A lot of my peers will die early...

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...Because so many of them seem to smoke!

They're all 16-17 and they're already paying to kill themselves. Idiots.

Cuban Cigars. Authentic Cohiba brand.

Worth the mouth cancer and the fate of a small country.

But you're right, I would advise people not take smoking lightly, lightheartedly, or lightheadedly.

Just statistics ! And, you know, I smoke, but I'm vegan, which means 50% less risk for having cancer...

I thought you were gonna say 2012.
It's the same in my school. People smoke weed, pot, everything.

As a nurse, I have seen the effects of smoking. Lung cancer is almost unheard of in non-smokers who don't work in coal mines or huff asbestos. It only gets about 10% of smokers. It gets a lot of press, but is actually one of the least significant problems with smoking. Most smokers who die from smoking get nailed with heart disease.

However, the biggest risk is COPD. For someone who has smoked more than 20 years, the risk of COPD is nearly 100% and doesn't go away after the person stops smoking (unlike cancer risk). So someone who has smoked for more than 20 years, quit for 10 or more years, WILL get COPD if they live long enough. Its just a question of how bad it is. COPD is fatal, but it can take 20 years to nail someone.

Either way, smoking isn't a smart thing to do.

The effect of second hand smoking has been proved. But we can't say it's worse... Because smokers are their own second hand smokers !

Yes, but if people around smokers endure the smoke without filter, smokers do too. Am I understandable ? I mean smokers receive the smoke which doesn't come into the filter too.

Yes, I know, but the non-smokers get no protection. I can't stand people smoking.

It's their own choice what they want to do to their body.

When I was in high school, I remember seeing one student smoking a cigarette in the school's courtyard. I also remember, when I was a freshman, having a conversation with one of my classmates, and she told me that she smoked pot.

I don't know how it is for you, but in France, we can't smoke in public areas. People are protected, except if they don't want to. I can't stand those who offense smokers : it's their choice. Eating hamburgers is also a very bad habit, and most of people doesn't care... But the risks of cancer and heart-attacks are there, as important.

I know exactly how you feel. I have never smoked a cigarette in my entire life, not even as a teenager. But I sure got a lot of second-hand smoke from the idiots who constantly smoked around me. Also I don't drink and I've never done drugs but nearly all the other kids at my school thought it was "cool" and made my life a nightmare because I hated it so much.
I have no idea where these moronic teens I was forced to grow up with are today, but if they're dead from their stupidity all I can say is HA!! !

I avoid places where there are numerous smokers like the plague. I have to walk through a smoke wave to get into the main college building for classes, but besides that I'm not going to give myself an unnecessary headache by hanging around smokers.