<VietnamVet49@Notmail.com> wrote in message
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>I am a smoker and I enjoy smoking.
Tell us what you enjoy about smoking.
Not the usuual stuff like, enjoying smoke rings, having time out, etc, but
what it is exactly which you enjoy so much about smoking that you are
prepared to put up all of the inconvenience and risk.
IOW, what makes it worth it?
> I have nothing against people who
> prefer not to smoke, as long as they dont bug me about smoking.
I really don't intend to bug you, I would like to know what it is you like
about it.
Explain it to me in the way you would explain it to someone who'd never
smoked before.
> In fact in many ways I admire people who have quit smoking and are able
> to quit without getting all stressed out.
Anyone is capable of quitting smoking without getting all stressed out.
> But you anti-smokers who
> want to preach to me about smoking better get out of my face. I dont
> bug you about not smoking, nor do I bug you about eating junk food,
> spitting on the sidewalk, being obese or anything else you do. My
> business is MY business, as well as yours. If it were as simple as
> that, I'd tell you to shutup, and the discussion would be ended. But
> you anti-smokers are brainwashed about the second hand smoke bull****.
> And that is exactly what it is, bull****! I'll give you the benefit
> of the doubt that if a non smoker is in a completely smoke filled
> room, such as some bars, you will be inhaling some smoke. But those
> are extreme situations and you have the choice to leave and go
> elsewhere where the smoke is not thick.
>
> With that said, I am going to make MY point. If you are an
> anti-smoker who wants to get in my face about second hand smoke, you
> goddamn well better not pull a cell phone out of your pocket and start
> yacking on it anywhere near me. You want to claim that my smoke is
> harming your health, I got something to tell you about the radiation
> coming from your cell phone, which is far more dangerous to myself and
> everyone else near you, than my smoke. I don't normally bug people
> about using cell phones near me, simply because I dont care to bug
> other people about anything, just like I dont want others bugging me.
> When someone uses a cell phone near me, I move away. But if you want
> to get in my face because of my smoking you damn well will hear from
> me about your damn cell phone. If I have to walk away from people
> because they are using cell phones, then you better get the **** out
> of my smoking space. And, go ahead and try to take the cigarette out
> of my mouth and stamp on it. Come on, make my day. I guarantee you
> will go home phoneless, unless you want to take home all the broken
> phone pieces after I stomp it into the floor.
You seem a little angry and stressed.
Looks like the smoking isn't working.