Thank you for smoking!?

Question

I know people are going to get angry but it's my health too!

I choose not to smoke! I don't understand why yound people who know the effects of smoking continue to light up!?

Ok my main question is why do people find it nessacery to smoke on train platforms, trains, bus stops and at the doors buildings and public places?(In syd Australia) I feel like we have to walk throu their haze to get through our daily lives.

Answer 1

its called 'ADDICTION'

maybe you've heard of it?

the more you people nag on smokers, the more you irritate them. It's better you leave them alone and let them carry on with their lives as they want. If you don't like where you live, then just move.

Answer 2

if people want to smoke then just let them who the h**l wants to live to 95 anyways, stop being soo anal

Answer 3

According to many medical reports, smoking is a unhealthy habit so I wish nobody smoked because I don't like to see people do things that are bad for them.

Thanks for asking.

Answer 4

They don't care.They are selfish addicts.

Answer 5

I agree  can't stand walking along the street into a cloud of smoke

Answer 6

Well.. you can't tell people not to smoke.

Lol that's useless but whenever someone starts smoking & you can't handle it, walk way. that's the best you can do.  

Answer 7

Presumably because they enjoy it and don't want to give it up...

Answer 8

Younger kids do it for usually two reasons:

Peer pressure and curiosity. They're friends are doing it, and they wanna know what it feels like. And hey, if it's cool, then s***w health, they'll do it.

I do not smoke, and my father stopped smoking when my older sister was in my mom's belly to prevent an unhealthy baby, like you said.

The people that smoke in public usually are addicted and need a cigarette right then and there.

I just hold my breath or breathe into my shoulder/shirt.

Answer 9

Why do people walk around drinking coffee or eating junk food?  These too are bad for you, so why stop at smokers, let ban anything that is not a veggie.  But then with all the pesticides they would have to ban veggies as well and we all would die.  And don't get me started on the fake smelling perfume you women wear.  Good golly miss molly, some of you women would wrap a dead rat around your neck if someone famous stated it was cool.

Answer 10

Nicotine is one of the MOST addictive drugs known to mankind...more so than cocaine!  I'm sure a lot of smokers, like me, would love to quit.  It's not as easy as just choosing to make a decision like chicken or beef.

Answer 11

I know it's irritating and unpleasant for us, the non-smokers, but I think that smokers should be treated with compassion.  Most of them would really like to give up but they are addicted.

The tobacco companies have gone to great lengths to ensure that they hook in the unwary as quickly as possible - particular targets are women and young people. Nicotine is very fast acting and powerfully addictive.

I think that there are lots of reasons why people smoke - maybe every one in their family smokes, maybe they started because they were copying someone they admire like an older sister or the cool kids at school. Some young women think that smoking will help them control their weight. Or they want to seem grown up, sophistocated and cool.

Smokers are now not allowed to smoke in most restaurants, shopping centres, aircraft, bars, public transport - most places really, often including their own homes. So they actually have no choice but to smoke at the doors of buildings (go outside), on train platforms (wait till you're off the train) and so on.

Once they're addicted (and it doesn't take long) they experience withdrawal symptoms when the nicotine levels in their blood drops below a certain level. This can include cravings, headaches and mood changes (grouchy, depressed, cranky).

They are driven to smoke, it's often not a conscious choice. I worked in a hospital in the past and attended a lecture given by a respiratory physiologist (she was an expert on smoking). She told us that nicotine is more addictive than heroin!

I agree it's nasty trying to get through the fog to get into airport and some large office buildings. I just remind myself how horrible it used to be everywhere. In the past I've come home from a night out and had to dump all my clothes in the washing machine and jump in the shower to get the smell off my skin and my hair before I could go to bed because the smoke made me soooo pongy.

It's not like that any more. We non smokers are winning, we should do that with grace and appreciate the effort that the smokers are putting into minimizing their impact on us. I figure that they're making a big effort, so I hold my breath through the last nine yards to get into a public building and try to live and let live.

Answer 12

So you can tell the difference between the polution and the smokers

Answer 13

As a smoker the only place in public i can smoke is outside.

You might not like smoking but you can't have it all your own way you have to compromise.  

Answer 14

Why do all you non-smokers insist that it's unhealthy for us to smoke? And that it stunts your own health? What if that cigarette is the only thing keeping me from kicking your *** on that train platform! a boot in your bum isn't healthy is it?!

Answer 15

most people who say they don't smoke because of their health are off munching on junk food, drinking sodas, breathing in air pollution and taking the elevator.

Answer 16

I feel for you. I work at a car wash and it is really annoying when you walk up to cash a car and bellow of smoke puffs out. I don't care if it offends them i deliberately step back and make them open their door to reach and give me money. i don't care that other's want to put themselves at risk for cancer and other unhealthy things. But for peats sake when you go somewhere public have some consideration for the others around you. Wait until you're done to light up. It really effects the smokers when I step back like that though. They normally put out their cigg unless they are that oblivious to it all.