<p>Did you guys know that smoking is bad for you?</p>
<p>Smokers should all die. They are a plague to society.</p>
<p>^I don't think that's a fair judgement. Even though people smoke, sometimes they can't help their addiction. Many smokers are top contributors to society. It sounds really elitist that you would say something like that.</p>
<p>Did you hear? Smokers are funding children's health care now.</p>
<p>Well they aren't contributing by smoking!</p>
<p>Smoking does not make you cool, guys.</p>
<p>Britney Spears smokes and she's my idol. That's the reason why I have started. I don't do it heavily I just do it so people see me and think that I am like a celebrity.</p>
<p>Oh guyz, look at me. I'm sucking smoke through a rolled up piece of paper which makes me cooler than you guyz! You guyz, are you watching? YOU GUYZ....</p>
<p>You sound very spiteful and jealous of smokers. Maybe you should start, it will relax you.</p>
<p>NO! Smokers should play in traffic.</p>
<p>All smokers should be sent to camps in the desert of New Mexico where they can be stripped of their rights and make children's toys that can compete with China's.</p>
<p>No one starts smoking to 'feel good' - they don't even know what the hell it is! Over time, sure.</p>
<p>And Steven: your attempts at sarcasm fail miserably. Why do you think every brain-dead girl loves wearing oversized sun glasses?</p>
<p>I for one am very glad smokers' are being banished to little cubby holes and banned from most restaurants/ bars in the city. I used to not mind it so much, but now that you can pretty much avoid smokers you realize how much better it is.</p>
<p>@tiff90: sorry for plagiarizing your post a bit. I really liked its structure so I just inserted my relevant thoughts.</p>
<p>paper is not a necessary evil, mankind has survived how many years without paper, and still had societal functions? You can use laptops/digitalized doohickeys in most cities, because writing on one sheet of paper when you could type on a relatively cheap netbook is ridiculous. Or how on many campuses students use paper to do problem sets when they could use netbooks/mental math/computer labs/marker and board/human skin (washable too). People do not "need" paper. And cigs are do not cause death from lung cancer at very high rate, and is a crap shot in the game of life. You always hear stories of people living long who smoke, its just a risk based on whether you're susecptable to caner. Paper cause much more pollution, and those who use whole sheets of paper when they have to write 1 paragraph and don't need it cause higher amounts of pollution, and are selfish in that they decide to use something they don't need while hurting the enviornment at a greater rate than other cars.
It is not a stupid argument at all, if you can think critically they are similar. People just seek to justify using paper in order to benefit from their convience. When you use paper, you take a risk by reducing the oxygen that plants pump out, just as you do when you smoke. You die of oxygen asphyxiation, and you may or may not get lung cancer. Both are assumed risks, both have effects that people complain about, both can cause premature death.</p>
<p>Except paper is useful while cigarettes don't benefit anyone.</p>
<p>Steven: Oh, so Britney Spears is actually your idol? You may have bigger issues than smoking, lol.</p>
<p>Young kids begin smoking because of the image associated with it. Same reason many girls wear those huge oversized sun glasses. Because they associate it with celebrities/ current trends. Not because of any functional reason, really. After you've smoked several times with your friends, then sure, it has a functional physiological purpose - assuming you actually know how to "inhale" and absorb the nicotine.</p>
<p>Yeah 14 year olds light up because they need to 'chill out' after a long day. Give me a break; they're all still in diapers and coddled by their parents as far as I'm concerned.</p>
<p>^ So Peter Parker is your idol? I think YOU have issues if you want to rely on a fictional comic book character. You clearly know nothing about her and shouldn't pass judgement so easily. And I don't know what loser 14 year olds you hang out with, but I've never heard of a 14 year old wearing diapers.</p>
<p>^^Way to take things so literally.</p>
<p>@vitare: Don't worry about it. It's an argument against using cars as a comparison to cigs.</p>
<p>hey, oversized sunglasses are cute; don't hate ;)</p>
<p>What are the odds we'd run into another Chris Crocker?</p>
<p>I have passed judgment on Britney: lunatic.</p>
<p>You must be if you're going to let KFed impregnante you.</p>
<p>There are two things on this earth that I find absolutely intolerable-stupidity and smoking.</p>
<p>And I'm generally a tolerant person. But, if I'm dating someone and I find out they're a smoker (of anything of any kind), you bet your ass I'll dump them in less than a nanosecond. </p>
<p>Smokers are so inconsiderate. I was waiting outside a restaurant for a table the other day and this woman walks past and blows cigarette smoke right into my face as she walks into the place. I swear, by the time I finish NYU I'll have asthma. And by the way, cigars smell worse than cigarettes. Tobacco smells like ***** (and probably doesn't taste much better), no amount of covering it up with whatever orange peach fruity scent will cover it up. I'd rather smell rotting sewage than tobacco.</p>
<p>Which is to say, I wouldn't mind a $100/pack tax on cigarettes. Tax them to death, and then pay me to tolerate it. I will eventually, if you offer me enough money. However, you'll find that that equilibrium point is at number with at least a dozen zeros. Which is to say, I won't. Oh, and in addition to this, they should pay for my dry cleaning.</p>
<p>I'm a nonsmoker because I find the smell of cigarettes absolutely intolerable. I won't even walk into an internet caf</p>