I think there used to be a brand of cigarettes called Kool.

Quoted from Paula

I think there used to be a brand of cigarettes called Kool.

ha, I found a website...

http://www.smokerswelcome.com/KOO/dtclogin.jsp?brand=KOO

Kool.

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Bold. Smooth. Fresh.

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i used to smoke, i used to be ignorant.

I think that smoking is DISGUSTING!! Luckily none of my friends are into it, but I just do not see how people think its 'cool' you smell bad, your teeth go disgusting, I just think its just feral and so many people die from smoking, which I think is terrible.

Smoking =  

Well put and well said lil_erin, my young friend

It may not be cool, but it is still a legal activity and I find it really disturbing that so many people are so approving of people's rights being trodden on. I find it really disturbing that a legal activity can be so demonized and yet, other activities such as illegal drug use can be almost more acceptable than smoking.

I find it incredibly disturbing that so many people have been manipulated into the whole anti smoking paranoia, without questioning the real motives behind making smoking such an unacceptable activity.

I would be really intestested to know if smoking is such a danger to our health, WHY ISNT IT BANNED TOTALLY???

Could it be that its just a convenient scapegoat, that while people are looking at smoking as the "cause" of so many diseases, that the real causes are being ignored. People have been blinded by the whole anti smoking industry that has been rampaging for the past 20 years. What I would also like to know is, if every smoker today quit smoking, then what would the governments of the world blame next for our health problems, could it be they might blame the pollution in our air, our water, the chemicals and additives in our food, the toxins that we are exposed to every single day.

And before anyone jumps down my throat, read some of the information here.

http://www.forces.org

I do agree that smoking is not a good thing, and I smoked for many years before I quit and the only reason I quit was because of the cost, no other reason. But just think about this, if the governments of the world can decide to trample on people's righst to choose to engage in one legal activity, what else can they decide to ban and demonize, maybe something you enjoy to do.

Quoted from Bluezphere

. . . . . I would be really intestested to know if smoking is such a danger to our health, WHY ISNT IT BANNED TOTALLY??? . . . .

Simple answer . . TAXES! governments rake in billions $$ in tax every year.

Quoted from D_b8_R

Simple answer . . TAXES! governments rake in billions $$ in tax every year.

Of course thats a simple answer, but the fact is that as less and less people smoke, due to the bans then the revenue will be getting less and less. However it would be interesting to know just how much revenue is tied up in the quit smoking products/services that are on the market.

Quoted from Bluezphere

I would be really intestested to know if smoking is such a danger to our health, WHY ISNT IT BANNED TOTALLY???

That'll always be the dream, but the demand for cigarettes is way too strong for it to be outlawed completely as there will ALWAYS be a market for them. Banning them will only spawn a black market which would be impossible to police.

Quoted from Sillygostly

That'll always be the dream, but the demand for cigarettes is way too strong for it to be outlawed completely as there will ALWAYS be a market for them. Banning them will only spawn a black market which would be impossible to police.

I actually think its more insidious than that, I think if the governments of the world, outright banned smoking, then they would have to tell the truth about what is really causing "smoking related" health issues. Smoking is too much of a convenient scapegoat. Its far cheaper to keep one product on the market and tax it to the hilt, and to continue with a highly slanted propaganda campaign to make people aware of the "dangers" while still peddling the product which is renowned for its addictive properties. The alternative is to withdraw hundreds if not thousands of household products, foods, chemicals and additives from the market and that they cannot afford to do.

http://www.oztoxics.org/ntn/cis.html

and more from this site, even though it is Canadian, the same chemicals are used here in Australia.

http://www.toxicnation.ca/toxics-in-your-body/how-are-you-exposed

smoking cool... thats a hard one because it's pretty much a no BUT I'm in that age bracket of 20-30 with my friends and a lot of them smoke when they're drinking.

Personally, I don't and when they're asked if they smoke its a 'no' BUT they are when their drinking??! I'll always throw out a ... 'yes you do!' however, they continue with 'oh but that's ONLY when I drink' .. lol every weekend.

It's tough because today smoking is disgusting .. it's only killing you - causes your teeth and hands to become feral and you stink to buggery PLUS your love life is cut in half because a lot out there don't smoke and don't want to be kissing somebody with that kind of breath. However! when you see somebody smoking and drinking on a night out .. its different it's like its socially cool - it sounds silly but its without a doubt true in every sense. A lot of people that begin smoking when they're young and continue with it for life - social smoking is what should be cracked down on for younger people.

Exactly lurveit! Social smoking, both my kids (23 and 30) do it and I hate it (the fact that they even smoke at all). My son began because when he was out with his wife (who smokes) and his mates (who smoke) he began to smoke. My daughter the other day said she (while with her new young man) had a couple of smokes the other night.... I'm however not sure what kind she meant, come to think of it!

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Is smoking cool?

It is right up until the point you get cancer.

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smoking cool... thats a hard one because it's pretty much a no BUT I'm in that age bracket of 20-30 with my friends and a lot of them smoke when they're drinking.

Yeah thats what i do. Apart from that never.

Cancer Producing tar it's enough to make you sick very sick