02-18-2004, 03:14 PM
Well second hand smoke does. You've seen the commercials, you've seen the people on those commercials, they are real. People know people with lung cancer who never smoked a day in their life, I know people like that.
Nothing like comparing one harmful drug to another. Pointing out a hypocrisy is no justification for anything. It's an immature approach to a problem in dire need of a solution.
And of course the classic "It's my body and I can do what i want with it." This argument works for something like cocaine where there is no harmfull by product. You ask any person with breathing problems like asthma and they will tell you how hard it is to breath with smoke in the air. RJ said he had problems breathing at the smell of the stuff, let alone the actual smoke. My dad has to hold his breath when he has to walk through the cosmetics counter at department stores, I walk through it like nothing. Imagine what smoke does to him.
Nothing like comparing one harmful drug to another. Pointing out a hypocrisy is no justification for anything. It's an immature approach to a problem in dire need of a solution.
And of course the classic "It's my body and I can do what i want with it." This argument works for something like cocaine where there is no harmfull by product. You ask any person with breathing problems like asthma and they will tell you how hard it is to breath with smoke in the air. RJ said he had problems breathing at the smell of the stuff, let alone the actual smoke. My dad has to hold his breath when he has to walk through the cosmetics counter at department stores, I walk through it like nothing. Imagine what smoke does to him.