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demand that others tolerate the smell

OMG THE SMELLLLL!!!!! YOU POOR BABY! CAN'T STAND THE S M E L L!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

fill in for the time you will miss from work

SHOW US A LINK WHERE SMOKERS MISS MORE WORK FROM BEING SICK. NONE OF "MY" SMOKING FRIENDS MISS WORK! I THINK YOU MEAN WOMEN WHO ARE PMS'ING!!!!

as well as subsidize your hospital care (again, smokers tend to get lung cancer, emphasema and heart problems at a higher rate than non-smokers).

OMG! WE GET ALL THOSE THINGS??? REALLY????? AT WHAT AGE????? 65 AND UP????? AT LEAST WE AREN'T IN THE WORK FORCE WHEN THAT HAPPENS, ARE WE! AND PLEASE OH PLEASE READ THIS:

The BIG LIE That Smoking is an Economic Burden To Society

personal weakness you have

OMG!! PERSONAL WEAKNESS! YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW US AND YOU CALL US WEAK!!!!!!!

you KNOW it will kill you

KILL US??????? OMG! MY LIFE IS IN THE HANDS OF THE LORD!!!!! I THOUGHT ONLY HE KNEW THE DAY AND TIME OF MY DEATH!!!!! BUT YOU OH LORD ARE GIVING ME A DEATH SENTENCE??????

I KNOW OF NO SUCH THING YOU IDIOT!

I'm the idiot? I'm the one who may actually believe that smoking is a hazaard to one's health? I'm not in denial. So, instead of flaming about a subject you know very little about; how about you take the time to read. I'll even provide you the links, as you are not only too lazy to do a Google by yourself, you apparently consider the Phillip Morris Corporation the sole source of information on smoking. It's addictive, you know it, and you are too weak to quit. Yes, that's a personal choice, and you are weak. Ranting and flaming only prove the point.

Cancer.org
US. Dept of Health and Human Sevices
American Red Cross
Womens Heart Advantage

Medical costs attributable to smoking comprise 6 to 9% of the total national healthcare budget.8
• Every pack of cigarettes sold creates more than $7 in medical care expenses and lost productivity.3
• For every smoker who quits, $1,623 is saved annually in healthcare costs alone.9
• Smokers tend to have more hospital admissions, take longer to recover from illness and injury, have higher outpatient healthcare costs, and have lower birthweight babies.8
Document by Workshifts.org prepared for the State of Minnesota

So, there are a set of govermental publications backing my assertions. And what do you have? A link with allegations that attack assertions that cancer is bad. Please note that articles like that do not propose a counter-point, only blindly insist that smoking is harmless .... and one would HOPE you would be smarter than that.