Freakinoldguy Freakinoldguy:
Yes there were alot of needless deaths in the last 100 years despite the facts of the hazards of smoking being known. But, unlike some I don't blame politicians or the tobacco companies. I blame the people who smoked and ignored all the anecdotal, factual and ever present information that showed smoking caused a myriad of health problems up to and including death.
Once again people are trying to put the blame on anyone else but themselves despite the fact that they're the ones who ignored the warning signs and were the architects of their own demise or injuries.
So it's time for people to man up and accept responsibility for their own actions because this, "it's everyone else's fault but mine" mentality is getting more than a little tiring and is actually giving the gov't even more reason to insinuate itself further into our private lives.
So, despite the lobbyists who hired Medical Doctors and researchers to lie, and tell the people that smoking is harmless - you don't hold them to account? The companies that did research into how addictive cigarettes were, and formulated new ways to make them more addictive - blameless? The advertising companies who found more ways to sell poison - not at fault?
The same companies, lobbyists and retailers who are now peddling vaping to children, we are supposed to blame the children?
Freakinoldguy Freakinoldguy:
Some people seem to be happy having the gov't think for them and dictate every facet of their life. But I personally don't want any gov't telling me what I can eat, when I can sleep and what I can drink. I still want to retain the right to make my own decisions about what I do with my life because my life is still mine, and so long as I'm not harming others the "let the gov't think for you" people can go fuck themselves on a south bound train.
It's the job of the government to protect the citizens. That's why we don't have lead in paint or gasoline; food is inspected, drugs and consumer items tested and then approved, our homes don't burn down when we plug in a toaster, and car crashes are more survivable than ever.
But cigarettes are still for sale.
Freakinoldguy Freakinoldguy:
And yes I smoked for 40 years despite the knowledge it was slowly killing me. So please don't tell me that the gov't should have made me stop smoking or any of the other myriad of harmful behaviour I engaged in because the decision to carry on was all mine not theirs.
So did I. I even smoked long before I chose to smoke, because both my parents smoked. I started when I moved out of the house, because I didn't know I was addicted to the second hand smoke. As the saying goes, 'you aren't the only one smoking that'.
And every cigarette I put to my lips I swore would be my last. And when I finally quit because I had a stroke and my head wanted to burst with every drag, I threw the pack away right then and there. I didn't die from the withdrawal. There is no biological need for people to smoke, therefore there is no reason for cigarettes to be sold.
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