YOU REALLY SHOULD STOP SMOKING
August 31, 2006
by: jovial_cynic
by: jovial_cynic
Some folks don't care about the health reasons for not smoking, siting that they have a complete freedom of choice in regards to their own health.
That's fine. Apart from that fact that many smokers become a huge drain on the economy as their lungs fail and they go on unemployment or start seeking public health benefits, and apart from the fact that I have to breath the putrid smoke-filled air that comes out of smokers' lungs as I walk past them downtown, I suppose they can do what they want.
But when the tobacco industry has continually increased the levels of nicotine in their cigs, particularly the type of cigarettes known by the tobacco industry as most likely to be smoked by teens and the minority population, why on earth would smokers continue? Or start? Why would anyone willingly support a corporation that continually makes their products more addictive, just to keep people buying their products? I mean... DON'T YOU PEOPLE REALIZE THAT YOU'RE BEING TRICKED?!
I don't get it.
That's fine. Apart from that fact that many smokers become a huge drain on the economy as their lungs fail and they go on unemployment or start seeking public health benefits, and apart from the fact that I have to breath the putrid smoke-filled air that comes out of smokers' lungs as I walk past them downtown, I suppose they can do what they want.
But when the tobacco industry has continually increased the levels of nicotine in their cigs, particularly the type of cigarettes known by the tobacco industry as most likely to be smoked by teens and the minority population, why on earth would smokers continue? Or start? Why would anyone willingly support a corporation that continually makes their products more addictive, just to keep people buying their products? I mean... DON'T YOU PEOPLE REALIZE THAT YOU'RE BEING TRICKED?!
I don't get it.