Smoking is the second leading cause of death in America these days. Well your just poisoning your stuff and getting addicted to it. Shouldn't the government make a law to ban smoking completely? Because I see people smoking around me, and I don't wanna get diseases or death because of second-hand smoke.
Whats poisioning is how schools teach how bad smoking is to kids. Its bad but its not THAT bad. Smoking has been around for centuries, and back then it was cigars, those things WITHOUT filters. Those ads on TV that make it sound like its so hard to quit, do you acutally think all those people that quit are gonna make a TV show? No, but all the people that can't quit do go on TV and tell their story, so it makes it seem like its impossible to quit.
True, heart-disease is the leading cause of deaths, but not all of those deaths are smokers. Its their choice to smoke or not, and in a court case, its already been proven not addictive. Cigerettes also bring in money for the government which helps pay for many things, (most of which the iraq war but w/e). Standing outside in the sun, watching TV, riding a bike without a helmet, breathing in some downtown air, its all unhealthy too.
Smoking also lets the mind at ease, it calms the body down, its like a destresser. You take 25 years off your life to make the rest of your life a lot less stressful.
As for people smoking around you, they are still in the proccess of making laws of where you can or cannot smoke. Unless you are in the army and you are majorly exposed to it all the time, it should be fine.
I for one, am not old enough to smoke, dont smoke, and never will smoke. I just hate how schools poision the minds of kids through school thinking that smoking cigerettes is gonna kill you right away.
