If you had to choose between your life or a single cigarette-=?

Question

You would choose your life = right? I would = But we choose MANY cigarettes over our life >every time we light up? We are really choosing cigarettes over our life! Aren't we?

Answer 1

Yes, and it is insane. I will light another smoke in a few minutes knowing it is slow motion suicide! What kind of creatures are we?

Answer 2

your argument is illogical.
1) just because it's irrational to choose one cigarrete over life it does not follow that it is irrational to choose many cigarettes over life.

2) you are equivocating on the idea of choosing something over 'life'. in the first sense you talk about choosing a cigarette over life as if the one cigarette would END ones life immediately. but in the second sense you're talking about choosing many cigarettes over life in the sense of the many cigarettes over life.

for both those reasons your argument fails.

now to make a positive argument. a person could think like this

1) I get x amount of enjoyment from smoking cigarettes over my life
2) I can reasonably expect to die y # of years sooner by smoking those cigarettes
3) It is more important to me to gain the pleasure by smoking x amounts of cigarettes than on living y # of years
ergo, 4) I will smoke cigarretes.

Answer 3

Guess what toots everything in the world will kill you.

You get into your car how do you know you're not going to get into an accident and be killed? You chose the convenience of getting from point A to Point B over your life.

You go to work your choosing making money over your life.

Answer 4

It's an addiction. I am so glad I quit after only around 10 years at the age of 25. I can halfway understand our attitude when we are young, because our mortality doesn't seem real to us at that point. But the folks who continue to smoke as they get older - what are they thinking? I'm convinced that if you really want to quit, you will find a way. My brother quit after 40 years of smoking (and an emphysema diagnosis), it was very tough but he did it.

Answer 5

Yes, we are! It is quite shameful really and yes I am a smoker! I really think it is such a mindless habit for so many people...including me. It really is a stupid choice for many of us....however when we do it, it is such a habit (addiction) that we don't even consider NOT lighting up.
I think about it a lot and I can't quite figure out why I don't quit...it is really really lame!!

Answer 6

not really. I think people smoke because they dont process the thought of getting cancer from that one ciggarette, we see ourselves in the future and we dont think about getting cancer. you see a person on tv with cancer and guilting you to quit...but do you really see yourself being like her? most of us think it'll never happen to us..and so we go on smoking without a care in the world till we wake up one day to the shock of cancer.

but i have to say my grandfather smoked since he was 11 and he was poisoned from the dye in his socks. he apparently cut his big toe but being the strong giant he was he left it and it poisoned him...he died at age 95. smoking since 11 and dies of dye poisoning

it makes you wonder if smoking really does give you cancer..is there actual evidence that proves it gives you cancer

because we've all seen people that never smoked a day in their life, exercised reguarly and ate healthy food and still got cancer...

maybe its a virus and we just havent identified the virus that causes cancer

Answer 7

i got over it two years ago with the help of a nicotine patch. i now feel completely free of that addiction.


yahoo answers is another thing though.

Answer 8

You should see some of my patients that can barely breathe from chronic lung disease who still smoke. It's insane!

Answer 9

Perhaps, but good health is the surest way to a slow death...

Answer 10

Yeah, When i light up a , i think i killing my self, then i say myself 'this is the last one...' but i can stop killing my self....