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Originally Posted by Wayfarer
Healthy? Maybe, but it's not like the air isn't already polluted with a bunch of shit. Maybe it's time you put an end to this notion of yours that, because you don't smoke, you're going to live in unabridged happiness until the end of fuckin' time. It doesn't matter if people are smoking out in public or not, you're still going to be inhaling smog while you strut down the radon-awash road, guzzling a carcinogen-packed Coca-Cola, on your way to a friend's house for some nitrosamine-seething ham and beer, all under the hot, ultraviolet sun.
And, what? Life-improving? For who? You? It's quite the irritant for smokers. But you couldn't give a flying fuck about them, could you? No, you're content showcasing the same selfishness and inconsideration you condemn smokers for.
Seems you're not so polite or respectful yourself, are you? Y'know, I think I'll go outside later today and smoke half a pack just to spite you. I'll take pictures too! Maybe I'll go stand at that spot on the lake where you can see this really pretty power station in the background, polluting the environment. You know, the same power station that generates the electrical energy for people like you to switch your computers on, go online, and bitch about how smokers are ruining the environment.
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wow, where do i begin. first of all i'm an environmental science graduate, i work for environment canada, so you're probably in over your head already. as for the facts about tobacco smoke, there's absolutely no other product on the market available to the public that contains more carcinogens. do you think that smokers have a right to spread smoke that has been proven to cause various types of cancers in a public place into the lungs of people who have chosen NOT to smoke? how is that logical? if you want to match up the amount of carcinogens in coke compared to that of cigarettes, go right ahead, the facts are in no way supportive of your arguments. the fact that you would proclaim that non-smokers have just as much a chance of developing cancer because they inhale smog is ludacris. if you had spent any time studying public health and the environment, you would understand how insulting that is. many of my closest colleagues are smokers and i have had countless meaningful conversations on the topic, so i would argue that i do know a great deal about smokers and their choices.
is it really asking that much for smokers to go outside to a designated area to smoke? i am respectful of public health, and smokers who feel that it is their right to cloud public spaces with known carcinogens is perhaps the largest disrespect faced by the general public today.
not everyone lives the way you describe life, we don't all chug coca cola while eating ham sandwiches with beer.
i wouldn't dare make the argument that smokers are ruining the environment, though they are effectively ruining the small, public environments where non-smokers have to coexist. your fantastical rants about energy and pollution are completely unfounded and contradictory. for instance, how can you point fingers at 'people like me' who need energy to turn on my computer? you are doing the exact same thing are you not? i've had too many experiences with ignorant folks like yourselve to really get too involved in this, if you have anything intelligent to add, please do, but if it's just more ranting, then don't bother. have a nice short life
