No. No. No. No.
We have ENOUGH problems with peer pressure as it is. If people know all the facts and choose to smoke that is fair.
People should have a right to hear facts and science more than cultural bollocks. Why does the bollocks get the defence yet the fact gets told to hush?
As soon as you openly encourage with emotive, manipulative culturally relative language and ideas you are clouding judgement and removing choice, unless the person is adequately taught to recognise and counter such behaviourist psychology. I was never much of one for falling for peer pressure myself. I spent most of my time thinking instead.
It was a comment in a bloody TV film it is NOT vanquishing smoking. Catastrophising much?
'It's just the smoker is a happier person! ' I see you don't care for factual evidence - you generalise too much.
My dad smoked, the only reason he started was because he was stressed in the first place then it made no difference because it just became habitual due to the physiological form of addition that seems to go with nicotine.
My friend in Germany smokes: he only does so to remove some stress from a life which has been and is still so very hard (rape, nearly killed by his mother, a very ill father, debts, blamed for damage to the flat he rents that he never even did - if he doesn't pay an extortionate amount, he has no home, he has to go to adult school to get basic qualifications and is trying to find a job so money is low). He is STILL depressed, anxious, angry and lacks self-esteem.
These counter your certain statement. No doubt there are happy smokers as well, I'm sure. I do not mind smokers, I even hang out with them while they smoke - I know the potential risk. And I don't drive, by the way.
I cannot believe people even took such umbrage - I barely noticed it because I hear it so much in so many different tones of voice. In this TV film it was portrayed so whimsically and light-hearted.
Have you ever tried to consider the health of the actor portraying the woman who smokes so much? Are there props that are decent enough to look like a cigarette without the health problems? I don't know.
You don't have to be anti-smoking so virulently to appreciate a comment about their affect on the health. Less likely to get PD or (in some studies - seemingly by the tobacco industry) Alzheimer's (in some studies there is an increased risk or Alzheimer's). However, there are significantly more risks from tobacco alone (if that is what you are smoking) but benzene and hydrogen cyanide sometimes added are, of course, no better for you.
You are smoking to be cool? Great. I just hope you made that decision for yourself as opposed to having it being made for you as your mind yielded to psychological games not prepared enough to counter them.
Cool, by the way, is relative. There are many forms of cool. They may differ between country, culture, sub-culture...
As long as you're happy. But why on Io did this single comment in a fictitious universe make you care so much?
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