What only took until post 19? For someone to acknowledge the fact that smokers end up sounding like we are going to hack up a lung if we do it long enough? That smokers suffer from chronic bronchitis and emphysema?
I smoke [dammit] and I live in WA state, AND I'm ticked off that bars and restaurants here have lost the right to allow smoking if they want. BUT the silliest thing about these 'smokers rights' threads is the hyper denial that smoking is at all bad for you! Good grief. Lies and exaggerations on the other side are bad enough. Lets not paint smoking as the secret for healthy living. It falls within the catagory of discretionary luxuries people like to do that aren't necessarily good for them. No more, no less.
You're talkin' to the wrong guy if you think I ever said anything like that.
Stop being your usual a$$hole self for a moment, and hear what I'm about to say. And listen very well. Everyone knows with freedom, there are risks. This thread is not about health. No one here has ever said smoking is 'good' for you. But then, you'll twist everything to suit your needs. It doesn't matter if the threads are about property rights, freedom of choice, outrageous taxation, discrimination, the exemption of casinos run by the government, whatever. People like you ALWAYS....ALWAYS...ALWAYS...try to hijack the threads and turn it into a health issue. I hereby challenge you to show us ONE post in any smoking thread where someone said smoking was 'good' for the people who actually do it. Go on. Show us. We're waiting.
And that's the truth. It's your choice if you want to cook your lungs from the inside out.
I almost see humor in the fact that these eldery people actually gimp across a busy road just so they can smoke a cigarette. Is it really that important that you're willing to injure yourself just to get one drag?