I picked up smoking when I was 15, and I still do. It disgusts me that people think its ok to be rude to smokers. Probably once a month I have someone ask me to put out a cigarette, and I usually tell them to fuck off. The other day someone working at Starbucks told me I couldn't smoke at the outside table next to the door. I told him to call the police. We all have habits that piss other people off. I for one, hate fat people. It doesn't mean I say "Oh could you please go be fat farther away from me please? Its really disgusting". I personally think second hand smoke is stupid. Its ridiculous how much they can charge for smokes just because they're bad for you. America was built on tobacco. Like literally, the original colonies would have had 0% chance of survival, tobacco was their only cash crop. Here's a good example, I hate the smell of clove cigarettes, HATE it, makes me want to puke. And you know what? I FUCKING DEAL. If someone wants to smoke a clove next to me, I DON'T FUCKING CARE, ITS NOT THAT BIG OF A DEAL. People these days are just such huge pussy's it astounds me.
I also think that tobacco itself doesn't give you cancer, and thats a common misconception. Now, tobacco will give you emphesema, chronic bronchitus, other things, but its the shit that goes into tobacco at cigarette companies that gives you the cancer. I reckon if you grew and rolled your own tobacco you wouldn't get cancer, its all the Uranium and rat poison that goes into it.
Oh, I smoke weed too. Its ridiculous that its illegal but honestly it doesn't bother me much because I smoke it like 6 times a day anyway, in my car, at school, at work, walking down the street, whatever, so it doesn't make much of a difference to me that it is. However medical usage is a basic human right and needs to be legalized immediately for the sake of the people that actually need it. I also drive high every day and its fine.
I'll quit cigarettes when I move out of LA, too many of my friends here smoke. I'll quit weed when I have a kid.....maybe.