I don't smoke - But why do people smoke? People START smoking for a lot of reasons, after they start it they can't stop. Why they don't stop is another thing.
Peer pressure - Even though, I don't like to use the word 'peer pressure' very much, all I can imagine is two guys saying to a little guy, "Come on! Take one! Smoke it! Just once!" But 'peer influence' because it includes peer pressure and you do it to impress your peers or to fit in, I guess that sort of is peer pressure... But I still don't like it.
Stress or Depression - this would be one of the logical reasons for people to smoke due to nicotine relieves stress. But, really. If you have stress or depression, seek REAL help. Plus, there are always more than one way to relieve stress, try choosing some that doesn't kill yourself. Smoking does not take away the problem but does 'help' you through it only if you really get through it. The amount of money you spend on cigarettes in one year is probably enough to see a psychiatrist for half a year. A psychiatrist can help you learn how to solve all your problems in the future, nicotine does not (same goes for alcohol).
Self Image - Some people smoke to look cool (between their peers), be rebellious as they can be one of the things they do to become rebellious. During the interchanging period when a child becomes an adult, they will want to find identity. They want to know they mean something and that they are important. They want to be cool and stuff. That's why they develop a music taste (lol they have taste?) and fashion sense (lol do they even have common sense), they might even have sex, drugs and smoke etc. When they know (think) they mean something and that they have things, they think they are real and substantial hence, satisfaction.
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I smoke but I'm not addicted - When I first read this I was like, "LOL, yeah right." But I know there are people that are depressed/stressed/anxious and choose smoking as an escape route (it doesn't get you anywhere though) but they aren't addicted because they were educated enough to resist from being addicted. They usually don't smoke, but there have been recurrences when they do, during examinations, girlfriend boyfriend break ups or family problems etc.
I think smokers are hot - Some people (mostly males) can be aroused by the sight of smoker smoking (usually females). This is called the Smoking Fetish, and affects a small number of the population. As with most fetishes, the reason for this arousal can usually be traced back to incidents in childhood. However, cigarettes – particularly menthols, force blood away from the penis if smoked while aroused. I copied that, read more on wikipedia.
People who smoke are idiots - A common response to the above statement, "I think smokers are hot." And I think that the majority of the entire smoking population (including old people and young people) is probably stupid. But the 'majority is not entirety' rule applies, just like 'every race has good and bad people'.
People shouldn't be judged if they smoke - I wouldn't phrase the idea like this, I'd phrase it like. "Every race has good and bad." Not all people who smoke are bad people are idiots even though, I believe a lot of them are. Everyone judges another person when they see them, it is part of a person's humanity to have a reaction to everything, to every object, to every sound, taste, smell, touch and sight. If you see a plate of shit food, you feel repelled to it right? Exactly. But never let your first impressions stay firm, you can not judge anything in one sight, one short time frame, a person is more complicated than that, "Know them before you judge them." And don't be arrogant and say your judging abilities are extraordinary. Also, people change.
Smoking is disgusting - What do you mean? Are you saying that based on the pictures on the fronts of the cigarettes, the ugly shit that happens inside of you called cancer? Or that they have bad breath and ugly teeth?
The fact that the amount of tar (what roads are made of) inhaled into your lungs increases, and the last puff contains more than twice as much tar as the first puff. You really like putting shit like this into your lungs?
Did you know, hydrogen cyanide, one of the toxic byproducts present in cigarette smoke, was used as a genocidal chemical agent during World War II.
It smells like shit and it certainly tastes shittier than it smells if you're not addicted to it.
I would not date a cigarette smoker - Well fair enough since to my experience the majority of smokers would probably be douchebags or to-be douchebags. Also, their breath smells like shit if they were addicted as fuck. I would not fucking kiss that mouth and pour bleach into their mouth. Oh, and the other day, I saw a white blonde wimmin driving in a white Suburu Legacy station wagon (you no black nigger) smoking as she was driving... What was bad was not just the car... A baby in the backseat was sucking on their bottle... Speechless.
Smoking ruins my clean air - Also known as passive smoking if you're having second hand smoke. And secondhand smoke contains more than 50 cancer-causing chemical compounds, 11 of which are known to be Group 1 carcinogens. Carcinogens are what give you cancer. To an actual fact, I like some tobacco smells (I remember when I was young). But yes, a lot of people thinks it smells like crap and it gives you cancer. So to put it in another way, smoking is harmful to yourself and to others. It's like stabbing yourself with a needle until you bleed a couple of years later, bad simile I know. As you are doing this, you are also stabbing someone else if they inhale that gas you expel from your mouth. Government should really just totally ban this shit, but you know there are controversies and such, they earn tax and the shit people that buy cigarettes get poorer and hopefully die sooner, and people are now more aware of how harmful cigarettes are.
Who gives a fuck, I don't care - I like your attitude. Either you're an emo kid or you're a cool person that worries about better issues in life than this... and that you don't smoke, hopefully.
I'm not a hater. I know there are a lot of haters out there raging. Then there's the people that hate them and pretend not to care, how can you pretend not to care when you hate them. Hmm, I don't like haters very much. But if I met a good person and he/she was a smoker, I'd judge her as if she was not a smoker. But a lot of people get negative impressions from smokers. Possibly due to past experience, like friend become a douche after smoking, group of smoking douches or relative died by smoking or just extremely politically correct (or try to be). I guess I would prefer someone who doesn't smoke. But for some reason I am more neutral than a lot of people, but I am still on the negative side. I like how people are educated of smoking nowadays, well done New Zealand government. If someone chooses to smoke, either they are completely ignorant of what they are doing (hence stupid) or they have reasons (they pussies) but I really don't care. You can suicide if you want, it's always your decision.
