Reply #37: Best way to stop is to never start. [View All]

[frustrated_lefty]

I'm a smoker, and will probably end up stopping when they pry that last burning cancer stick from my cold, dead hands.

It's a nasty, vile habit, though, and every time some kid asks to bum a smoke, I tell them "no" and give a longass lecture on why they shouldn't be smoking.

While rabid, holier-than-thou anti-smokers annoy the hell out of me, I understand where you're coming from. I just think your efforts might be better devoted towards preventing a new generation of smokers from coming to be than by doing the exaggerated cough right in the face of a diehard, chainsmoker twice your age.