 Originally Posted by EvilNed
There's still two things you won't admit, it seems:
- Fat food is more of a health issue to our society than smoking is. It costs more money and causes more deaths.
- Unlike smoking, it is imprinted upon the young.
Yet you won't find any colleges that have a fast food prohibition. Strange, right?
1: im not saying its less of a health issue, im just saying i can say "no thanks ill take the salad" i cant say "no thanks, keep the stuff your breathing into the air out of my air.
2: Its only in the last 10 years medias stopped the image of "cool kids" being smokers, why else did most people take up smoking in the first place? "oh hey, this causes a number of debilitating diseases and can lead to cancer, sign me the fuck up!", no its always peer pressure of some sort, wanting to fit in with someone else, to be seen in a certain light with friends or family, sharing one with the old man as some recognition he thinks your an adult ect. ect.
The long and short of it is people arent forced to smoke, they choose to, people around them dont have a choice however, now ill sit with friends on a day at uni at the local cafe and they'll smoke, even use a hooka or a sheesh pipe, do i tell them to stop?, no, but do i like it when it gets blown in my face?, of course not.
And the fast food argument isnt really the same, yes its very bad for you, it shouldn't exist, but as living creatures we need to intake food as sustenance, fast food is just a lazy convenient way of doing so, its poor food to eat to be sure, but you need to eat to live, and its not all fatty food, so the fast food vs smoking argument isnt that valid. Everybody eats, a lot eat shit and thats there own fault, noone HAS to smoke to begin with and in this day and age with the knowledge of how bad it is my mind boggles when i see kids years younger than me taking it up when they know its not good for them.
-Case in point a neighbor of mine is 14 years old, he is now in rehab classes to quit his heavy smoking addiction, he wears pactches, uses a little fake white plastic cigarette and gets angry, shakey and visibly worse for wear when he doesn't get his nicotine fix.
Sure theres more cases of obese people out there, but there both problems, not alternatives, and is that really so much better than some fat guy in a double rascal eating his weight in mcnuggets?
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This really infuriates me because having a smoke between classes really helps me get through the day... now I'm going to have to somehow do it in secrecy? I see this leading to the days of high school and the bathrooms will always smell like stale cig smoke. If they needed to absolutely do something like this, perhaps they should have created designated areas for smokers, so non-smokers could SURELY avoid it.
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