It shortens your life.
You’re more likely to get chronic bronchitis, emphysema, heart attacks, coronary diseases, stomach ulcers, peripheral vascular disease, and cancer of the lung, throat, mouth, bladder, kidney, pancreas, cervix or stomach.
You smell bad.
It’s a waste of money.
You can’t run / play sport properly.
You have a cough.
You have shit skin, a puckered mouth and will end up covered in wrinkles.
Your teeth, nails and tongue are yellow.
It can cause impotence and infertility.
If you do manage to have children, your smoking will slowly kill them.
Apart from that, though, it’s a pretty good idea.
It’s the passive smoking that really pisses me off. If smokers just all got together and sat in a smoke-filled sealed room and waited for their bodies to decompose, then that would be ok. But I doubt they’d go for it.
Smokers like the argument that it’s their choice and often point out that they don’t stop anyone else from drinking. Sure, but I think they might be a bit peeved if I stood next to them at the bar and poured some of my beer all over them and down their throat. Idiots. Second-hand smoke causes thousands of deaths every year and about half of children in Britain grow up in homes where at least one parent smokes. How crazy is that?
I suppose it’s keeping evolution going. We’re now able to cure almost every natural disease and affliction, in Western society at least, so it’s no longer a case of survival of the fittest, but survival of everyone (fit or otherwise). Smoking is fighting back, like a health tax on the stupid, and the stupid’s family and friends.
But you’re not really addicted and you’re going to quit soon anyway right?
2007-02-07 @ 13:41