As a smoker, I always find it slightly amusing when people decide to moan at me just because I happen to enjoy smoking. As if they think that repeating what is pretty much printed on every cigarette packet these days is going to change my mind LOL!!! Yes, it is bad for you but so are a lot of things and if everyone lived perfect healthy lives then we'd end up with a rather dull world, somewhat akin to the one shown in "Demolition Man" (wow, I haven't seen that film in ages..). Plus, I'd rather have a shorter and more enjoyable life than a long and dull one.
Every smoker has different reasons for taking up the habit (personally it was a combination of rebellion, stress and a few other reasons) and to have someone lecture you about it/ judge you because of it without really understanding the full story strikes me as naive and a bit bigoted. Seriously, the whole anti-smoking thing is one of the few "socially acceptable" prejudices in our society, so naturally it attracts puritans, bigots and some politicians. At least that's my view on it. A lot of people will probably disagree with me about this.
Then there is the absurd assupmtion by some anti-smoking people that all smokers secretly want to give up smoking, some might but others, like myself, might actually enjoy it (not that this possiblity ever crosses the mind of anti-smoking people who seem to believe that we have no free will). If I ever feel the need to give up smoking then I'll make that decision for myself, not because someone has moaned at me.
Enough of a rant for now... before I end up writing a whole book about the UK smoking ban, the whole "second hand smoke" thing and other topics which tend to annoy the hell out of me.
As for the issue of food, my views on that are quite similar to those on smoking. People should just mind their own business and stop patronising other people by giving them health lectures.
*rolls a cigarette and lights it*..ok, rant over
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