crows mate for life, dude.: cincodenada: victorymightbefire: i’ll tell you what though, nothing…
i’ll tell you what though, nothing makes me want to keep smoking more than self-righteous non-smokers.
it is not okay to just run around calling people repulsive, bro.
“why would you do anything that increases your risk of cancer?!?!?!”
um i don’t…
I get less self righteous and more triggery.
Look, it might be comparable to coffee for y’all, but I get to see my dad eat through a tube in his stomach every evening and have to go to the hospital to make sure his throat cancer hasn’t come back.
Seeing people smoke just brings me back to me as a college student wailing over my computer monitor, tryng to finish a essay, wishing I was back home, worrying that I might not be able to come back to my dad still alive.
I don’t know my father’s grandfather because he died of the same cancer when I was three. Also a smoker. I’m told he would have loved me, and during my graduation he would have been hollering and making me embarrassed as all hell.
I have yet to see Coffee cause a similar circumstance in my family.
I’m watching Pepsi consume the brain of my fiance’s father. he was an accountant, non-smoker, non-alcoholic his entire life, but he drank a lot of Pepsi. and now he’s rapidly declining into a horrific case of dementia. that said, I don’t even tell my fiance to put the soda down. he knows how I feel about it and he’s easing off of it for his own reasons.
my heart broke more than a little reading your story. don’t get me wrong, I don’t look at chain smokers and think that they’re choosing health. I have members of my family who also passed away from lung cancer. (I also have a grandmother I never met who, like your grandfather, supposedly would have adored me. she died from breast cancer. it sucks.)
but if judging people for putting chemicals in their body is acceptable, then I think the point of this post (or my addition to it at least) was that the list of substances should be a lot longer than cigarettes (or marijuana).
I mean, long story short, everything is terrifying.