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Smoking
Topic Started: February 15, 2009, 1:28 pm (446 Views)
Hellfire
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The thing is, all these taxes are being raised on cigarettes, but it's not helping. Rich people can say, Oh, i won't pay this much, i'll buy the patch. Poor people can't afford the patch, they can't quit, they have to keep smoking. And outlawing it would only make the market go underground, make it that much more dangerous, people would be killed trying to get cigarettes, like they are now for other illegal drugs. We're kind of trapped between a rock and a hard place, and I don't know if much can be done about it. I'm not condoning smoking, but, what can we do? It's about as safe now as it will ever be, and hopefully, more and more kids will see that it's not a good habit to pick up. You all seem to think it's wrong, and back in the 50's, no one would have thought anything of it. So, something must be going right? I think the right thing to do is just to spread the message, it's bad, show those graphic pictures of people who have lost their jaws, and lungs, and lives to smoking. Get people to quit on their own, because if anybody forces them to, they'll be resentful.
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I don't like smoking, nothing wrong with most people that smoke but its a bad habit. People pick up the habit from there parents, and if they smoke when they have kids they'll pick it up. Its a never ending cycle.
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April 8, 2009, 12:22 pm
The thing is, all these taxes are being raised on cigarettes, but it's not helping. Rich people can say, Oh, i won't pay this much, i'll buy the patch. Poor people can't afford the patch, they can't quit, they have to keep smoking. And outlawing it would only make the market go underground, make it that much more dangerous, people would be killed trying to get cigarettes, like they are now for other illegal drugs. We're kind of trapped between a rock and a hard place, and I don't know if much can be done about it. I'm not condoning smoking, but, what can we do? It's about as safe now as it will ever be, and hopefully, more and more kids will see that it's not a good habit to pick up. You all seem to think it's wrong, and back in the 50's, no one would have thought anything of it. So, something must be going right? I think the right thing to do is just to spread the message, it's bad, show those graphic pictures of people who have lost their jaws, and lungs, and lives to smoking. Get people to quit on their own, because if anybody forces them to, they'll be resentful.
I agree with you.

Some people are totally addicted to cigs. It's not easy to give them up. I watched my mum quit smoking and it was hard for her, she had to smoke pretend cigs which was really just a hollowed out pen. This was before the patches, too, so she was really craving them.
I also say SOME because I know alot of people who smoke but are not addicted. I used to smoke a couple of cigs occasionally when my friends were drinking, as a way to relax and enjoy myself. I've never become addicted, or craved them. I just liked the taste and smell, so I continued doing it whenever I felt like it, not when I needed it. My friend also used to smoke whenever she was drinking, but that wasn't often because she had a kid and wasn't out alot to do it. She wasn't addicted either. There's also a couple of others I know.

But anyway, banning it won't do anything. I know people who manage to get giant boxes of them and sell them from their home. My friend used to get hers that way, because they also sold to underagers. It'd just make people do it more privately, if anything. If you're addicted to something you won't just immediately stop doing it because it's illegal. Look at drugs, for example.
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Say wha? o_O
Personally....its my choice to smoke or not...and to be honest drunk drivers kill more people in a year then smokeing does in 5 years. I picked up smokeing by myself, neither parents smoked, i have no family members that smoke. Sure it CAN cause lung cancer....but honestly what doesnt cause cancer now? The government raiseing prices here in the US is only making the situation worse...cause now people are robbing gas stations, ect just for smokes....8.75$ a pack...let the so called "free" citizens make their own f**king choices...

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Theres always quitline, and yes some people are trying to put very gross images on the packs that makes smokers think about it EVERYTIME they have a smoke. Gangreen on the foot, ugly mouth etc.

Hell there was one time where I was at the shops and some woman was buying a pack of cigs that had a VERY ugly picture on it that would make anyone puke (You've seen the mouth pictures, not a good sight at all). The woman then cried out and said "No don't give me this cigarette pack, I wouldn't be able to bear to look at it, it's too gross, give me the picture of the foot instead, yes that one."
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April 8, 2009, 10:27 pm
Theres always quitline, and yes some people are trying to put very gross images on the packs that makes smokers think about it EVERYTIME they have a smoke. Gangreen on the foot, ugly mouth etc.

Hell there was one time where I was at the shops and some woman was buying a pack of cigs that had a VERY ugly picture on it that would make anyone puke (You've seen the mouth pictures, not a good sight at all). The woman then cried out and said "No don't give me this cigarette pack, I wouldn't be able to bear to look at it, it's too gross, give me the picture of the foot instead, yes that one."
In Britian you aren't allowed to sell packs of cigs anymore without the images on them. I work in a shop and we had to throw them all in the bin and replace them with the gross images. To our surprise the bin never had any cigs in it the next day, people must've stole them. :P

It doesn't put me off though. They should show disgusting images of wounded and dead soldiers to those joining the army too, but I doubt it'd do anything either.
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Well, I really wouldn't compare smoking with protecting your country. They're kinda two completely different things.
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April 8, 2009, 10:27 pm
Theres always quitline, and yes some people are trying to put very gross images on the packs that makes smokers think about it EVERYTIME they have a smoke.
Trust me, that doesn't do anything.
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It might stop people from starting to smoke though. It just has to get through to ONE person and it'll all be worth it.
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anybody heard about the commercial they did about not smoking, where the kid looks around for his mom, and she's not there, and he starts to cry. They actually had the mom ditch the kid, and make him think he was all alone, so they could get him to cry. I'm all for spreading the message of not smoking, but...jeez, maybe that's going a little TOO far. They used a four year old kid to further their own ends! Even if the ends were virtuous...
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