Smoking
Ice-Phoenix
Join Date: 2004-09-18 Member: 31775Members
Join Date: 2004-09-18 Member: 31775Members
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<div class="IPBDescription">good or bad?</div> ok granted smoking does apprently take off 10years of your life, and can inflict different cancerous diseases, but like my mum said to me everyone has cancer in your its weather it gets brought out and affects u, smoking merely helps the process of cancer, but back to the main smoking part
<b>good or bad?</b>
its "apparently" classed as an anti-social thing to do but thats not true as alot of people do smoke and people you dont even know will sometimes ask for a cigarette, and if you chat to them you just gained another friend, so although there are pro's and cons to smoking, i dont think its any real threat.
whats your view on this?
<b>good or bad?</b>
its "apparently" classed as an anti-social thing to do but thats not true as alot of people do smoke and people you dont even know will sometimes ask for a cigarette, and if you chat to them you just gained another friend, so although there are pro's and cons to smoking, i dont think its any real threat.
whats your view on this?
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a "cancer" is when the cells mutate and the messenger RNA doesn't carry the correct coding to know when to stop reproducing the cell, thus the cell keeps multiplying to the point where it becomes an obstruction in your body [a tumor].
at least that is what i remember from yr10 genetics...
Nicotion is basically a herbicid and thus will put you to peace, when comsumed in a dosis that is equall to 20 cigs. (thats if you are of average weight/height)
Ever kissed a smoker? Just try licking an ash-tray! Its disgusting.
simplest way to look at it:
Do you know why people die in a house fire?
No they don't burn, they die of asphixiation from smoke inhalation.
Combine the fact that inhaling smoke is just bad for you with thefactor that you are putting tar into your system (tar dosn't leave) + Nicotine (an addictive drug) + What ever other chemicals are in there, and the fact that it is known that smoking causes cancer and you got it. Cigs are bad for you.
Not only that but they smell like crap to nonsmokers, they make you look fuggly (yellow teeth != attractive), they make you smell bad, etc etc.
but you know what?
If some one wants to smoke, fine by me, so long as they are nice enugh to not do it around me when I ask em not to.
Your standard cigarette smoker = the gross.
However, a nice pipe or cigar every once in a while - mmmm. Top it off with a 1/2 glass of your favorite scotch, and you got yourself a 45 min trip to heaven.
Smoking just because you're used to it/smoking out of habit... those are not good reasons.
I'm never going to encourage smoking, simply because the cost is too high for the "reward".
although i have trouble with cigars because i'm used to taking it down with cigs, and your not ment to with cigars so i end up coughing untill i can get the rythm right lol
Tobacco has the worst cost/benefit ratio of any common drug, I'd say. It's a poor choice if you're going to consume something for pleasure.
No recreational drugs at all is preferable as far as health goes, naturally, but tobacco is just dumb.
edit: oops 2 random characters slipped in there.
I picked up the habit when I graduated from high school. I was always fascinated by cigars and my dad got be a box of Cubans as a graduation present. Man, those were a fantastic smoke. Later when I was in the Army, cigars were part of the tanker image. You go tearassing around the place, sitting up out of the turret with a cigar clenched in your teeth and think "This is what Patton must have felt like." When we did that, we were the lords of all we surveyed.
Now I smoke probably once every other month. Most of the cigars I smoke cost more than two packs of cigarettes, so it's just too expensive to do a lot.
just wait till your 18, and then go and buy a glass pipe from a smokeshop for like 15 bucks, that should rid yourself of the old fogey imprint, not to mention tobacco smoking will become alot cheaper
Other smoking = ok
I mean to say your chances go up. Bill Nye. <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
*cough* Get away from me man! GET AWAY FROM ME! *cough*
EDIT: oh yea and i dont smoke to be cool lolfighter thats a terrible reason, i mean honestly there is no GOOD reason to start and mines no better then anyone elses but it werent to be cool, and it had nothing to do with peer pressure i decided to do it on my own for certain reasons
Smoking's pretty bad in a lot of ways - cancer, stinks up pretty much everything (including your body - clothes, anything you touch...), it's a health risk to OTHER people... which is why I don't smoke in the presence of nonsmokers. It's terribly bad manners - health risks aside it's an irritant to their bodies.
To me, it's like any other rec drug - it's your right to screw with your body if you wish, AS LONG AS IT DOESN'T HURT ANYONE ELSE, which means setting controls - namely, doing it in private settings. Except for horrible drugs that screw with your mind and make you go out and potentially hurt people or destroy property, in which case you should be strapped down beforehand if you want to take it.
No matter what anyone says, most people pick up smoking because it "looks cool." But seriously, if you're going to do something for looks, at least do something classy like smoke a cigar or a pipe.
Never touched a smoke in my life. Willing to give cigars a shot, once, maybe.
As Athena says, you are entitled to do whatever you like within the law in your own home, but do not feel that you are entitled to do it in company. The Irish have already banned smoking in bars and public houses, as have some UK establishments, I would liek that to be extended to all public areas.
Do I feel better? What do <b>YOU</b> think? Just ... say ... no to one nasty habit.