I was just interested in what everyone's opinion is for smoking on here. Couldn't make a poll for whatever reason though.
I think that's a big part of it. And also the fact that so much revenue is derived from taxing it. Just as smokers are addicted to cigarettes, the states and feds are addicted to the money it brings in for them. In effect, the tobacco companies probably love that factor because it's a way for them to directly bribe the government without it looking like a bribe, right?...or have the tobacco lobbyists managed to pad enough pockets to make sure that issue never comes up?
There are so many interacting variables that all you can really do is show that some things "increases the risk" of cancer. Very few are so nasty as to cause cancer quickly and in 100% of all critters exposed....
Smoking does not cause cancer. It is a factor, yes, but you can smoke all your life and not have cancer. Radon gas is another major factor in causing cancer, but most people know nothing about it.
The smoking bans are what I have a problem with. I'm cool with banning it on public property, sidewalks etc, but when you start banning it in Privately owned restaurants you cross the line.
If you don't like what a business owner does, don't go into the business. They pay money to own that property. All this nanny state nonsense is what is ruining our country. What ever happened to property rights and liberty.
Oh yeah, I can't stand the smell of smoke, and I don't frequent smoking businesses. Gross.
Not always though, one woman was raped working at a pub in England not long after they came out with the indoor smoke bans because she had to smoke in a back alley.I think one big reason that many businesses have gone to non-smoking is because they do get breaks on their various insurance policies. And they may also fear being sued by employees, etc. So it ends up being a lot cheaper and safer just to become a "non-smoking" facility.
At Arkansas Childrens Hosp. the entire hosp.area in and outdoors is a no smoking area.Samo at most of the larger hosp. in the state.Jim C.The other thing that happens to support the addiction is "smoke breaks".
My wife is a surgery scheduler for the cardiac surgeons in a Children's Hospital. She is allowed two 15 minute breaks each day but is so jammed with work she rarely uses them.
One of the other ladies in the office is a heavy smoker. She gets to take smoke breaks but to take them she has to go to the designated smoking area which five floors below. So she goes down the hall to an elevator which she takes five floors and then she walks outside. She smokes one or two coffin nails and then reverses course. Takes at very least 15 minutes and more likely 20. She does this a minimum of 4 to 5 times a day
So everyone else gets to help her with her work because "there not enough time" for her to do it. How is that fair to the non smokers. On top of that it is a Childrens Hospital actively supporting her smoking addiction which seems kind of wild to me.
My wife is addicted to doing puzzles. Maybe she should get 4 or 5 puzzle breaks a day? Seems only fair to me.
Well said McBendy !Smoking is just one in a long line of "thingys" of contributing causes of heart disease, but not the # 1 cause ? Over the past several years "BEING OVER WEIGHT" has been recognized as being the largest contributor to heart disease ...
Soooooooooo ,,,,,, should the same stigma be attached to "fat people" as some have attached to "smokers" ? ? ? "IF" we start finger pointing at those who have habits detremental to good health, at some point we may be pointing at ourselves ?
There's also x-rays and other radiation in hospitals and everywhere, how good do you think that is for cancer.My wife is a Nurse at the a hospital cancer center.
When I pick her up after work sometimes there are people outside the main entrance smoking because it is not allowed inside the building.
That is somewhat ironic I think.
How would that make any sense, anyone who has been personally effected by something generally will be against it, what do you think someone with liver disease would think about alcohol, or someone who's family got killed by a drunk driver, or all the new crap made that produces radiation if they're dying of cancer due to that. Smoking has never been proven to be a cause of lung cancer, unless there is also another factor helping to cause the cancer as well. Besides smoking greatly decreases the chances of getting dimesia, so while many non-smokers are brain dead, i'll just be dead, i can live with that.Ask my brother In Law who is dying from lung disease from smoking, wanna talk to him let me know I can provide you with the hospitals number and his room number.
I agree.There's also x-rays and other radiation in hospitals and everywhere, how good do you think that is for cancer.
How would that make any sense, anyone who has been personally effected by something generally will be against it, what do you think someone with liver disease would think about alcohol, or someone who's family got killed by a drunk driver, or all the new crap made that produces radiation if they're dying of cancer due to that. Smoking has never been proven to be a cause of lung cancer, unless there is also another factor helping to cause the cancer as well. Besides smoking greatly decreases the chances of getting dimesia, so while many non-smokers are brain dead, i'll just be dead, i can live with that.