Nonsmoker. I grew up in a nonsmoking family. The smell of cigarettes makes me feel ill. The stink of them on clothing and hair is very obvious. The damage to skin tone and general health soon becomes very obvious. This is not a judgement on the smoker, rather on the negative results of the habit.

When people smoke outdoors, it's not too much of a problem for the nonuser. You just try to move upwind of them if there's a breeze.

When they smoke indoors, it's a major problem for all concerned.

The only reason that cigarettes are marketed is so that some very rich people can make even more money.

So, Guest, be proud that you are helping to support some of the World's richest professional murderers and foremost drug pushers every time you light up. And be mighty ticked off at those of us who have the gall to point that out.

It's not you I am judging. It's the actions of the people who make a business out of daily poisoning you and many other people for profit that I am judging. You're just one of their many habituated victims, and you have a perfect right to poison yourself...but not to poison others.

It's like when there's a war on. Do I judge the enemy soldier coming across a field at me? Is he evil? No. The actions of the leaders who unnecessarily launched that war and used him as their patsy...THAT's what is evil. They know exactly what they are doing. He usually doesn't.

But if he ever woke up and really thought about it...then what? He might not be so easily manipulated by the greedy and powerful.

If you smoke, you started for only one reason...because you saw other people doing it when you were young, and you wanted to "fit in". That's a pretty common and pretty dumb reason to want to do anything that is obviously harmful and unnatural. Conformity. The line of least resistance. The dead stupid obvious. Running with the herd. It's what I see the street kids doing in Barrie (daylia can confirm that). They all smoke, and they can hardly afford food! They'd rather have their tobacco fix than eat. The poorer people's prospects are in life, the higher is the percentage of smokers among them. Now, why would that be? Why do you think? Does ignorance and hopelessness contribute to self-destructive behaviour? Yes, it surely does, and the drug-pushing industries depend on just that to keep the money rolling in. That, and conformity.

Anyone out there got an original idea? I hope so. That's how things get better.