Why does polluting our lungs, body with smoke be a cool and a thing to do?

@indyjoe not to be offensive, but to be addicted to anything and you are possessed to have, require and need the product, they are stupid to be the suckers using an ill healthy product and think they are so cool too.

@cycleman Most smokers I have known have never acted like or said that they were "cool"...maybe kids or teens have or do but never adults so you are well off base.

@indyjoe it is sub conscious at work. learn more. many are going to hide that acknowledgement, they'll deny for it is so Easy To Do!

@indyjoe They may be addicts, but I bet not many people are tied up and forced to take up smoking. You have to be pretty dumb to try it, the health risks are well known.

@InterstellarButterfly Just like drug addicts who take that first hit? Like alcoholics who take that first drink? The risks are well known for those too. All I was doing was speaking out against the insulting language used against smokers...it is rarely if ever used against other addicts.

@indyjoe what cancer is shared with insulting words? 2nd hand smoke causes lung cancer. a lovely thing we must share and put up with eh?

@indyjoe I'm not anti smoking, if someone wants to that's their choice. But making it sound like they are victims is dumb.

Sure hard drugs are addictive, but most people start on soft stuff which isn't so bad, or addictive, then they progress to harder stuff when they want a better hit or whatever. So comparing cigarettes to hard drugs doesn't really work.
You don't see anti heroin campaigns in the same way you do anti smoking - you can legally buy cigarettes over the counter, you pay your money and make your choice right away fully educated and informed of the risk.

Like i said, no one forces someone to become an addict to cigarettes.