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Originally posted by Riddil
Weeell... I know it never really was the intention of this thread to attack smokers, per se, simply to highlight low-brow advertising of the past... but I feel the need to step up to defend smokers...
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I think most peoples' beef with smokers is that they share their vice with everyone who happens to be around, whether those people like it or not. If I decide to get snot-faced, there isn't a 15-foot radius of people who will start getting buzzed, and whose livers will start scarring up. Basically, other people should not have to deal with the health consequences of one man's choice to slowly kill himself... regardless of that vice's effectiveness as a social tool.
Also, almost every cigarette smoker I've ever known thinks it's OK to just throw their cigarette butts on the ground, out the car window, etc. I'm not an environmental freak, but I don't think chucking garbage on the ground is great idea. But that's just me.
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Originally posted by Riddil
People are just so anti-smoking now it's almost ridiculous.
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This, I agree with. I don't smoke (other than an occasional cigar), but I think that those who choose to do so should be allowed to when in an environment where everyone present is OK with it... in bars, clubs, etc. The laws that are being enacted these days are akin to a tobacco prohibition in many ways.
Incideantally, I don't think anyone actually attacked smokers in this thread... I think you may have misunderstood some peoples' comments.