Now for something different.
I don't smoke, but I'm not going to try and talk smokers off tobacco. I understand the reasons why some people smoke (other than just being addicted). I'm also not concerned about passive smoking. I know many people who have smoked for what would seem an eternity, but who are still alive. Yes, it is a poison, but not so effective one that someone standing next to a smoker every now and then would die because of it.
It does smell, though. Some people like the smell and some people don't. Smokers should take this into concideration and not smoke in small places with lots of people etc. but for example here in Finland there are pretty strict rules for smoking, so here this is not a problem. You couldn't find a very small space with people in which you would be allowed to smoke.
I have to disagree with the point that smoking, unlike alcohol, wouldn't have any "positive" effects on the human body. Many people say that using alcohol is understandable because you get drunk and some people like it, but that smoking doesn't have that kind of effects. I think I saw this point in this thread, too. That is not correct. Nicotine is a alkaloid, and all alkaloids have certain effect on the human body. For example, caffeine is an alkaloid, too, and many people use it regularly and tend to feel the effects of it. Nicotine releases adrenaline and insulin in your body, and those hormones have certain effects to one's body and mind, so even though one doesn't get drunk or high from tobacco, some mostly relaxing effects are certain.
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