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Last edited by senpaimomo (2013-04-25 09:49:48)
you have an intense answer right there.
Since someone who thinks smoking is a no has already made a long post, I'm going to make one too. For us who answered -and are about to answer- [b]yes[/b].
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And a short prose (feel free to ignore
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[spoiler][quote]A PACK OF CIGARETTES has to be the most satisfying purchase of any given day. There�s sheer volume, for one thing. You�re not buying five or ten of anything. Not even a dozen. Not you. You�re buying 20 moments. Twenty chances to unfold your ancient lighter, with the associated pleasure of 20 whiffs of butane and the minimum 20 thumb-rasps on the flint. But go further. Twenty trips to the courtyard, where the other smokers gather to lean against doorways, kicking at their shoes. In every city, outside every office, they congregate. They are a nation unto themselves! The handshake. The tapping of the cigarette against the palm. That first curl of smoke against the eye. They�ve bought into something with that pack. Twenty first drags, 20 glances at the sky, 20 conversations about the Redskins or about that rain cloud, about your sister or the other guy�s girlfriend, about how much you hate soccer, about how good the breeze feels when the sun is falling behind the trees.
In another era, these would be our moments of repose, the kind of things painters would concentrate on. In a more forward-thinking culture, you might expect workers to be forced to step outside 20 times a day, to give themselves three minutes out of every 30, to gather in small pods, if only for the sheer accident of conversation. For all their troubles, smokers get this much. They are drawn to it. Despite themselves, despite the flood of warnings and the sidelong glances, despite the castigations of children and government alike, smokers locate themselves in their day and they pause.
[url=http://cailjudy.tumblr.com/post/10220942369/a-pack-of-cigarettes-has-to-be-the-most-satisfying]- Tom Chiarella, fiction editor at Esquire. Taken from �The Indefensible Position: Smoking Has Its Benefits�[/url][/quote]
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Last edited by Tres (2013-04-25 12:20:50)
you have an intense answer right there.[/quote]
Well, I'm serious in this kind of topic when it comes to human life.
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I appreciate the passion
When I was a kid, I saw my grandmother smoking outside the house and she threw her cigarette on the grass. I picked it up after she left, thinking it was some sort of candy. I breathed into it and I choked and threw it away. It was so gross
Kidding aside, I say no. It has good (?) psychological and physiological effects (relieves stress), but it�s the nicotine inside it that does that and that substance is very dangerous. But fortunately they started making nicotine gums for those who are trying to quit smoking, so that the nicotine doesn�t have to go into the lungs and destroy them. It can be digested. However this only presents a way out from lung cancer. My dad has been smoking all his life and he bought an [i]e-cigarette[/i] so that we wouldn�t smell the smoke, but it still had nicotine in it, only in the form of a liquid. Nicotine builds up a plaque in your arteries, forms new blood vessel and stimulates the growth of a tumor (yada yada yada I'm pretty sure we are all well aware of the effects). It�s not as alarming as it sounds now, but once we see visible, drastic effects, it�ll be too late by then.
Honestly, if it didn�t have such harmful side effects, then I wouldn�t even be so strongly against it. Hahahaha. Chocolate relieves stress too but too bad we get fat if we don�t burn those calories or we get diabetes if we consume too much of it. Nothing is free
Last edited by Pawws (2014-03-17 06:50:20)
The problem about total tobacco ban is loss of jobs for many of our fellows so I'm not sure about that. Maybe effectively increase the people's awareness about its effects. Or just export everything. I dont really understand how the economy works