| No Fair Dan
You post then edit while I am responding. (I must type too slow.) I do realize how varied the human condition is. And I am the only one in my family who doesn't smoke. When I was 12 or maybe even 11 my best friedn and next door neighbor had stole a pack of his fathers cigarettes and was passing them out to everyone. I took one, lit it, put it to my lips, and took a deep breath inhaleing deeply, and coughed my guts up. Except on the very rare ocasion when I lite a cigarette for my wife, a cigarette has never again touched my lips. All my friends told me it was "cool" to smoke, but one bout of coughing told me better. I still know 3 of the 5 other people that all started smoking in that alley that day. All 3 still smoke and wish they could quit.
They should have listened to thier lungs and not the adds.
If you smoke and want to quit but can't I have sympathy for you. I do not pity you. But I do have compassion.
But I also believe smoking will never be illegal. To try to make it illegal would be as big a failure as prohibition was. 10 years ago people were saying that eventually cigarettes were going to be taxed so much that it would cost $5 a pack. Smokers said that when that happened they would quit. Fast forward to New York and California of today and we see that nobody quit.
And as long as smoking is legal the you shouldn't be able to sue. I mean, what's next? Sueing alcohol because they were hit by a drunk driver? |