Stare at Smokers to Stop Them

I remember when people were free in this world to make their own choices without fear of judgment or reprisal of any kind. It was better and people were not shooting each other en masse in the streets back then. (From pent up tension?)

I'm not ever staring at anyone with judgment in my eyes over their personal choices. That's all.
 
Even though there are fewer smokers today than there were decades ago, smoking remains the number one cause of preventable death, accounting for 1,300 American deaths every day. How big tobacco companies made cigarettes more addictive.
Being a reformed smoker I know just how hard it is to quit. When I started smoking, in my late teens, back in the early 1960's, smoking didn't kill you, research that proved otherwise would come later. When I married in 1968 I promised my bride that I would quit, it took me a good eighteen months to completely lose the craving, so powerful is the addiction. You could have stared at me all day long, it wouldn't have made a blind bit of difference.
 
I know the article is about Hong Kong... and in the UK it's also illegal to smoke indoors anywhere... and even in some cafe ''outside areas'' it's banned... .. but I've never heard of police being called if someone lights up..however smoking is an addiction, and if you annoy an addict, you might get your head stoved in..
 
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This is a bad idea, somebody will get upset with you,
they will start with "What are you looking at", your
reply will determine if you are lucky and told to go
away and mind your own business, or they come and
deal with you in a more aggressive way.

Mike.
 
katlupe said:
No, I would not do that and I doubt they would care. My opinion is that sugar causes more deaths than tobacco does now.
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You are not wrong, I checked the World Health Organisation's website:
In 2017, Seven million people globally died a premature death because of smoking. The fact that smoking causes lung cancer is the major reason for the high death toll of smoking. Whilst eleven million deaths worldwide in 2017 were linked to people eating poor diets high in sugar, salt and processed meat that contributed to heart disease, cancer and diabetes, a global study found.
 
I once sat smoking in the smoking section of a restaurant (back when they had those.) I saw a family across the way looking at me, and then their son, about 12 years old, walked across the room stood at my table and told me smoking was disgusting. I couldn't believe the cowards sent their son into the fray like that! I only weighed about a hundred pounds at the time, so not that scary, but I was with my 6'4" husband who might have taken offence.

Katlupe is right, obesity passed tobacco as the number one cause of death, on Jan 3, 1994, at 7pm, when I quit smoking and started gaining weight.
 
hollydolly said:
I now the article is about Hong Kong... and in the UK it's also illegal to smoke indoors anywhere... and even in some cafe ''outside areas'' it's banned... .. but I've never heard of police being called if someone lights up..however smoking is an addiction, and if you annoy an addict, you might get your head stoved in..
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:) haha The Cookie Monster. No, a smoker's no more likely to stove your head in than anyone else. We're all addicted to something. Like this forum maybe, or sugar, or ??
 
gruntlabor said:
:) haha The Cookie Monster. No, a smoker's no more likely to stove your head in than anyone else. We're all addicted to something. Like this forum maybe, or sugar, or ??
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Unfortunately unlike this forum..or someone addicted to knitting, a smoker.. whose drug habit is much stronger even than Heroin.. can get very angry indeed if not allowed access to their cigarettes...
 
horseless carriage said:
You are not wrong, I checked the World Health Organisation's website:
In 2017, Seven million people globally died a premature death because of smoking. The fact that smoking causes lung cancer is the major reason for the high death toll of smoking. Whilst eleven million deaths worldwide in 2017 were linked to people eating poor diets high in sugar, salt and processed meat that contributed to heart disease, cancer and diabetes, a global study found.
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I would not believe a word from them if, as they say, their tongue came notarized.
 
hollydolly said:
Unfortunately unlike this forum..or someone addicted to knitting, a smoker.. whose drug habit is much stronger even than Heroin.. can get very angry indeed if not allowed access to their cigarettes...
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:) lol, a heroin addict would laugh uproariously at that statement, which (need I really say it?) is patently untrue. But I do believe you are sincere in your opinion.
 
hollydolly said:
Unfortunately unlike this forum..or someone addicted to knitting, a smoker.. whose drug habit is much stronger even than Heroin.. can get very angry indeed if not allowed access to their cigarettes...
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Hard to compare additions, heroin certainly has worse consequences than smoking, but both are hard to quit and withdraw from. This article puts both nicotine and heroin in the top 5. The other 3 are cocaine, alcohol, and barbiturates.

The 5 most addictive drugs in the world
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-...st-addictive-drugs-in-the-world-a6924746.html
 
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