next person's decision when it comes to what's best 4 you. Like u said, smoking eats your lung up,but also stains your teeth,makes your breath smell,and detiorates your body overall. It's straight up poison your smoking. Quit b4 it's really 2 late.