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Vicarious Living
March 10, 2008 by Anonymous, 1 year 34 weeks ago
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It seems to me that the only way to be sure is to light up and smoke cigarettes for a month. Of course, no research group is ever going to advocate that.
It's similar to me attacking the actions of another person without ever having walked a mile in his/her shoes.
Cigarettes are a personal experience and the only way to judge its' effects are by inhaling for a period of time. No one on the outside looking in is ever going to understand that. Just saying...
As a smoker, the best thing I can do is to make sure that those close to me don't get started. After a generation or two, this issue becomes moot if smokers and non-smokers could at least agree on that. Otherwise, the backlash effect (from personal attacks against smokers) have the opposite effect.