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[cynatnite]

108. Would you willingly inhale carcinogens knowing that they could kill you?

Second hand and third hand smoke can do a lot more damage than stinky food, bad perfume or pot.

Of course, I'll do my damndest to discourage it. There is more than just personal choice here. Kids are inhaling their parents' smoking.

This is a systemic debilitating addictive habit that does far more damage than smoking pot. I totally support legalizing pot, but it doesn't have all the carcinogens and other substances the tobacco companies have soaked in the tobacco to keep their customers hooked.

Smoking and alcohol are legal drugs, but have done far more damage than all the illegal drugs combined. Smoking gets singled out because that odor also has carcinogens in it and if you smell it, you are inhaling it against your will. Are you okay with that? Is that your choice or not?

Call me a "finger-wagger" all you like. I don't care. I've watched patients with holes in their necks attempt to talk and I've buried a lot of family who were killed by smoking. Most of my family still smokes.

My father wasted away to skin and bones in a nursing home from his smoking. It's an agonizing hellish death.

I don't feel a bit of guilt for being a "finger-wagger".