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... Smoking is bad, and I think it's a disgusting addiction. However, I can understand the need for people to relieve stress. As long as they don't smoke where others can be harmed, such as hospital patients, pregnant women, and the like, then I don't complain.

The one person I object to smoking is... my mom. She smoked for years and years around me until I got asthma, and then she quit for a while. Then she got breast cancer. Then she started smoking again. I think it's disgusting that with an asthmatic husband and daughter, she continues to smoke in her car and on our back porch. I'm relived that she doesn't do it around us, but I don't want her to get cancer again.

As for the weed matter discussed a few pages back... The government originally banned it in the 70's because of who was using it. They thought that they could change the hippies by banning their stuff, or at least get them all arrested and make them stop protesting. There were also crappy studies out back then (government approved, of course!) that showed weed having a negative effect on the brain.

The government simply hasn't updated its laws, mostly because of the nasty misconceptions most people- and congresspeople- hold about it. Also, there's a lot of nasty stuff mixed into it nowadays. It's not just pot. It's pot + cocaine or mushrooms or formaldehyde or something else much worse.

Anyway, at this point, I think medical marijuana would be okay, and marijuana should only be legal if it becomes more controlled.

And there was discussion of alcoholism. Well, alcoholism runs in my family, my uncle died of cirrhosis, my brother drinks way too much, my father drinks more than I'd like him too but not to an extreme excess, and I don't like the stuff. Alcohol is probably more dangerous than other drugs because it's legal and easily abused. A drink to celebrate and maybe at the end of the week to unwind, that's all a person should need. Not just to loosen up or because it's fun to forget what you've done. I don't know.

I'm sure if I believed something that science disproved, you'd be over me like a fly on poop.

Keeping a lighter in a bra? That must be quite... hot.[/Lame Pun Intended] Put seriously, imagine what would happen if the lighter turned itself on at a Taco Bell.

HUMAN FIREBALL!

Then Taco Bell will stop making spicy food.

I really don't care if people smoke. Sure it's an unhealthy habit, but so is eating fatty food and drinking coffee. I don't think I'll smoke now because it's not really my thing, but I don't think less of people because they smoke.