If you think smokers are selfish then how do you feel about?

Question

non-smokers benefitting from the profits made by their usage and the tobbacco companies.
Get real people, stop being greedy, ignorant and whose money is being spent anyway.

We are all slaves to something !

Answer 1

well done

Answer 2

Well said. When half the money you are paying for cigarettes goes to the government I don't see why people are complaining. I mean in one year a smoker is probably paying AT LEAST $700 in taxes on cigarettes. Multiply that by millions of smokers and that is a hell of a lot of tax money that nonsmokers don't have to pay every year. I don't see why everyone has such a problem with smokers. In the state I live you can't smoke within 50 ft of a public entrance, much less inside. I know not every place is like that, but it won't be long. Plus when I smoked I was always very conscientious towards non smokers. Maybe I'm the only one, but I doubt it.

Answer 3

I am not a smoker but do defend the right for those that choose to smoke.

When burning leaves or any other form of trash is illegal and enforced lawfully entirely throughout the country then, only then, would I denounce smoking in public and not a day sooner.

One person burning one pile of leaves in the fall permits more smoke into the air than one person smoking cigarettes for a lifetime. Yet, how often do we hear people say the smell of burning leaves is a pleasant smell of the fall season...?

Restraunts have the ability to provide safe and isolated smoking areas as well as lounges so why must smoking be banned entirely in a community. We do have machines such as ion precipitators that filter smoke one hundred percent, why are they not required instead of totally banning smoking...?

Many people live a full life and even beyond 75 years of age while still smoking, so why should they be denied their privilege for the sake of the status quo...?

For those that suffer allergies and asthmatic problems, I sympathize with you, but I don't think the world should be changed because you have the problem and not everyone else...!

If people would realize the problems caused by smoking is not of tobacco itself but is of the chemical additives the manufactures blend into tobacco then perhaps we would be taking the right initiative to correct a situation rather than ban smoking entirely.

There are more deaths, injuries and medical expense relative to alcohol consumption, so why is tobacco getting all the heat when alcohol is truly the worst problem...?

It seems we have too many femme-nazi groups making a stink stronger than tobacco smoke that should be home tending to chores instead of bleeding their senseless laments to the US Congress and the media...!

It's quite obvious that tax dollars are the real interests and those on the no-smoke bandwagon are the incentive to take advantage of it.

Why then...not alcohol...?

Answer 4

Yes especially when you get told that you have a lung disease from passive smoking even though you have never smoked in your life.

Me I was told this last week and with everything else I have the outlook is not great.

But yes you are right we are all slaves to something. Though I'm just glad that people will not be allowed to be a slave to smoking in public places very shortly.

Think of the money most smokers will be saving by not buying fags..

Answer 5

What nonsense. I smoked 20 a day for 12 years until 2 months ago and I gave up because it is really anti social, you stink and you look older than everyone else. It also costs a fortune and puts chemicals that kill any vitamins in my body. The taxes are not helping us - smokers cost us a fortune by taking up the beds in hospitals and all the drains on the NHS anyway. I hated smoking because of all this. Give up - everyone is now before the ban....

Answer 6

I agree as much as a element with you. I do think of human beings who smoke initiate out attempting their first cigarette with a selfish purpose. a infant's interest would be because of the fact they see others do it and choose to be like them and widely used. whether, I do think of that we nonetheless stay in a loose society and united states of america the place a individual could desire to have the suited to smoke or not. i don't think of government, city government, could desire to dictate to somebody on what they are able to do and not do of their very own living house. a determination like that's a private one. that's wanting being authoritative over a individual and their very own lifestyles. i'm going with to not smoke because of the fact i won't be able to stand the smell. that's disgusting. I grew up with a father who smoked. He stop years in the past and continues to be alive and kicking to on the present time. together as I firmly believing in a individual being able make their very own judgements, including choosing to smoke, I additionally comprehend the different area of the argument besides. a individual has the suited to make their very own judgements in lifestyles not the government doing so. I do supply a smoker an prolonged distance of direction.

Answer 7

You have a good point and are right in what you say but I don't think that means that smokers aren't selfish for that reason.

Do any smokers smoke because they want other people to benefit from the tax revenue? or do they smoke because THEY want to smoke?

Answer 8

Is it not the other way around, the hospitals are full of people with smoking related diseases, so they pay toward the treatment they have as a result of smoking

Answer 9

Smoking creates more problems than your *** tax would pay for FACT.

And what could be more ignorant than continuing with a filthy habit that is killing you, making you less attractive, making you smell, rotting your teeth and costing you a small fortune - stop being a slave to ignorance.

Answer 10

The selfish smokers are the one's who don't give a damn about who they do it in front of!! we all have rights and if I choose not to passive smoke then good for me! :-)) and the one's who choose to do it whilst being pregnant!:-(

Answer 11

Smokers contribute to paying more taxes and employment for those working in tobacco companies.