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I say puff away you smokers...its our lungs
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The problem is, it's our lungs too.
Think about this for a moment:
If it was alcohol, and a parent forced half a bottle of whiskey down their child's throat every day, we'd take the child away and call it child abuse. But forcing that child to breathe the far more damaging tobacco smoke, that's ok?
If you were throwing tobacco on a campfire, I'd complain about that too. It's not smoke at large, it's the chemicals from the tobacco and tar and other noxious crap they put in cigars and cigarettes. Second hand smoke is actually far more dangerous than the smoke a smoker gets through their cigarette, because they have a filter. We don't.
And I require a car to get to work. It's the most efficient model I could afford on my very limited income, and the most efficient one on the lot where we got it. I'm just as angry about that. The technology exists to make cars that barely pollute (compared to what they are now), but the oil companies and the car companies hold most of the patents and refuse to use them because they make more money the way things are. If you wanted to pump exhaust across the opening of a building, I would have as much problem with it as I do with smokers who stand in the entrance to public buildings blowing their smoke in my face and sending my friend into anaphylactic shock.
Like I said, you want to commit suicide with nicotine, you go right ahead. Chew gum, snort it, heck, I don't care if you inject it. Commit suicide however you want. Just don't expect me to sit idly by and let you drag me along with you.
