[Adora]

If it's not banned here nationally in bars and restaurants yet, I sincerely hope it soon will be. As someone who has pussy-fuck lungs since she was a kid (7 years of Bronchilasthma will do that to you) I hate smokers with a passion. There's just something about fainting from lack of breath when you're trying to play an indoor netball game because some fucks up on the balcony feel like having a ciggy that kind of makes you hold a grudge against smokers. And for the record, the asthma came first before I started hating smokers. And that horrible smell that permeates everything around you is just disgusting. How can you live with it? I can barely stand my brother when he comes home from work unless he's had a shower (he works in an RSL for the record).

That, and I don't really appreciate breathing poison when I'm trying to eat/have fun when I go out. But hey, that's just me and my respect for my body. There is absolutely nothing you can say that can justify smoking in my mind. It stinks, it makes you stink, it's poison that harms both you and the people around you, and nicotine is one of the most addictive substances known to man. I mean, really, how fucking stupid can you be?

Many non smokers, trapped next to an incredibly overweight, sweating individual on an airplane and feeling horribly uncomfortable, might say "I mustn't judge, it must be horrible to be that fat". But let a smoker pass within 10 feet of them and they catch a wiff of smoke and they're apopleptic with rage and ready to tell the person they're a Satanic baby killer.

Wanna make a bet? In both cases, all I can think is "Wow, you really don't like your body, do you?", because in both cases, you're abusing it to a stupid extreme. In both cases, I don't say anything, because I know it's not worth the blood pressure, but that doesn't change my thought patterns.

I had an argument like this with my father a few nights ago. Granted, he was slightly pissed, but the logic was similar.

Him: "I had almost all my teeth pulled when I was 18 and I've never had to pay massive dentists' bills or worry about teeth problems."
Me: "Yes, but that was because you used to drink 3 cans of coke a day, ate too much chocolate and never brushed."
Him: "But I still have never had tooth problems you teeth-keeping-people have."
Me: "Yes, but you abused your body, and not many people enjoy carrying around a call-card saying they did that with false-teeth when you're 22 and all."

It's another stupid extreme, and you can justify it all you want, but it doesn't change the fact you're consciously abusing your body in the same way cutters and more illicit drug-abusers do.

Very often obesity does affect people around you, just not in as great a degree.

Yes, but you can eat healthy foods, and live and active healthy life, and it is not the act of eating that is causing you harm.

There is no choice of positives like this with smoking. You buy cigarettes/tobacco, and it's the same problem, in different packaging. You can't buy "healthy" smokes. Smoking is inherently damaging to your system, and the evironment around you.

Before anyone asks, the people who are my friends who smoke know my stance on this, and never do it when I'm close to their prescence, in the same way I don't eat chocolate in front of a friend who's chronically allergic to it (poor thing). It's just plain old rude.