Tuesday, 08 September 2009
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My Plan to End Smoking
We all know the dangers of smoking. Smoking can cause various forms of cancer, and a plethora of lung and heart diseases. In fact, while 98% of people who smoked for over 20 years never contract one of these diseases, laws are being put in place to allow companies to reject the applications of smokers, merely because they smoke. With the state of recession that we are in, and the crumbling job market, its only fair to allow companies to purge an entire group of people from its possible selection lists thus forcing that entire group into poverty. Once the entire group goes into poverty, major tobacco producers across the globe will crumble, and entire companies will fall. The mere cost of this is an extra 600,000 people will be out of work, because they were evil enough to work for tobacco companies.
Also, since about 70% of sales for odor-blockers or anti-odor appliances (such as Glade products) are to eliminate the smell of smoke, only another 50,000 people will lose their jobs when those companies are forced to cut costs.
Now, it's well-known that many companies will buy stocks of other companies, for both pension plans and the like, and to increase company security. Most companies have about 30% of that money invested into tobacco companies, so they will get their just desserts when they (and their employees) lose over 1/4 of their money, and pensions for investing in such evil corporations.
Of course we cant forget gas stations, and convenience stores, which bring in about 25% of their profits from tobacco sales. So when those companies begin to lay off people, we can rest assured that the people they're firing sold tobacco, so we need not feel guilty.
Ahhh! But I have yet to mention the paper mills, which sell about 10% of their product to Big Tobacco, for the paper that the vile substance is rolled in. Granted though, the measly 10,000 people who would lose their jobs over that would gladly sacrifice their jobs so you do not have to smell smoke.
We also need to consider every other company that deals with Big Tobacco, such as the computer companies that supply them computers, or the vending companies that provide snack machines, or even the lowly farmers, who mearly have put their entire life into growing tobacco. But all of these people must be evil, since they helped the stability of Big Tobacco.
Basically, while over 1 million people in the United States alone would lose their jobs, and companies around the world would take a staggering blow, I think smoking needs to be ended now.Do you agree with this possibility? Have you ever smoked? Has anyone you know ever successfully quit smoking?
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Comments (9)
I have never smoke and never will.
You make a damn good argument.
I personally feel that people should be free to do what they want with their own bodies.
I smoked for about 2 years and quit smoking regularly a few months ago. I smoke socially now, and not nearly as many as before when I do indulge.
I'm interested to see the sources for your statistics though...
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i like this post. i'm not a smoker, but it bugs me to see people always talking down on them.
When people lose their jobs,.. guess what,.. they can get a new one. When people lose their lives,.. guess what,... you got it,...I'm sure that I don't need to finish that statement.
And if we are playing the numbers game,.. 1 in 5 US deaths are smoking related. The single most precipitant of ANY kind of cancer is smoking,.. so if they don't die we at least can say that they suffered,..at least a little bit right? According to the World Health Organization, a non-profit organization, who doesn't gain or lose by any particular person smoking, in this past century over 1Billion deaths worldwide were smoking related.
So honestly,.. I really don't value someone's job over someone's life,.. even if it means daddy can't bring home the dollars to feed little susie or mikey,.. because daddy will still have the chance to try something else, get a new job, acquire a different skill.
No one should profit from someone elses demise. It doesn't matter if 60% of smokers don't get sick (I use that estimate losely while i refuse yours which appears entirely too low with all the other facts considered), we still must be concerned amount those that do. And its funny,.. there are tons of medications on the market that did tons of good for people, something that actually had a purpose,.. but as soon as a few died from a bad reaction it was pulled from the market and everyone slammed the producers for not being prudent enough. sigh,..I guess in our society we value the money over lives... that is,.. untill it effects you. I'm sure you wouldn't care how many people lost their jobs when aspestos became regulated and lead paint banned if it was your child that became permanently brain damaged or your brother who developed lung cancer.
People will just switch to smokeless and/or dissolvable tobacco.
I am a smoker, and yes, I know people who have successfully quit smoking.
@eclecticapple163@xanga - Yup, you're right. I know several guys who were smokers who got crap from family members or girlfriends for constantly smelling like smoke. Did they quit? Nope. They just switched to chewing their tobacco instead of smoking it. So now instead of a pack of Marlboros, they carry around a can of Copenhagen.
However it did drop their tobacco consumption since spitting tobacco juice everywhere isn't really socially condoned, so they can pretty much only chew if they're at someone's house or at home.
I recall several people I used to work with who smoked and some weeks they would come in coughing sounding like they had pneumonia. I felt so bad for them, they sounded terrible but they of course between coughs assured me that they were fine.... I knew half of them couldn't afford to see a doctor and yet they were still buying cigarettes.
@Deliver_Me_123@xanga - 1 in 5 deaths are smoking related? Recheck that fact. 1 in 11 deaths are caused by smoking related diseases, and CDC estimates that 1 in 19 smoking related diseases are actually caused by smoking. If 1 in 5 deaths were caused by smoking, every smoker in the country would be dead, considering only 1 in 5 people in America smoke.
And obviously, you havent heard of the recession thats going on... There arent that many jobs available right now, and if you cut a good portion of the ones that are left, the entire economy will struggle. If daddy cant bring home the money to feed little susie or mikey today, daddy probably wont be able to bring home the money tomorrow either. Which is worse? Somebody dying because they chose to smoke, or somebody dying because daddy couldnt bring home the dollars, as you so eloquently put it?
@Deliver_Me_123@xanga - People make their own choices and reap what they sow. I don't think it should be up to government or anyone to make my decisions for me. I don't think there are very many people who start smoking nowadays who don't know that smoking is bad for their health. You may value life over employment, but I will always value freedom over life.