Rab, get off it. This will get you nowhere. Weakness is part of life, we're doing noone a service by condemning them for it. We only cheat ourselves that way.
I agree with him and i smoke, it is pure weakness. The only thing that keeps people smoking is fear, fear that their lives will be different without the cigarette, fear that they wont be able to give up and be doomed to it for life, fear that a social ocassion wont be the same without a cigarette. The only reason im still smoking is because i am scared that my essays will suffer because of the withdrawal pangs.....i am a weak person because of it, i should have given up last weekend when i said i was going too, instead of waiting untill sunday. I lasted two days without a problem untill i saw my friend today when he thought it would be hillarious to smoke around me as much as he could so when i came to do my work i just couldnt concentrate.
Rab, get off it. This will get you nowhere. Weakness is part of life, we're doing noone a service by condemning them for it. We only cheat ourselves that way.
That's because we can't do more than condemn, there's no other way. It's just like those who practice religion and politics, they enjoy what they're doing while the rest can die.
I did read your post. Not much sense and logic if you ask me. Same thing my Mom would say, my relatives and friends. To me it doesn't make sense. This is how I see it...
1) You enjoy smoking and you don't care whether you disturb the others or not
2) You're smoking just because the environment/society isn't helping you much (example: you got your friends smoking and because you don't want to feel lonely or isolated you join the party, which is pretty weak) etc
That's because we can't do more than condemn, there's no other way. It's just like those who practice religion and politics, they enjoy what they're doing while the rest can die.
We can say it's a bad thing and encourage people to stop but what good does it do to condemn people for being weak? First of all everyone is weak all the time, so what's new about that? And secondly all it does it alienate people.
If you condemn them for bothering you with their smoking, now that would be a completely valid case however.