<p>What is wrong with them?! Why do they do it? I can't believe they haven't heard how it's bad for your health and annoys the people around you. It's also illegal to smoke in any public place here. Ever since I came to college, I've noticed that so many kids smoke around the campus. I don't get it why people start doing it and continue doing it.</p>
<p>There's always some group of kids smoking outside my dorm and I have to walk passed them constantly. And kids are constantly coming on the bus who smell like smoke. I didn't mind it so much before, but now it's just making me sick. Does anyone else deal with these problems?</p>
<p>Had a friend drop out of UCSB because the air was too heavy with pot there. Even with an air filter in his dorm and everything. He couldn’t stand it anymore.</p>
<p>The issue probably stems from people smoking while they are in their early teens while in that wannabe rebel stage in their life. If they start while in college, that’s a different story.</p>
<p>I don’t know why you would be in college and picking up smoking at the same time. It seems a bit contradictory/ironic since we all know the dangers of it by now! Of course, there are those who never grow up, one way or another.</p>
<p>However, if people want to smoke, I really just wish they could keep it at home or some place far away. And don’t tell me about the whole smoking section thing because we’ve all heard about the p!ss in the pool analogy.</p>
<p>Ugh don’t you guys get it - the smokers KNOW it’s unhealthy, they don’t care anyway. Everyone knows smoking = unhealthy, they’re not doing it because they think it’ll help their lungs, you know. they’re doing it because the benefits of smoking outweigh the health risks for them. not everyone wants to live until 105, you know - many people wouldn’t mind dying at 70. </p>
<p>Yeah there’s a lot of smokers at my college and it smells horrible. I hate when they walk into class and the smell of their filthy bodies stenches up the room. I don’t smoke myself, and I don’t look down on those who do, but the smell alone is so aggravating. At least most of them do it outdoors, although by now all of NY smells like cigs and garbage anyway.</p>
<p>Smokers know it’s unhealthy - many are addicted to nicotine from smoking in high school when they thought it looked cool.</p>
<p>It all stems from looking cool.</p>
<p>I might light up a cigar every month or two, because it’s a philosophical social experience. But I haven’t smoked anything in like 6 months (I’ve never smoked anything with any remote regularity - just isolated experiences every blue moon). Nor do I inhale (and many nonsmokers don’t know what inhaling is - no it’s not just taking a drag).</p>
<p>But yeah 105? Life expectancy hasn’t even reached 80 for women yet. And if you chronically smoke cigarettes you’re risk of cancer goes up 20 fold or something crazy. You’ll probably die at 60 or 70, depending on how much you smoke. If you feel cognitive dissonance, great. But uh… yeah I’m not telling you anything new I’m guessing.</p>
<p>When I was at BC, the constant pack of smokers standing so close to the dorm buildings every single ****ing day was terribly annoying. Go smoke your cancer sticks elsewhere. No one likes walking into a cloud of smoke when trying to get into a building. There were also the slow-walkers in the dustbowl who decided that everyone should feel the wrath of their smoking addiction by walking in one big line, cigarette in hands, blocking people from passing them. </p>
<p>I’m not saying that people should stop. I’d just like it if they were a bit more considerate and stood away from the general population of people who don’t smoke.</p>
<p>this is the most ridiculous thread i’ve ever read. </p>
<p>whine whine whine i’m so much better than people who smoke fap fap fap everyone who smokes just wants to be cool. who cares? life is full of inconveniences and this is one of them. </p>
<p>^exactly. Get over it. And Evaa… who in the world drops out because of the smell of pot in the air. The world is going to be so polluted in the future so we might as well get used to it now.</p>
<p>i weigh my risk of smoking like this, my mom’s been smoking for her whole life and is in great health and aged very well on top of that, and no one in my family has a history of cancer.</p>
<p>i know this doesn’t mean i’m not going to get cancer, but i always look at it like this:</p>
<p>I could never smoke my ciggarrete in my whole life, and then die in a car accident at 28.
OR
I could smoke now, and maybe get cancer in 30-40 years, maybe.</p>
<p>sorry if this is worded poorly but im high right now</p>
<p>lastly, you people are so close minded and ignorant that you assume everyone who smokes is just trying to be cool. many of us do it for pleasure, to ease stress, to calm down and think and focus your thoughts. many artistic people smoke, it kind of has a coffee-like effect, makes you feel good and a lil lightheaded</p>
<p>if people are smoking and it bothers you, don’t walk near them. its obviously rude if their blowing smoke in your face or something like that, but if someone is minding their own business, then its not anyones business but their own.</p>
<p>You know, I don’t smoke - anything at all - but I have a terribly difficult time caring that anyone else does. Of course, people know the risks. People choose to engage in risky behavior, for their own pleasure/entertainment, all the time.</p>
<p>Where I live, in Pennsylvania, motorcyclists don’t have to wear a helmet. Now THAT boggles my mind.</p>
<p>Well why should they? Laws requiring helmets are unecessary. If someone doesn’t want to wear a helmet while riding a motorcycle, they shouldn’t have to. People are capable of making decisions for themselves, I’m sure those who choose not to wear helmets are well aware of the consequences.</p>
<p>And as for smoking, I really don’t care. Sure, it can get annoying when a group of people are smoking near you, but it’s really not a big deal.</p>
<p>Or, actually follow the 20-feet from building rule and not smoke near the entrance ways like you’re supposed to. No one chooses to stand beside smokers if they’re blocking all the doors to get in.</p>
<p>If that’s the case, teleportation must exist. We could teleport ourselves inside and out then. Oh wait…</p>