Feb 26, 2005 01:23
Let me start off this post by saying this...
I am a smoker. I like to smoke. I like buying the packs, lighting up a cancer stick and taking a drag.
I was not always this way, I used to hate smokers, with a passion. Asking myself: "How can they do that knowing its bad for them?"
I know it's bad for me, I knew a long time ago. I don't care. I don't light up in front of someone who finds it uncomfortable, or somewhere it's not allowed. I respect the wishes of other and the fact they're not on the 30 yr. suicide program like I am.
I don't respect, however, the dumb motherfuckers who keep bitching and moaning and making stupid fucking commercials trying to extort "information" that's publicaly available.
It's so retarded. "Why do you sell products that you know kill people?"
One, that's just bad tact. That's like asking someone "Why don't you have a leg?" or "Why do you drool all the time?" or "Why do you have a small penis?" There's some things that are better left unsaid, not asked, or not spoken, or even thought.
Two, the people in these things are so fucking stupid.
I went to the Truth's website out of sheer curiosity. You know, I get bored and want to read stupid things.
And the people who run truth have the nerve to ask questions such as these little gems:
"In a 1996 advertisement, one tobacco company said secondhand smoke is less risky than drinking one to two glasses of whole milk a day. Do you believe that?"
Ok, first of all, if you heard anybody propose that statement, you'd have to wait to catch you're breath after laughing so hard/crying/shitting your pants before you could ask them to "Please repeat that."
But no, they ask these questions and want YOU to give an answer.
And boy howdy, the answers that are given:
John, Oakdale says,
"No, because milk makes you have strong bones and can make you live longer and get taller."
Oh a smart one...
Rebecca., whitchurch,shopshire. says,
"no,because smoke can kill people by making their lungs go bad and milk is very good for you by making your bones strong."
Rebecca obviously went to some form of school...
Steven, Winnipeg says,
"Absolutely not. Many people die of second-hand smoking, but when was the last person that died by drinking two glasses of whole milk a day? Answer? Never."
Well no shit Steven! You obviously did your homework...
Or how about this question:
In 1997, the chairman of one tobacco company said, that if it was established to his satisfaction that cigarettes are a cause of lung cancer he would quote "shut it down instantly to get a better hold on things." Since this same company now admits on their website that cigarette smoking causes lung cancer, what do you think they should do?
The dumbass parade continues...
Kristina, Dayton Ohio says,
"SHUT IT DOWN!!!!!!!!!!!!! Not to mention go to jail for fraud, vonlantary manslaughter, and misreppresentation"
Yes, and when you're selling yourself on the street corner to buy your family a loaf of bread after the ENTIRE economy collapses, you can sit there and say to yourself "Wow, you know, a lot of people died from smoking and second hand smoke, but at least people weren't pilaging the streets and bludgening each other over the head with rocks for the last remaing clean glass of water..." right before you're taken into a back alley, raped and stabbed.
The real Truth is that smoking ISN'T THAT FUCKING BAD we need to make an entire "movement" against it. ALright, yes. It does give you cancer, and quite possibly, even if you don't smoke, you can still get cancer from being around those who do smoke. But the world is not ending becaue a large amount of the population is deciding to light up.
Yeah, I know it's going to kill me eventually, you know what? I DON'T GIVE A SHIT. Good, if only there was a cigarette that would give you cancer in one hit, I'd smoke a pack a day! Fuck, I'd do commercials for them and have them fill my O2 tanks with the smoke from them. My last words would be "Light me up boys!"
Point is...STOP!Yes I'm sending myself to an early grave, but you know what? That's my choice. Not "Big Tobbacco" and it's evil, evil marketing. It's not their fault I'm going to die sooner, it's my own and mine alone...
With that said...I'm all out of cigarettes...