Is it normal - no sympathy for ill smokers

Whether they're terminally ill, cancer, breathing problems, or even a slight sickness I don't have sympathy for smokers.
The dumbfucks were educated on the negative effects, yet decided to do so anyway despite knowing nothing good will come from it.
is it normal I have not a shred of sympathy?

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63% Normal
Based on 99 votes (62 yes)
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Comments ( 43 )
  • Alice97

    It's normal, but be careful not to judge. I agree it's irresponsible to smoke when you know the consequences, but it isn't my place to judge someone when I haven't lived their life.

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  • Most people die a long, drawn-out, messy, painful death whether or not they smoke. They're not going to have any sympathy for you, either. Besides, who would want someone so cold and heartless around them when they are sick or dying anyway?

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    • Smokers die earlier and more painfully, and it's their fault. If you think acknowledging someone's fault makes me cold/heartless then go ahead. If one is told not to stick his hand in the fire, crying over his burnt hand is a waste of tears, especially if he is willingly keeping his hand in that same fire!

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      • What about your faults? Maybe it would be better to focus on your own faults instead of the faults of others.

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      • RoyRogers

        Thats kind of like saying you dont have sympathy for fat people who drink soda.

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      • Arm0se

        So you're telling me you never touched the stove even though you knew it was hot? I call bullshit. Curiosity is a hell of a thing, man.

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  • Steve2!

    Perfectly normal. If someone is stupid enough to smoke a dangerous drug, then their death is simply Darwinism in action.

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    • thegypsysailor

      Oh boy. You are parroting me again. I can fully understand why you do it, considering your IQ is barely 80, but really, try really really hard to come up with one, single original thought before you die. OK?

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      • Steve2!

        So I'm supposed to never use a single word or phrase that has been used by you in a past comment?

        Okay, um...shit. Uh...I can't use "the", or um...wait, how about "I", no. That's a no go, as well...Uuuuhhhh...

        Do you have any ideas? Even with my 99th percentile IQ, I can't figure out a way around this.

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        • thegypsysailor

          You couldn't find your way out of a paper bag, with your IQ. You are almost as smart as Dubya. Impressive!

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          • anti-hero

            I don't like Steve but let's clear a few things up.

            The expression is fight your way out of a wet paper bag. It is about lack of fighting skills not intelligence.

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  • derpyderp

    You think most people dying from the effects were educated when they started smoking?

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    • Yeah, unless we're getting into something like 70 y/o territory.

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  • uglyfridge

    I don't believe that there are only people who do feel bad for sick addicts and heartless monsters. There is a good reason to not feel bad for someone who is hurting themselves but in my case, I don't feel sorry for what they had done to themselves, but I do feel bad about what caused them to do it in the first place. A lot of people who smoke, use drugs, drink alcohol etc are people with problems. They try to cover them up this way. I wish I could help them with the primary problem. If they quit addiction after that, it would be great.

    There is also this problem about smoking that it affects people around such person. It could literally, physically make someone else sick. That's why I appreciate people who only smoke in areas where it's allowed, and avoid smoking in buildings, at home, in a car etc. If you smoke at home, even long after you move out, people who will live there are in danger of getting sick... That's why smoking is the addiction I especially hate, and why I can relate to you in a way.

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  • Tnaum

    Do you feel the same way about those who abuse medications, self harm, or drink heavily? If not than your logic is flawed.

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    • I look down on such irresponsible behaviours.

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  • Chadjtee

    Smoking is dumb in it's own sense, yes indeed. But, to say that a smoker is dumb overall because he or she smokes is a fallacy. WE all do dumb things yes that much is very true, but one dumb thing does not infect our entire beings. I'am capable of building a robot or anything for things beyond that matter; but yet I merely smoke a pack a day. You see, having that ideology that you're housing is the same as housing a racist ideology, why: because you;re stereotyping an entire kind into one segment. You know who smoke? Albert Einstein, I could name more, but, his name holds enough matter.

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  • Ellenna

    When I started smoking more than 50 years ago there was no education about its harmful effects and by the time that became common knowledge I was well and truly addicted.

    And you'll be pleased to know that after finally giving up I had a heart attack and was then diagnosed with COPD emphysema. I'm angry that I believed the Quit campaign lies that a smoker's body returns to normal after a certain length of time off the smokes: not necessarily true, I know people diagnosed with COPD decades after they quit.

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    • mysistersshadow

      You started smoking over 50 years ago? That explains a few things about how you've been posting today. Some people age gracefully others get bitter and nasty. I guess I can understand your torment but I don't see any need to take it out on me I don't think until today I ever said a word against you.

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      • Ellenna

        What on earth does the age at which I began smoking have to do with whether or not I agree with you on various issues? I don't get your reference to torment either, or the fact that apparently I'm not allowed to disagree with you unless you've first written something against me?

        You wouldn't happen to be a defensive nicotine addict by any chance?

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        • mysistersshadow

          I haven't run across any one my grandmother's age that understands what its like to be young now. So now it all makes sense if you don't read my replies in the same order you wrote yours your completely lost as to what I could possibility be talking about.

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          • Ellenna

            Relevance? You're quite right, I don't know what you're talking about, but that's not necessarily my fault so let's leave it at that now

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            • mysistersshadow

              Leave it where ever you want you won't be able to find it again.

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          • Ellenna

            Your message just came through again when I've already replied weeks back: any idea why?

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            • mysistersshadow

              No. Its been a weird 24 hours lots of movement behind the curtain.

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  • RoseIsabella

    Sounds like you're wasting too much time and energy on this whole mess.

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  • roxandham

    I'd much rather be in the presence of dying, sick smokers than a heartless worm like you. People make mistakes and shit happens, smoking is great for the mind in a way. Anyways maybe you should lighten up and have a smoke..

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    • Ellenna

      Smoking is NOT "good for the mind": it's an addiction and any addiction is bad for the mind

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      • roxandham

        I said "in a way" for a reason lady.

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        • Ellenna

          What way would that be?

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          • roxandham

            Smoking is like a stress ball for certain people. From my smoking years I remember it calming me down a lot, making me feel better. Obviously it's temporary and soon enough you have a new reason to smoke. Still, in those very desperate moments a cigarette is great. When my mother died and I was lost, panicked, overwhelmed by new feelings I didn't understand, smoking really did ease the pain momentarily. That's all I needed at the time to get through. So when I say it's good for the mind, this is what I mean.

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            • Ellenna

              Nicotine is actually a stimulant, not a calminative. The reason why a smoke calms you is that it relieves the withdrawal symptoms which have built up since the last cigarette. Like any addiction, it masks negative feelings which often all come pouring out when people quit, then can't deal with them and start smoking again. That is NOT good for the mind and grief counselling would've been a better option for you than tobacco.

              And of course it's definitely not good for the body given that half of all smokers die of a smoking related condition, often decades after they quit.

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  • thegypsysailor

    Some of us got into tobacco before the dangers were made public. Hell, the US government GAVE cigarettes to GI's, free. It was cool to smoke and almost everybody did it. At home, in a store, in the movies and even on a plane! There are still ashtrays in airplane seat dividers on some older planes.
    So some of us got hooked on the most addictive substance in existence and were left to twirl in the wind when the dangers were made public.
    I don't want your useless sympathy or inane pity. Just shut your fucking uneducated and ignorant mouth because you are only showing your stupidity.

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    • imp

      shut up BITCH before I take down your OP. I am your master you had better get on your knees real quick and start suckin...

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      • thegypsysailor

        What a chicken shit reply. Like you could get anybody but a crack whore to go down on you and even then you wouldn't have a clue what to do.
        You delete my replies; I delete your thread, asshole.

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        • ChuckFiIdren

          "You delete my replies; I delete your thread, asshole."

          Then do it already, dumbfuck.
          What's that? You already tried? but...it doesn't seem deleted to me.

          Looks like there's no rule against hurting the feelings of some whiny old cunt.
          Get a grip, loser.

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          • thedog

            I take it you're a friend of littlegirlrapedandsodomized?
            8chan? Sounds like you've both similar 'tastes'. What do you get from reporting posts and trolling on this rotted old husk of a site, anyway? It's the subjugation and domination, right?
            This is a preemptive "cool your tits", I'm not being antagonistic, we're just having a light conversation here.
            I hold no ill will toward either you or your friend; people, of your type, are often quite entertaining.

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