Smokers logic??

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I was just talking to a new guy at work that was complaining about the previous person there being in such bad health because of smoking. While he was talking to me he had a cigarette in his hand about to light up. Would you  believe that he could be so stupid? No? Well it gets more silly than that.

I pointed out to him the absurdity of making those comments while about to start sucking in the smoke himself and that it was not surprising that it was bad for your health seeing it is proved that tobacco fumes are poisonous, he countered with “Well there are many things in life that are poisonous.” As if that was a reasonable argument to be a smoking addict.

I offered him the opportunity to suck on the exhaust pipe of a nearby running car. He declined and gave me a funny look too. Well why not I wondered?

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Obviously I am biased because I can't stand smokers because they always inflict their smoke on whoever is near them. I have often seen smokers puffing away like the proverbial chimney when they have their own children in the back or the car. They are so selfish that they will harm their own children for the sake of their own addictions.
Should make the cigarettes really expensive with taxes and put the money into hospitals, and education to help people stop or not start in the first place.
I can understand someone who has been smoking for years not knowing the risks when they started and now can't stop. But these kids that smoke now must have shit for brains.

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Mike

Cos he'd burn his lips! ;-)

People aren't 100% rational, and everyone has their blind spots. Smokers exist along all levels of consumption. I don't know this person in particular, but maybe they only smokes a few cigarettes a day, and is not feeling any impact in comparison to the person who smokes 40 a day. There's a difference between a long term risk of getting cancer in the future vs hacking your lungs up as you spark your 20th cigarette in the last 4 hours.

And as for his argument about many things being poisonous, you answered your own question by pointing out he's an addict ... he probably wasn't in the mood for an intervention ;-)

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