I've been researching this topic for some time now and I must say, some smokers are good people. Ok, this we know. But by now, we should all also know that use of tobacco products (cigarettes, cigars, snuff, chewing tobacco) is disgusting and harmful for the human body. Yet many people let themselves become slaves to these products like the mindwashed consumers the tobacco companies want you to be.
The use of snuff (which is popular with young white men) has been found to cause nasal cancer and increases hypertension. Chewing tobacco is highly associated with mouth and throat cancer.
Smoking is particularly bad, not only for the smoker, but for every living thing around him. Those who continue this harmful habit are greatly increasing their chances of dying slow painful deaths due to the high amount of carcinogens present in tobacco products.
A parent or guardian or babysitter who smokes in the presence of children should be thrown in prison for child abuse. Plain and simple. Your self-destructive behaviour has an even more damaging effect on others (second-hand smoke). No good parent could smoke inside the house nor around children at any time. To do so is abominable and destructive to the future well-being of the children and their future offspring as well. Ignorance is no excuse now! You have the facts and must therefore act accordingly.
People who smoke while walking down the street (and mindlessly blowing smoke into other people's faces) and those who huddle together and smoke outside pubs or shops are disgusting and inconsiderate. Some smokers stand in the doorway while smoking; failing to realize that all the smoke is coming into the building anyway and thus harming others in the process.
Smoking is also highly unattractive. I cannot tell you how off-putting it is to see someone smoking. We are creatures of biology and we want a mate who has the best genes. If a man smoked even a little bit, he has permanently damaged his genes and his own future health. Smoking, as we should all know by now, makes people look far older than they are. It rots your teeth, makes your skin grey and gives a general unhealthy look because, low and behold! It is making you unhealthy!
I am thankful I was never thoughtless enough to try any of this garbage nor any other drug. Just because a few of my acquaintances were stupid enough to try this stuff, never for one moment tempted me to try it. I urge you, fellow young people, to have more backbone with your "friends" and refuse to try any substances which you know can create problems for you in the future. Your life is too precious to be wasted on such utter nonsense as these products are.
All of the above was written out of concern for tobacco users, not out of any kind of malice. I have worked in a nursing home for three years and have seen the complete agony and destruction these products produce in people. I know it is very difficult to stop once a vice such as this has taken a hold of you, but for the sake of your own quality of life, that of your children and that of those around you, stop indirectly murdering other people and killing yourself...stop using tobacco products now!
