I fucking hate smoking with every ounce of my being
I come from an area where over half of the population are smokers. Parents are completely OK smoking around their kids, and exposing them to second-hand smoke AND IT'S FUCKING NORMALIZED. This is genuinely disgusting. And when their kids start smoking at 14, parents don't give a shit. 90% of stores have zero issue selling cigarettes to people who are CLEARLY MINORS. And not to talk about the fact that if you enter a cafe or some other enclosed public area, half of the time it would reek of cigarette smoke, DESPITE SMOKING IN ENCLOSED AREAS BEING ILLEGAL.
I've openly hated smoking ever since I was a child. I've been trying to get my mother to quit, but she never wanted to. It took me 8-9 months to get my bf off cigarettes, and even then he started doing zyns, which is still not good, but acceptable.
Governments don't ban dangerous and highly addictive substances like nicotine, and it still puzzles me how cigarettes are fully legal (and even super cheap where I live).. other than, it gives the stupid government more money. THEY DON'T CARE ABOUT THE PEOPLE'S WELLBEING. ALL THEY CARE ABOUT IS MONEY. All they do is slap a disgusting image of a sick person on cigarette packs and a warning. What has that done? Absolutely nothing. Has any smoker ever even quit just by looking at these images?
I really don't get why people even start smoking in the first place, if they know they'll have increased risk of lung cancer, or they will struggle more with physical activities due to their lungs being fucked, or smell like shit, waste so much of their money on something COMPLETELY optional and useless.
I don't mean hate towards smokers. Yes, if I see you smoking in public, I might look at you judgementally and run past you, holding my breath and avoiding you at any cost. But I still hang out with smokers (not that I have much of a choice..), but just stay far away from them when they're smoking. I've never been able to tolerate the smell at all. I can always sense a smoker nearby, and it makes me feel nauseous. But anyway, sorry if I offended anyone with this rant. At the end of your day, what you do to your body is entirely your choice, only as long as you don't affect other people. The only smokers I don't vibe with are ones that smoke near other people (ESPECIALLY KIDS) or those who smoke anywhere indoors.