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Originally Posted by Stitchawl
I'm glad I stopped when I did. I feel badly for the folks huddled out in the rain, sleet, and snow, desperately grabbing another lung-full of smoke every half hour.
Stitchawl
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I feel much the same
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Originally Posted by desertblues
And smokers don't realize that substance also coats their lungs. But when they object and say, that there's also bad substances in the very city air, of the air near industrial complexes; well, that's a fact. And maybe those substances can be even more harmfull in the long run.
But with smoking at least, one has the choice. The environment is more difficult to control, apart from moving to a healthier place.  |
This demonstrates that she persons are our best defense and guaranty.
Go desertblues.
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Originally Posted by GeoffC
If the smoking doesn't kill them, perhaps the exposure might ...
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Ages ago, when I did some work on air pollution, and when smoking was not yet an issue, I came out on a bit of information about how just *living* in Milano was equivalent to smoke 3 packs a day. I smoked just one and had a house in the mountains so that was it.
My father arrived to 89 smoking a 30/day. My little sister was so good to set him up in the last month of his life when he had to go to the hospital, in a place where they let him do what he wanted. So everyday I went to visit him, put him in a wheel chair and took him somewhere to smoke together and have fun. At least in this last days he forgot all my divorces and that I was a bad son, bad husband, bad father, bad citizen, bad Christian, (he had nothing to say about my profession, he was in Business Adm, like his older brother, I was in engineering like his other 2 younger brothers, and we all hold the other gang in contempt, this still goes on to day), and all that pile of s**t that his rigorous Catholic upbringing had loaded his soul with, so that he plainly enjoyed being with me and having a good time drawing a few puffs.
I think that smokers should be left in peace and made comfortable, like everybody else.