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Re: No Proof??? |
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Nathan Amos |
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Mar 15, 06 - 10:08 PM |
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white_baller_23@yahoo.com |
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I am personally tired of smokers coming up with their lame excuses and lies to perpetrate and continue their deadly addictive habit. Time and time and time again, the same arguments come up: there are no studies proving smoking causes any ill health effects, and they have a Constitution-given right to smoke.
First point: smoking causes no ill health effects...
HELLO!!! No studies on smoking are necessary! Take a look at results from chemical evaluations done on tobacco smoke: it has been identified to contain 60 carcinogens- chemical compounds that cause cancer in the human body. If a product has carcinogens, it stands to reason that that product is harmful. Take the "fruit scare" that happened, for example: millions and millions of imported fruit were recalled because microscopic amounts of cyanide were found in one small bunch of grapes. The amount found was approximately 1/33 of the amount of cyanide in a single cigarette. Hydrogen cyanide has been used in prison executions. Cyanide is a poison- plain and simple. No one debates that fact, do they? Cyanide is found in tobacco smoke- that is also a proven fact. Yet why do smokers continue to stipulate that smoking causes no ill effects? It's beyond me.....
For a real evaluation of the effects of smoking, you don't need a study done by the AHA or the ALA or the WHO or anyone for that matter. I am a high school student and I have seen the effects myself. Anyone who doubts me, go to any high school in America. Sit in on any physical education class, and observe the students run the mile- a very simple task. It is very plain to see who are the smokers and who are not. That is all the proof you will ever need, and that is primary source, 1st person information- not done by some random organization that you have never heard of.
As for smokers' second argument- Constitutional rights.... Yes, we are granted personal freedoms under the Constitution, no doubt about it. But this is where's smokers' misbeliefs come back to bite them in the rear. PERSONAL FREEDOMS- smmoking is not personal. There is no way to keep the smoke to yourself. of course, we could make all smokers walk around in enclosed bubble suits, thereby effectively giving them their personal freedoms- then they could have an effective argument. But no such situation exists, and so, for as long as the properties of gases exist, smoke will continue to diffuse into the breathing space of nonsmokers who just want to enjoy breathing good, clean, pure oxygen- not cyanide and carbon monoxide. We have all stood by a car's tail pipe at some time or another and smelled the exhaust- doesn't smell good, does it? Well, it can't be very healthful for you either. That brings up another point- the EPA has set emission restrictions and regulations on the automobile industry because car exhaust systems release deadly poisons into the atmosphere. Well, so do cigarettes, and that point cannot be proven false. But back to personal freedoms- smokers cannot claim that smoking is a "personal choice". Yes, it is your personal choice to smoke cigarettes. BUT- your decision affects every single person around you- THAT is not personal. There is no law in the United States against self-inflicted injury. If you wish to carve up your arm with a knife, you are most welcome to do it- that is a personal freedom that every citizen has if he/she so chooses. But the instant you turn that violence against another person, you WILL be sent to prison. Why? Violence against others is NOT a PERSONAL freedom- it affects others. It is no different with smoking. So smokers, come back with any and all rebuttals and replies you like- I would relish them, because every single one can be proven wrong. Go ahead- try. And nonsmokers reading this- put this out there- get the word out. There is no need for complicated studies and varied opinions trying to prove that smoking is bad- it is all in common sense. |
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{none} by Nathan Amos · Mar 15, 06 - 11:41 PM
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