I hate cigarettes, hate cigarette smoke, and wish no one smoked them...

[theAntiRand]

49. As long as it's illegal to attempt suicide, there's no rational basis for cigarettes being legal

Smoking is the same exact thing as shooting yourself in the head, only the bullet moves slowly. I say this as someone who watched practically his entire family die of lung and throat cancer one by one. My father would wake up at 5 AM and have an entire pack smoked already before leaving for work at 8. Then he's surprised when I start smoking. He gets diagnosed with cancer and what does he do? Nothing, smokes the same amount. And what did my mother do? Buy him the cigarettes. Then she's genuinely shocked when she's diagnosed as well. Both were dead within six months of the diagnoses. So there I was, a smoker at 12, made to go live with my uncle, who smoked just as much. He was dead before I reached 18. I had to move three times because of cigarettes.