Okay, I've tried to word this in as least a condescending way as possible, but I'm afraid it will still come across as arrogant. So be it.
I still enjoy smoking very much. Why would I quit doing something that I enjoy, even if it has bad health effects?
You just gave the answer yourself - because it has bad health effects (not to mention poisoning everyone else's precious air). There are things that most of us would enjoy doing 24/7 if we could, but we don't do them because we've already learned that the fleeting period of fake "pleasure" is not worth the misery that would ultimately ensue, or the negative consequences it would have for others. Some people like gambling, but most people are clever enough not to get sucked in to it because they know it is an empty future, a worthless dream, contantly chasing a phantom dopamine buzz. Addiction to gambling leads to social degradation, as do all mindless habituations. If you're going to try and defend your bad habits by saying that you're not going to give them up because you enjoy them, then don't come whining to the rest of the world about feeling depressed and hard done by.
Also, I think you'll find that most people who smoke
say they enjoy it, but they don't really. That "enjoyment" is simply illusory, since it arises from the
cessation of the craving for nicotine (and the psychological fix of sucking on a tit made of rolled paper and leaves, the equivalent of sucking your thumb and rocking yourself to sleep).
Smokers are just slaves to the tobacco industry (who really don't give a fuck about you and your health) and of course the government, who skim the cream off of the revenue generated. They don't care about you. They don't care if you get cancer, emphysema, asthma, high blood pressure, stroke, gangrene, malnutrition etc. The money they make more than covers the health bills. Whilst smokers pour money in to the government coffers by willingly poisoning their bodies - making tobacco addicts nothing more than disposable money harvesters - the empire of shit flourishes happily, and the super-rich elite laugh at suckers like you who are willing to sacrifice their health for some faceless corporation's wealth.
JackiesBabyy said:
I enjoy drinking pepsi. It's been well established that pepsi is horrible for you, but I enjoy it, so I'm not going to stop unless I develop diabetes or another condition that forces me to.
So you're going to wait until you're fucked over to decide that a particular course of action was born of utter stupidity? Diabetes isn't just not being able to eat sugary foods. It is a condition which causes system-wide problems, many of which will inevitably be devastating to the health and happiness of the individual with the condition. I've personally witnessed a family member decline in health in horrendous ways - and finally die - because of diabetes. It's no joke.
Again, don't go crying to your doctor if you haven't even bothered to take the necessary pre-emptive action to prevent problems
whilst being fully aware that your habits will lead to such problems. You remind me of the kind of person who spends themselves in to ridiculous debt and then goes and tries to sue the credit card companies. Or smokers who get lung cancer and then think they have the god given right to sue the tobacco companies. Some folk aren't even aware that what they are eating or drinking may be detrimental to their wellness, but are at least willing to listen to those who inform them otherwise. It's the people who
do know, but guffaw "fuck it, you only live once" who irritate me.
Knowingly treating youself with disrespectful abandon is the highest insult to all other beings who share the universe with you. It's the equivalent of hiring a rental car for a month, driving like a prick and doing loads of handbrake turns and generally smashing the shit out of it, and then returning it to the rental company with a smile on your face.
JackiesBabyy said:
I'd rather live to be 50 doing all the things I love than live to 80 always worrying about what's healthy and what isn't.
And that includes poisoning yourself intentionally? What a waste. This is the reason the world is in the state it's in today. I call it 'Garbage Culture', a culture of unparallelled greed and squander. Huge piles of domestic trash littering landscapes across the world, an unsustainable addiction to oil, strip mining of the planet's resources just so people can have their five minutes of fame before they move on to the next consumable object like barbarious trolls with ADHD. We're witnessing ecological devastation on a scale never seen before in milennia of human history, and it's because of people's stupidity.
You may realize once you've grown up a bit that happiness isn't necessarily in chasing the next high, and that actually, such behaviour only leaves you with a mountain of mess to clean up afterwards. It's not even about how long you live. It's about the quality of life in that time. Do you want to spend the last few decades of your life in and out of hospital with circulatory disorders and ulcers, just becuase your youthful self wanted to rebel? I think you'll find most older folks who have smoked for a good portion of their lives will tell you that the shitty effects are not even slightly worth the slight buzz you may get from a lifetime of fulfilling nicotine cravings. You will never understand the pain and suffering of a critical health condition until it hits you right in the face.
Nobody's even saying you have to
worry about what's healthy and what's not. If you engage in discovering what leads to wellness, it's not even a chore. It's certainly not difficult to find such things out for yourself.