I detest smoking and smokers. The psychological profile of a smoker is unflattering and they are obviously an idiot who wants (subconsciously) to die a slow and painful death.
Carl96190: I detest smoking and smokers. The psychological profile of a smoker is unflattering and they are obviously an idiot who wants (subconsciously) to die a slow and painful death.
Is this the sales pitch for "Carl's 10 easy steps to give up cigarettes"?
kidatheart: Is this the sales pitch for "Carl's 10 easy steps to give up cigarettes"?
Awww, I'm flattered, someone detests me.
You have to be well aware of the health results of smoking (heart disease, emphysema, lung cancer and a shopping list of other diseases. Yet, you continue to suck on the cancer sticks and inflict your carcinogenic waste on those around you. People who have never smoked die because of the waste product of smoking that was inflicted upon them by smokers. Can you understand why it would be reasonable to say that smokers are not the sharpest tools in the shed? Can you understand why it would be reasonable to say that smokers do not give a damn about the welfare of anyone else, because if they did they would not smoke around other people?
Carl96190: You have to be well aware of the health results of smoking (heart disease, emphysema, lung cancer and a shopping list of other diseases. Yet, you continue to suck on the cancer sticks and inflict your carcinogenic waste on those around you. People who have never smoked die because of the waste product of smoking that was inflicted upon them by smokers. Can you understand why it would be reasonable to say that smokers are not the sharpest tools in the shed? Can you understand why it would be reasonable to say that smokers do not give a damn about the welfare of anyone else, because if they did they would not smoke around other people?
'Can you understand' that smoking is an addiction and that no one chooses to inflict this addiction upon themselves?
wysterious1Perth, Western Australia Australia218 posts
serene56: 'Can you understand' that smoking is an addiction and that no one chooses to inflict this addiction upon themselves?
Of course people have a choice - if we didnt then everyone would smoke. It is more a case of some people having addictive personalities and need to have that addiction - help along by the media and multinational companies who want your money - and the pharmaceutical companies who make even more money from the diseases and illnesses caused by smoking.
serene56: 'Can you understand' that smoking is an addiction and that no one chooses to inflict this addiction upon themselves?
Do you think that smokers didn't know that smoking is addictive when they started smoking..? I am sure they knew, so I think this addiction was what they chose.
Carl96190: I detest smoking and smokers. The psychological profile of a smoker is unflattering and they are obviously an idiot who wants (subconsciously) to die a slow and painful death.
I have seen so many people, that I knew, or just an unknown to me, who died from different causes. And they were having a very healthy life style, never smoked and ate healthy food and were biking and jogging.
And I have seen people who were happily smoking for all their life and died at age of 90.
But I do agree with you .. smoking is sucks.
By the way ... the main cause for people to die is STRESS. You may live a healthy life .. but if you are stressed all the time, most likely you are on a way to grave, in early age.
I am an idiot, I should not start smoking. Alas! Too late ....
Carl96190: I detest smoking and smokers. The psychological profile of a smoker is unflattering and they are obviously an idiot who wants (subconsciously) to die a slow and painful death.
Me too.
As someone here posted, people CHOOSE to start smoking. We are not born smoking. I don't want to be near anyone who smokes, especially after my colleague, who doesn't smoke, never smoked, died of lung cancer. His wife is a chain smoker, still smokes and does not suffer from lung cancer.
As someone here posted, people CHOOSE to start smoking. We are not born smoking. I don't want to be near anyone who smokes, especially after my colleague, who doesn't smoke, never smoked, died of lung cancer. His wife is a chain smoker, still smokes and does not suffer from lung cancer.
I agree. Not to mention how smokers clothes, hair, & breath stink, have yellow teeth, and yellow fingers. They also waste time at the workplace having a cigarette every hour and are more sick with colds/flues than a non smoker. They are a real drain on our health system. As for second hand smoke; not only does it affect people but also pets. Personally, I could care less if they want to kill themselves; just do it with smokeless cigarettes and stop being a drain on our health system.
single4ever: I agree. Not to mention how smokers clothes, hair, & breath stink, have yellow teeth, and yellow fingers. They also waste time at the workplace having a cigarette every hour and are more sick with colds/flues than a non smoker. They are a real drain on our health system. As for second hand smoke; not only does it affect people but also pets. Personally, I could care less if they want to kill themselves; just do it with smokeless cigarettes and stop being a drain on our health system.
The health system. Thanks for mentioning that. I would love to take smokers on tours of hospital lung wards. I will use my own father to illustrate the point. My father died in 1992 of pulmonary fibrosis that was caused by asbestos exposure, which occurred during this service in the Royal Australian Navy. He spent his final few weeks in Ward 3C of the Mount Olivete Hospital in Brisbane. It is a lung ward. One of those wards into which patients are wheeled as they wait to die. Out of 30 patients in this terminal ward, my father was the only non-smoker, so the staff told me when I asked. The beds were filled with pathetic wasted bodies that looked as though they had been in Belsen. They had blue lips and tragic desperate eyes that bulged as they gasped and made a death rattle as they fought for each breath . . . to live just a moment longer. A civilised society would give them the option of a swift and painless death. They all died, of course . . . eventually. Smokers generally are unaware of this, but most of them will die of heart disease before they live long enough to develop a lung condition or cancer. I spent some time in the cardiac ward of a major Brisbane hospital recently, as a result of an adverse reaction to a prescription drug that did a good job of copying the symptoms of a heart attack. I was the only non-smoker in the ward. If it were up to me, illnesses that were the result of smoking would be classed as a self-inflicted injury and not one penny of taxpayers' money would be spent treating them. Money spent on treating smokers is money wasted. Better to spend it on people who are not engaged in an act of suicide in slow motion.
Carl96190: You have to be well aware of the health results of smoking (heart disease, emphysema, lung cancer and a shopping list of other diseases. Yet, you continue to suck on the cancer sticks and inflict your carcinogenic waste on those around you. People who have never smoked die because of the waste product of smoking that was inflicted upon them by smokers. Can you understand why it would be reasonable to say that smokers are not the sharpest tools in the shed? Can you understand why it would be reasonable to say that smokers do not give a damn about the welfare of anyone else, because if they did they would not smoke around other people?
I am now assuming that you walk to work. I truly hope you do not drive anything with an internal combustion engine,....for if you do,....let us try this little experiment. I will sit in a closed gargae with ten smokers chain smoking their lungs out,....you sit in a gargage with your car running,.....after two hours lets meet and discuss the situation.
Not the sharpest tools in the shed? Some of the most brilliant people that have lived smoked! It is an addiction! And by the way, you have now insulted nearly every First Nation tribe in North America who utilize tobacco as part of their prayer ritual.
Carl96190: You have to be well aware of the health results of smoking (heart disease, emphysema, lung cancer and a shopping list of other diseases. Yet, you continue to suck on the cancer sticks and inflict your carcinogenic waste on those around you. People who have never smoked die because of the waste product of smoking that was inflicted upon them by smokers. Can you understand why it would be reasonable to say that smokers are not the sharpest tools in the shed? Can you understand why it would be reasonable to say that smokers do not give a damn about the welfare of anyone else, because if they did they would not smoke around other people?
A_Non_A_Moose: I am now assuming that you walk to work. I truly hope you do not drive anything with an internal combustion engine,....for if you do,....let us try this little experiment. I will sit in a closed gargae with ten smokers chain smoking their lungs out,....you sit in a gargage with your car running,.....after two hours lets meet and discuss the situation.
Not the sharpest tools in the shed? Some of the most brilliant people that have lived smoked! It is an addiction! And by the way, you have now insulted nearly every First Nation tribe in North America who utilize tobacco as part of their prayer ritual.
LOL! I meant garage in both cases! I am not one of those briiliant people, especially when it comes to spelling.
A_Non_A_Moose: I am now assuming that you walk to work. I truly hope you do not drive anything with an internal combustion engine,....for if you do,....let us try this little experiment. I will sit in a closed gargae with ten smokers chain smoking their lungs out,....you sit in a gargage with your car running,.....after two hours lets meet and discuss the situation.
Not the sharpest tools in the shed? Some of the most brilliant people that have lived smoked! It is an addiction! And by the way, you have now insulted nearly every First Nation tribe in North America who utilize tobacco as part of their prayer ritual.
Oh dear, the infantile 'you drive a car' argument that smokers throw up in an attempt to justify their weakness of character and self-destructive behaviour. You have just provided a splendid piece of evidence to support the argument that smokers are stupid. That does not necessarily mean always unintelligent, but always stupid. There are plenty of educated idiots about. Look up the number of deaths attributed to smoking in a typical year, then look up the number of deaths attributed to lung conditions caused by car exhaust in your country, then compare the numbers. Notice a difference? As for Native Americans smoking tobacco, I am not particularly interested in the rituals of transplanted Mongolian stone-age savages.
Carl96190: Oh dear, the infantile 'you drive a car' argument that smokers throw up in an attempt to justify their weakness of character and self-destructive behaviour. You have just provided a splendid piece of evidence to support the argument that smokers are stupid. That does not necessarily mean always unintelligent, but always stupid. There are plenty of educated idiots about. Look up the number of deaths attributed to smoking in a typical year, then look up the number of deaths attributed to lung conditions caused by car exhaust in your country, then compare the numbers. Notice a difference? As for Native Americans smoking tobacco, I am not particularly interested in the rituals of transplanted Mongolian stone-age savages.
I acquiesce to your claim that I used an "infantile" argument,....but being that I am NOT a smoker any longer this was not an attempt to justify my position (as I would never state that as a person who quit highly addictive prescription drugs,...is merely a junkie trying to make a point against other addicts).
I will suffice it to say that I am convinced you do NOT like smoking and consider people who smoke "stupid".
I would have been willing to discuss, in an anthropological frame of reference, the migration of North American First Nations from Asia over the "land bridge" eons ago,.....well,....many of those "stone age savages" are friends of mine now,....and if you are that in tune with anthropological evolution,....well,...that would be a discussion for someone less stupid than myself,....for I used to smoke,....
A_Non_A_Moose: I acquiesce to your claim that I used an "infantile" argument,....but being that I am NOT a smoker any longer this was not an attempt to justify my position (as I would never state that as a person who quit highly addictive prescription drugs,...is merely a junkie trying to make a point against other addicts).
I will suffice it to say that I am convinced you do NOT like smoking and consider people who smoke "stupid".
I would have been willing to discuss, in an anthropological frame of reference, the migration of North American First Nations from Asia over the "land bridge" eons ago,.....well,....many of those "stone age savages" are friends of mine now,....and if you are that in tune with anthropological evolution,....well,...that would be a discussion for someone less stupid than myself,....for I used to smoke,....
That you gave up smoking was a significant achievement which showed that you became a better person. I commend you for that. The psychological hook that tobacco companies use to market their products is that they create different images associated with each brand. The smoker then selects a brand based on the sort of personality that they wish to project to others. What they are saying goes something like: "I do not think that I am a good enough person to cause you to have the impression of me what I would like you to have, so I will use this theatrical prop (the packet of cigarettes) and hope that you associate the advertising image with me." There are only two tobacco companies in the West, which own all the various brands. The brands are differentiated in advertising to appeal to a variety of self-perceived inadequacies of the smokers. The history of the Native Americans that I read stated that they migrated from Mongolia, via the Alaskan land bridge when it existed. Do not forget that once upon a time your ancestors and mine were also 'stone-age savages', but in Europe they moved on from that. One has to wonder why the Native Americans, surrounded by a wealth of resources and a generally favourable climate, failed to get past the stone age. Compare what they achieved with what the white man achieved on the same land. There is an answer in that comparison.
Don't start if you haven't started. But as habits go,....very powerful with little enjoyment in the long run,....it truly loses the "enjoyment" factor quickly and simply becomes habitual. This is of course directed towards the smoking of tobacco.
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