I'm a hater 'cause my Mom is killing herself with smoking, I grew up listening to her cough her lungs out when she would wake up at midnight choking, and on a personal note it aggravates my allergies. My sister and younger brother also smoke and it sux watching them act the slave to their addiction. It pretty much governs their daily schedule, like it does for most smokers. Also, many of my co-workers smoke and they spend about an hour a day outside smoking while I'm inside working.
My wife is a radiologist and it's just a matter of time before some smoker with lung cancer tries to sue her for somehow missing the lung cancer that is going to kill them anyhow no matter how hard she looks for that tiny spot on the x-ray the one time in their life they come in to get checked out.
That's without even considering the various ways smokers increase health care insurance costs.
Yea, I'm a hater. If people really want to kill themselves, I have a gun they can borrow... Save the rest of us some $$$ and the hassle of dealing with their polluted carcass when they die. Sickest thing I've seen recently was some old dude hauling around an O2 bottle, dropping the tube for a few min so he could get his hit. If I was king, he wouldn't get a dime from any medical insurance or any publicly funded health care for any lung related disorder. He did it to his own damn self and it pisses me off I have to pay for it.
And of course when he's done, he's gonna drop the butt on the ground, carefully step on it, and walk away leaving it there on the ground.
Plus I'm gonna have to take care of my Mom when she's the one coughing her lungs out, hauling around that damn taxpayer provided O2 bottle and dropping the tube for another hit, while my eyes and nose start running from the effect smoke plus allergens have always had on me.
Hate doesn't really express the true scope of my feelings about smoking, but I'd honestly be satisfied if public health care and insurance funding for lung related disorders were simply cut off for smokers. Why should I pay for their addiction, especially since so many are so utterly convinced of their "right" to smoke and to receive taxpayer funded health care for smoking related illness, on top of the personal discomfort it causes me?
Few groups of people are so utterly anti-social towards society in general as smokers. Hell, I prefer the idea of commie pinko liberal democrats running congress over smoking.
