Disclaimer: This is about smoking in general, not specific people i know in any way.

[xtabletopx]

Something that has been my bane and something that enrages me more than ANYTHING else in my life is cigarette smoking. I used to have a few smokes when i was like 14 but even that young i could tell it was a fucking joke. Watching my friends, who kicked that awful fucking habit for over 2 years (or all of my friends that smoke) smoke again, and

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[iamsincere]

i couldn't have said it better myself.
this is an excellent post my dear!!

[xladyinred]

"Now im not the healthiest person alive, i dont smell the best either....but the biggest greasiest burgers and not showering dont even come close to what smoking cigarettes WILL turn your life into."

since you made this to 'everyone' (although pull from your life examples) i just wanted to say to this statement (and not as an attack on you) but obesity is right up there with smoking. so you may say the biggest greasiest burgers don't come close to smoking...you are wrong. eating greasy hamburgers and other fast food to the extent that america does it's extremely likely that they will become obese. having heart attacks, diabetes, and other health problems from obesity are as close to horrible painful deaths as throat/mouth/lung cancer.

i'm not defending smoking, believe me. i just think that is a pretty blanket statement.

[xtabletopx]

i knew i would get that and heres what i say to it:

I eat fast food maybe....twice a week. twice a week for a month is 28 dollars. and lets say each meal takes 7 minutes from my life, much like a cigarette does. that is 49 minutes ive lost. that isnt very healthy. but unlike smoking, i DONT HAVE to eat fast food/greasy food.

Now lets say the average smoker smokes 3 packs a week (most smoke much more). in a month thats about 14 packs which is about 42-45 dollars. with 20 cigarettes a pack and 7 minutes gone from each....youve lost 2660 minutes from your life. and thats only for 3 packs a week people. id say QUITE the fucking difference.

obesity is a problem for those trashballs that weigh 400 pounds and still eat like shit. smoking is a problem for everyone that involves themselves with them AND EVERYONE THAT IS AROUND THEM.

ps- quit smoking kristel.

[xladyinred]

and i said this wasn't a personal attack on you, but to statements like this put out by the surgeon general:

"In 1999, 13% of children aged 6 to 11 years and 14% of adolescents aged 12 to 19 years in the United States were overweight. This prevalence has nearly tripled for adolescents in the past 2 decades."

obesity and overweight IS as much of a problem as smoking. it's been shown as being right up there with smoking. and your comment about the 'greasiest burgers' won't hurt or whatever was just not true.

here are the real facts:

[laurastock]

Each day, 1 in 4 Americans visits a fast food restaurant
In 1972, we spent 3 billion a year on fast food - today we spend more than 110 billion
McDonald's feeds more than 46 million people a day - more than the entire population of Spain
French fries are the most eaten vegetable in America
You would have to walk for seven hours straight to burn off a Super Sized Coke, fry and Big Mac
In the U.S., we eat more than 1,000,000 animals an hour
60 % of all Americans are either overweight or obese
One in every three children born in the year 2000 will develop diabetes in their lifetime
Left unabated, obesity will surpass smoking as the leading cause of preventable death in America

[laurastock]

you made smoking sound so fun that i am going to start.

[xtabletopx]

i never said obesity wasnt a problem. i know it is. i ALSO know that i dont know ANYONE who is obese (i know fat people, but not life threateningly fat in the slightest) but i DO know tons of people who smoke and DONT WANT TO DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT and thats what pisses me off.
again eating doesnt effect anyone but the person doing it. ive never heard of 2000 people dying a year from second hand eating?

[jeune_sang]

FAST FOOD RULES SMOKING SUCKS ANUS, I'M SORRY BUT ME EATING MCDONALDS WILL NOT GIVE ME CANCER AND ITS NOT GOING TO HURT ANYONE ELSE THAT HAPPENS TO BE WITHIN THE SAME ROOM AS ME.