So is it weedless Wednesday or butt out the cigarette day ? I can’t give up both on the same day.

But keep on drinking away folks, nothing to worry about with booze.

What does booze have to do with quitting smoking?

@JB they’re equally bad for your health but the government makes too much from tax on booze to encourage is to quit drinking.

Money that goes right back to healthcare to treat you from your smoking illness.

This article is about smoking. I do understand that people sometimes get defensive about smoking and like to point out all the other things that are bad for you. Not really sure why.

Booze is much worse for your health. No spouse has been killed or abused because someone smoked a cig, but due to alcohol….

Booze vs cigs – if I drink a bottle of beer at my table, and you smoke a cigarette at yours, I also smoke a cigarette, but you don’t drink any beer – that’s the difference. You are quite correct, no wife has been beaten by a guy smoking cigarettes, but she’s had her lungs pretty much cooked from the second hand smoke – as well as the kids in the home, so not sure what’s worse, a back hand to the face, or inhaling smoke, but I’d venture neither are optimal. There has even been a study showing parents who smoke outside, the toxins still seep from their skin and affect the children.

That said, I say, smoke and drink away, and enjoy yourself, because studies have shown that the taxes smokers and drinkers pay, do pretty much cover the cost of their extra health care, and, their early deaths, ease pressure on the pension plans, ease pressure on the health care system (they don’t use it as long) leaving more for non-smoking, moderate drinkers like me.

P Val, your statement that “No spouse has been killed or abused because someone smoked a cig” isn’t entirely accurate!

People have become ill and have died as a result of exposure to second hand smoke. Some might consider ongoing exposure to second hand smoke as a form of abuse!

A spouse and the children of a heavy smoker might very likely be continually exposed to second hand smoke and the ill effects of it! Subjecting your loved ones to this could be seen as a form of abuse, especially of the spouse or children become ill, and what if they succumb to their illness?

My comment might be a bit of a stretch, but it’s probably a bit more accurate!

I get what you be getting at hart guy :)

” There has even been a study showing parents who smoke outside, the toxins still seep from their skin and affect the children.”
Yeah, okay, don’t think I’ll buy in to this one. Non smokers and scientists tend to go just a tad overboard on this subject. Dad quit smoking the day before he died. He was 102. Quitting killed him, LOL.

Here’s the link to the study done by San Diego State University. The issue is the smoke particles are in the hair, skin, and clothes of the smoker, and then transferred to the children when the smoker makes contact with them, so, smoking outside is better, just not perfect.

“Nicotine, a major ingredient of secondhand smoke, can be detected in the dust and air inside the homes of smokers who deliberately go outside for a puff. Children in such homes have up to eight times more nicotine in their bodies than the offspring of non-smokers1.”

http://www.nature.com/news/2004/040224/full/news040223-3.html

Smokers cause fires. Drunk smokers probably cause more per capita.