Should Smokers to Be Forced to Bear the Anti-smoking Hate of Today's World?

Brace yourself for an exploration of the means by which social norms classify smoking as something repulsive, undesirable, and plainly said, bad. Furthermore, this article explores the unjust means by which nonsmokers voice their negative opinions of smokers, almost as if smoking weren't a matter of personal choice. These non-smokers don't hold back with their allegations of the chronic dangers of smoking, so in this article, I won't hold back either.

Before you start to recall all the things you were taught, about how it leads to emphezema, lung cancer, and constriction of blood vessels, bear in mind this fact: it's not your problem. "BUT WHAT ABOUT SECOND HAND SMOKE?" you may ask. What about it? Bring me or a fellow smoker concise, documented proof that by smoking near another person I am significantly endangering their life, and I will put out my cigarette and quit smoking faster than you can say "bullshit." Second-hand smoke, or passive smoking, is merely a concept (and not a very credible one) created by the Environmental Protection agency in one of their bogus studies. This study has been discredited time after time, and yet the smoking bans everywhere in North America, and now in the United Kingdom, are based on this ridiculous "study."

Obviously, I'm not against the voicing of one's opinion simply because it disagrees with my own. In such a case, I wouldn't be writing this article. I am however against the voicing of such opinions that are unjustified, detrimental to a certain group of individuals, and formed by someone separate from the group towards which those opinions are directed. That is to say, if you're a non smoker, it's enough to be healthy and proud of it. Why then must you attempt to convince smokers to quit, as if you've got the slightest say in what smokers put into their own bodies?

In a way, because smoking tobacco is more socially acceptable than other mind-altering substances, these smoking bans are even more ridiculous in North America than the horror stories one may hear about tourists traveling in the far east, getting caught with a bag of heroin, and getting sentenced to hang.

Let me leave you with this thought in mind. Next time you try to support or justify in any way legislation which makes it more difficult for people to smoke, ask yourself this: How could you possibly have that right?