Why I Don't Smoke..

This is a written response sot Mr. Wayne McDonalds' article Why I Smoke. I found the article entertaining, though throughly misguided and amazingly misinformed. While Wayne possesses great satirical wit and is obviously good at coming up with arguments that seem good on the surface, none of these abilities lend an ounce of truth to his claims.

Before the smoking club goes all crazy and cites the crazy claim that there are no studies supporting the problems that smoking causes, please go here.

Okay. With that out the way, why would Mr. Wayne think to claim that there were no studies that talk about the results of smoking? And that of second-hand smoke? Because he knows that most people will not take the pains to type in a few words in a search engine and look through the results to find something.

So right there, you've more or less destroyed one major argument of Mr. Wayne - second hand smoke is bad for you, and I for one do not want young kids or myself around this smoke. By the way, if you didn't notice, the diseases caused by smoking were also just re-listed and it is now shown that smoking causes diseases in every organ of the body.

The next idea that Wayne gets, and is hailed by some of the smokers in the comments section is that of the bus exhaust. Well, this is just so plain off the base that I can't believe people think this will actually work! The bus is not smoking! It's not releasing tobacco based dangerous crap into the air for it's personal gratification! The nature of the two pollutants is very different, and so is the reason behind it. Arguments of this kind sound impressive, but really are absolutely stupid at the core. Let's see, I could argue that I should legally be able to murder people because, well, car accidents kill more people than any murderer. To keep up with the cars, I would have to shoot down vast neighborhoods every weekend. Let's see how many people cheer that one on! Besides, it'll be a much better and much less painless death and from lung cancer through smoking. Or maybe even bladder cancer. Don't tell me it doesn't happen. My grandmother got bladder cancer from second hand smoke.