Smoking

[Yogg-Saron]

I believe that it is the most stupid thing you could do to your life, second to committing suicide. If you smoke, you kill yourself. People also say that smoking will make them feel better. It is lies, as they are just simply saying "Well, my life sucks and it will end, so why not kill myself faster to make me feel better?"

 

Smoking = Horrible

[Death Metal]

Smoking is a pathetic thing to do or start. It starts because you want to fit in with the cool kids and spirals out of control. The fact that people say it makes them feel better is a lie they want to tell themselves that it makes them happy when on the contrary it is making them miserable they just don't know it.

[RestLess-BoTics]

Yeah, starting to smoke isn't a very wise decision to make. :|

 

-Glasstin

[Flame Dragon]

Actually smoking does ease one's tension and makes one fell relaxed. So it isn't a lie that it makes people fell better.

 

It is also proven to reduce a person's weight.

[Aashar]

Umph people lose family members due to smoking.

[The Dark One]

Actually smoking does ease one's tension and makes one fell relaxed. So it isn't a lie that it makes people fell better.

 

It is also proven to reduce a person's weight.

 

Before the addiction, it does make you feel better. After you become hooked, all it does is keep you from feeling withdrawal.

[Flame Dragon]

Actually smoking does ease one's tension and makes one fell relaxed. So it isn't a lie that it makes people fell better.

 

It is also proven to reduce a person's weight.

 

Before the addiction' date=' it does make you feel better. After you become hooked, all it does is keep you from feeling withdrawal.

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That doesn't make sence.. You say it makes you feel better, but it stops because you become addicted.

 

That isn't the way it works. It still makes you fell better and it does still take the edge of life.

 

What would make this stop?

[Wyhe]

People would smoke as they believed that it would help them to relax,which is what many wanted in this modern society where anyone can be rendered stressed easily. However, it could be fatal in the long run. Besides, there are many other ways to reduce stress.

[The Dark One]

Actually smoking does ease one's tension and makes one fell relaxed. So it isn't a lie that it makes people fell better.

 

It is also proven to reduce a person's weight.

 

Before the addiction' date=' it does make you feel better. After you become hooked, all it does is keep you from feeling withdrawal.

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That doesn't make sence.. You say it makes you feel better, but it stops because you become addicted.

 

That isn't the way it works. It still makes you fell better and it does still take the edge of life.

 

What would make this stop?

 

Nicotine forces your brain to release more pleasure endorphins. If you smoke too much, therefore becoming addicted, your brain actually becomes accustomed to these larger amounts of endorphins, and you feel as normal. When the number of endorphins released while smoking becomes normal, the number of endorphins present while not smoking becomes below normal. Therefore, all smoking does is keep you from feeling crappy.

[Flame Dragon]

Actually smoking does ease one's tension and makes one fell relaxed. So it isn't a lie that it makes people fell better.

 

It is also proven to reduce a person's weight.

 

Before the addiction' date=' it does make you feel better. After you become hooked, all it does is keep you from feeling withdrawal.

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That doesn't make sence.. You say it makes you feel better, but it stops because you become addicted.

 

That isn't the way it works. It still makes you fell better and it does still take the edge of life.

 

What would make this stop?

 

Nicotine forces your brain to release more pleasure endorphins. If you smoke too much, therefore becoming addicted, your brain actually becomes accustomed to these larger amounts of endorphins, and you feel as normal. When the number of endorphins released while smoking becomes normal, the number of endorphins present while not smoking becomes below normal. Therefore, all smoking does is keep you from feeling crappy.

And I learned something.

 

Kind of surprised that I didn't think of that. but what ever. Your right.

 

FYI I hate cigarettes.

[Lazer Yoshi]

Okay, you just smoked a LOT. You lost 50 pounds. Good right? WRONG. You have died by then. Smoking damages EVERYTHING. You smell gross, your breath stinks, your voice wears out, you have a hard time breathing, so, yeah, Smoking is an Epic Failure.

[2sick4u]

Okay' date=' you just smoked a LOT. You lost 50 pounds. Good right? WRONG. You have died by then. Smoking damages EVERYTHING. You smell gross, your breath stinks, your voice wears out, you have a hard time breathing, so, yeah, Smoking is an Epic Failure.

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LolPublicSchooling.

Smoking is fine in certain moderation.

Prolonged usage has long term effects.

I can't even express how non-deadly smoking happens to be.

Self-control=Real killer.

That's the problem with smoking. Plainly, and truthfully.

Murder she wrote says so.

=].

[Mew 101]

I think you should never smoke unless it's for a religious reason, like Indians & there Peace Pipe.

[Cin]

I'm very anti smoking I believe it played a part in my grandma's death of Lung Cancer, so its on my list of things to never touch or try, I can't really stand second hand smoke because of the damage does, plus its at trigger for my asthma (smoke, aerosols, etc...)

[2sick4u]

I think you should never smoke unless it's for a religious reason' date=' like Indians & there Peace Pipe.

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.. What?

That's border-line hypocritical/discriminatory.

"If it's cultural to you, it's okay. But if you enjoy it, tough potatoes, you should been Native American."

That's pretty much what you said.

Native Americans don't smoke tobacco either, unless the occasion is special.

They normally smoke a weird Red-Stone that they mine themselves.

-_-".

Learn2Research.

[The Dark One]

Okay' date=' you just smoked a LOT. You lost 50 pounds. Good right? WRONG. You have died by then. Smoking damages EVERYTHING. You smell gross, your breath stinks, your voice wears out, you have a hard time breathing, so, yeah, Smoking is an Epic Failure.

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LolPublicSchooling.

Smoking is fine in certain moderation.

Prolonged usage has long term effects.

I can't even express how non-deadly smoking happens to be.

Self-control=Real killer.

That's the problem with smoking. Plainly, and truthfully.

Murder she wrote says so.

=].

I lol'ed hard at this. Smoking is certainly NOT fine in any amount. Obviously, you have no idea what's in cigarettes if you think that. Seriously, the amount of tar that goes into your body with every cigarette you smoke is huge. Clogged arteries is a serious condition. There are actually SEVERAL different radioactive materials in cigarettes. If you think that radiation is somehow good for you, than you're not even worth the time it took to read your post. You think cancer is good? You think that having to have a hole poked in your throat is good? No, not everyone who smokes dies from it, that doesn't mean that it doesn't end up affecting their lives in a strongly negative way.

 

Oh, and newsflash, Nicotine is ADDICTIVE. That's the whole point, self-control isn't really an issue, it's a physical addiction. You suffer withdrawal if you don't get what you want.

 

If I cut your arm off, and you bleed to death, it's obviously not my fault for cutting your arm off, it must be your fault for bleeding.

[MasterOfMagicians]

Smoking has proven, due to the chemicals found in the cigarettes, cigars, pipes, etc., to cause numerous effects. Some of them relaxing, some of them addicting.

 

The health side-effects of smoking are bad, and the side effects to second-hand smoke aren't any better.

 

What you have to realize is why people start smoking. Its not just because they feel bad or they want to fit in, and to try and stereotype someone like that doesn't make you any better just because you don't smoke.

 

If you really want to point fingers, maybe you should ask yourself what have you done to get to know why they smoke and what you can do to help them quit (if they want to - because you can't make someone quit if they don't want to).

 

Smoking is bad for you, yes, but sitting here complaining about how bad it is doesn't fix anything. Go out and do something about it in a non-confrontational, stereotypical way. You'll get more people to listen and less people contradicting you that way.

 

BTW to the post above me. Do you have any idea what the ingredients are in cigarettes? Let me just tell you some of them.

Nicotine

Cadmium - used in car batteries

Tar - yup, used on roads

Ammonia - Toxic

Arsenic - Toxic

Benzene - Toxic

Carbon Monoxide - Silent Killer

Formaldehyde - Used in the preparation of dead bodies

Hydrogen Cyanide - Toxic

 

So before you say cigarettes aren't deadly, and that "Murder She Wrote" said that its all a self-control problem. Maybe you should do some research before believing A TELEVISION PROGRAM. There are well over 15 different toxic ingredients in Cigarettes and non-smoke tobacco products, and that doesn't include all the chemical compounds created once these are combined and burned, which are also very toxic.

[Yasu]

Today medical studies have proven that smoking is among the leading causes of diseases such as lung cancer' date=' heart attacks and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and can also lead to birth defects.

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[speznats]

i don't really care if people though there lives away

personally the only time i care is when it my but on the line

so basiclly i don't care if other people smoke i just wont smoke

and you have to remember that 40 percent of all smokers got addicted by second hand smoke

[MasterOfMagicians]

Speznats,

So what your saying is you don't care if its your father or mother,

siblings, cousins, friends

what about when your older? You won't care when its your children, grandchildren, nephews, neices?

That's a very selfish outlook on this growing problem.

[EliminateHRN]

My dad has told me all about smoking (he smokes). He told me it is addicting and bad for you. He said that why he can't quit smoking because it is addicting and stuff. But he is smoking less a less so he is workin gon it. Myself, no never to smoke. I know it is bad for you. I'll never smoke myself.

[Guest Tiger]

People think smoking is "cool", but it is one of the worst things you can do. I see people smoking every single day when I go out for a walk, or go to the store to pick up a few items. Why do they do it? How does it make them feel better?

[speznats]

i am selfish you do have a point masterofmagicians but im not worried about my parents smoking because my mother is terminally ill and my father died in a car crash

my cossin maybe but he lives with me and hes not smoking

and my brother works on an oil rig so he cant smoke

and because i know your going to ask... my mother has

heart cancer and i've been spending ever posible moment with her i even flew back to Russia to see her but you can't force people to do things they dont want to and i have realized that

you just have to give them a nudge once in a while and let them make there own choices in life and hope they make the right one's

[EliminateHRN]

Why do they do it? How does it make them feel better?

 

They probably do it to take stress out of their lives. And my dad once quit and he started becoming more ill and miresble and stuff so it could help with some stuff.

[speznats]

Basically it stimulates the "feal good" part of you brain

and over time your brain will develop an artificial need for cigarets

and after you don't smoke them for a while you start to feal sick

you become more easly aggravated and more soon nothing will cut off the tension except a smoke

so the long you smoke the more dependent your becomes on smoking