Are you two?

But without cigarettes, how will I be able to blow smoke out of my mouth? My childhood dreams of being a dragon would go up in flames!

#24-- Is it okay to smoke if you're only doing it to look like the people from Mad Men? Or if you have a grudge against your lungs? And they make it so much easier to burn small children!

Cigarette smoking: a slow way to commit suicide.

I love how this mentality magically doesn't apply to diet sodas, the sun, fattening foods, or literally EVERYTHING ELSE THAT IS UNHEALTHY AND CAUSES CANCER. Can someone honesty explain this to me? Why aren't there pictures of morbidly obese people on McDonalds bags? Why aren't there pictures of messed up kidneys and livers on aspartame products? Yeah, smoking is unhealthy, but it gets a lot more hate than every other unhealthy thing on the planet for some reason.

You're kidding, right? Surely you can't honestly believe this bullshit spewing forth? I must believe that you're joking, because no sane, rational person would actually seriously say this. Are you really comparing cigarettes to diet soda? Are you that ludicrously stupid, or are you just trying REALLY hard to troll?

Your lungs are gonna go up in flames

194 does in fact have a valid point. Everything they said is absolutely true. Big food companies would rather you die by their multitude of products (because who's gonna sue over a Big Mac?...can't prove they got morbidly obese/had a heart attack from it) rather than a pack of smokes....we all know what's in cigs, but most don't know what's REALLY in the food we consume on a daily basis. You can put cancer patients pix on a pack of smokes & it won't stop people from smoking (recent studies have already proven that it in fact makes a smoker want to light up), yet I'm willing to bet if you put obese people & damaged kidney pix on billboards the food companies would lose major $...google the study about the new pictures on cig packs & you'll see it's true.

#194-- While you have a point, there is a difference. The sun serves a purpose and only puts you at risk of cancer if you stay in it too long (and even then, it's only skin cancer, which isn't nearly as bad as lung cancer.) You might actually be more unhealthy without the sun. Fast food also includes chemicals that are known to increase the chances of getting cancer (something along those lines), but again, the risk of cancer is far lower than with smoking. What you have to worry about with fast food is of course obesity, but that only happens if you eat fast food on a regular basis (same with cancer), and fast food is not addictive like smoking. Also, fast food, although not the healthiest way to eat, still does serve a purpose, especially if you don't have much money or time, so you can't compare it to smoking, which serves literally NO purpose and does much more damage. However, I do agree that it should be socially acceptable to criticize obese people who eat fast food on a regular basis. I don't remember much about diet sodas, but from your other examples, I think it's safe to assume that diet sodas also serve a purpose (quenching thirst) and don't pose as much of a risk of cancer as smoking. Also, regular sodas contribute to obesity, so I don't see why diet sodas should be hated more... Basically, there are lots of things that are unhealthy that serve a purpose (cell phones may increase the chances of brain tumors, but it would be ridiculously impractical to live without one in today's world). Smoking is MUCH MUCH MUCH more unhealthy than these things, is addictive, and serves ABSOLUTELY NO purpose. Find something that is more comparable to smoking before you make that argument.

i hope you die you asshole

You hope I die because i want someone to get the proper fine for throwing trash on the ground? And I'm the asshole?

That's a very broad brush you're painting with there.

Those ashholes!