Smokeing

[Ryder]

Don't know if this ones been done in while, what do you all think about smokeing (strictly tobacco, nothing else this time ok).

For the record, I smoke, and I think it's bad for me, but honestly I'm not currently under any strong convictions about it (that'll probably change now that I opened my big mouth).

 

[Marinus]

I smoked, for little less than a year, at age 16. Ans I can honesty say: "I do not advise anbody to indulge in this activty"
It negatively affected my health, and caused me to lie, to loved ones, about my 'habit'.

I do not think it is really 'immoral', if used in moderation, like, only on special occasions. But once you have been addicted to it, and quit, steer clear of it, and the use there-of.

It is basically the same question as the use of alcahol, only different in the sense that is genarally more accepted behaviour.

My $o.o2

 

[OldBadfish]

Don't know if this ones been done in while, what do you all think about smokeing (strictly tobacco, nothing else this time ok).

For the record, I smoke, and I think it's bad for me, but honestly I'm not currently under any strong convictions about it (that'll probably change now that I opened my big mouth).

It can potentially destroy your temple!

However.... hold on a sec let me grab a cigarette....ok **hack hack** yeah it's not good for you!

 

[ZaraDurden]

I cant see how smoking would be morally wrong...

I just dont do it cuz there is no point... It can only cause harm... But could you go to hell for smoking?

I know ruining the temple and stuff, but smoking?

 

[mala]

not morally wrong to smoke
but what are the moral implications of becoming addicted to it

 

[Blindfaith]

I don't believe anyone goes to hell for smoking. It does take time away from God when it takes 10 minutes per smoke, and if you do a pack a day which is 20 (right?), that means 200 minutes.

The only way a person goes to hell is by not accepting Jesus as Lord and Savior - not by puffing

 

[feral]

It's not a moral issue, just a health one. I smoked for maybe six months...first pall mall unfiltered and then cloves...quit at age 17.

 

[Ryder]

I started at 14 I think? Can't remember. Just can't ditch it.

 

[Susan]

You can get cancer, heart disease, emphysema. . .and you can hurt someone else by your secondhand smoke. Therefore it's not only your own health at stake.

Will you go to **** for smoking? I don't think so, any more than I will go for reading something I shouldn't read. Nevertheless, for your health and those around you, please consider stopping, all right?

 

[Philosoft]

I tried to start smoking a few years ago, as a sort of experiment. I rather hated smoking, but I had friends who were taking up smoking at the time, and complaining that they couldn't quit. My goal was to become addicted, then quit, but I never got the first part right. Since then, I've been told by some addiction specialists that I have an extreme resistance to most physical addictions, insofar as I can overcome them by application of will. That's a good thing, I think, and it explains a lot about my prior forays into moderate drug usage, habits I was able to eliminate the instant I wanted to stop. I've even been able to give up caffeine for months at a time.

 

[OldBadfish]

I tried to start smoking a few years ago, as a sort of experiment. I rather hated smoking, but I had friends who were taking up smoking at the time, and complaining that they couldn't quit. My goal was to become addicted, then quit, but I never got the first part right. Since then, I've been told by some addiction specialists that I have an extreme resistance to most physical addictions, insofar as I can overcome them by application of will. That's a good thing, I think, and it explains a lot about my prior forays into moderate drug usage, habits I was able to eliminate the instant I wanted to stop. I've even been able to give up caffeine for months at a time.

I've got to ask, why would you WANT to become addicted? Peer pressure? Or do you like defying addictions?..

 

[Philosoft]

I've got to ask, why would you WANT to become addicted? Peer pressure?

Nah. I conquered that years ago. I even worked at a hotline for troubled teens for Psi Phi in college. Peer pressure is a big factor in teen angst; you learn lots about it working at a hotline.

Or do you like defying addictions?..

I considered that. But I've never consciously tried to become addicted to anything else. It was more to do with my friends' whining about how difficult it is to quit. I've changed my tune, though, because, well, I found it too difficult to start.

 

[Dawn Marie]

"Yes it's wrong and I quit".

Though, I was never really addicted.