Posted on 11/01/2013 8:21:51 AM PDT by DouglasKC
Have you been to San Diego or Los Angeles in the last ten years?
Actually, when I think about it, most of the people I’ve looked up to in life are or were smokers. Maybe I’m a poor and uneducated person.
It would be better if you would challenge the facts.
They might very well share your values NOW, but it is quite apparent that they didn't when they got the tattoo. That was my point. I just didn't make if very well.
Every commandment ever given by our loving Father was given for our benefit. They were meant to help us. There are a few commandments, such as dietary laws, that were modified as time progressed and civilization became more cultured. But these modifications are few.
If God doesn't want us to make a mark on ourselves, then we should be asking ourselves how is this for our benefit. Instead, it is our nature to question God's motives or to justify doing the things God feels would not be in our best interest.
She was a real PITA to deal with so the whole thing may have been a subtle pun that I didn’t get at the time.
Maybe it's a by-product of day care kids? Didn't get enough attention in the formative years?
But, I see young guys with these heifers. Muffins tops hanging our of their jeans, tattoos--I am sorry but a life of solitude and just getting the job done myself (if ya get my drift) seems more appealing.
I live there, being a smoker here is definitely looked down on as a weakness and ignorant. Notice that even you pointed out that many of the people you looked up to quit smoking, something that is more difficult for the less capable type people, and we know that, we are fully aware of the weakness today (and have been for decades).
Smoking cigarettes is down to about 19% of people, and they are not evenly distributed, it is the poor and uneducated that haven't moved on.
About 70% of smokers admit that they want to quit. Who do you think succeeds, the very groups that already have low smoking rates?
Ok. Winston Churchill was uneducated because he smoked...Right?
Andy Griffith was an idiot because he smoked.
This article has all the hilarity of a Jack Chick comic strip.
Come-on dude. You want everybody to stop doing everything thats bad for you.
I take it breathing is at the top of your list.
Yet, I bet the author wears clothes made of more than one fiber, eats shellfish & cuts his hair.
Only to the ill-mannered, the helpless fad followers and the junk science crowd.
Now you are just making things up, and making post after post saying nothing.
If you have an issue with something in post 96, please try to say what it is.
Ok. I don’t give a crap if folks smoke or not. I certainly do not tie it to intelligence. It is more of a rebellion factor regardless of education or wealth.
Get real ansell2
Ill-mannered is almost always the smoker, or it would be someone berating the smoker for no reason, so you missed on that.
The dying of tobacco use isn’t because of a new fad, it has been happening for decades, cigarette smoking just seems silly today, that is why cigarette smoking is becoming so rare.
Just do some “empirical” observation, I live in an area where smoking is probably frowned on rather strongly at all.
Go to an office building, do you still see a lot or maybe a number of people go out for cigarette breaks?? I would wager so on a rather widespread basis. It is what it is.
Do you just sit home in your hoover and post drivel?
Get into the real world and please stop telling me to keep the speed on low.
Smoking is rare among the educated.
Among adults over age 25, those with General Education Development (GED) diploma have the highest prevalence of current smoking (44%), followed by those with 9 to 11 years of education (33.3%). Those who had an undergraduate degree (11.4%) or graduate degree (6.2%) had the lowest smoking prevalence.
1 • Lower education levels are associated with significantly higher rates of smoking during pregnancy. Nearly 24% of women with 9-11 years of education smoked while pregnant compared with 15% of those with 12 years of education and 1.5% of those with 16 or more years of education.5
Ooops, I meant to address that previous post to all.
What is interesting is I would suppose some people would argue the Bible likewise disses smoking.
“Tell St. Peter at the Golden Gate that you just hate to make him wait but you’ve just got to have another cigarette.”
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