Posted on 06/21/2011 7:19:13 PM PDT by Eric Blair 2084
“Same thing with the ugly yellow teeth. Do they think smokers don’t know about ugly yellow teeth?”
People tend to associate yellow teeth with smoking however that is not necessarily the case. Generations of Americans were given Tetracycline when they were young by the those in the medical profession. A number of Americans are unable to afford nor do they choose to put a dentist’s child through college due to the cost of cosmetic dentistry.
People are dying everyday from various forms of cancer, heart and lung diseases/problems. They have never touched a cigarette in their lives.
While on the topic...Asthma is often heredity and/or can be caused by different environmental factors (various trees and bushes, etc). It is not necessarily due to smoking or second hand smoke. Do some research.
As a nonsmoker, have to agree the putting of graphic pictures on packs of cigarettes is much like communist propaganda and the treatment of smokers is pathetic.
The limitations/regulations put on smoking in outdoor bistros or parks is insane. Same people that located their restaurants and parks near busy, loud streets where auto fumes float through the air.
Wine the drink of romantic lovers should have labels with photos of people in the last stages of syphilis. Booze should contain labels with photos of people with their brains and bodies being scraped off the road after auto accidents.
The most interesting thing to observe are some of the nonsmokers that “get into the personal space” of smokers and sniff the smokers. They look like dogs in heat wanting to cling on to someone’s leg. Same people that reek of body odors or women’s day old cheap perfume/ men’s cologne.
Yep, the anti-smoking campaign has gone overboard.
One of the most iconic photos of the Iraq War.
When my brother-in-law found out that he was being redeployed back to Afghanistan, he dropped out of the Army's "quit smoking" program. My sister didn't fight him too hard on this, but will start over when he gets back next spring. It's his last deployment, so she won't be fighting the combat zone the next time around.
LOL!
Yes, the mouth cancer obviously stopped that guy /sarc
Why label alcohol when it only accounts for 3.5% of US deaths? Tobacco accounts for 18% of total deaths in the US-that’s a lot of wasted lives. Worse than cocaine, meth, and all other drugs combined. Addicts are not in full possession of their free will, true charity means we love them and help them because they can’t yet care for themselves. Addicts often need advocates-ideally spouses, family and friends, but some don’t have those resources and do benefit from programs given by charities and yes, governments
No thanks. Take your nanny State and rot with it elsewhere.
(I'm a non-smoker, and always have been.)
Did I suggest banning smoking? No. How does something like educating kids on the health burdens of addiction or offering free smoking cessation programs destroy “all your freedoms?” How is the desire to reduce the half million NEEDLESS American deaths annually “sanctimonious?”
You’re a non-smoker. Had you been a smoker you might have some insight into addiction. I lost a father at too young an age due to smoking related COPD and he started smoking when “the market” decided to peddle that crap for its “health benefits.” Being ok with 500,000 premature American deaths per year for the sake of a libertarian ideology (which offers NOTHING to those trapped in addictions) doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to me.
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