What do you think of smokers

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What I don't understand: I see parents BUYING cigarettes for their TEENAGERS

WTF?

Well, as you would know if you watched the video which I posted.... 53% of the people who quit that were surveyed said that it wasn't very difficult.
So they probably didn't do too much failing and relapsing most likely.

As for "attempts" to quit smoking, well who even knows what that means.
A lot of people probably go about it in quite a wishy-washy manner.... for all I know they're all like, "Oh, I've giving up smoking now (has a 'last fag' to celebrate) .... (2 hours later) gee, never mind... I'm starting again.

Have you ever worked with a doctor's support to quit smoking fags ?

What I don't understand: I see parents BUYING cigarettes for their TEENAGERS

WTF?

I also think its good manners for people who smoke to do so outdoors, unless the weather's too cold for it.

It's exemplary of the fact that smokers have no compassion for others; when was the last time you saw a non-smoker light up in a room where infants were sleeping? How often do non-smokers throw their cigarette butts onto the ground where children play (beaches, parks, playgrounds, et cetera)? How many non-smokers blow smoke from their lungs into other people's faces?

No ... it's the smokers who have no compassion for others; only concern for themselves and their precious "rights".

I doubt it, but are there any statistics on that ?

I have native blood,people are suppose to bring me tobacco when they visit.Its a tradition.

To do some rough math: if 53% of those successful said it was easy, and 5-7% were successful in an attempt, 2.7-3.7% of those who attempt to quit found it easy.

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Generally speaking they strike me as stupid, selfish, stinky, unattractive, hostile, antisocial extreme addicts with barely any willpower - who don't care about their own health, or the health of those around them. They often strike me as people who have far more money than sense, a limited ability to behave like adults and behave reasonably, and they are a constant drain of NHS resources which could be used to help people who deserve it more.

They frequently seem a bit chavvy, when you see them lurking about puffing away on fags in public.... and many of them do this right next to no smoking signs (especially outside hospitals, where they will sit there looking like they're about to die of Cancer while puffing away on fags in no smoking areas like moronic selfish arses) ... it can be impossible to get a bit of oxygen after having a process done at a hospital because there's no air conditioning or air-flow inside... and as soon as you get outside there are a million smokers puffing away.

They also seem like people who don't deal with life issues (such as stress) in a relevant and pro-active way... choosing instead to take addictive drugs frequently (in the form of fags) ; thus increasing their overall stress by choosing to perpetuate an addiction which increases noradrenaline levels. Then they talk crap about how smoking allegedly calms them down.... which is like saying that heroine is relaxing, since taking it calms the addict frenzy which junkies feel if they don't take it for a while.

Generally, they seem to not care about their own health... and not care about making the people around them ill, either.

They frequently don't care about polluting the environment either.... littering all sorts of places with their mangy fag butts and stinking up the air around them.

They also sometimes lie like politicians... claiming that they've given up smoking, when actually they have done nothing of the sort.




Well, I reckon that it's the loved ones who suffer the longest because of them doing that.
Sure, Cancer is a horrible way to die.... but once they're dead, they're gone.
It's their friends and family who are left behind with a void where the smoker used to be.

... and it's especially lame if their friends/family have been trying to get them to stop smoking for ages, and being told stuff like "shut up. Smoking is doing me no harm. I won't die of Cancer. I'd know if I had Cancer. I don't care if me smoking is making you ill. " (which relates to smokers being delusional about the effects of their decision, selfish, and also a bit stupid) ... which was what happened to me, when my dad smoked himself to death from Cancer.

Everybody who smokes has made a conscious decision to start.
And, it's not exactly top secret hidden knowledge that smoking fags becomes addictive when people keep on choosing to do it for a while.
There's really no sensible reason to start.... so it seems like a very telling thing when people make that decision.

I think more tax should be added to fag costs / tobacco etc.... because there's no good reason why anybody else should be forced to subsidise smokers' medical costs through generalised taxation. They should also automatically go to the bottom of the list when waiting for lung transplants and the like, so that people who deserve it more (due to not making the decision to ruin their lungs in the first place, and being unlikely to do so with the new set as son as the operation is over) are treated first. Because let's face it.... generally speaking, smokers are incredibly likely to get started on wrecking the new set of lungs as soon as possible.... sometimes before they've even finished their hospital stay !

Of course, there are exceptions to what I've been saying. If people smoke on their own (not affecting their kids, etc) in their house or some other smoker's house, then change their clothes - and don't just walk about with hair/clothes/breath smelling like an old ashtray which has never been emptied, then that's a lot more reasonable and less disgusting than the majority of smokers seem to be. Similarly, if people live in areas with only private healthcare or else don't smoke like a factory reekhouse until they need an operation, and don't cough and splutter all over other people constantly, then that's more considerate towards others than the kind of smokers who thoughtlessly guzzle up NHS resources in order to mop up the damage caused by their chosen heavy addiction... and who just cough and spit up phlegm wherever they go.

http://www.ash.org.uk/files/documents/ASH_121.pdf

Cost of smoking related illnesses for the NHS: £2.7 billion
Taxes raised from cigarettes excluding VAT: £9.5 billion
Including VAT: £12.1 billion

So if everyone stopped smoking, but still spent that money on taxable goods, the government would be £6.8 billion out of pocket.

That document rightly points to some other factors to be considered (the costs of cleaning up cigarette butts, the costs of accidental fires, the cost of looking after the elderly who don't smoke, the cost of cigarette breaks), but the government and particularly the NHS seem to benefit from smokers.

Cost to society
Research commissioned by ASH in 2010 has shown that the cost to the NHS of treating diseases caused by smoking is approximately £2.7 billion a year.6 Another study put the estimated cost as high as £5.2 billion.7 A report by the Policy Exchange in 2010 estimated the total cost to society of smoking to be £13.74 billion. This includes the £2.7bn cost to the NHS but also the loss in productivity from smoking breaks (£2.9bn) and increased absenteeism (£2.5bn). Other costs include: cleaning up cigarette butts (£342 million), the cost of fires (£507m), the loss of economic output from the death of smokers (£4.1bn) and passive smokers (£713m).

You are why I continue to smoke. Just to piss folks like you off.

F----U B----!

Give it up doglady, smoking will never go away!