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#52 Jun 06 2007 at 10:11 PM Rating: Excellent

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Smasharoo wrote:

It's heartening to see marketing be so effective on the masses, but the reality is smoking just isn't THAT bad for you, kids. Is it better to not smoke than to smoke? Yes. Is it the most important risk factor for a society of fat drunk NASCAR fans? Um, no, it isn't.

Hey! I'm not fat, and I certainly don't like NASCAR!

Besides, my reasons for quitting certainly don't include "prolonging my life." I just don't want to drop nearly $100 a month to smell bad and get stressed out easily.

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#53 Jun 06 2007 at 10:20 PM Rating: Default

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Started "social smoking" at 21....wound up in a hospital w/ chest pains at 26 w/ a thingee (not an MD) in my lungs. Yes, ladies n gents, it is bad, but i dun wanna live foreva.

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#54 Jun 06 2007 at 10:22 PM Rating: Default

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And, yes I am fine now...but I just walk to get the smokes now.

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#55 Jun 07 2007 at 1:22 AM Rating: Decent

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It's heartening to see marketing be so effective on the masses, but the reality is smoking just isn't THAT bad for you, kids. Is it better to not smoke than to smoke? Yes. Is it the most important risk factor for a society of fat drunk NASCAR fans? Um, no, it isn't.

Wow, rational thoughts about the smoking habit in this day and age? You must be very brave. Most people don't realize that the entire anti-smoking movement was an equally successful mass-marketing/propaganda campaign. What they are selling is the demonization of an entire industry based on deaths caused by said industry. If we would apply those same standards to industry in general, targets would be apparent everywhere. Protecting people from themselves seems to have become the new American pastime.

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