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I used to see that kind of attitude a lot on the education programme I worked at. Some of the students had drugs or alcohol problems. If one of them dropped off the radar for a spell and then reappeared having put themselves through god knows what, there were a couple of tutors who seemed to go out of their way to make them feel bad about it.
Aside from the fact that it is probably the least helpful thing anyone can do, it was often as not accompanied by total hypocrisy: these same tutors would be down in the smoking room with a patch on their arm and a cig in their hand complaining that they just couldn't give up.
I'm a nicoteine addict. It killed my dad it may well kill me. It is a matter of luck and grace that I just happened to fall into an addiction that society deems relatively acceptable, and just as much a matter of luck and grace that i didn't fall into an addiction that is judged harshly.
There but for the grace of fate go we.
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