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Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger
I guess you missed the part right after where I mentioned dying.
The studies I'm referring to are with regards to the addictive power. I've smoked. It is not as addicting as heroin or coke. It just isn't. Try one line of blow and you'll almost instantly want another. Have one cigarette and you probably won't even give it a second thought. At no point did I argue that smoking doesn't cause cancer and kill you. But it doesn't typically lead to selling your house, becoming a prostitute, selling your child into slavery, violent crime, long jail terms, losing your job. Have you seen those meth addict memes? Hard drugs and nicotine are simply not comparable.
How does my evidence, albeit anecdotal, that the studies about the addictive power are BS have ANYTHING to do with inconsiderate smokers or the amount of crime, violence, prostitution etc that are caused by illegal drugs?
Meth, coke and heroin are about 1000x worse than smoking. For about the fourth time, it is misleading and outright dishonest to compare them. A meth/heroin addict has about as much in common with a caffeine addict (my point that you missed the first time).
Smokers standing in doorways and a junkie who's addicted to heroin are not even comparable. It is laughable.
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and my point was...heroin, coke et al are illegal, therefore making the acquisition of said drugs illegal and much more difficult. Make cigs illegal today and Im sure you will find many people going to extraordinary measures to get their poison stick. Im not sure how you, Cecil, can suggest that the addictive power of cigs is any different than coke or junk when we still have millions who cant shake that little weed stick, and those that have likely took years to do so. Ive never been a junkie or a coke freak so I cant compare, but I have quit smoking, it only took me 20 years. My issue was I kept justifying in my mind that cigarette studies are simply not proof positive. I was an idiot for thinking that.
The fact we are talking about "inconsiderate" smokers is simply that they themselves buy into the same theories you do, and I used to.
The fact we still have smokers is amazing considering all of the EVIDENCE it will kill you and those you love from your second hand smoke, after all it isnt nearly as addicting as coke or junk.