Why do people smoke?

[porn$tar]

I don't smoke cigs because everyone else does.

 

[porn$tar]

the thing i can't understand is just that it damages your lungs and sometimes is quite frustrating and stinky to everyone around you. Do you guys think of that?

Addiction pwns consideration for others.

 

[Devill]

the thing i can't understand is just that it damages your lungs and sometimes is quite frustrating and stinky to everyone around you. Do you guys think of that?

I only smoke in smoking sections and I also do not just light-up anywhere.

Most smokers are polite. Maybe because we are more relaxed

 

[Tux]

Nicotine is an alkaloid found in the nightshade family of plants (Solanaceae) which constitutes approximately 0.6–3.0% of dry weight of tobacco,[1][2] with biosynthesis taking place in the roots, and accumulating in the leaves. It functions as an antiherbivore chemical with particular specificity to insects; therefore nicotine was widely used as an insecticide in the past, and currently nicotine analogs such as imidacloprid continue to be widely used.

In low concentrations (an average cigarette yields about 1 mg of absorbed nicotine), the substance acts as a stimulant in mammals and is one of the main factors responsible for the dependence-forming properties of tobacco smoking. According to the American Heart Association, "Nicotine addiction has historically been one of the hardest addictions to break." The pharmacological and behavioral characteristics that determine tobacco addiction are similar to those that determine addiction to drugs such as heroin and cocaine.[3]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicotine

 

[nocilah]

This is a simple question which i might burn my fingers on but why do people smoke?

why do people drink?

why do people drive like idiots?

why do people eat broccoli?

I cannot in my mind find a reason why you can smoke, and then also why do cigarette buts have to lie all over the place?

because no one ever caters for smokers in the way of ash trays.

 

[mercurial]

I like smoking and I must say I find that im not to addicted to it after almost 10 years of smoking.

People, take note. This is the danger of smoking
You do realise how insanely ironic that sounds right?
People do it to be cool. People do it cos "it calms their nerves". Yeah, whatever.

 

[rwenzori]

the thing i can't understand is just that it damages your lungs and sometimes is quite frustrating and stinky to everyone around you. Do you guys think of that?

LOL! You've got to die somehow! Stinky? No worse than their cheap deodorant, halitosis, or BO. Stuff them anyway.

 

[Peder]

Addiction pwns consideration for others.

that actually why i hate it so much is because those who smoke can't give a hoot about whoever around them or whatever around them.

Cause yesterday i sit in a restaurant and not to close to the door (inside) and just outside the door a woman decides she's gonna smoke and all that odour just comes in and she couldn't care less

 

[Peder]

because no one ever caters for smokers in the way of ash trays.

That is still no reason why you need to throw your cigarette but down on the ground, throw it in a bloody dustbin thats what it was made for for trash

 

[rwenzori]

That is still no reason why you need to throw your cigarette but down on the ground, throw it in a bloody dustbin thats what it was made for for trash

Dur! Actually you DON'T throw them in dustbins, because they cause funny things called FIRES!

 

[Peder]

you kill them before throwing them in a dustbin, DUR!!!

 

[rwenzori]

you kill them before throwing them in a dustbin, DUR!!!

Where DUR? On some idiot's arsehole?

 

[Peder]

Put it down on the ground tramp on it, then pick it back up and throw it away.

Sorry but its amazing how stupid people can get when they are trying to defend their actions...

 

[rwenzori]

Put it down on the ground tramp on it, then pick it back up and throw it away.

Sorry but its amazing how stupid people can get when they are trying to defend their actions...

Thanks for the compliment - I'm moving up the scale it seems! No - throw on ground, stomp it, leave it. Such are life. Think of all the poor cleaners you would put out of work doing it your way LOL!

 

[Peder]

Thats the exact Attitude that i can't stand, i wonder how much you'll like it if i had to throw sweets wrappers all over your house and put some sweets into your carpets?

 

[porn$tar]

Having people who clean up around you is not an excuse to be a pig.

 

[Peder]

Having people who clean up around you is not an excuse to be a pig.

exactly my point

 

[rwenzori]

Thats the exact Attitude that i can't stand, i wonder how much you'll like it if i had to throw sweets wrappers all over your house and put some sweets into your carpets?

Not at home, silly! We have ASHTRAYS! We were talking about where there aren't any - see post #25. Stompies are semi-biodegradable anyway.

 

[Alan]

Ooo! A little snipe from alantjie! Maybe you are right, but then again, rather a Texan than Jesus!

Dubya > Jesus




Cigarettes are proof of the fallibility of the human mind. If you can convince somebody to willingly inhale smoke, tar and a bunch of other harmful chemicals into their lungs you can convince them of practically anything.

 

[rwenzori]

Dubya > Jesus




Cigarettes are proof of the fallibility of the human mind. If you can convince somebody to willingly inhale smoke, tar and a bunch of other harmful chemicals into their lungs you can convince them of practically anything.

LOL!

Like living in PMB where you don't have to pay for your smoke, IIRC about your posts.