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thehefnerSo I found out that a certain friend of mine who shall remain nameless has started smoking.
Now, plenty of you guys smoke. I have no particular problem with this. Sure, it'd make me ever so happy and proud of you if you'd quit, but I am 99% certain that you've been smoking for as long as I've known you. Thus, I had already accepted this was who you were and I had no problem with it. Similar in the way that I don't have as much a problem with people who I've always known smoke pot as opposed to watching people do it for the first time, and worse, continue doing it. Yes, this still bothers me, go figure, yadda yadda.
But this is a first, to know someone first-hand around my age (college years) to make an active decision to start smoking. Now maybe I'm wrong, maybe I'm just biased or too intolerant for my own good.
But dude. That's just fucking stupid.
I mean, sure, it's arguably stupid to start in the first place. Besides the obvious health risks, there's the fact that it's yet another fucking thing to suck your wallet dry which you always need but especially during the college years, but where's that money going? Where? To evil, faceless, greedy corporations, socially-accepted drug dealers who profit off the addictions of others and, more importantly, right into the coffers of some of the more unpleasant parts of the right wing! Yeah, the bad guys, people! Oh, and besides all that, there's also the fucking obvious health risks which everyone fucking knows about!!!
Now maaayyyybe I'm just another victim of those nasty anti-Big Tobacco propagandists, oh how I hate them, grr. But regardless of my bias, the point still stands. I love you, but you, my friend, are being fucking stupid. As George Rathburn would say, "Case closed, game over, zip up your fly."
Oh, and Dave, don't be a pro-smoking smartass about this. I am in a ranty mood for a reason lately. Between my own issues lately and natural disasters, I'm not up for it.
Now, plenty of you guys smoke. I have no particular problem with this. Sure, it'd make me ever so happy and proud of you if you'd quit, but I am 99% certain that you've been smoking for as long as I've known you. Thus, I had already accepted this was who you were and I had no problem with it. Similar in the way that I don't have as much a problem with people who I've always known smoke pot as opposed to watching people do it for the first time, and worse, continue doing it. Yes, this still bothers me, go figure, yadda yadda.
But this is a first, to know someone first-hand around my age (college years) to make an active decision to start smoking. Now maybe I'm wrong, maybe I'm just biased or too intolerant for my own good.
But dude. That's just fucking stupid.
I mean, sure, it's arguably stupid to start in the first place. Besides the obvious health risks, there's the fact that it's yet another fucking thing to suck your wallet dry which you always need but especially during the college years, but where's that money going? Where? To evil, faceless, greedy corporations, socially-accepted drug dealers who profit off the addictions of others and, more importantly, right into the coffers of some of the more unpleasant parts of the right wing! Yeah, the bad guys, people! Oh, and besides all that, there's also the fucking obvious health risks which everyone fucking knows about!!!
Now maaayyyybe I'm just another victim of those nasty anti-Big Tobacco propagandists, oh how I hate them, grr. But regardless of my bias, the point still stands. I love you, but you, my friend, are being fucking stupid. As George Rathburn would say, "Case closed, game over, zip up your fly."
Oh, and Dave, don't be a pro-smoking smartass about this. I am in a ranty mood for a reason lately. Between my own issues lately and natural disasters, I'm not up for it.
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Date: 2005-08-30 04:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-08-30 05:55 pm (UTC)But they money, the three bucks for a pack of cigarettes, that's actual dollars actually being spent. You can see it and it's right now. And you're not even addicted yet. The addict can claim that the next pack is because you're already addicted, but what the fuck makes you want to spend that three bucks right now that you could spend on lunch, or (god for-fucking-bid) just save it.
Cuz I'm betting that whoever this is already doesn't have any goddamn money. Am I right?
That pisses me off.
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Date: 2005-08-31 06:03 pm (UTC)Yeah, I'm really glad you're pissed off by this too. I feel a little less... overreacting? Yeah.
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Date: 2005-08-30 07:31 pm (UTC)Wait, that was my other personality.
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Date: 2005-08-31 05:56 pm (UTC)Sorrow
Date: 2005-08-30 08:59 pm (UTC)Re: Sorrow
Date: 2005-08-31 06:36 pm (UTC)