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Smoking.

arg-fallbackName=")O( Hytegia )O("/>
australopithecus said:
Because it's spurious. Why bother going outside walking for enjoyment knowing the risk of murders or being run over? You can apply it to anythig you care to mention.
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Why bother doing ANYTHING?
It's the same logic.

X increases chance of unpleasantries and raises possibility of death, ergo X is bad and people who do X are stupid.
Feel free to insert Motorcycle riding, Diving, Skydiving, Walking down the road, Driving in the rain, Sex, and countless other things.
 
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Except most other things wont pretty much assure you die slowly or at least develop a hideous disease. You can bring up sex and STDs but it's a red herring. Smoking as zero benefit, sex does. As Gnug said, you can't safe smoke and it serves no other purpose but to feed a circular habit. Also, other people can't catch STDs as a result of being around those who do.
 
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australopithecus said:
Except most other things wont pretty much assure you die slowly or at least develop a hideous disease. You can bring up sex and STDs but it's a red herring. Smoking as zero benefit, sex does. As Gnug said, you can't safe smoke and it serves no other purpose but to feed a circular habit. Also, other people can't catch STDs as a result of being around those who do.
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I would consider being Paraplegic as a horrendous side-effect of being in a motorcycle accident.
 
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australopithecus said:
Except most other things wont pretty much assure you die slowly or at least develop a hideous disease. You can bring up sex and STDs but it's a red herring. Smoking as zero benefit, sex does. As Gnug said, you can't safe smoke and it serves no other purpose but to feed a circular habit. Also, other people can't catch STDs as a result of being around those who do.
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Smoking does have some benefits, but those benefits do not out weigh the health risks.

http://www.livescience.com/15115-5-health-benefits-smoking-disease.html
 
arg-fallbackName="Anachronous Rex"/>
Can we just agree that some people who smoke make life unpleasant for those of us who do not smoke, and for that reason we find the practice irritating?

I don't really feel the need to condemn smoking in any stronger terms than that.
 
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