03-10-2011, 11:54 PM
I'd consider my self just a social smoker. If I go out to a bar, I'll bum a couple off of a friend just because I'm there and I'm having a good time with beer and it's natural. However, I'm in no way addicted and I never buy packs for myself, and don't ever even think about smoking. This is really just due to how infrequent it happens.
However, it's kind of jarring seeing some of these comments in my opinion. I mean, I don't fear keeling over from Chinese lead cigarettes because I hardly even smoke, but to suggest that others who do smoke habitually deserve it simply because cigarettes can be harmful anyway is pretty screwed up. It's really early now so I could probably come up with a better analogy later, but in my opinion it's basically like saying "You eat fast food, which has many detrimental effects on the body, so you deserve to get e. coli" or something like that. Everything is gonna kill you, but to just say, "well, you deserve it anyway" is quite archaic.
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