If you smoke.....**UPDATED**

I lost my grandmother to a heart attack after she had battled lung cancer for years and then my aunt was dx'ed with emphysema. I still smoke. Preach all day long, I know the risks. I'm an adult and will continue to do what I like.

Quoting Anonymous:
There's nothing worse than reformed smokers.

i don't like reformed smokers, they are like holier than thou. but damn skippy they ain't wrong. i do NOT like to hear it, but but i hurt my kids, my hubby n myself by being a smoker. i HATE being a smoker, i just am not stong nuff to stop yet. hopefully i can soon. it's not just being smelly the yellow teeth the yellow nails. its the lung cancer, the FACT that i am doing something WILLINGLY that will take me away from my kids before i need to go. they should not have to see mommy fight to breathe, die from cancer. it is not just my body i am hurting, i am hurting my whole family, becuz of a weakness and i hate that weakness. and the reason i don't like hearing it is becuz it hits too close to home. smoking equals death. period. and oh, i so don't want to go down that way, God willing i'd beat it before then.

You think we don't know it kills? It isn't like we don't see all the commercials on TV, or hear it from EVERY. DAMN. PERSON. who doesn't smoke. Good for you, that you were able to stop smoking. Not everyone is as lucky. And as long as there is more pressure from advertisements, doctors and those "who mean well", it only makes it that much harder for some of us to stop. So... STOP meaning well. Get off your soapbox, mourn the loss of your loved one, and leave the rest of us alone.

I stopped smoking years ago, I can't stand to be in peoples house who smoke, I wish everyone would stop.... but that said..... nothing anyone says will make someone stop, you are either ready or our not.
And just so you know, while you may not like that other people smoke, if I was with someone who did smoke and you walked up and yanked their cigarette out of their mouth and tried to crush their cigarette or pack, I'd jump in a beat your ass.. It's not against the law to smoke. Just cause you don't like it, doesn't mean you can assault someone else like that , and it is assault. ( and the people there with have the right to defend them from assault ) It's no different than me walking up and ripping an ear- ring out of your ear because it offends me that children are dying in the sweat shops that make them.
- want10more
on Mar. 17, 2013 at 3:32 AMi am a smoker. A PROUD smoker as it's my right. heh ok maybe not. it's my right still but oh how i hate it, ohhhhh how i've struggled. i don't know if i'll ever win my fight, which means i'll die from slowly strangulating, or lung cancer. if i don't win my fight my little children will see mommy die, from something SHE decided to do. it's more than yellow teeth and nails. it's more than the morning hack. it means i love my kids but not as much as my cigarettes, and i'd rather die and leave you than leave them. that hurts like hell.