Smoking at a young age.

[NBK*Twitch]

I personally wouldn't recommend either weed or cigarettes. Both have their own addictive properties (psychological or physiological) and both do nothing but destroy your bodies.

I know from personal experience with cigarettes, so anybody who can, should quit.

Uhmm I am sorry,but weed does not destroy your body... If it did you would hear of deaths from weed and weed only.

It is really a great natural herb with many medicinal uses. Do not get me wrong though there is known side effects such as paranoia.

 

[Branden]

It is a total waste of money. You will spend a couple thousand dollars a year on cigarettes. Is that really worth it?

You are basically paying to kill yourself...

 

[CMSVisuals]

Haha, I really should not pike in here but I am going to. Everyone that says weed has absolutely no side effects and is just a healthy herb is full of SH*T! Same goes for cigarettes. There hurting you in some way if it be mentally or physically.

Your outcome with the use of drugs varies widely on your genetics & family history. Some people can live for ever using cigarettes and die at an old age of some other cause not related to cigarettes. However, some people die fast because cancer already runs in their family and this is giving it a bigger trigger. It all depends on how susceptible you are to certain illnesses.

 

[dballerp]

IMO, most smokers now a days start from too much stress or depression. Lets be clear: smoking is no longer cool or uncool.

Honestly if you're having family issues and what-not, talk with your family and/or psychologist and make an effort to resolve it. Starting smoking means you'd rather be killing yourself than resolve an issue.

Like the taste of it: suck on a popsticle. Same taste (according to my friend who smokes)

To the OP: I want to clarify you are going to accept your poor health, family issues, problems, lack of exercise and other things, despite being resolvable.

I'm fine with being around smokers, but hate the smjoke

EDIT: Again, make an attempt to quit or admit you are killing yourself. Think of my situation, once i heard i had to get surgery, i was scared to death and would do anything not to have it. If i didn't have it, i would be killing myself too. Same with smoking. Always remember, it will be a long and painful process, but than you get to live your life longer

 

[shadow_death_]

I have nO problem with it, as long as i don't have to do it. It honestly can be helpful to some people, but it is quite unhealthy.

 

[Yeshua]

I have never smoked a cigarette and I never will. I'll pass on getting lung cancer, thanks. I pass on weed as well. True what they say, it's a gateway drug. I've had some good friends who went down the drug path after starting down a path towards getting addiction to worse drugs. Same deal with my brother. He was physically abused by our father, and he started smoking cigarettes at age 15. He later started smoking weed, but eventually got involved with the wrong crowds in high school and got addicted to heroin and cocaine. It's one of the main reasons I'm choosing a straight edge lifestyle; I wouldn't want to go through what my brother went through for a good five years.

 

[Gimgak]

You sure it wasn't the abuse + wrong crowd that got him addicted to the bad sheet, not the weed? I've never touched anything apart from part since I completely stopped smoking any cigs.

 

[Antarctic]

Yeah, pretty sure it wasn't the weed that got him addicted to coke and heroin, they are completely different drugs to weed. It's stupid when people try and blame weed for people moving onto those drugs.

 

[Hobbies230]

Don't wanna get too involved in this topic, but weed is without doubt a "gateway" drug. Not saying that everyone that does it will get into more hardcore stuff, nor am I speaking about its effects/healthiness, all I'm saying is that people who do choose to smoke marijuana DO have a much higher chance of getting involved in harder drugs.

Do other forces such as the wrong crowd increase the risk? Of course, but I think it's completely and utterly foolish to say that weed has no influence on their decision to do worse.

 

[Gimgak]

That's fine if you believe that. But in that case cigarettes and alcohol are the exact same thing, as is Aspirin if it makes you feel good.

 

[Deleted member 1609]

Don't wanna get too involved in this topic, but weed is without doubt a "gateway" drug. Not saying that everyone that does it will get into more hardcore stuff, nor am I speaking about its effects/healthiness, all I'm saying is that people who do choose to smoke marijuana DO have a much higher chance of getting involved in harder drugs.

It is true that the number of people who use marijuana and use other drugs is higher in terms of numbers, but correlation is not causation.

 

[NBK*Twitch]

Haha, I really should not pike in here but I am going to. Everyone that says weed has absolutely no side effects and is just a healthy herb is full of SH*T! Same goes for cigarettes. There hurting you in some way if it be mentally or physically.

Your outcome with the use of drugs varies widely on your genetics & family history. Some people can live for ever using cigarettes and die at an old age of some other cause not related to cigarettes. However, some people die fast because cancer already runs in their family and this is giving it a bigger trigger. It all depends on how susceptible you are to certain illnesses.

No one here has said weed has no side effects. Like I said eariler,a well known side effect is paranoia.We have simply said smoking weed and weed alone has never caused a death. Meaning smoking tons of weed will not kill you. Unlike drinking alot of beer or smoking alot of cigs.

 

[Lorcan]

As a person who works in the Fitness industry, I think that smoking at a young age is appalling, even smoking when you are allowed to is still disgusting in my eyes, I won't allow anyone to smoke in my car or really smoke around me, and I was so happy when the Irish government brought in the law to stop smoking in bars and restaurants.

 

[AnAccount]

One thing is confusing me, though: How is smoking weed a healthier alternative to smoking cigarettes? I thought they were both the same thing or at least similar?

 

[Antarctic]

One thing is confusing me, though: How is smoking weed a healthier alternative to smoking cigarettes? I thought they were both the same thing or at least similar?

Weed and Cigarettes are completely different, if you don't know what Marijuana is look it up.

Anyway, some of the differences is Tobacco has a high tar content, Marijuana contains tar, so does everything else which is burned, but at a much lower level, and users of Marijuana only smoke a cone every now and then if you are a social user, if you are a daily user you probably smoke a few cones a day, even if you are a daily users a pack of cigarettes compared to a few cones is a huge difference in tar levels.

As well as that the Tobacco industry uses lots of additives in their cigarettes, some reasons are to make it more addictive, not burn so fast, stay alight etc etc, therefore you are getting a lot of toxic chemicals, where as Marijuana heads are just straight from the plant and no extras added.

Say if you were to smoke pure tobacco, it would be very harsh, but better for you than cigarettes you buy in stores because there are no additives added.

So in reality, Tobacco isn't the problem which is killing people all of the additives etc added to cigarettes is killing people, Tobacco is still 100 times worse than weed anyway so it's just a healthier choice, and gives you a great buzz, not only socially but it really enhances you mind and makes you think.

 

[CMSVisuals]

No one here is talking about all the crap that they use to grow the weed. That is what makes it bad for you.

 

[mancala1964]

Quit now. When you are older you'll want to quit but wont be able to. I've seen it time and time again.

 

[AnAccount]

Okay, I think it's time I told you something here. When I entered my freshman year of high school (grade 9) we ended up losing our principal to lung cancer (I think that's what it was, anyway) the details of this are very dim in my mind, but I seem to recall someone saying that he was a smoker, which is why he ended up going right away. Not the best year in high school, that's for sure. Not sure how old he was at the time, and I only met him once when I was in middle school when we were registering for HS classes, it's sad all the same to lose someone like him to something like that. He was a very well-liked man, and a lot of the kids (specially sophomores right down to seniors) all loved him. It's a shame; he had so much going for him and he was seriously well liked and no doubt was many students' favorite principals, and yeah. So, morale of the story here is that smoking does in fact kill. You could be like this HS principal was and be the most well liked person alive, but yeah.

 

[death180]

Cigarettes don't kill, the side effects kill.

But the thing is, you can get cancer without smoking too, everything that you get from cigarettes you can also get elsewhere.

Just putting out there..

 

[Poopy Head]

I'll never smoke, but I think smoking at a young age is very weird. Although most people go through parts of their lives where it is their choice to smoke or not, if they want to risk their lives for it.

Hopefully it doesn't happen too much. Many people decide to do it when they get older, but if most people decide to smoke they start younger than they should. I'm not saying that you should smoke at all or anything like that. It's what the cigarettes cause, just like death180 said, that kills you.