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To: Palladin
To all FReepers who smoke: PLEASE STOP NOW!!!

Don't bother. These militant smokers are too busy lecturing everyone else how we're all going to die anyway.

Smoking cigarettes is the dumbest thing anyone can do. It robs you of your quality of life and steals precious years from time that could be enjoyed with the grand kids.

29 posted on 04/07/2005 2:09:07 PM PDT by zarf
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To: zarf

My grandparents all smoked into their 90's. My mother died of lung cancer at 47. She never smoked, drank or was overweight. I don't smoke either.


35 posted on 04/07/2005 2:13:46 PM PDT by umgud
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To: zarf; Just another Joe; Madame Dufarge; MeeknMing; steve50; KS Flyover; Cantiloper; metesky; ...
Smoking cigarettes is the dumbest thing anyone can do. It robs you of your quality of life and steals precious years from time that could be enjoyed with the grand kids.

Listen, lots of things in life are dumb!  For instance:  I would never have unprotected sex.  I am not gay.  I never physically abused anyone.  I'm a lover not a fighter.

Smoking NEVER robbed me of a quality of life.  Steals precious years?  How long do you want any of us to live? Forever?

No, we don't "lecture" those of you about smoking.  We lecture yes, when "those of you" trash and bash us because we enjoy a LEGAL product.

I'm sure YOU have habits that "I" would find disgusting!  Get over yourself.

57 posted on 04/07/2005 2:28:56 PM PDT by SheLion (Trying to make a life in the BLUE state of Maine!)
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To: zarf
Smoking cigarettes is the dumbest thing anyone can do.

I quit smoking a long time ago.

And smoking is an unnatural and dangerous activity, which may well some day be the death of me even though I quit.

Still, tobacco is wonderful stuff.

Too bad it is unhealthy.

138 posted on 04/07/2005 3:02:52 PM PDT by Age of Reason
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To: zarf

I agree with that statement -- I think smoking is just plain dumb. I had a teacher in 4th grade that took a dollar bill, lit it, and told our class that this was a cigarette burning. Made a huge impact on me that smoking equaled burning money -- never have smoked and hate being around people who do. Was very happy when they outlawed smoking on airplanes -- always ended up seated next to a smoker.

This is too bad about Peter Jennings -- maybe at least one young person will wake up and decide to not start smoking or quit.


141 posted on 04/07/2005 3:04:51 PM PDT by PhiKapMom
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To: zarf
Smoking cigarettes is the dumbest thing anyone can do.

While I wouldn't say THE dumbest, it's certainly high on the list. Even from an early age, I never understood the logic behind taking a bunch of dried leaves, rolling them in paper, setting fire to them, and then breathing in the smoke. Heck, in structure fires, what kills people more than the flames, themselves, is smoke inhalation. So to deliberately inflect smoke inhalation on yourself seems, at best, peculiar.

184 posted on 04/07/2005 3:43:29 PM PDT by Wolfstar (If you can lead, do it. If you can't, follow. If you can't do either, become a Democrat.)
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To: zarf; SheLion; Gabz; Madame Dufarge

How many "precious" years will smoking steal from me? Enlighten me,please.

How do you define "quality of life"? Running a marathon,cleaning the house,seeing a good play,reading?

Do you secretly call yourself God? WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?


185 posted on 04/07/2005 3:44:43 PM PDT by Mears ("The Killer Queen,caviar and cigarettes")
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