Smokers and weirdos
Let me first say that I have blown away a nice cloud for years, but have not smoked for over 20 years now. During the years that I still vaped, a lot of reproaches were thrown at me by staunch anti-smokers.
Of course every smoker knows that it is better to avoid this addiction for health reasons, but I myself became more than sick of those preachers. After my smoking addiction, I have resolved never or never to bore others with stories about how bad smoking is. Everyone has his or her own responsibility and that's it!
Jokes
Do not have the intention in any way to label the smokers as crazy, but rather a group of people who, according to a report in De Telegraaf, have reported serious abuse by the tobacco industry. The initiators have now collected 600 signatures and hope to receive many more declarations to support a request to the Public Prosecution Service to prosecute the tobacco industry.
According to the initiators, it is demonstrable that substances are added to smoking products that make nicotine work faster to make smokers addicted quickly. In addition, manufacturers add flavors to their smoking products that are also addictive and carcinogenic when burned. The lawyer accuses the industry of malicious intent and premeditation. Everything is aimed at eliminating the smoker's free will, because addiction is the engine of their turnover.
Thinking
Smoking is something you do of your own free will and no one forces you to. Those tobacco guys add flavor. That is put in one word: disgraceful, say the initiators. But don't the beer boys do that? Or do all gins, wines, whiskeys and aperitifs taste the same? Those mixers can also do something about it. And what about the food industry that puts things on the market that do not exactly promote health. And all those fruit drinks with a mountain of sugar added. We don't talk about richly added salt in many products.
Ghosts
In Thailand we all know the famous ghost house. You meet them everywhere and every Thai offers drinks and food daily to appease the spirits. Recently I also saw cigars among the offerings. I wonder what the spirits must think of that after they too are now aware of the initiative group that wants to fight a little with the tobacco world. After all, ghosts are omnipresent and aware of the fact that some people in the Netherlands want to keep that cigar from them. Guess they don't waste a lot of words on it. Already heard one mutter: “Crazy guys.”
The cry: “Spirits of the lands, unite!” was also clearly audible. Be sure that those weirdos won't get a foot on the ground now that the ghosts are also getting involved.
It's those weirdos, as you call them, just to get money and nothing more.
You start smoking of your own free will, no one obliges or forces you to do so, and if you really want to stop, that's fine, you just have to want to.
I smoked heavily myself but have been clean for over 35 years.
I think the biggest culprits are the so-called injury lawyers, who actually only benefit from it. They collect victims in order to benefit themselves from many thousands and perhaps even millions.
I am not a non-smoker, but I think everyone is responsible for their own. Maybe you can't blame the now 70 year old, but everyone else has known for a long time that it's not healthy.
Just the pictures on the packages will make you stop 😉
Yes Joseph,
We are gradually moving towards a world where they will have to ban everything in the long term.
I have also stopped smoking myself, but still eat pre-packaged ham that stays good for 4 weeks, butter that is tasty for 2 months, milk that can even be stored for 6 months and so on.
There is little or no talk about this.
That lawyer will probably also work to legalize weed as I know many here in Belgium.
All laws make the world to the class…………………
I hope for many that their cigarette may taste good.
My Thai wife never smoked and always ate healthy food but died at the age of 51 from cancer. No, she never smoked because I always went outside (this before any reactions come).
It is also not uncommon in Isaan to offer a monk a smoke. Often the offering is even part of the ceremony, I recently noticed a “Tam Boon”. I also stopped. I only smoke cigars. I then took a few boxes of La Paz with me from the Netherlands. Cigars are not cheap. Well, then you're having a beer with the Thais and lighting a cigar. They want to try that too! Two incompetent overtakes further, you don't smoke a cigar over the lungs, bang! I see my cigar hit the floor followed by a large plastic slipper on it. Dirty they say!
That's how I lost a lot of pricey cigars. It's actually a bit blunt to refuse, although I did later on. Then bot. After all, I also have to learn to live with their unpleasant qualities.
Well, I sometimes replenished my stock at the border with Myanmar or in Myanmar itself. You have them there in all kinds. The one thing they all have in common is that they are non-smoking.
In a cheap Thai film production I once saw the villain, villains smoke cigars, again lighting up a cigar. Clearly a Burmese specimen of the large species. The villain, not without humor, said at one point in the B movie after his umpteenth cigar: Don't smoke this stuff!
I have stopped 2 times myself. once for more than 10 years and then deliberately started smoking again.
When my youngest daughter was born, I stopped smoking almost 28 years ago and have never felt the need for anything smokeable again.
I respect the smokers all the more because I know what smoking means. Both my daughters and a lot of friends have tried to quit so many times. I encourage them, but never blame them for being weak or anything. I know from experience how difficult that is. I only make a comment if a smoker (star) consciously or unconsciously blows the smoke in my face and politely ask if they want to blow out another way. Never had any annoying comments, almost always an apology, whether or not accompanied by a laugh or smile.
Let everyone decide for themselves what they want to do and let them be and be polite.
After years of smoking quite a bit, I quit 11 years ago. Because I've had enough of it.
Smokers do this of their own free will, so the cause of the addiction lies entirely with them.
Tobacco products are a legal product
Yes, a nice story Joseph. I also smoked from the age of 13 to 16 and then I saw the light and thought I shouldn't continue with this. I am now retired and still glad I made that choice. Those stories about how cool it was and those cowboys on those big billboards, I soon found out, sound nonsense. It has been known for years that it is addictive and harmful and if you continue, you will have to bear the consequences yourself. As far as I'm concerned, this may also go so far that if one becomes ill and this can be attributed to the need for nicotine, the insurance will no longer cover the costs, because this will ultimately also be the total responsibility of everyone, so that the premiums remain high and have contributed to what they are now.
Or is that the case that if the ghosts get involved, the weirdos won't get a foot on the ground? When the mind is out of the jug, the wisdom is out of the man.
A woman in the USA was paid $ 55 million from a company that produced and marketed talcum powder. The woman had developed cancer from this and apparently she was able to convince the judge of this. I wonder how this affair will end, but it is crazy and crazy.
Nico B
My mother died 49 years old her sister 38 years lung and throat cancer worked together in a brown
cafe my youngest brother who I never knew had to come along because there was no shelter in his crib at that time
has died has been covered up discovered after the death of my mother that I also had a little brother
that had died of lung disease, it was not determined at that time which one, no one was allowed to know.
Always wanted to do sports in the school but I could not walk or play football for a long time. I was referred to the doctor
a specialist was then 16 years old and he told me that I had to stop smoking immediately I still had
never smoked? Your lungs are completely affected (mother smoked an average of 2 packs of
green michel or gitanes without filter) Smokers are silent killers for me, the specialist told me that
must be second-hand smoke the victims, but father state makes a profit twice that tax they receive and
many people will not be able to retire for too long, again a profit!
That you smoke of your own free will is of course only partially true.
An addiction is not something that everyone can get rid of easily.
And advertising is always strongly aimed at young people, with the aim of helping young people to overcome their addiction as quickly as possible. (Until government measures increasingly began to prohibit this)
Cigarette manufacturers had also known for years that their products were extremely bad for health.
Except perhaps for respiratory infections, because the viruses and bacteria in the respiratory tract also did not survive the cigarette smoke.
In my view, this turns the cigarette manufacturers into criminal organizations whose drivers should be imprisoned for life.
I would like to add something ladies and gentlemen living in Thailand and regularly touring on the motorbike or taking a ride by bicycle and even the sporting joggers in hua hin suck their lungs full on the petsakem then you do not have to smoke because then there is a good chance that you can also get that nasty disease because a lot of people die of cancer here too, but that is not surprising when you see what those mainly old pickups and buses have emissions, that does not make you happy. Apk does exist on paper but that's all, maybe send an email to the Ministry of Health.
Cigarettes are deliberately addictive substances added. Not alcoholic drinks.
The whole story is flawed. Shame. Unsuccessful attempt.
I've smoked like a heretic since I was 13 and I've been drinking like, yes, like what since I was 16. (beer + spirits) I smoked after my Father's insistence (I can't believe it now) because now I was a man. Different times then. Haven't smoked or drunk for 25 years now and don't talk about it either. You smoke and drink of your own free will, you can start or stop at any time. Voluntarily.
I completely agree with you. You start smoking completely voluntarily and surely for the last 50 years people have been told how bad it was. I have therefore never been able to understand that in the USA they started to sue the tobacco industry. I also smoked a lot, but when I started at the age of 15 my parents already said it was bad. that I smoked until I was 40 was my own responsibility. Because I certainly knew how bad it was.
Soon the type 2 diabetic will sue the food industry for overeating, or the alcohol industry, or the fries business, and so on. I really think it's crazy.
Even the pictures and texts on cigarettes really don't stop a die-hard smoker from lighting up a butt.
Someone once calculated that a day of wandering on the streets of Bangkok is equivalent to 2 packs of cigarettes. However, you are not allowed to smoke on the street in Bangkok. Apparently there is a maximum of 2 packs per day!