Personally, I do not smoke. But I do have a relative that used to smoke: my father. He stopped smoking about almost a decade ago, thank the Lord. He managed to quit by using those nicotine patches that pharmacies sell. He started with the bigger ones, then to the smaller ones, and then to none. As a funny story, when he used to smoke and I was smaller, I was in the bed beside him. He fell asleep and accidentally burned my eyebrow a bit, haha. But I didn’t hold a grudge, not to him nor to cigarettes or smokers.
As to smoking itself, I recognize it is an “activity†that relieves the smoker from stress. The least healthy, nonetheless, but it can still “help†a person by calming their anxiety as well. I’m a bit against smoking because of the fact that not only the person that smokes can develop cancer in the long run, but also the person, or people, beside the smoker, which they call “the secondary smokerâ€.
What I DO hate is people that smoke in very closed areas. I mean, c’mon man! Wanna smoke? Then, GET OUT! Other than that, I think that, weirdly, people that smoke are “coolâ€, in the sense that, to me people that smoke have “character†and are sort of intimidating. Iunno. It’s just weird. Xd
But overall, I think smoking is bad for you, and the person beside you.
