I'm indifferent. We could go that direction with anything that is not healthy. Alcohol, junk food, etc. But I like that I live in a free country and they have the choice. It's up to them.

Growing up with a chain-smoking father, I thought this painting over the fireplace showed a Michigan farm in the Fall. It was glazed umber from tars and nicotine from Dad's cigarettes.

I had it professionally cleaned after a dryer fire. Lo and behold, it is a farm scene in winter.

Was thinking the same thing recently… To me, smoking is a form of slow sucicide.. Literally burning out your body ..and your one chance at life.

I’ll about ‘give it to’ those who began decades ago, before the ‘serotonin reuptake inhibitors’ became readily available. I now notice how anxious or paranoid smokers appear, assuming they should be on medication..

Someone recently pointed out how expensive cigarettes have become! Go ‘sin tax?’ Smoking saddens, and sickens me. We need a health system in my nation that helps smokers stop, and a government that no longer subsidizes tobacco.

Making them illegal won't work, but I believe what you're saying is you wish they were just not in existence anymore.

I'm with you!

I'm kind of apathetic to their continued use. Their life, their choice, not my problem. Ever since Iowa passed its Clean Air Act 11 years, ago, I've been able to enjoy smoke free bars and restuarants so I could finally go sing karaoke and go hear live music without a ton of secondhand smoke. The right side won for once, then it was no longer affecting me.

I agree - I saw my father suffer from COPD and emphaseyma - now someone else I love is suffering from chain smoking. I swore I would never get involved with a tobacco smoker after surviving leukemia -possibly from 2nd hand smoke. Why did the cig companies make it so addictive? MONEY AND GREED!

E-cigs have a new generation addicted to nicotine.

With all we know about how smoking causes cancer, I don't understand why anyone takes up smoking.

My father was a chain-smoker: he lit each cigarette from the last. At 16, I refused to join a family trip from Michigan to Colorado because I couldn't stand being cooped up in a car with Dad's cigarette smoke.

In the third grade, I vowed never to smoke. Dad died of cancer at age 51.

Many are addicted lack of real help

Cigarettes didn't become popular until World War I, when they were issued with soldier's rations. Prior to that time, they were seen as 'effeminate'.In the 1920's the tobacco companies embarked on mass-advertising campaigns, to boost cigarette sales.They succeeded, at least until the 1970s, when consumers started becoming more health-conscious. I've often wondered why the tobacco industry doesn't just switch over to marijuana? As legalization spreads, it would be the common-sense thing to do! The makers of 'Camels' could adapt a new logo, featuring a very stoned camel smoking a 'blunt'!

Too many people make money off them... I don't smoke at all... I like oxygen...

Because they evolve to survive in an ever changing world.

yeah, that would be nice. It took me many years and a couple of heart attacks to put them away. they are a cancer. literally.