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OH please, let me retort

> While I hate to knock all you nonsmokers off your high horses, I feel
> obliged to point out a few things:
> 1)  The tobacco industry is quite large and heavily taxed.  If it were to
> be obliterated (as many of you wish it were), thousands of workers would
> become unemployed and our federal government would lose a great deal of
> revenue.  Thus, you can look forward to a higher unemployment rate and
> higher taxes.

FYI is will cost far more money to pay for metical expenses caused by
smoking.  As it is right now there are astronomical costs related to
smaokers.  Losing a few jobs and tax revenue will be nothing compared to
the Billions spent on asshole smoker's medical bills.

> 
> 2)  Virtually everyone on this planet recognizes that smoking is
> horrendously bad for one's health.  However, I am inclined to tell all of
> you incredibly healthy nonsmokers about something far more deadly than
> smoking.  It's called walking outside.  The sun is far more deadly and far
> more likely to cause cancer than smoking (just go ask your doctor).  So
> before you decide to go taunting smokers about how unhealthy they are,
> just remember that there is a 1 in 4 (and increasing everyday) chance that
> you will get cancer just by walking out your front door.

Everything you do nowadays is unhelathy, however if you think about it,
walking outside at least you can put on suntan lotion.  Now if I walk out
side next ot some asshole smoking, I have nothing to protect me from
second hand smoke.  Any doctor or dermotologist will tell you that you
need spf 25 everyday to protect yourself from UV rays, but what are you to
do about smoke and second hand smoke?

> 
> 3) Environmentally speaking, cigarrete butts are not exactly a top
> priority.  Certainly, seeing a cigarette butt on the ground is not
> aestheticly pleasing, yet cigarette butts are biodegradable.  How
> biodegradable is that plastic water bottle that all you healthy nonsmokers
> tote around.  That sucker will be around long after your
> great-grandchildren die.

However that waterbottle will be reused far more times than a butt.  And
as for it being around a lot longer than us?  Of course it will be because
we recylce them and allow them to be reused for ever and so on.  Sure
cigarette butts are biodegradable, but let me ask you this...DO YOU KNOW
HOW LONG IT ACTUALLY TAKE TO BIODEGRADE?  and is it before some animal
chews on it and chokes to death?  FYI anything is biodegradable if given
enough time.

> 
> 4)  Many of you seem to be taking the approach that all smokers act
> exactly the same.  Such blatant generalization of people is grossly
> ignorant.  There ARE smokers who don't litter incessantly.  Furthermore,
> there ARE nonsmokers who do litter incessantly.  Don't characterize a
> group of people based on the actions of individuals.
> 

Ok, so I agree with you there, there are some of my kind that are just as
big of poluters as smokers.  



BTW, before you post next time, think about what you are typing and DONT
TYPE IT YOU MORON!

Adam