Smoking in public should definitely be banned. Why should I have to breathe in poisonous and harmful cigarette smoke when I walk down the street.
Why should I have my clothes permeated with the smell.
Sure, exhaust emissions pollute the atmosphere too, but we can't do without aircraft and other vehicles. But we can certainly do without cigarette smoke.
At least cars and planes etc serve a necessary and useful purpose, unlike cigarettes.
Everyone who smokes is being foolish in the extreme. It simply does not make sense for smokers to pay exorbitant sums of money for something that destroys their health and causes discomfort and harm to everyone around them.
Females in particular should avoid cigarettes like the plague. Quite apart from the risks associated with smoking during pregnancy, the softer skin of females is badly affected by cigarette smoke. Just observe how many hard faced women you see puffing away on a cigarette, old before their time, their faces dried out and wrinkled well beyond their years.
My aunty, aged 80, is one of the ugliest women I've ever seen. Her face is incredibly wrinkled and dried out. Yes, I know, women of 80 all have wrinkled faces. But not like my aunty......I'm not exaggerating when I say that she is absolutely hideously ugly to look at.
As a young woman she had movie star looks. I've seen various photos of her, including her wedding photos, and she was equally as beautiful as any of the film stars of the time.....Ava Gardner, Audrey Hepburn, Vivian Lee. My mother still talks about what a stunner my aunty was as a young woman, and how the young blokes were all chasing her.
She smoked heavily from the age of 18, and it destroyed her looks completely. Even thirty years ago she was extremely hard faced and on the verge of ugliness as I recall. She still smokes 30 a day, even at the age of 80. It's a mystery to me why she hasn't succumbed to lung cancer. She is gradually succumbing to emphysema though. She has difficult breathing and will soon need to be on breathing assistance equipment. Her voice is so gravely that it's difficult to understand her when she speaks. She has never made a serious effort to stop smoking.
I don't understand why smokers don't do whatever is necessary to quit. Sure it's difficult, but it can be done. These days there are many good programs available to help people kick the habit. Strange thing is, most of the smokers I know have never even tried these quit programs.
Bunyip
Why should I have my clothes permeated with the smell.
Sure, exhaust emissions pollute the atmosphere too, but we can't do without aircraft and other vehicles. But we can certainly do without cigarette smoke.
At least cars and planes etc serve a necessary and useful purpose, unlike cigarettes.
Everyone who smokes is being foolish in the extreme. It simply does not make sense for smokers to pay exorbitant sums of money for something that destroys their health and causes discomfort and harm to everyone around them.
Females in particular should avoid cigarettes like the plague. Quite apart from the risks associated with smoking during pregnancy, the softer skin of females is badly affected by cigarette smoke. Just observe how many hard faced women you see puffing away on a cigarette, old before their time, their faces dried out and wrinkled well beyond their years.
My aunty, aged 80, is one of the ugliest women I've ever seen. Her face is incredibly wrinkled and dried out. Yes, I know, women of 80 all have wrinkled faces. But not like my aunty......I'm not exaggerating when I say that she is absolutely hideously ugly to look at.
As a young woman she had movie star looks. I've seen various photos of her, including her wedding photos, and she was equally as beautiful as any of the film stars of the time.....Ava Gardner, Audrey Hepburn, Vivian Lee. My mother still talks about what a stunner my aunty was as a young woman, and how the young blokes were all chasing her.
She smoked heavily from the age of 18, and it destroyed her looks completely. Even thirty years ago she was extremely hard faced and on the verge of ugliness as I recall. She still smokes 30 a day, even at the age of 80. It's a mystery to me why she hasn't succumbed to lung cancer. She is gradually succumbing to emphysema though. She has difficult breathing and will soon need to be on breathing assistance equipment. Her voice is so gravely that it's difficult to understand her when she speaks. She has never made a serious effort to stop smoking.
I don't understand why smokers don't do whatever is necessary to quit. Sure it's difficult, but it can be done. These days there are many good programs available to help people kick the habit. Strange thing is, most of the smokers I know have never even tried these quit programs.
Bunyip
) but it's a fair way down the list of great evils IMO.
