I'm just gonna skip the other 15 pages.
I'm in SWAT (Students Working Against Tobacco), and just today I had a presentation at my old middle school.
caffeine addiction is the most widespread addiction on earth. it's just not physically addicting, and so it is relatively easy to overcome. Just throwing that out there. Let me say this as well, it is perfectly okay to be against smoking.. for yourself. But Being against ALL smoking is "living someones life" as you said earlier.. i'm not completely sure which one you're arguing for.
I'll be glad to live someone else's life if their bad habits are killing 53,000 people a year.
Including that number, a bit more than 430,000 people die a year of smoking and other tobacco related deaths. That's more than AIDS, Drugs, Murder,car accidents and car related deaths, and Alcohol related deaths, all combined.
Caffeine addiction doesn't hurt the people sitting around you, Squiddy.
Now I'm going to backtrack a few pages to generate some debate if I can.
As Ben Franklin once said, "I don't like what you're saying, but I'd fight to the death to make sure you can say it".
Sorry, this isn't related to smoking, but :
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
Though these words are regularly attributed to Voltaire, they were first used by Evelyn Beatrice Hall, writing under the pseudonym of Stephen G Tallentyre in
The Friends of Voltaire (1906)
Who are you to tell other people what to do with their lives? If they enjoy smoking and are willing to take the risks involved with the act, who are we to stop the smokers?
I believe we have the right to intervene when it affects other people around them, too. I mentioned previously about how many people die from second-hand smoke. If those people weren't around people who smoke, roughly 53,000 people a year could live.
And what if a person who smokes just does it to calm their nerves after a long day at work? There's nothing with doing something legal to relax one's self.
They wouldn't really have to if they never started to smoke in the first place.
"The brain freaks out when you are addicted to something.The addiction of smoking would be caused by nicotine. So the brain creates a severe wanting. That urge can be viewed as stress, if you are stressing about other things it will all be combined with the brains need for nicotine. Smoking gives the brain what it thinks it needs, letting you relax a bit. However the stress relief is false, for the stress is somewhat caused by the addiction itself, resulting in 'relief' when you smoke."
I modified that a smidge from
this, if you want to check it out. Again, if the person is willing to face the proven risks associated with smoking cigarettes, who are we to tell them how to live their lives? They make their own choices to create their own happiness.
Happiness? You may be happy when you first start, but the effects of smoking can seriously hurt you. You won't be happy if you get emphysema, coronary heart disease, bronchitis, chronic airway obstruction, acute myeloid leukemia, cancer of the esophagus, cancer of the larynx (voice box), cancer of the oral cavity (mouth), or cancer of the pharynx (throat). All of these are caused by smoking, and they all happen too often.
Why do you think pregnant women (if they have some common sense) don't smoke or drink? It's probably going to screw something up in their body, and affect their unborn child.
