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my sister has to give a presentation on no smoking so i was googling for it i found this interesting http://forums.neverside.com/thread/90967/[^] 1. Should smoking become illegal? 2. If not, what do you think the legal smoking age should be? 3. Do you smoke? 4. Have you tried to quit? 5. What are the effects while or after smoking? 6. What are the benifits of smoking? 7. What should the price of a pack of smokes be? 8. How can we, the people, make smoking illegal? 9: Is it possible to remove stress by using alternative, positive methods? :):)
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my sister has to give a presentation on no smoking so i was googling for it i found this interesting http://forums.neverside.com/thread/90967/[^] 1. Should smoking become illegal? 2. If not, what do you think the legal smoking age should be? 3. Do you smoke? 4. Have you tried to quit? 5. What are the effects while or after smoking? 6. What are the benifits of smoking? 7. What should the price of a pack of smokes be? 8. How can we, the people, make smoking illegal? 9: Is it possible to remove stress by using alternative, positive methods? :):)
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1. Should smoking become illegal? no 2. If not, what do you think the legal smoking age should be? any 3. Do you smoke? no 4. Have you tried to quit? n/a 5. What are the effects while or after smoking? stink, health problems 6. What are the benifits of smoking? macho look ,stress free 7. What should the price of a pack of smokes be? it should be as high as possible and the raised money should go as tax and not to the tobbaco company instead it should come back to people as tax rebates 8. How can we, the people, make smoking illegal? we should not make it illeagal instead we should make it expensive 9: Is it possible to remove stress by using alternative, positive methods? yes i play games (warcraft , aoe ,nfs ,tomb Raider etc.) for that :):)
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my sister has to give a presentation on no smoking so i was googling for it i found this interesting http://forums.neverside.com/thread/90967/[^] 1. Should smoking become illegal? 2. If not, what do you think the legal smoking age should be? 3. Do you smoke? 4. Have you tried to quit? 5. What are the effects while or after smoking? 6. What are the benifits of smoking? 7. What should the price of a pack of smokes be? 8. How can we, the people, make smoking illegal? 9: Is it possible to remove stress by using alternative, positive methods? :):)
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Amar Chaudhary wrote:
9: Is it possible to remove stress by using alternative, positive methods?
Yeah, play soccer (football for the rest of the world) as frequently as possible!
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my sister has to give a presentation on no smoking so i was googling for it i found this interesting http://forums.neverside.com/thread/90967/[^] 1. Should smoking become illegal? 2. If not, what do you think the legal smoking age should be? 3. Do you smoke? 4. Have you tried to quit? 5. What are the effects while or after smoking? 6. What are the benifits of smoking? 7. What should the price of a pack of smokes be? 8. How can we, the people, make smoking illegal? 9: Is it possible to remove stress by using alternative, positive methods? :):)
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1. No - if people want to kill themselves, it's not my concern. 2. A local matter, I'd prefer 18 y.o. 3. No 4. NA 5. NA 6. Bad teeth, bad breath, smelly hair and clothes... 7. Whatever the market will bear 8. Make and enforce a law... :confused: 9. Absolutely... sex is a great stress reliever. :-D
"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." - Dr. Seuss
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1. Should smoking become illegal? no 2. If not, what do you think the legal smoking age should be? any 3. Do you smoke? no 4. Have you tried to quit? n/a 5. What are the effects while or after smoking? stink, health problems 6. What are the benifits of smoking? macho look ,stress free 7. What should the price of a pack of smokes be? it should be as high as possible and the raised money should go as tax and not to the tobbaco company instead it should come back to people as tax rebates 8. How can we, the people, make smoking illegal? we should not make it illeagal instead we should make it expensive 9: Is it possible to remove stress by using alternative, positive methods? yes i play games (warcraft , aoe ,nfs ,tomb Raider etc.) for that :):)
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Amar Chaudhary wrote:
1. Should smoking become illegal? no
I was thinking that if they were going to make smoking illegal then they would also have to accept responsibility for creating them and do something to cure them (besides dumb useless web sites like Phillip Morris garbage) If they were willing to take real full responsibility for curing the smokers they created then fine make it illegal. But not until somebody accepts responsibility should such a deliberate criminalization of innocent people be considered even remotely fair... (I bet the ACLU would take up that case ;) )
Where did my glasses go...
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my sister has to give a presentation on no smoking so i was googling for it i found this interesting http://forums.neverside.com/thread/90967/[^] 1. Should smoking become illegal? 2. If not, what do you think the legal smoking age should be? 3. Do you smoke? 4. Have you tried to quit? 5. What are the effects while or after smoking? 6. What are the benifits of smoking? 7. What should the price of a pack of smokes be? 8. How can we, the people, make smoking illegal? 9: Is it possible to remove stress by using alternative, positive methods? :):)
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- No.
- How about the same age when we start letting kids drive?
- Sometimes.
- When i needed to.
- Clothing and breath stink.
- Something to do when you're stuck around boring people, besides drinking.
- Around $1. And since we're going all out on the price fixing, let's make bread $0.30 a loaf...
- The same way we, the people, make anything illegal: claim it's part of a plot by scary minorities to rape our young women. Then build bigger prisons. Prisons fix everything...
- Absolutely! Send me a donation of $9.99, and i'll ship you my free pamphlet on alternate, positive stress relief techniques (that i conveniently also sell equipment for - catalog included!)
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1. No - if people want to kill themselves, it's not my concern. 2. A local matter, I'd prefer 18 y.o. 3. No 4. NA 5. NA 6. Bad teeth, bad breath, smelly hair and clothes... 7. Whatever the market will bear 8. Make and enforce a law... :confused: 9. Absolutely... sex is a great stress reliever. :-D
"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." - Dr. Seuss
Mike Mullikin wrote:
sex is a great stress reliever
it's only the trying-to-get-it part that's stressful.
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my sister has to give a presentation on no smoking so i was googling for it i found this interesting http://forums.neverside.com/thread/90967/[^] 1. Should smoking become illegal? 2. If not, what do you think the legal smoking age should be? 3. Do you smoke? 4. Have you tried to quit? 5. What are the effects while or after smoking? 6. What are the benifits of smoking? 7. What should the price of a pack of smokes be? 8. How can we, the people, make smoking illegal? 9: Is it possible to remove stress by using alternative, positive methods? :):)
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1. No, but perhaps the manufacture of tobacco products should be. (why insist on punishing the consumer, rather than the supplier)? These days the government profits from the sale of cigarettes more than the growers and manufacturers do. They are complicit in fostering and supporting the practice. 2. N/A, see #1 3. Yes 4. Yes 5. ? don't get the question ? 6. It's an addiction, and as such self-satisfying and self-sustaining. The issue is more what are the barriers to breaking the addiction, than what are the benefits... 7. Whatever the market (without government interference) makes it. 8. You have absolutely no right to do so. You can restrict its practice in public places, regulate its avaliability to minors, but have no right to prohibit private use. There is no justification for confusing tyranny by the majority with "democracy". Besides, it won't work, as the attempt to prohibit the consumption of alcholol in the early 1900s in the US clearly proved. It is grossly hypocritical to suggest that the users are the problem to be corrected while ignoring the producers (and simultaneously participating in the profits). 9. How is this question relevant? Are you making some unwarranted assumption about why people smoke?
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my sister has to give a presentation on no smoking so i was googling for it i found this interesting http://forums.neverside.com/thread/90967/[^] 1. Should smoking become illegal? 2. If not, what do you think the legal smoking age should be? 3. Do you smoke? 4. Have you tried to quit? 5. What are the effects while or after smoking? 6. What are the benifits of smoking? 7. What should the price of a pack of smokes be? 8. How can we, the people, make smoking illegal? 9: Is it possible to remove stress by using alternative, positive methods? :):)
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Amar Chaudhary wrote:
1. Should smoking become illegal?
No. But public smoking should be illegal.
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2. If not, what do you think the legal smoking age should be?
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3. Do you smoke?
No.
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4. Have you tried to quit?
I used to smoke in my younger age. I quit.
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5. What are the effects while or after smoking?
Cancer, bad throat/chest/lungs. Bad breath. Smelly right hand.
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6. What are the benifits of smoking?
Helps kill time.
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7. What should the price of a pack of smokes be?
$1 for 20 cigs.
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8. How can we, the people, make smoking illegal?
We should not waste time with such an attempt. It'd be unethical to even try.
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9: Is it possible to remove stress by using alternative, positive methods?
I don't think smoking relieves stress. Rest and relaxation does though.
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my sister has to give a presentation on no smoking so i was googling for it i found this interesting http://forums.neverside.com/thread/90967/[^] 1. Should smoking become illegal? 2. If not, what do you think the legal smoking age should be? 3. Do you smoke? 4. Have you tried to quit? 5. What are the effects while or after smoking? 6. What are the benifits of smoking? 7. What should the price of a pack of smokes be? 8. How can we, the people, make smoking illegal? 9: Is it possible to remove stress by using alternative, positive methods? :):)
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This really should be Soapbox material, but, since it is here... 1. No; making it illegal only drives it drives it underground. 2. 18, and, any under 18 caught smoking, there parents/guardians should be fined. 3. No 4. N/A 5. Well, I buried both of my parents (55 and 60 at the time of death) due to smoking (lung cancer, both of them) 6. None. 7. Universally taxed to the point that the tax pays for ALL health care for smoking related illness. 8. See answer to 1 above. 9. Yes, drink coffee instead.
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my sister has to give a presentation on no smoking so i was googling for it i found this interesting http://forums.neverside.com/thread/90967/[^] 1. Should smoking become illegal? 2. If not, what do you think the legal smoking age should be? 3. Do you smoke? 4. Have you tried to quit? 5. What are the effects while or after smoking? 6. What are the benifits of smoking? 7. What should the price of a pack of smokes be? 8. How can we, the people, make smoking illegal? 9: Is it possible to remove stress by using alternative, positive methods? :):)
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Amar Chaudhary wrote:
1. Should smoking become illegal?
In public places, certainly. I'm not going to stop you killing yourself slowly (and making yourself stink) in your own home
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2. If not, what do you think the legal smoking age should be?
Probably 18
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3. Do you smoke?
Nope
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6. What are the benifits of smoking?
Tax to the government, money in pockets of tobacco firms
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7. What should the price of a pack of smokes be?
As expensive as possible
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8. How can we, the people, make smoking illegal?
Health of others (feel free to kill yourself, but don't impose it on me, or your children)
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9: Is it possible to remove stress by using alternative, positive methods?
Certainly, there are hundreds of things non-smokers do to relax
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This really should be Soapbox material, but, since it is here... 1. No; making it illegal only drives it drives it underground. 2. 18, and, any under 18 caught smoking, there parents/guardians should be fined. 3. No 4. N/A 5. Well, I buried both of my parents (55 and 60 at the time of death) due to smoking (lung cancer, both of them) 6. None. 7. Universally taxed to the point that the tax pays for ALL health care for smoking related illness. 8. See answer to 1 above. 9. Yes, drink coffee instead.
Tim Carmichael wrote:
Universally taxed to the point that the tax pays for ALL health care for smoking related illness.
In the UK, approx. 7 billion pounds is raised by taxing tobacco, and the cost to the NHS of smoking related diseases is approx. 3 billion. Hence, if smoking were outlawed in the UK, the Chancellor would have to find at least 4 billion from somewhere else! :) Saying that, I expect it will be banned within my lifetime. And as an ex-smoker (who found it very hard to quit), I say bring it on.
Kicking squealing Gucci little piggy.
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my sister has to give a presentation on no smoking so i was googling for it i found this interesting http://forums.neverside.com/thread/90967/[^] 1. Should smoking become illegal? 2. If not, what do you think the legal smoking age should be? 3. Do you smoke? 4. Have you tried to quit? 5. What are the effects while or after smoking? 6. What are the benifits of smoking? 7. What should the price of a pack of smokes be? 8. How can we, the people, make smoking illegal? 9: Is it possible to remove stress by using alternative, positive methods? :):)
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Amar Chaudhary wrote:
1. Should smoking become illegal?
Only when it infringes on the rights of others (it should be regulated, not banned)
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2. If not, what do you think the legal smoking age should be?
Current age of 18-19 is most likely adequate, you could argue for 15-16yr olds because they can drive (which is potentially worse) but as a society I think we own it to our future (because smoking kills, fact not opinion) to restrict minors like we already do.
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3. Do you smoke?
No.
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4. Have you tried to quit?
N/A
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5. What are the effects while or after smoking?
Varies, short term smoking does very little if you don't continue it. Long term of course the outlook is bleak.
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6. What are the benifits of smoking?
Can there be any? Maybe you make new friends while standing out on smoking patios...otherwise it's like asking what the benefits of slowly killing yourself.
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7. What should the price of a pack of smokes be?
Not sure, but I'm not really in favor of price gouging the consumer with ever increasing taxes.
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8. How can we, the people, make smoking illegal?
Simple, it infringes on the rights of others when people smoke in public. We make smoking in public illegal, not in private. Heck if I care what you do in your own home so long as it only affects you. But why should I have to hold my breath to go into a mall or building because 10 people are polluting the air outside the entrance?
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9: Is it possible to remove stress by using alternative, positive methods?
Of course, that's a silly question.
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my sister has to give a presentation on no smoking so i was googling for it i found this interesting http://forums.neverside.com/thread/90967/[^] 1. Should smoking become illegal? 2. If not, what do you think the legal smoking age should be? 3. Do you smoke? 4. Have you tried to quit? 5. What are the effects while or after smoking? 6. What are the benifits of smoking? 7. What should the price of a pack of smokes be? 8. How can we, the people, make smoking illegal? 9: Is it possible to remove stress by using alternative, positive methods? :):)
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Amar Chaudhary wrote:
1. Should smoking become illegal?
No, but it would be fair towards non-smokers to be ilegal in public places.
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2. If not, what do you think the legal smoking age should be?
18
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3. Do you smoke?
Unfortunatelly too much.
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4. Have you tried to quit?
Yes, but aparently I didn't want it that bad
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5. What are the effects while or after smoking?
It has a relaxing effect. Of course after becoming and addict your body asks for it and it's kinda nasty if don't give it to it. My biggest problem while trying to quit smoking: couldn't concentrate very well on the job. My brain was partially gone fishing. Of course a couple of high priority tasks that came along with a time bomb, quickly destroyed the few weeks of quitting. Been doing this on and on for some time now.
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6. What are the benifits of smoking?
No such thing. On the contrary...
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7. What should the price of a pack of smokes be?
Have no idea.
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9: Is it possible to remove stress by using alternative, positive methods?
Sure, but I don't think there's a faster way. Nicotine is absorbed by the blood vessels in your lungs immediately so you get the effect instantly. And a cigarette lasts about 6 minutes. What could I do in 6 minutes to get the good stuff? Yeah, I know I'm an addict.
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my sister has to give a presentation on no smoking so i was googling for it i found this interesting http://forums.neverside.com/thread/90967/[^] 1. Should smoking become illegal? 2. If not, what do you think the legal smoking age should be? 3. Do you smoke? 4. Have you tried to quit? 5. What are the effects while or after smoking? 6. What are the benifits of smoking? 7. What should the price of a pack of smokes be? 8. How can we, the people, make smoking illegal? 9: Is it possible to remove stress by using alternative, positive methods? :):)
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I do generally appreciate the non-smoking people who want to try to get rid of bad things like this that have literally ruined peoples lives by lung cancer, throat cancer, emphysema, and other health problems. In a way, though, this zeal to erase smoking reminds me of the US prohibition on liquor last century. In the end, it didn't work well. (I think it goes to show that you can't legislate your views on people who don't share your views.) One thing that irks me with the anti-smoking crowd is how some of them have tried to wipe cigarettes out of history. For example, in the Beatles Abbey Road photo where John, Paul, George, and Ringo are walking across Abbey Road, George is smoking a cigarette. The anti-smoking crowd wants to photoshop that to remove the cig in George's mouth. I think stuff like that is really dumb and revisionist.
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my sister has to give a presentation on no smoking so i was googling for it i found this interesting http://forums.neverside.com/thread/90967/[^] 1. Should smoking become illegal? 2. If not, what do you think the legal smoking age should be? 3. Do you smoke? 4. Have you tried to quit? 5. What are the effects while or after smoking? 6. What are the benifits of smoking? 7. What should the price of a pack of smokes be? 8. How can we, the people, make smoking illegal? 9: Is it possible to remove stress by using alternative, positive methods? :):)
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Amar Chaudhary wrote:
Should smoking become illegal?
If we shall go to make smoking illegal, also should be maked illegal a lot of other things: abortions, drinking, homosexuality, processed food, and so on. What should we make illegal? Something which affect our health? Others health? Our life / social life? Others health? Our liberty? You see my point. Is hard to take a radical option. And don't forget: Tobacos companies have here a great word to say! ;P
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my sister has to give a presentation on no smoking so i was googling for it i found this interesting http://forums.neverside.com/thread/90967/[^] 1. Should smoking become illegal? 2. If not, what do you think the legal smoking age should be? 3. Do you smoke? 4. Have you tried to quit? 5. What are the effects while or after smoking? 6. What are the benifits of smoking? 7. What should the price of a pack of smokes be? 8. How can we, the people, make smoking illegal? 9: Is it possible to remove stress by using alternative, positive methods? :):)
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take a look at these Health benefit of smoking[^] and benefits of smoking[^] :):)
It is Good to be Important but! it is more Important to be Good
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my sister has to give a presentation on no smoking so i was googling for it i found this interesting http://forums.neverside.com/thread/90967/[^] 1. Should smoking become illegal? 2. If not, what do you think the legal smoking age should be? 3. Do you smoke? 4. Have you tried to quit? 5. What are the effects while or after smoking? 6. What are the benifits of smoking? 7. What should the price of a pack of smokes be? 8. How can we, the people, make smoking illegal? 9: Is it possible to remove stress by using alternative, positive methods? :):)
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- It should not be allowed in public places. Doing it in one's home is fine. 3) No. Never have, either. 5) Odor. Breathing problems. Yellow teeth. Burn marks in clothing, car. 6) There are none. Only an idiot would believe that inhaling tobacco smoke into ones lung is beneficial. 7) Very expensive. 8) Don't try. Young people see the effects it has on others yet they still opt to do it. Their loss. 9) Yes, plenty of options are available.
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my sister has to give a presentation on no smoking so i was googling for it i found this interesting http://forums.neverside.com/thread/90967/[^] 1. Should smoking become illegal? 2. If not, what do you think the legal smoking age should be? 3. Do you smoke? 4. Have you tried to quit? 5. What are the effects while or after smoking? 6. What are the benifits of smoking? 7. What should the price of a pack of smokes be? 8. How can we, the people, make smoking illegal? 9: Is it possible to remove stress by using alternative, positive methods? :):)
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Amar Chaudhary wrote:
Should smoking become illegal?
No
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If not, what do you think the legal smoking age should be?
18 is fine.
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Do you smoke?
Not tobacco. Well, not anymore.
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Have you tried to quit?
I did quit. Started when I was 12, and quit when I was 27. I was done.
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What are the effects while or after smoking?
Oh come on, nicotine is a stimulant and endorphin releaser. So you feel good, and secure. For a short time. But then your body produces extra endorphins to accomodate the demand and viola, you get edgy and need to let the buggers out of their cage, so you smoke again.
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What are the benifits of smoking?
Benefits?
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What should the price of a pack of smokes be?
Ya know, it should be fair market value. Anything else is extortion. And its the chemicals in the cigs that are toxic and cause cancer. We wouldn't have such a burden to taxpayers and the health system if they were forced to sell only tobacco. The companies are the ones who need to be held accountable.
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How can we, the people, make smoking illegal?
Why would we want to? Don't we enough stupid laws that we can't enforce? What part of Freedom does this country not get?
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Is it possible to remove stress by using alternative, positive methods?
Stupid question. I didn't smoke to remove stress. I smoked because I was addicted. Is smoking negative? Ok, questions aside, I smoked originally because it was cool to do so in 1979. And my first cigarrette was a Kool. I personally have a history in my family of lung issues and it caught up with me, so I quit. I'd rather reserve my lungs for other things. Like breathing. But I truly enjoyed the experience and would still smoke if my lungs could afford it. Which they could if it weren't for the chemicals. I'll still enjoy a cigar occasionally, like once or twice a year. Funny, whe
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take a look at these Health benefit of smoking[^] and benefits of smoking[^] :):)
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That second link is written by a tobacco company. Vested interest and is dated back in the sixties.
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