Hello fellow smokers, this is another post from Adrian Ianno. As you may know, this is a blog of divided individuals on the topic of smoking on campus. I personally, am all for smoking on campus. I do not think that you should take away someones right to smoke outdoors, especially at a college. If students are anything during the school year, it is STRESSED. Smoking helps some students deal with that stress, and the fact that the school is causing us even more stress by making us walk to a bus shelter to have a cigarette, is kind of backwards if you ask me. Also, throw in the fact that if you are brave enough to walk on campus while smoking a cigarette, there is the risk of being ticketed and/or hassled by the rent-a-cop's they call security. These guys are either extremely rude to you when they do catch you, or they make you listen to all of their "cool stories." Personally, I'm not one to be rude and cut a guy off when he's trying to tell me something, but when some of the security guards get going about their past experiences or lectures on smoking at the bus shelters only, it's really hard not to. I'm sorry, but I graduated from elementary school and high school, and am now an adult who has rights and actually paid a lot of money to be here. I don't like being told what to do, especially when what I'm doing is not breaking any laws. All of these things cause unnecessary stress for students like me, and all I'm saying is that these issues could have easily been avoided had school done their homework like they expect us to do all the time. Thanks for reading.
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Hi there Adrian. After reading your concerns about all the hassles of smoking on campus such as the school making you walk to a bus stop, which by the way I think is not backwards in the slightest. If you want to harm your body then by all means go right ahead, do not let others suffer for your (arguably bad) decisions. My response is: if it is such a problem, just stop smoking.
ReplyDeleteYes quitting smoking can be incredibly difficult but in the end you save yourself so much STRESS as you seem to have so much already. Half of your stress is BECAUSE you crave a cigarette. There are a plethora of ways to reduce stress many of which do not harm you or anyone else. Using stress to justify smoking is flat out moronic, you cause yourself so many more problems(a.k.a stress) later down the road. It's taking a car that runs on regular petrol and filling it with diesel instead. Sure it might get you home, but the engine WILL cease to run eventually. Just like smoking. Yes you may feel more relaxed but the long term effects, such as:
acute bronchitis
asthma
blood vessel disease
diabetes
heart attack
pneumonia
and cancers beyond belief
just to name a few, will cause you pain and discomfort.
So the next time you complain about stress realize that your are bringing it upon yourself, and that the rest of the general public would appreciate it if you kept it that way.
(not to mention you smokers stink after)
Thanks for the reply Dylan Rev, however everything that you have said is irrelevant. The fact is, people smoke. No one is telling you to smoke, so by the same respect, you have no right to tell people not to smoke. Obviously you are not a smoker, which is why I wouldn't expect someone like you to understand(not to mention, you are kind of rude). But this is good, people like you are good for my blog. I encourage people like yourself that have nothing better to do then to come onto my blog and post your arguments towards what I have to say. By the way, there are postings in this blog that will favor your "perception" on smoking. I encourage you to read and post comments to those blogs as well.
ReplyDeleteHey there Adrian,
DeleteFirst off, for you Adrian, anything. Just as a response to your reply:
"everything that you have said is irrelevant." Quite the contrary. Your blog post was about stress (minus a tangent about the security on campus) and how it you use it as a means to justify smoking. I merely stated some "stressful" facts about the long term effects of smoking and how if one is going to complain about having too much stress, one should rethink about what they are doing to themselves that will cause even more down the road.
"The fact is, people smoke. No one is telling you to smoke, so by the same respect, you have no right to tell people not to smoke." Yes, I realize people smoke, and I realize you are not telling me to start. On the flip side, I was not TELLING you to stop smoking, I giving you a helpful solution to your supposedly massive list of problems being a smoker.
"Obviously you are not a smoker, which is why I wouldn't expect someone like you to understand(not to mention, you are kind of rude)." You are absolutely correct on this one. I am not a smoker and could my post have been better worded? Maybe, but I will be damned if I take back any of what I said. But alas, I do not understand. I don't understand how someone could have the audacity to complain about the hardships of being a smoker while the solution to every single one of said problems is to just stop.
"...people like yourself that have nothing better to do then to come onto my blog and post your arguments towards what I have to say." Let me just pull something from the very first post that was on this blog:
"We encourage your feedback on all posts and look forward to what you have to say... "
I read your post, I replied to the post with what I had to say and that was the end of that. With your negative, not to mention condescending statement, it is clear you would rather me NOT do what was asked of me. But no problems here. You will NOT see me here again.
Your appalled, and frankly insulted friend,
Dylan