[Berlin_Freeper]

"A rather amusing statement, since the average American has over a rather substantial amount of human waste in it at any given moment."

If you want amusement, your above statement is very amusing in an absurd way. Human waste is actually a natural occurrence, don't you know? While smoking and compiling tar in your lungs is not. To compare human waste that is eventually and naturally making its way outside the body with the effects of smoking is really laughable.

"How about keeping your own body any way you like, and showing others the respect of allowing them to decide how to live their own lives...?"

I guess you haven't noticed but this is a political boards where people exchange opinions and ideas and I was giving my opinion on smoking. Now do explain how my giving an opinion on smoking is not allowing people to live their own lives? You can agree or disagree but to ask me not to post my own opinion and thoughts on the subject shows an extreme disrespect for what this website is actually about.

[RavenATB]

"To compare human waste that is eventually and naturally making its way outside the body with the effects of smoking is really laughable."

Really, now...are you truly that challenged?

The statement was to address your quote about keeping the body clean, as if the body was somehow "clean" when someone doesn't smoke (although from your post, it's obvious that some people have much more waste in them than others).

I'll tell you what...if you think the comparison is so poor, ask everyone you know if they'd rather smoke a pack of cigarettes, or eat a pound of of their own human excrement. See if they're bought off by your assertion of "natural" being better.