Is Smoking a bad thing to do?



I was talking to this nice person on Meetro, we suddenly started discussing whether smoking, and drinking is really as bad as the society makes it feel like. What is wrong with these two habits if they are followed in a controlled manner? I am pretty sure I gain nothing from smoking except for perhaps smokes in my lungs… but is it really as harmful as my mother seems to think?

Do all people who smoke get cancer or throat diseases? Or do all people who drink die due to drinking. I am just 23 and I have seen lots of people who do nothing of all these things and still have a hellish health history. I have seen a friend of mine getting his kidneys replaced and he used to do nothing devilish of this sort.

So, just because the probability of me getting health diseases which I would get otherwise as well, I miss out on these little fun things in life? I do not think so.

You can call me crazy, but I seriously do not think that drinking and smoking in a controlled manner is bad in any way. It is just the state of mind, which makes it bad or good.

14 Responses to “Is Smoking a bad thing to do?”

  1. angela says:

    Okay, I’ve been smoking on and off and I’m 28 and very healthy, I don’t exercize or anything, I drink plenty of beer and don’t exercize… I’m not trying to put out a bad message out there that smoking isn’t bad… but there is something wrong with how the media portrays it… it scares the shit out of us with ugly mouth cancer pics on the pack and warnings. So i think when you smoke and feel guilty and think you’re going to get cancer because that’s what everybody says, that is what will happen… enjoy whatever your heart makes you happy… when you’re enjoying something, you mind affects your body… so do whatever you enjoy… i know this probably isn’t good advice, but still want to speak my mind… i’ve been smoking since 16 and am 28 and look 18 or 19 :D… so screw everybody and their negativity towards it!!! :D I mean what about all the pollution, why aren’t people going all ape over parked cars that leave the motor running?? shouldn’t that warning be on the car? no it’s not, cause people are hypocrites!

  2. We_All says:

    The problem is, that your government does treat you the way, that in reality, you don’t have even remote chance to die, because of the smoking. But you have to die because of amount of your taxes, because you can’t afford the proper care, and real doctor. Economy is down, we are eating artificial food, since we have got nothing real to eat, cause we can’t afford it. If we can eat bread, we are being sold, if we can eat burgers - as available today. If we get really sick-fat and overweight, because we can’t afford the proper food and drinks…, trust me, we can smoke as much as we like. It is not smoking what kills you. It is your government with desperate effort to feed unproductive, manipulated, dummy masses, generally kept in the darkness. Ask your politicians for more money, fight restrictive cost of proper food, get better apartment. Ask your government to create new jobs. You just might stay alive.

  3. We_All says:

    The problem is, that your government does treat you the way, that in reality, you don’t have even remote chance to die, because of the smoking. But you have to die because of amount of your taxes, because you can’t afford the proper care, and real doctor. Economy is down, we are eating artificial food, since we have got nothing real to eat, cause we can’t afford it. If we can eat bread, we are being sold, if we can eat burgers - as available today. If we get really sick-fat and overweight, because we can’t afford the proper food and drinks…, trust me, we can smoke as much as we like. It is not smoking what kills you. It is your government with desperate effort to feed unproductive, manipulated, dummy masses, generally kept in the darkness. Ask your politicians for more money, fight restrictive cost of proper food, get better apartment. Ask your government to create new jobs. You just might stay alive.

  4. juan says:

    it is bad

  5. .......... says:

    is it bad for people if you have astmas

  6. .......... says:

    so is smoking not really killing you it
    but on TV and your teacher friends parents say it is a bad thing because it wreacks ur heart and lungs

  7. .......... says:

    is it bad for people if you have astmas

  8. .......... says:

    so is smoking not really killing you it
    but on TV and your teacher friends parents say it is a bad thing because it wreacks ur heart and lungs

  9. anangbhai says:

    Its a social thing. not that I smoke myself, but I do sometimes when my friends are too. Don’t see anything wrong with that or with drinking. Its a matter of personal choice, and just like smoking and drinking shouldn’t be foisted upon everyone (note to Philip Morris and Jack Daniels) neither should avoiding them be enforced upon by a clique of concerned (read Nazi) citizens.

  10. anangbhai says:

    Its a social thing. not that I smoke myself, but I do sometimes when my friends are too. Don’t see anything wrong with that or with drinking. Its a matter of personal choice, and just like smoking and drinking shouldn’t be foisted upon everyone (note to Philip Morris and Jack Daniels) neither should avoiding them be enforced upon by a clique of concerned (read Nazi) citizens.

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