Congrats on your four weeks Elizabeth and good luck to you as well Rana!
I was an on and off smoker. Started at school when I was about 17, peer pressure I guess, then forcibly quit when I was really ill with glandular fever a year later. Then during the midst of a rather turbulent time started again when I was 22, then stopped again when I was about 26, partly because I was dating someone who didn't smoke and felt like a bit of a leper!
I respect people's right to make their own choices.
I remember reading in an article that until the 50s the cigarettes they manufactured weren't necessarily THAT bad for you....but it was around about then that they started filling them with countless different toxins and carcinogens, all designed to make them more addictive and supposedly to alter the taste as well.
If people really want to smoke I'd suggest they made their own cigarrettes with organic tobacco or whatever. That way they could at least be sure they weren't taking in all the crap they pump into commercial ones. I don't know why governments don't simply insist that the manufacturers stop putting in all that junk?
Interestingly smoking is commonplace in many indigenous cultures...in itself I don't think it is an inherently bad thing. What is bad is the way the industry deliberately poisions en masse just to keep people addicted.
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