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Originally Posted by Reaper
If smokers simply just died due to cancer as if it were a "times up, you're finished" manner then I'd see reason in the arguement. However, smokers can live without getting cancer but still having a multitude of conditions which can linger on for decades.
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I agree in a sense, but not really. Lets consider that smokers as opposed to overweight people:
- Can still work physically intensive jobs, such as construction or oil for the vast majority of thier working career. I would argue the smoker who is not overweight is a more productive member of our society as measured purley on their contribution to the gross-domestic product.
- Can manage to work through their problem of withdrawl (if only temporarily as circumstances demand, such as air travel). There is no ignoring being fat.
- Do not require special seating or take up excessive bus/ctrain room.
- Smell better. I'll take ass smoke smell over sweatty fatty ass smell ANY day.
- Don't generally complain about being smokers. I've heard many more complainers about being fat and how the world hates them.
- Do not attribute any related health problems from smoking to something else. Fat people seem to come up with every excuse they can for their health problems that are in-fact directly a cause of being fat. Stress is the most common "excuse"...
Lastly, people have been smoking things since the dawn of man. Being fat to the point that people are in 2008 is a phenomenon less than 50 years old.
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