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welcome to the boards

if you were to look into every statistic of every illness you will find that we should all be dead right now.....

yes im a smoker.

it's different from person to person. i'm a smoker too, and i don't want to quit, i like to smoke. why would i do it otherwise? and i don't like people that try to get others to quit. you don't see me trying to get others to smoke, now do you.

People are encouraged to quit because others around them really do care about their health. How about you? Do you have people who care about you and what you will become?

yes, they care enough about me to trust my judgement and not try to impose their point of view.

umm Well I have been with smokers and stuff and I just hate the smell tht doesnt go away and second of all who cares about ur health? Look at the ppl that u are killing around u. Second hand smoke is more harmful than smoking itself so yeah...

I once heard that every time you smoke a cigarette, it takes like 3 minutes off your life span.

My answer: Smoke until I turn back into a fetus. (Laff it up)



Seriously though... don't smoke kids. Unless you want to look really, REALLY cool.

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riiiight, the people i'm killing with my cigarette. forget about wars, famine, drugs, pills, pollution, car crashes, junk food and so on and so on. in your logic, a car manufacturer should feel guilty for the people that die in car crashes. anyways, i don't smoke in a room where there are more non smokers then smokers, for instance. and if i don't know i ask. so there, i don't kill anyone unless they let me do it, lol.

i dont smoke because i find it interferes with my monthly rum budget.
Why smoke and be all yellow and stinky when u can get paraletically drunk, collapse piss your pants and be all yellow and stinky.

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Egg has a good point ^ Though, it works better with whiskey.

Whiskey is godly. Kentucky Deluxe!

theeggman wrote:i dont smoke because i find it interferes with my monthly rum budget.
Why smoke and be all yellow and stinky when u can get paraletically drunk, collapse piss your pants and be all yellow and stinky.

I do both....except for the weak bladder part....

Oigen wrote:riiiight, the people i'm killing with my cigarette. forget about wars, famine, drugs, pills, pollution, car crashes, junk food and so on and so on. in your logic, a car manufacturer should feel guilty for the people that die in car crashes. anyways, i don't smoke in a room where there are more non smokers then smokers, for instance. and if i don't know i ask. so there, i don't kill anyone unless they let me do it, lol.

Think of it more like the car manufacturer should feel bad about how many lives they destroy by the cars producing toxic chemicals like carbon monoxide. Gases have a tendancy to disapate and because of that we have real trouble confining their reachign effects and we can't always tell when they're present.
But good on you for respecting when other people don't want to deal with the smoke. That always shows a good character

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