A Rant about being a Smoker

No it is not right to smoke. I know, i was in the shoes of a non-smoker for 16 years. I told my mom to knock it off i told my friends that breathing in smoke just didn't seem like a good use of my time and now i am conflicted.

Because i am a smoker... i enjoy smoking. That coffee break in the morning with a nice belmont, a few drinks and a smoke, the smokers section where people bond because of sharing the same vices. And yes there are things about it that i dislike.. the smell, the taste in your mouth afterwards, the knowledge that it causes disease and yellowing teeth and that i don't think it looks very classy.
But it is in the end my choice to make period! if one day i decide that i no longer want to smoke, yes i will quit.

So please enough with the coughing when you walk by me like I've almost just killed you, or telling me how bad smoking is for me. or the snooty " i don't smoke" when i ask around for a lighter, trust me sweetheart you not being a smoker doesn't make looking at me like someone just shoved my lost lighter up your ass okay.. it just makes you a bitch!

Did you know i had some random old man walk up to me while i was minding my own bloody business and tell me ALL of the horrors of smoking. I had some other guy tell me that he has alot of medical problems and that it was people like me taking up room in the hospital and taking up money for medical care , that caused a shortage of help for people who really needed it, including children. he actually said that, as though he was trying to say that my smoking habits allowed sick children to go uncured! o that's just perfect, lets make smokers more evil than we already are and blame them for all the sick children in the world dying because we raise health care prices! that's right ladies and gentlemen smokers raise health care prices, so if ever feel like your health care system is not working for you.. just go out and hit a smoker.. ya because health care rates will go down the more smokers you scare out of the habit, that way we aren't taking up space in your hospitals!


For fucksakes PEOPLE! really? like enough is enough. yes smoking causes cancer, yes you have every right not to be around me when i smoke just like i have every right to smoke 9 fuckin feet from any door WITHOUT being harassed about my habits. Do i follow you around on your nights out and tell you how horrible alcohol is? it causes liver disease, too much can cause alcohol poising not to mention all the horrible things that can and do happen when someone is under the influence.. but do i walk up to ppl at the bar and kill their buzz with that speil!? NO! absolutely NOT! because its none of my fucking business that why! Or how about how bad fast food is.. that causes heart disease and you know with the amount of obesity in America i bet the obese are taking up health care costs too. do i walk around to people enjoying their big mac and say " hey.. children are dying in Africa while you over indulge in McDonalds." NO! because i am likely to get knocked right out!

You know what though the laws are so bloody strict now that i can hardly sit in my own goddamn car and have a smoke! why doesn't health Canada just shove us all on a fucking boat and set us off to sea? you know why? because the government would never allow that! tabacco makes money! and although all this stupid rules are being put in they are somewhat hoping that i will buy that other pack of smokes.. they are waiting for the revenue. I don't know exactly who profits but i know someone is!!! whenever something is being sold with that much volume you better believe someone is cashing in!

anywho. point: if you see someone smoking a cigarette and minding their own business keep your two cents to yourself k? no one needs to hear you regurgitate what you heard about the evils of smoking on the 6pm news! you just end up looking like a prick.. like a prick who likes to believe that their advice is so immensely important.. it just might change a smokers life. moron!