The battle to smoke in your own home federally subsidized apartment that infests non smokers with your toxic filth.
What a great thing this is. Smoking is the only activity, when used as directed kills 1/2 the people who do it and takes out innocent bystanders in the process. Make it socially unacceptable. Make it horribly expensive. Shrink the boundaries. And the problem will fix itself.
What a great thing this is. Smoking is the only activity, when used as directed kills 1/2 the people who do it and takes out innocent bystanders in the process. Make it socially unacceptable. Make it horribly expensive. Shrink the boundaries. And the problem will fix itself.
Great Idea!!
ReplyDeleteWhile they're at it, they should prohibit use of illegal drugs, weapons, Pit Bulls,and require proof of automobile liability insurance. Oh, and Gay Sex too, heard thats risky...
I think it is a good idea that they make people go outdoors to smoke. See, if they smoke 40 cigarettes a day they can get a lot of exercise: 40 times 100 feet per cigarette might be enough?
ReplyDeleteWhat I wish our government would do is to rigorously enforce the law prohibiting minors from purchasing cigarettes. If only the law was enforced as strongly as selling pediatric porn....
we moved into a place once that had, unbeknown to us, been previously occupied by smokers. Very nice, with fresh coat of paint and everything.
ReplyDeleteOur daughter's room had apparently been someone's office previously. The first time we ran the humidifier for her the moisture caused the toxic crap to seep through the white paint and created nasty yellowish rivulets down the walls. Disgusting.
We had to buy some special stuff to seal it in and then repaint.
You know that special sealing stuff seals in the Radon too???
ReplyDeleteHappy, I posted something similar on my blog, about taxing the heck of cancer stix, and boy are there some angry nictoine addicts out there! Keep it up--I think a pack of cigarettes should cost minimum of $5.00/pack.
ReplyDeleteI am a strong advocate for healthy lifestyles. I counsel my patients that smoke at every visit. I have come to the following conclusions. Most patients that want to quit do not have a plan. They are scared to quit. They are scared of the "finality" of quitting and it is this fear that prevents most people from successfully quitting. If a patient can get over that fear, then they will be successful. I tell them that quitting is the easy part. It's staying quit that is the hard part. That urge 6 months later to have "just one cigarette." I tell them, forget it. Once you quit, you HAVE to tell yourself you can NEVER smoke again. That's what scares people. That's why they don't quit in the first place. They are afraid of the "forever." Smoking becomes a lifestyle for many patients. Can you imagine telling a patient, "you can never eat dinner again." Most people would laugh at you. Everyone can quit. I try to give them the plan. I tell them to expect withdrawal but that the physical symptoms will only peak for 3-5 minutes. If they can find an alternative activity during that physical withdrawal urge, let it pass, they they can move on. I tell them to exercise. If they have a treadmill or other device, walk for 5 minutes until the urge passes. They must realize that the chemical withdrawal is temporary and WILL pass everytime. Everytime they successfully resist the physical urge, they are building on success psychologically. Overtime, they will replace the urge to smoke with the urge to exercise. You kill two birds with one stone. I could go on, but most people that want to smoke don't have a plan. As a healthcare provider, I don't think we do them any service by telling them "just to quit." I think helping establish a plan is vital to success. Unfortunately, nobody pays for smoking cessation counseling. I do it because I get personal satisfaction from hopefully making a difference.
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As an ex-smoker and MI survivor, I take every opportunity to convince friends, family, patients to stop, and stop NOW. However, I must disagree with passing laws to force people to stop. As much as I dislike smoking, I dislike even more a nanny government telling me what to do. Here in NY we already have attempts to ban, through taxes, diet soda, even with no evidence that diet soda is harmful, because someone somewhere has decided they are bad. We have laws limiting what restaurants can cook with, what snacks can come to school, etc etc. Do we need to live a healty life...yes. Do we need a government telling us how to live....no!! I dislike smoking, but I dislike even more a government overseeing all of my actions in the name of healty and safety.
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