Do you believe cigarette smoking is morally wrong?

386>I%26#039;m surrounded by cigarette smokers every day. Both of my parents smoked, until my father died when I was 9 (of a heart attack caused by high blood pressure and cholesterol, not lung cancer or anything like that). I suppose I have a soft spot for smokers, as they seem to be stigmatized everywhere, at least where I live (California). Anti-Smoking advertisements usually attack %26quot;Big Tobacco%26quot;, but recently it seems these advertisement attack the addicts themselves (I think it%26#039;s Smoke Free California, but I could be mistaken. That leads me to my question, do you believe cigarette smoking is morally wrong? and do you believe these advertisements create prejudice and discrimination?
Reply:I am a former smoker (24 days in after ten years of smoking).





I don%26#039;t believe that it is morally wrong to smoke, at least not any moreso than eating cheesies or drinking beer. Yep, it%26#039;s bad for you...but morally wrong? A bit excessive.





These advertisements are designed to make people not want to smoke...one of the adverse affects being that it makes people who don%26#039;t smoke think that they are somehow better, smarter, stronger. Which is bull.





Unfortunately we live in an incredibly ignorant and massively misinformed world.
Reply:it is not morally wrong for the person himself, but to subject unwilling people around them to dangerous second hand smoke is wrong.
Reply:Are you kidding? Morally wrong? A heck of a lot more so than Abortion, and people get their hair on fire about that!
Reply:My jury on the moral issue of smoking is still out. However. I lost my grandmother and great-grandmother to cancer and neither ever smoked.





Lastly, eating tofu and doing pilates is not going to keep you alive forever. But it feeds into the American superiority ideology.





I believe that smoking in public places is possibly a valid point of concern, but to socially stigmatize smokers is not necessary either. Smoking is being vilinized currently to make sure it%26#039;s not cool or acceptable to young people, since before many began to smoke just becuse it was socially cool.
Reply:Only if you make someone else inhale.
Reply:I as a smoker am tired of the rhetoric and wining about smoking. If smoking is so dangerous why are we allowed to do it. Oh the constitution. I am tired of my liberties slowly being stripped away like layers of an onion til nothing is left. When will enough be enough. After all this is the United States. Live and let live, don%26#039;t tell me not to smoke I won%26#039;t tell you not to drink, cus, etc. Get over it already