User: the boy skeezer

Well, I dunno get it why you can't form a complete sentence.

========== In Reply To ========== I dunno get it

I dressed up as a catholic schoolgirl.

========== In Reply To ========== I'd be curious to know what you did this Halloween. For men, did you disguise as a women? Was it fun? Some of us would usually benefit from that occasion to wear a skirt or a dress without being judged as weird. What do you all think?

As Homer Simpson said "Don't you hate pants?" Pants just get annoying when that's ALL you can wear, lest have everyone stare at you. Skirts feel much freer and it WOULD be nice to have a choice on those really hot days. That's all Im saying.

I agree with most of what youre saying, however, I am a smoker, and resent your calling my choice stupid. Smoking is a choice, of course, but what makes it stupid? It may take years off my life, however, that is at the END of my life, and those years are crappy, anyway.

I find smoking to be a pleasurable experiance, and I keep it in moderation (a pack a week). So why deny yourself something if you find it enjoyable?

If we were to eliminate everything bad for us, life would be pretty boring.

========== In Reply To ========== I am not a smoker and I hate cigarettes. I also know people who have died from smoking related illnesses.

However, I think that it would be ridiculous to make cigarettes illegal, and I think it is wrong to target smokers with taxes greater than the value of the product itself, simply because they are on the defensive and too embarrassed about their habit to defend their rights.

Cigarettes cannot be made illegal because far too many people smoke. Smoking cigarettes is too deeply entrenched in society, just as alcohol is. Even the ridiculously high taxes only encourage evasion, and help groups like organized crime, who can buy up cigarettes in bulk in low tax states and sell them illegally in high tax states for a huge profit. Prohibition of cigarettes would not work any more than prohibition of alcohol did.

As far as medical costs from smoking, this works both ways. Huge amounts of money are saved, in programs like Social Security, by the premature deaths resulting from smoking.

It always amazes me when people want to outlaw cigarettes, but legalize heroin and cocaine because the drug war has "failed." Which product is more harmful? I think the answer should be obvious to anybody with a brain.

I think the government should put up or shup up. Either make cigarettes illegal, or stop going after the tobacco companies. At this stage of the game, everybody knows that smoking is harmful. So are a lot of things that people chooose to do. It is ridiculous to blame the tobacco companies when nobody is forced to smoke. And I don't believe in all this garbage about how they were deceived into smoking, and can't quit. Yes, nicotine is addictive, but addictions can be broken. The bottom line is - if you smoke, it's your own fault. I think that smokers should be treated as adults who have made a decision, albeit a stupid one, and must take responsibility for the consequences of it. PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY is the most important thing.

Im an 18 year old smoker. I smoke either Kamels, Lucky Strike, or Gauloises. Here are the points I want to make.

1. I dont smoke around kids. People who do are inconsiderate. Dont lump smoking into a bad thing because of that. I dont smoke in my car either.
2. I dont smoke in public places unless it is a smoking public place (ei, restaurants, certain businesses) and it is a CHOICE for everyone to go in there.
3. I dont know what restaurants YOURE going to, but the ones I go to are either entirely non-smoking, or have a very small smoking section. And if the BUSINESS (not the GOVERNMENT) doesnt want me to smoke in their establishment, I respect that.
4. I find it laughable when people complain of smoke from the smoking section coming into their non-smoking section, when they sit down and order insanely fattening foods at these restaurants. Yeah, you're really health conscious, arent you there?
5. You are not going to die from smelling a little smoke outside. Get over it. You face many more dangers which pose far greater risk to your health than someone smoking ten feet away from you. Better not get into your car and go to work to-morrow. You face a much greater risk doing that.
6. Smoking has its pleasures. Dont knock it 'till you've tried it. Its a cliche, but all cliches are true.