to think that people have the right to smoke without being villified as if they were using cocaine?

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i'm a non smoker. make that a never smoker, apart form one incident when i was 13 and had a huge coughing fit.
i am really really shocked at how people are reacting towards people smoking. it is not the worst thing in the world, and i just feel really uncomfortable athow they are making smokers out to be pariahs.

aw, I'm used to being a pariah stitch, I'm a single mum too!

but thanks anyway

stunky gits

i hate folk who use to much perfume

i am the olfactory police

lol, god that makes me nauseous.

i just dont liike people treating something as completly ok one generation, and the next, its the worst thing in the world.

There's an awful lot of hysteria about smoking now - and all the anti-smoking propaganda* is giving people an excuse to feel superior.

*Smoking is REALLY bad for you, but it is propaganda as in very, very shrill.

Hmm.. I would love to comment on this thread but I am not happy about the title.

please explain ds

I've noticed a new trend too - people who I hardly know say 'oh! I didn't know you smoked!' if they find out i do. I just think , well, why would you? you don't know me that well and I only smoke the odd fag but it's as if they are saying 'oh, I didn't know you were that kind of person!'

yanbu

cocaine is a class A drug.

cigarettes aren't.

for very good reasons.

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adn smokers haev cats bum nouths

No, coke is just responsible for tens of thousands of deaths in Latin America alone, child slavery, countless murders, untold misery and incredible and permanent environmental dessmiation.

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Why should people who use cocaine be vilified? Why should people who choose to do anything that only affects them personally, be vilified?

It annoys me. People should live and let live, and as long as someone is not committing an act that is harming anyone else, then who am I, or you, or anyone to tell them not to?

Maybe I think people should not drive cars, as thety can and do kill, daily. They also pollute the atmosphere to a huge degree, not to mention fuel, and the wars that have been fought in relation..

But who am I to suggest people don't use cars?

I agree PRUNERS-for similar reasons.

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Actually, everyone I know who uses cocaine would do so discreetly & in a child-free environment, so it's probably less to be vilified.

No problem with smokers at all. Just do it at an appropriate time & place, that's all I'd ask.

I think it depends on how it impacts on your life.

I couldnt care less if people smoke or not - unless they light up right by me and i am then forced to smell it and my clothes stink of it.I wouldnt even pass wind next to someone and expect them to be content with breathing it in, and that's not going to kill them. Or in the case of our sports day - the mum in mid crowd lights up by ds and smirks when i tut and mutter how selfish she is. Or my dh gets throat cancer even though he has never ever smoked and the possible cause is passive smoking due to his old career.

then I wish they were pariahs and outcasts due to their selfish attitude.

pruners

I'd rather live with a smoker than a cocaine addict like I used to - it might not kill the people around the user but it does wreck their lives.

exactly expat. smoking shouldnt be classified as being in the same category.
pruners, i am sorry about your father. please dont misunderstand me. i dont think smoking is a good thing.i know it is a very dangerous thing, to the smoker, and thepeople around them. i just believe it should be put in perspective.

anyone who uses cocaine plays a role in the atrocities past and present in Latin America which demand for it fuels.

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Anyone who buys petrol, diesel, oil etc are contributing to oil wars.

Stupid, pointless argument.

I am happy to vilify anyone who smokes near my children.

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