Smoking...

[unlucky]

well im a non smoker...thats because i thnk that smoking really blackens your lungs....no offense to smokers reading this post...but why do people smoke anyway?

[DarkRiku]

Nicotine

once you start, it's hard to stop.

I don't smoke because of that, and because lung cancer =/= cool

[KaosKinesis]

I don't smoke because I think the idea of inhaling chemicals that not only make you and your clothes smell like shit, but slowly kill you, isn't exactly my idea of fun.

[ay957]

Yeah, The nicotine in the cigs is what makes it hard to quit. Can't stand the smoke,my father smokes and really bad to me

[Chibimisha]

i am a non smoker too..
i hate this shit

[dandossie]

smoking might be bad for you but you are going to die on day might as well do something you enjoy while you are alive...
also gives you something to do when you are bored...

i have smoked since i was 9 yrs old and am now 26 yrs old in the army currently in iraq and i dont have any problems from smoking YET ANYWAY
but i am trying to quit but its hard after smoking for so long...

[Avenged sevenfold]

my sisters boyfriends parents used to smoke (now only his dad) but it sticks to your close and furniture so i know if he came over!

[britterx]

I don't smoke because I don't want people to think their kissing an ashtray xDD but seriously a pack a day smoker had a disgusting amount of tar in their lungs. Andf the idea that all of that is like....in your lungs ...ewwww... Also I know alot of smokers aay "We all have to go someday"......i think i'd prefer to go someday rather than sooner xD so I'll never smoke...

[Li-Shun]

Where I live (Japan..it's not exciting no matter what some idiot avatar Site people think lol) - we still have cigarette * vending machines *. I hate them. And we have a high percentage of smokers. I have lots of friends that smoke so it's not like I discriminate against people who have the habit lol. But I think science has kinda proven it's rather unhealthy. I know the phrase that everyone dies of something, but I often think of "quality of death". Dying from lung cancer or any other cancer cigarettes can grow in your body is a long, painful, pitiful death. I see these little yellowy coloured, shriveled up old guys here with freaking oxygen tanks being delivered every other day so they can exist as they need the tanks to breath @_o. And then I hear the guy is actually like, 50 years old and just looks like a 200 year old rotting corpse.
Then a high school girl lights up cause it's "cool" =D.
People have the right to choose though- but as a non-smoker it makes me feel ill if I'm in a confined space with a pack of smokers

[nomhak]

A large majority of my friends smoke aswell, and I've tried once or twice. Honestly I never felt the "addiction" many claim to be clamped under. Smoking is unhealthy is a lot of ways, especially for those around a smoker. Be it a lover, a child or friends. Smoke molecules (I suppose) are absorbed into your saliva and clothing, the saliva most dangerously can cause mouth cancer and such. Clothing, well, if you have children then you know they bury their faces in the safety of your shirts. Not only does it stink, its very unattractive, bad for the skin, body, mental health and overall lifespan.

The addiction I feel is more of a psychological grasp. Most people when they start they don't care about the health aspect but are aware of the addiction cigarettes has (commercials, other people, word of mouth) and quite frankly continue to smoke for ego reasons. I mean why else would you waste cash on something that doesn't benefit you? Then when they realize its a waste and it sucks, they are already 6 feet buried in the thoughts of difficulty it takes to quit. All in all a lose, lose situation. Other corporations that help quit are just as bad if not worse then the cigarette corporation, because the majority of actually quitting is all mental, nicotine gums, patches, etc. Are all wastes.