I've had to come to terms with smoking; I've really attempted to find a pleasent gray area with my oppinions. Most of my family smokes, at least everyone on my dad's side, my older brother and sister both smoke as well. They're good people [it's not like smoking makes them evil people or anything ridicoulous]. Very much like every one of us has, smoking is merely a habit that is dangerous if obbessed over. Eating, smoking, drinking, gambling are all fun or coping activities. We just need to realize when we reach into the obsessive range.
I myself don't smoke so maybe I don't have right to judge but I'm come to grips with smoking as purely a coping skill, very much like my comic reading or eating. What I do detest is getting too much smoke inhaled. It's sounds awful and conceited but I do try to avoid smoke as much as possible [either by asking or leaving] but it's primarily because I'm a singer and I beleive I need to keep my lungs in good condition; I've already had the misfortune of having a father who smoked profusely [as in he made air unbreathable sometimes].
What does irks me are attacks on the smoking public. Many propositions were issued this midterm that just notoroiusly attacked the smoking solely because their an easy target. The thing is they passed so my dad can't even smoke in a bowling alley now. It's rather stupid.
