Do you think it's funny to see people with poor diets preach vehemently against smoking?

Question

Smoking IS an unhealthy habit, for the most part. Don't get me wrong. I know that. But I do think it's funny when nonsmokers who eat unhealthy food on a regular basis get all preachy when it comes to smoking. To make it even funnier, if you point out this contradiction, they rarely see what you're talking about.

I rarely ever smoke, btw. I enjoy an occasional cigar, but that's pretty much it.

Answer 1

llselva, what the poster means is that it is ironic that people are so hypocritical about others. Obese/overweight people stand against the "unhealthy lifestyle" of smokers, when their own lifestyle is just as unhealthy. Practice what you preach.

Answer 2

Not funny, just a little dumb.

A terrible diet can be much more harmful to an individual than smoking, but in their defense, they only hurt themselves.

Smokers are harming others with second-hand smoke, which is the ONLY reason it should not be allowed in public places.

What you do to yourself, of course, is your own business. People who are preachy about THAT are the leading cause of suffering in the world.

Answer 3

I think the distinction is that smoking has proven effects on others, unless you really only smoke way out of the way where no one could ever be affected. Most smokers (like most people) aren't that considerate and as a result, people walking near them, close friends and family can be affected. As far as I'm concerned, if you want to physically stuff yourself with McD's until you can no longer climb a flight of stairs without taking 5 minutes to recover, that's your own business and you're free to wreck your own body.

Likewise, if you smoke knowing that you may get lung cancer, that's your own choice and your own body. However, for the most part (except for the very, very considerate minority), smokers can't/won't control how their behaviour harms others, and that's the part that makes me against it. There's nothing inherently more evil about smoking than overeating, other than it has a lot more unavoidable effects on other people, who you have no right to harm.

Answer 4

LOL, yup, I love that.

When Scotts company in Ohio said last year that they were instituting a policy that basically said that if you still smoked by this past February then you were fired. The reason they cited was insurance cost's.

I remember some fat broad talking about what a great idea that was. Apparently she failed to see that if they were allowed to do that to one group, they now had free reign to do it to whomever they wanted...including fat people like her.

I'm sure that she and her ilk also missed the recent story in the news about how being fat causes more cancers than they previously thought.

Answer 5

How is the person with a poor diet affecting others? Smokers are forcing others to breathe their smoke.

Answer 6

OK, look at it this way...second hand smoke kills innocent people, but unhealthy, lets say fat people are only hurting themselves. Both lifestyles are unhealthy, neither funny, but I'd rather sit next to a 400 pound woman than a stinky smoker anyday.

Answer 7

Not really. Someone's poor diet is not hurting other people's lungs. Smokers can smoke if they want to, just without making other people breathing in their smoke. And please, not in front of children, because children are little monkeys who copy everything they see.

Answer 8

Not really, if I eat a poor diet, it does not affect you, you don't have to consume the offending food. but, if you smoke a cigar, the second hand smoke, affects those around you, who have no choice but to breath..

Answer 9

I think it's a laugh riot! It is predicted that obesity will overtake smoking as the leading cause of self-inflicted death. May I take your order?

Answer 10

not so much funny as natural ...we all can see other's mistakes and problems easily and clearly and most of us are blind to our own. It's the human condition. The key is to have compassion for others and yourself.