@JimmyT said:
@Dragandeewhy said:
This whole smoking thing is kind of the result of manipulated mass psichology. Nobody ever mentioned smoking marihuana. In my previous post I have mentioned all the other examples where “if you can smell it, it is dangerous for you” but nobody took it seriously.So, “manipulated mass psychology” is the cause of cancer, heart disease and emphysema? Get real.
People who smoke stink enough to take the smell with them when they walk into a room. Doesn’t that tell you something about the lingering effects of smoke.
People who lived in apartments 100 years ago had other things to worry about – that doesn’t make smoking OK.
I will cheerfully set fire to the next person who tells me “you breathe in pollution all the time so what difference does cigarette smoke make?”.
It’s called harm minimisation – it’s why we have speed limits and road rules and asbestos laws … to protect ourselves against idiots who don’t care about their own health and expect everyone else to suffer as a consequence.
Are you saying that every “stink” or smell is harmful for you? Harm minimisation or positive discrimination how ever you call it still gives the right to the morally superior once to openly hate the addicts. In the north of Sydney they are openly hated while going more to the west or south the tolerance towards smokers increases. While visiting Europe or other continents the whole discomfort around smoking miraculously disappears. This is what I was talking about with “mass physiology”. A push biker will openly show discomfort in the presence of a person who smokes while he or she inhales with the full capacity of his her lungs the fumes of peak hour traffic, thinking that he is living a healthy life style. Etc etc etc.