Why a star rating for smoking! O stars in my opinion (Smoking in general)

Member Name: mizzy

Product:	Smoking in general
Date:	25/05/09 (58 review reads)
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Advantages: Government gets money from it

Disadvantages: IT KILLS YOU!!!!

As a flute player, I hate smoking and being around smokers. I find that because I am reliant on my lungs for a career, I am a lot more sensitive to second hand smoke than my other non smoker friends.

Smoking provides the government with a lot of tax money, however they spend loads of the nhs on smoking related illnesses. If the government were to ban the sale of cigarettes then I would have to pay more tax. I dont want to do that, its up to people whether they want to smoke or not. However they run the risk of developing all sorts of illnesses.

Obviously there are all the cancers of mouth, throat, stomach and lungs. There are also things that I would not want to happen to me, such as increased wrinkles, cats bum mouth, yellow fingers, and that awful gravelly voice that you hear in the voice of seasoned smokers.

I think smoking is disgusting, and the pictures now shown on cigarette packets dont seem to be doing anything, as my friends who smoke are still smoking.

I have no idea how you could convince the massive to stop smoking as it is an addiction, everyone knows the dangers but yet they still do it. Any suggestions?

Summary: why do people do it?