Question about smoking?

Question

In what aspect of modern life have attitudes changed in recent years? can you compare and contrast these changes, and also describe the old attitudes and new ones?
i really need some opinions about old attitudes and the new ones of public somking for my school project, plese give me some help.
thank you so much

Answer 1

Back in the "olden days," most people did not know of the side effects of smoking. Now that medical advances and plain experience have allowed us to recognize these symptoms, doctors have publicized these statements and most people have taken to the notion that smoking isn't the healthiest thing in the world to do.

Answer 2

Smoking used to be cool until health officials made the public aware of how bad it is for you. Then smoking became stupid. I am 44 years old. I started smoking when I was about 15. I quit 6 months ago because the thought of dying young of lung cancer was always haunting my thoughts. I found about this new med called Chantix and my doctor prescibed it to me. It worked and I haven't smoked after I started taking the Chantix for a week. Google Chantix if you want to find more about it. Now-a-days, there are more things to make quitting easier...the nicotine patch, nicotine gum, hypnotism. etc. I found Chantix better because it is not a nicotine substitute. It blocks the receptors in the brain that control nicotine enjoyment. Now I detest cig smoke. I make my 21 yr old son and his girlfriend stand out in the cold to smoke. Me and my husband don't want to smell the cig smoke. He started taking Chantix also and quit. No I am not a Chantix smokeperson, though I should be.

Answer 3

When my mother was 16, her parents gave her a cigarette and a cup of coffee as a symbol of adult sophistication. It was not only considered socially acceptable to smoke, but was seen as a positive. Even though at this time (in the late 1930's) people did know that smoking wasn't very good for you, it was seen more something like a cup of coffee or a single drink. By the time I was a teenager in the 1960s, my mother gave up smoking and would have killed me if she had known that I started! Fortunately, I quit at 19. By then, smoking was seen as a rebellious bad habit. By now, it is seen as harmful, not only to the smoker, but to anyone who comes in contact with the second-hand smoke.

Answer 4

Views on smoking have become "Nazi-ized" in nature. They portray in commericals that they care for your health with second hand smoke, but they don't care at all. What they're implementing is an agenda that wants to control every avenue of our lives. Second hand smoke hasn't in the past or even today harmed as many people as they portray it does. But of course someone complains about it and the people in this country want to be so politically correct and are so afraid of offending someone they ban smoking from all public places, beaches, and in San Francisco they want to ban people from smoking in their own ******* houses!!! It's a Nazi control grid movement, it has nothing to do with health.