[Mambattedge]

Some things are worth smoking.

Cigarettes are not.

[aNoBVsUW]

No. Yes.

[vulikox]

Everyone has known smoking is bad for you since like 1975. What the hell is your excuse to smoke in 2011?

Do you do crack, as well? Do you have unprotected sex?

Have you considered the merits of expressing your opinions in ways that are less than utterly belligerent?

Do you have some reason to believe that smoking cigarettes causes people to have unprotected sex or to take crack?

[meridiasas]

Some things are worth smoking.

Cocks?

[toreesi]

Everyone has known smoking is bad for you since like 1975. What the hell is your excuse to smoke in 2011?


Do you do crack, as well? Do you have unprotected sex?

You will discover that quite a lot of marines smoke and/or dip.

[suidinguilelf]

Everyone has known smoking is bad for you since like 1975. What the hell is your excuse to smoke in 2011?

Why should I even accept your underlying premise that there is inherent value in prolonging one's life?

I would rather someone keel over at 50 from tobacco-related ailments than have another health-obsessed baby boomer spend the last 30 years of his/her life on the government tit. Smoking

[Uttephabeta]

I smoke tomatoes, and the occasional cheese.

[abubycera]

If they've been paying heavy taxes on tobacco like in many countries then they've paid for their healthcare.

Should a person who got injured playing sport be 'suckling goverment tit' ?

No, and no.

I don't think the point of taxing tobacco is so that we have money to burn on people with preventable health problems.

[JulieSmithdccd]

Have you considered the merits of expressing your opinions in ways that are less than utterly belligerent?

Albie has two settings: Ferengi, and Klingon.

[grubnismarl]

Along that line of thought, a smoker with health problems related to smoking shouldn't be suckling goverment tit then?

A) What CH said. They've already paid through the nose.
B) IIRC there have been studies to the effect that smokers die quicker and cheaper on average than the general population. Thus, they at least would take less from that tit.
C) Hell yes smoking-caused ailments should be ineligible anyway.

[Ervntewc]

Should fat asses that cram themselves with food be able to suck from that tit claiming disability when they get so fat that they can't get out of bed?

Should sun bathers be able to suck at that tit to treat their inevitable skin cancer?

At least the smokers paid taxes for their sins.

[Enjoymmsq]

Hey, if I vote banana, does that make me teh ghey?

[fotodemujerahldesnugdo]

It's not like they have a hell of a lot to live for anyway. As Dick Solomon put it, "Yeah, but smoking only takes years off the end of your life... and those years suck anyway. *puff* *puff*" Funny as it is, I can't help but agree in all seriousness, which is why I smoke like a chimney. Better to drop dead of four simultaneous heartattacks at my desk than to become a crotchety old buzzkill at Thanksgiving, watch daytime TV, forget half of what I need for bar trivia, vote for Tea Party candidates, and need an orderly to wipe my own ass. *shudders*

Cancer isn't a quick death. I've seen it. You don't drop. And the pain and suffering makes it seem longer than it is... for you and your family.

[delnisfernan]

Only because the doctors, often paid for by others, forestall the nearly inevitable. Unless your friend/relative was a christian scientist or something.

Yes, ongoing treatment did forestall the inevitable. But so does drinking and eating every day. We incorrectly separate simple things like food and water from what Western medicine does. Medicine merely manipulates biology in a fancier way. Stop eating, you are forestalling the inevitable.

[smokeberly]

Yes, ongoing treatment did forestall the inevitable. But so does drinking and eating every day. We incorrectly separate simple things like food and water from what Western medicine does. Medicine merely manipulates biology in a fancier way. Stop eating, you are forestalling the inevitable.

Yes, the more boomers that stop drinking and eating, the better. Whatever it takes.

[elton]

You will discover that quite a lot of marines smoke and/or dip.

And when that Marine isn't pulling a first class PFT and he smokes, I'll know exactly what habit we'd have to work on fixing. If he's squared away but smokes, hey, it's not going to be my problem.

[Sillaycheg]

The crap we buy in stores is just garbage we don't get to vote on. We have no say about firing the men in charge or how all that money is spent.

This is inaccurate.

[googlopharm]

But yeah, kill the boomers. Kill our mothers, our fathers, our grandmothers, our grandfathers. Kill human beings...

[all that other noise]

[swissloveone]

Alcohol *is* a drug.

Not in a normal person's vocabulary. It's an intoxicant.

[Idonnaink]

At least in my language it's a distinct difference.