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- digger1942, on 10/10/2007, -3/+43I think this is inaccurate. A lot of people think smoking is open to interpretation. "I only smoke when I drink", for example. I've lost count of people on myspace, seen smoking in their pictures, but saying no in their details. People know it's wrong and it blatantly defies common sense, so they do not admit to it.
- gta3mobster, on 10/10/2007, -7/+30BREAKING: Obesity at record levels.
Americans are just fat ***** now instead of smokers. Both cause large amounts of death from heart disease and such. - Sparkster185, on 10/10/2007, -1/+21Quitting smoking is easy, I've done it a thousand times.
- Ascendant, on 10/10/2007, -0/+16Silly, this is digg! We're only libertarians about things that we like! If you do something that displeases the hivemind, that makes it wrong!
- TheNik, on 10/10/2007, -5/+20I wasn't aware Digg was such a massive collection of snobby elitists...
Oh wait. - happytron, on 10/10/2007, -3/+16Good work soldier. You've figured out the relationship between ratios and percentages.
- adarkmethod, on 10/10/2007, -7/+19its "wrong" to smoke? define wrong for me please. bad for your health.. sure...unpopular... sure, but wrong? that seems a bit harsh
- saturdaysinbed, on 10/10/2007, -3/+15almost like the difference between sleeping and "just resting your eyes", eh?
- zlintux, on 10/10/2007, -4/+16"Gallup's new smoking poll also shows that 81 percent of current smokers say they would like to give up smoking and 79 percent say they're addicted to smoking."
So you want to quit, but you aren't doing so, and you aren't addicted. Right. - Parker307, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11How about that, a drug that's legal, addictive and declining in usage!
- boothkid, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10Mmkay?
- thrallie, on 10/10/2007, -5/+15I smoke a cigar once in awhile. I have no problem with other people smoking in their houses or out on the street. And I don't think exposure to second hand smoke while on a subway for 10 minutes will kill you. You need to be around it constantly, so you are smoking as much as they do.
- Ascendant, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10The funny thing about being a smoker in America is when morbidly obese people chide you about smoking in a very self-righteous and condecending manner. Somehow that's OK, but if I were to respond saying "perhaps, but maybe you should also lay off the cheeseburgers a bit," no, THAT would be RUDE!
- fkr3, on 10/10/2007, -3/+12And is there a difference between having a dick in your bum and being gay?
- JFrizzle, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10I wish McDonalds was illegal or taxed to the point to where it is far beyond it's relative worth. It too has helped put a drain on the health care system.
Get a clue. Taxing cigarettes is not the answer. If we overtaxed everything that was "wrong" we'd never afford anything. - Sparkster185, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9I bet you do absolutely nothing unhealthy, ever. I praise you.
- Scheissen, on 10/10/2007, -10/+19How are you not hurting anyone else with your cigarette smoke?
- fkr3, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8I don't understand how people can suspend themselves from the ceiling via nipple and ***** piercings and whatnot.... but that doesn't mean they shouldn't be allowed to if that's what gets them wet.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -14/+22Isn't this stat because most of them have died from using the product as intended?
- ledzep19752000, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9Proof?
- Hayaemsay, on 10/10/2007, -8/+16Well how is it right?
- napsack, on 10/10/2007, -2/+10Yes actually.
- ClOlD, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Too many taxes nowadays. Anyone worth his salt rolls his own.
Having to put even a LITTLE effort into having a cig to smoke cuts down big-time on casual smoking. When you want a nice smoke, you have to sit down and put it together. - ledzep19752000, on 10/10/2007, -3/+10How am I hurting anyone else? In California, I can't smoke inside or within 20 feet of a building! How does that hurt? Please tell me?
- smeagel, on 10/10/2007, -2/+8What's you're point? Unless your an alcoholic, if you only smoke a few cigarettes when you're drinking, it's really not that bad for you. Despite what the anti-smoking zealots would have you think, a pack of cigarettes a month is very unlikely to ever manifest any physical ailments. We're talking that's on par with air pollution for what it's doing to your lungs. People used to smoke MUCH more than they do these days, that's something else this poll doesn't take into consideration. When everyone smoked inside their houses, and at work, and in hospitals and airplanes - they smoked a LOT more. Just the fact that you can't smoke in work or restaurants and bars in most cities now makes a MASSIVE difference.
- pintomp3, on 10/10/2007, -2/+8"Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing."
--Redd Foxx - GoingPostal, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7We are a dying breed.
- sufferingant, on 10/10/2007, -0/+621% seems good, but in reality 1 out of every 5 adults still smokes.
- happytron, on 10/10/2007, -2/+8The existence of people like you makes a compelling argument in favor of privatized healthcare. As long as I'm paying for my own doctor, you should have nothing to complain about. Nonetheless, your argument is fairly unconvincing. Everyone is bound to die of something eventually; is lung cancer significantly more expensive to treat than Alzheimer's? Moreover, smokers are expected to draw less than their share of retirement benefits since they die younger.
- jiub, on 10/10/2007, -2/+8I sit outside, ALONE, on my porch every friday night and enjoy a cigar or two and a few beers to unwind after a generally extremely ***** week of work.
How is that smoke hurting anyone else? - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -4/+10no, second hand smoke is only going to harm you if you are kept in close proximity for extended periods of time, as in years. Like adults that smoke inside a house with kids present. Or people that CHOOSE to work in a bar/club, etc. Someone passing you down the sidewalk smoking doesn't equal cancer for you.
- tehpwnrate, on 10/10/2007, -2/+7Some of us care about our fellow man; yes, even the stupid ones who smoke.
- happytron, on 10/10/2007, -2/+7So, you're from the school of thought where everything is either right or wrong? The choice to smoke (in a manner that doesn't deprive someone else of their liberty to breathe fresh air) is inherently amoral. Its a tradeoff between the enjoyment of the nicotine, and the possible badness of the health effects. Its totally possible that two rational people could come to differing conclusions on the matter, depending on their value judgments. The idea that ethics are in any way involved is a sham.
- ultraelite, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5I want you to know I started smoking at a legal age because after hearing for all my life how bad it was I thought I would get the other side of the story. Turns out the other side has some pretty strong argument and although I've quit I get tired of people making such a big ***** deal about it. It's not like smokers do it JUST to kill themselves and harm others, they do it cause it feels good.
- DustinR, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5How are you not hurting anyone else when you drive your car?
- egrumling, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4I quit about 7 years ago. Hard as hell, but worth it. I'm not spending as much as $1400/yr, and I feel much, much better than I ever did while smoking. Do what you want, just remember that fact when your kid wants to go to college and you can't afford to send them. Think compound interest.
As for you kids who "want" to smoke, just wait. When you hit your early 30s, you'll start to feel it. - tehpwnrate, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5You hurt your family, your friends, and any other loved ones when you die prematurely because of your habit. That's a start to how you're hurting others.
- happytron, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Don't give them any ideas.
- brundlefly76, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4I've been a smoker for 24 years.
The current laws involving smoking are entirely practical - secondhand smoke kills, thats a scientific fact, not a theory, so of course we cannot have people smoking inside public places, thats just plain common sense and health policy, there simply is no argument against it. I cannot possibly argue my right to puff on a cigarette in a bar if other people are present - that I ever even did that was just uninformed social legacy.
Cigarettes shouldn't even be allowed as a consumer product. If you want to grow and share tobacco and roll your own, thats fine, but no sales, period.
Again, the only reason cigarettes are a consumer product is uninformed legacy, period (well, and money). - DustinR, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4He speaks the truth, they are always talking about freedom and tolerance. But god forbid you mention anything about smoking and these are the same people who smoke bud. I think all drugs should be legal and its ridiculous that this groupthink thinks that cigarettes should be illegal or taxed to holy hell.
- sgtbutterscotch, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4wow, i totally messed that up; meant "Worst Use of Sarcasm in the Last 12 Hours"
- sgtbutterscotch, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5I thought it's supposed to relieve stress
- ledzep19752000, on 10/10/2007, -2/+6How is drinking right? Both are legal!
- sgtbutterscotch, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5I'm looking at what's getting dugg up and buried and it reminds me a lot of "Death Camp for Tolerance."
- ledzep19752000, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5I have a lot of senior citizen neighbors who had smoked for decades and it never killed them!
- osbjmg, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3ahha, funny. I am actually a libertarian and I agree the laws that say you can't do X (including smoking) are wrong. Businesses saying that is right. Let the businesses choose. If it's okay for a government to say you can't smoke, that's fair game for them to say you can't dance, you can't talk, you can't drink water, it can go further. Hopefully common sense is always used in these situations though.
Certainly smoking is not wrong, but I HATE it. I thought it was silly of the original post to say it's wrong, probably just a quick comment and oversight - no biggie. - M4tt3r, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Go to a bar/ club that doesn't allow smoking. Case closed. You can choose where you go. Tell the business you won't go there if they allow smoking. Get your friends to do the same. But leave other peoples private property alone.
- sgtbutterscotch, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3I hate polls like these. I've never been surveyed in any of these types of polls. I want to know the percentage of people who have never been polled in studies like these.
- Mothrog, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3So... Tobacco isn't natural?
- UrinalPooper, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5You lose at math. I'm addicted. I have no intention of quitting because i like my addictions, they define the way i see myself as a person. Digg me down for being honest.
psst - you're going to die anyway -
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