Smoking Cigs

[InFLuenCe]

Do you believe that smoking should be banned?
personaly i think not it helps one's mind calm's its nerve when they pissed and so forth
when its cold outside you need it also it warms you up a bit
but whats yall argument

[Thinker Thought]

If people want to shorten their own life span, they should be able to do as they please..

Thats why I think they should lift laws on drugs, if people want to harm themselves it's their own fault...only less idiots in the world to deal with..

Only problem that would make is drug induced violence and car accidents..

But smoking shouldn't be banned...it's not harmful enough, and it only makes people look like derro's..

"We should just take all the labels off everything, and let all the stupid people take care of themselves"

[InFLuenCe]

lol

[Reptillian]

Smoking is stupid but, no it shouldn't be banned that would be taking yet another freedom.

[detox]

lmao, i'm sure there are other ways to get warm when it's cold out, and other ways to calm your nerves, shouldn't be banned, but still it's dumb to start smoking cigs.

[Alter]

Smoking banned? Personally i think so, but i know that's an outrageous thing to demand, so my solution is:

Smoking only allowed in designated areas. if you wanna kill yourself, do it in such a way that others aren't effected

Smoking when pregnant or around minors should ALWAYS be banned

Raise the legal smoking and buying age by a year every year until it's @ 21

Raise taxes more and more each year

ALL smokers should be forced to pay fro private health insurance (in the uk we have a free NHS (national health service)

Smoking breaks unpaid and part of your holiday allowance

harsher punishments on smokers, and parents of minors who smoke

no smoking ads on tv pre watershed, and companies must pay extra for their adverts




other drugs are another matter.

but real talk, smokers, look at my rules and tell me they're unfair, baring in mind that breaking ANY of them is effectively helping people kill OTHER people, not just themself, increasing other people's health costs, or generaly lowering standards of living (air pollution etc)

If you wanna kill yourself that's fine, but is it unfair to punish you for killing/harming others?
And hey, don't ban it, just make a price on suicide, might as well let the other people in society benefit.

People moan about crooked cops and shit needing to fill their arrest quota chasing people on minor offences, why not just give them one that means people who actually aren't doing any harm won't suffer for.

[kirby]

Dude..^

No.

None'a that.

[Bleu.]

Um @ Reptile

You might think tellin people not to smoke is takin away a freedom.

But lettin it continue, and second-hand smoke killin so many people is takin away the freedom to a healthy life.

[kii]

smoking = silent killer

nuff said

[JFX]

you know i dont think anyone's mentioned this but a known fact is when you smoke u cut the blood flow from ya dick so its harder to get a boner when you smoke..en

but seriously why start i know this lad in my year and he dosent even hit 5 foot and he smokes i was taller than him when i was 10-11 and now hes like 14

so in short

it kills you,messes with ya dick,stuns ya growth,makes you more likely to get cancer,it stinks,it makes you look older and more wrinkly

there's so many negatives yet there's like no positives

[InFLuenCe]

^myths thats what those are

[Alter]

^any evidence to back that up?

seeing as those things have been proven... and you do realise that a single free radical from the smoke can cause damage to your artery walls?
this leads to the formation of an atheroma (think a big puss ball inside the artery wall) which then makes a hard plaque (high blood cholestorol makes this worse) this reduces the elasticity of the artery, and actually narrows it (Think a piece of food stuck inside a straw). THis now increases blood pressure, which in turn increases the risk of further damage. do you see the vicious circle? that'll eventually lead to cardio vascular disease...


see, with basic knowledge i havent used in over a year, i can shoot down that whole argument.

[Forward Bound]

[.:†Tha Street Villian†:.]

I Dont Smoke But It Should Be Baned If People Wanna Do It Let Em Do It Its They Life No Yours..If You Dont Want Them To Smoke Around You Tell Em

[JFX]

deluxe said:

^myths thats what those are

ill find evidence to back it up

[Forward Bound]

why smoke weed, and wen u can sniff coke?

[kii]

lol ^

Smoking cigs make you smell. lol

[B Snide]

As long as people do stupid illegal shit while theyre high, itll never be legalized... And Id rather not sniff shit thats gon go straight to my brain...

[CJM]

-SMH.

[Bolo]

ight, first off, im a smoker....
that said, i think it should be banned
either they ban ALL drugs and narcotics, not just the ones they're not able to have a monopoly on, or they legalize everything...cuz im all for having everything legalized (in terms of drugs or w/e), but what makes squares more palatable than weed or coke or roxies or x? if anything, most of the illegal drugs affect only the person taking them (barring any mental breakdown followed by a killing spree or sum crazy ish like that), meanwhile, cigs affect the ppl around u...
anyway, they should either stick with a plan, or scrap it all....make everything, including cigarettes, that are "drugs" illegal....or remove the ban of the rest of the like substances
i, for one, would support the banning of all of em tho, its better for the culture, better for our health (im still trying to quit cigs, its hard man...i stop into the gas station to get a beer or even a gatorade and there's cigarette ads EVERYWHERE)