Is Smoking worth all the damage it does to your body? Isn't it a very slow painful form of suicide?

Answer 1

I try to keep away from anyone that smokes and with the smoking ban over here in the UK, i find it terribly rude when people stand outside the pub or restaurant and smoke their face off. I think it's incredibly, terribly rude to smoke around others that don't smoke, especially if it's someone you know. At least go out the house.
Everybody that smokes that I know of, has died.
My Mum's friend died.
My great-grandad died.
Loads of people die from it and i'm sorry to say, that it's their fault. Nobody forced them to smoke them cigarettes. They bought the cigarettes with their own money, and they held it to their lips.
It isn't worth it at-all.

Answer 2

I guess that it could be called suicide, for the chances of losing your life to it are indeed a decent amount.

Whether or not its worth it is up to the person who chooses to participate in such things.

To me, its a willful choice(but of course maybe only at first, before its a mental addiction) to participate in an action that depletes your overall health for no practical purpose. People might say it relieves stress or something of that nature, but there are several thousand non-detrimental ways to let stress out effectively and not damage your own well-being in the process.

I do not smoke, but I don't hold smoking against other people; its their own choice to make. Its their life, the most precious belonging they own in this world, and if they want to self-depreciate their own body by damaging it willingly, then that is fine by me, I won't complain or stop them.

But for me, for my life, which is precious to me, I will do all I can to preserve and fortify my well-being.

I hope that I have answered your question, and about the suicide part, with the way you word it here, it is indeed a slow form of suicide, or at least potentially.

Life in every breath, I say. Not smoke. But if smoking is what makes your life worthwhile to you, then go for it. But for me, my life is full and wonderful without it.

In service,
Jake Adams

Answer 3

I sense that you are anti-smoking, so I'm going to give you a two-sided answer.

My dad was in the military when he started smoking. Over the years, he's tried almost everything on the market including the pill that makes you throw up if you smoke and psychosis. He's addicted. And he can't break the addiction, no matter what. In general he's healthy, and his lungs are strong.

My mom was 16 when she started smoking. When she was 62, she began complaining that she couldn't breathe. Since the air conditioner wasn't working, we didn't think it was a bad sign. Then I listened to her cough--it was full of congestion and mucus.

When we finally sent her to see her family dr., she was expecting bronchitis, maybe pneumonia. She got stage 4 lung cancer. We did everything we could to heal her, but she was miserable, and we were powerless to change that. She died at home with Dad holding one hand and me holding the other.

She drowned. She had mucus and fluid in her lungs and not enough strength to cough it up. It was a terrible death, traumatic to everyone involved.

She too, was an addict who tried everything to quit, but failed each of the 100 times she tried.

So the message is--don't get started because you won't be able to quit.

TX Mom
These stories are true

Answer 4

It's not a matter of rationality. It's addiction. Now, I don't completely believe that addiction is a disease but I can accept it as an emotional disorder that is very hard to overcome. I mean, ask a fat person if eating that cheeseburger is worth that gut they have. Skinny people can't understand why fat people just don't just lose weight and non-smokers can't understand why smokers just don't quit. It's all an emotional problem.

Answer 5

Sure, you can consider it that way. But so is drinking too much. I think people give smoking way more flak than drinking because smoking is more socially unacceptable than drinking. They both do damage to your body, especially in excess.

Answer 6

Smoking is cool though!! There is no easier way to get the "rebel without a cause" look. A white shirt with a pack rolled up in the sleeve. Black leather jackets, cool gang names, etc... Also we're all going to die sometime so what the heck

Answer 7

Not everyone dies from smoking cigarettes. I have know of people smoking and dying of brain cancer. You have a chance of getting cancer from it , and having heath problems due to smoking. But technically your little theory has huge holes in it.

Answer 8

that just about sums it up--except!! you missed a word. slow EXPENSIVE way to commit suicide

Answer 9

dude learn some facts, before posting nonscence.