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Originally Posted by CPL  My point was not the burgers, my point was that there are 1000 things that we do that might make us die. But we don't see ourselves abasing each other for the choices, except for smoking.
The fact of living in Lebanon is dangerous. And anyone who lives in Lebanon is willingly taking the risk. Would you like people to abase you for choosing that? No.
More points:
Driving a car in Lebanon.
Eating junk food.
Swimming in the Red Sea.
Taking an airplane.
Not going through STD testing.
Anyhow, you want to call me an ignorant just because I smoke.
So are the following smokers ignorant:
_ Albert Einstein
_ Thomas Edison
_ Alexander Bell
_ Robert Oppenheimer
_ Edwin Hubble
_ Sigmund Freud
_ Winston Churchill
_ George Orwell
_ Bill Clinton
_ Oscar Wilde
_ Jean-Paul Sartre
_ J.R.R Tolkien
_ Mark Twain
_ Albert Camus
_ John Lennon
_ Frank Zappa
_ Vincent van Gogh
_ Alfred Hitchcock
_ Pablo Picasso
_ Che Guevara
If I am not mistaken, each one of those is 100 times more intelligent than you and I are. Smoking might be a sign of carelessness in the eyes of the public, but definitely not ignorance as you call it.
Not that I am trying to prove the opposite, smoking in itself has NOTHING to do with intelligence, a smoker can be Picasso or the next idiot down the street. It is just irrelevant, and you people should do something better than to abase other people for smoking. We know the risks, and we are taking them on our own responsibility. We are not looking for compassion and sympathy, and especially people nosing down in what is not their business after all.     |
Im not calling you ignorrent cause you smoke, Im calling you ignorant because you ignore medical facts,.
About your list
Driving a car in Lebanon. Driving is a necessity, Smoking is not,
Eating junk food. Is safe in moderation, Smoking is not,
Swimming in the Red Sea. Do you swim in the red see 20 times a day,
Taking an airplane, Do you fly once a day
Not going through STD testing, You can live for up to 25 years now with anti-virals for HIV, How long you recken youl live once diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer, ?
About the names you listed, Most of them lived pre-90s and even in the 90s We did not know back then what we know ''NOW'' about smoking,
Do what you want,
Free the world up of resources,