Do you guys mind if I rant some more? I'd dedicate it to a blog post, but seeing as the blogs are inaccessible...
Feel free to rant. I like reading whats on people's minds and stuff like that. How come the blogs are inaccessible??? who's responsible for this?? lol
We're working on it!
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-Equinox
"We're like the downtown of the Diablo related internet lol"
-Winged
I agree with everything in Azriel's last post, however:
Marijuana, in itself, does not put anyone in any more danger than cigarettes or alcohol; I could totally argue that marijuana is, in fact, a safer alternative to either of those drugs.
I'll probably get flamed but it's important to add that weed can turn the workforce into a slow, unproductive and unmotivated bunch. Weed stays in your system far longer than alcohol, and tobacco doesn't do much apart from kill you. Yes they're all bad drugs but weed specifically can have a stronger mental effect over people if they don't control their intake. Any more than once a month is probably too much and it does slow you down in the days following consumption, not just while you're high.
Also smoking weed in moderation is worse for you than taking alcohol in moderation. Smoking anything is just plain bad for you. Of course, eating it isn't so bad but there's still the mental effects and the fact that it turns people into sloths for a while.
Of course they're all bad in their own way, the one that should definitely be illegal is tobacco just based on death statistics.
I'll agree with you on the premise that marijuana can and will turn anyone who does it often enough into a "sloth." The same friend I talked about smoked before school, almost every day, for three consecutive months. He eventually got a referral to the drug counselor at school from a concerned teacher and he hasn't touched it since, but not because of the advice he got, but because he is looking for a job and he'll surely be declined a job if THC shows up in a UA.
I mean, it's annoying to see someone always high. If it was legal, I would never want to be that guy. I would probably use it once a month, like you said, because it gives my body a chance to become unaccustomed to receiving it, thus I go back in a lightweight and don't have to do as much to achieve that level of high.
And I wouldn't go as far as making tobacco illegal; there's too much of a demand for it in people who are addicts, to take it off the markets would eliminate tobacco profits for the states and just piss a lot of people off. I definitely think it's one of the worst drugs on the market now. I mean, I feel bad for my friends when they can't get smokes because they're always just... it's hard to explain, but I hate seeing my friends trying to get their fix out of a barely there cigarette butt.
Magi: I'm jealous of your ability to remember amazing dreams. The only ones I remember are ones with reoccurring locations and those are fucking weird.
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I hate the way you cling to ignorance and pass it off as innocence
I agree with everything in Azriel's last post, however:
Marijuana, in itself, does not put anyone in any more danger than cigarettes or alcohol; I could totally argue that marijuana is, in fact, a safer alternative to either of those drugs.
I'll probably get flamed but it's important to add that weed can turn the workforce into a slow, unproductive and unmotivated bunch. Weed stays in your system far longer than alcohol, and tobacco doesn't do much apart from kill you. Yes they're all bad drugs but weed specifically can have a stronger mental effect over people if they don't control their intake. Any more than once a month is probably too much and it does slow you down in the days following consumption, not just while you're high.
Also smoking weed in moderation is worse for you than taking alcohol in moderation. Smoking anything is just plain bad for you. Of course, eating it isn't so bad but there's still the mental effects and the fact that it turns people into sloths for a while.
Of course they're all bad in their own way, the one that should definitely be illegal is tobacco just based on death statistics.
I'll agree with you on the premise that marijuana can and will turn anyone who does it often enough into a "sloth." The same friend I talked about smoked before school, almost every day, for three consecutive months. He eventually got a referral to the drug counselor at school from a concerned teacher and he hasn't touched it since, but not because of the advice he got, but because he is looking for a job and he'll surely be declined a job if THC shows up in a UA.
I mean, it's annoying to see someone always high. If it was legal, I would never want to be that guy. I would probably use it once a month, like you said, because it gives my body a chance to become unaccustomed to receiving it, thus I go back in a lightweight and don't have to do as much to achieve that level of high.
And I wouldn't go as far as making tobacco illegal; there's too much of a demand for it in people who are addicts, to take it off the markets would eliminate tobacco profits for the states and just piss a lot of people off. I definitely think it's one of the worst drugs on the market now. I mean, I feel bad for my friends when they can't get smokes because they're always just... it's hard to explain, but I hate seeing my friends trying to get their fix out of a barely there cigarette butt.
Magi: I'm jealous of your ability to remember amazing dreams. The only ones I remember are ones with reoccurring locations and those are fucking weird.
I think it could be achieved over a decade or longer, keeping other nicotine products on the market, and MAYBE allowing hardcore nicotine addicts to get prescriptions for cigarettes. But the problem I see with that is we could have many people clogging up clinics and wasting doctors time. But we need to do something to stop kids from starting the habit. Education only goes so far when parents can influence us with their smoking, and of course the cool "I don't give a fuck" factor. So the cycle continues as long as cigarettes are easy to get. I actually smoked daily for five years and I managed to quit, even though I wouldn't say I have the strongest will, but I guess it would be a lot harder for pack a day smokers who have been doing it for the last 20 years to kick the habit.
But alas, the government isn't going to do that because they're making too much money from it, which is sad.
@ Venom and apples - Lol
@ Ophion - What book is it? Maybe you're looking at it from the wrong perspective. But if it doesn't interest you there's not much you can do, except maybe look for a movie version of it, or read a shorter version in layman's terms found on the net. Maybe you could reward yourself after completion lol. The more you read, the faster you get at it. Then in the future it'll take half the time to read boring ass books for school.
I was never given a drug "talk;" my dad just said that if I ever did drugs, he'd kick me out. That's as much of a talk that I got and I feel that if he actually sat me down and didn't assume that the stuff that D.A.R.E told me was based on actual fact, I would have a much broader sense on what is bad and what is good. Like I said, he's a drinker and a smoker, so he'd probably say, "don't smoke tobacco, but it's okay to have alcohol every once in a while when you're old enough."
Education is key to drug control. I feel that if parents drop the facade that marijuana, in some way or another, is more dangerous than widely available drugs like alcohol and tobacco, than we'd see a decrease in marijuana, but people would be more understanding of those who do choose to use it. The only reason why I tried marijuana in the first place is because I was curious. At that time, I felt like I should at least try it before I took my D.A.R.E knowledge to heart and refused any sort of drug whatsoever. The "knowledge" I acquired didn't have an effect on me and that is partly due to the fact that it is faulty, hypocritical, and too reliant on the gullibility of the common 5th grader. I can almost call it propaganda.
I don't see this really happening in the near future. The only road to legalization is if one of the West Coast states like Washington or California pass an initiative to legalize use on the state level, to which the federal government can either outright attack or allow to happen, which will open the floodgates to legalization to states that do so choose to legalize. It's an incredibly hard journey because that same broken rhetoric that I learned back in D.A.R.E still permeates the arguments of adult voters. They don't take the arguments that contradict their own any more seriously than the average "pothead."
And the sad thing is that some people who are for marijuana legalization don't even use it. They are just trying to save lives and undo this crime on humanity.
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I hate the way you cling to ignorance and pass it off as innocence
Food is for the most part a good thing. You know..we would die without it. We wouldn't die without cigarettes.
OK, let me use a better example.
We wouldn't die without sex. There are SO MANY issues that can potential arise from having sex, though. We should stop having sex now.
And if you're gonna bring up procreation:
a) most people don't have sex to procreate. Just as most people don't smoke to improve their memory. there's no solid proof that procreation is a good thing.
I win.
If you ever intend on getting a Kindle, please do not, under any circumstances, get the Amazon cover. The cover itself hasn't caused any damage to my Kindle (in fact, it's protected it from some nasty drops), but the case (but, more notably, the part that latches onto the Kindle to keep it in the cover), will cause your Kindle to freeze, restart, and refuse to come out of a device sleep.
I just realized this after not being able to use my Kindle for about a week due to the "permanent" sleep. So, if you ever buy yourself a Kindle, do not get their non-lighted case. My friend has a lighted case and his works pretty well, but I've heard issues coming from both cases. Get a third-party cover that doesn't include latches and you'll never have the same problems I have.
And, for your information, Kindles are amazing devices.
Edit: Last theme change until the end of the year. If you don't like it, that fuckin' sucks, I guess.
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I hate the way you cling to ignorance and pass it off as innocence
Food is for the most part a good thing. You know..we would die without it. We wouldn't die without cigarettes.
OK, let me use a better example.
We wouldn't die without sex. There are SO MANY issues that can potential arise from having sex, though. We should stop having sex now.
And if you're gonna bring up procreation:
a) most people don't have sex to procreate. Just as most people don't smoke to improve their memory. there's no solid proof that procreation is a good thing.
I win.
Eh..people smoke to improve their memory?
Besides, this is a very bad example to illustrate your 'point'- sex might not save one individual but it is definitely necessary for the survival of our species. That is why it is mainly an instinctual drive. And food is a basic human need.
You win nothing since you cannot make the distinction between need and habit.
Smoker's say they aren't addicted to cigarettes and can quit whenever, but they need to keep smoking to stay sane.
Coffee drinker's believe they aren't addicted, but for some reason, must have a cup to function.
Guess what! I drink coffee and I don't smoke. My coffee is only once in a while too. I'm sane. *Sees an imp, that's not really there, getting ready to prank somebody.*
NOOOO!!! You will not summon a shit flinging monkey!!
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I really don't care if I'm addicted to coffee or not because it doesn't bother me. Besides, the amount of coffee I drink would make most people laugh, and I dillute it with milk, too.
Other peoples' lack of willpower is not a reason to crucify a substance.
Besides, this is a very bad example to illustrate your 'point'- sex might not save one individual but it is definitely necessary for the survival of our species.
Again, goes back to your point - it's not the main reason people have sex. A large amount of people do it for that purpose, a lot doesn't.
Furthermore, there is no proof that survival of the species is a good thing.
Sex done wrong can lead to unsurvival of individuals, or the raise of bad diseases (that threaten survival of species), or just pollution of the gene pool.
That is why it is mainly an instinctual drive. And food is a basic human need.
You win nothing since you cannot make the distinction between need and habit.
Sex is not a need. Food is not a need in the sense that we perceive food. The food we NEED is a very low profile level of food, consisting of water, some carbs, some proteins, some fats. Dessert, junk food, Coca-Cola, and grilled chicken is much closer to a want.
If you look at how humans live you will also discover most do not function for needs alone - that'd be quite a miserable existence. Or else why are you all waiting here for Diablo III? You certainly don't need it, and there are tons of more "useful" things you could be doing.
I'm also sure most of you don't exercise as much as you should, eat bad food, and do tons of other things things that would be considered "unhealthy".
Pretty much the reason why readers are not very widespread right now. The reading interfaces still need a lot of work. They're irreplaceable if you have storage problems though.
You are drawing parallels between concepts that simply cannot be compared. You've gone from food to sex and now video games. The last one has some merit to it when used as a form of analogy when considering smoking but the former two unfortunately do not lend themselves well to this model of argumentative presentation. Actually, they are so markedly different that they are completely irrelevant examples.
It's not about the good or the bad and the more you try incorporating these in your arguments, the further out of context they become.
Sex is an instinctual drive. Food is a need.
Those are facts. Both can lead to problems but that's not the the point at all here.
Smoking doesn't fall in either of these categories. It is a choice that is not driven by any instinct.
That is the long and short of it.
It would be much more interesting to directly discuss why people pick up smoking despite knowing the harmful side effects instead of those weirdly absurd comparisons to justify this habit.
Smoker's say they aren't addicted to cigarettes and can quit whenever, but they need to keep smoking to stay sane.
Coffee drinker's believe they aren't addicted, but for some reason, must have a cup to function.
Guess what! I drink coffee and I don't smoke. My coffee is only once in a while too. I'm sane. *Sees an imp, that's not really there, getting ready to prank somebody.*
NOOOO!!! You will not summon a shit flinging monkey!!
Comparing a person's dependence on one substance to another's dependence on another substance is the most ridiculous thing one can ever do. Please don't do it again, for your sake.
Nicotine is baaad and addictive. Fun when you start sure but then it just goes downhill when your lungs get all congested and then you realise cigarettes are just not worth it. Also they are dirty.
Oh wait we're talking about just nicotine. Missed that part. Still addictive though and doesn't do much once you build up a tolerance.
I take it you don't smoke. You build up a tolerance to nearly everything. That's why people start smoking 1-5 cigarettes a week, then move up to 3 packs a day, or something.
Also, not everyone smokes to look "hip".
I can't be assed looking for all that has been said about smoking, but I'll reply to some of the points that I read.
My dad smoked for 30 years. I know well over 30 people who have smoked for 5+ years and 15+ years. All their mouths are normal. Sure, smoking increases your risk of getting lung cancer and a host of other diseases, but so does pollution, and a variety of things we encounter on a daily basis that nobody cares to warn us about, or we don't care enough to look up. That still doesn't mean that smoking is a good thing, but it isn't a godawful, terrible, inherently devastating thing.
For all of you saying that it isn't hard to quit, or that there's willpower involved, you obviously aren't smokers. It's easy to talk about something whilst standing on the moral high-ground preaching to all us smoking peasants when you literally have absolutely no clue about what you're talking about. It's like saying chocolate tastes like shit without tasting it, ever. It's like saying that tub of water is cold without touching the water. Twice as many people successfully quit heroin than people who quit smoking. It's an extremely difficult thing. The headaches, the cravings, the flu-like symptoms, the urges that make you lose focus and think about nothing else. Unless you go through it, you have no right whatsoever to judge the willpower or general character of a smoker.
There's an inherent characteristic in mankind. Everyone thinks "that can't happen to ME!". That's why so many people smoke, because they would never imagine that they'd get lung cancer from it, or that this or that would happen to them from smoking. It's a legal thing that's available everywhere, and it doesn't cost much (at least here it doesn't). You always hear about X and Y getting lung cancer, you always read about those statistics, you always hear this doctor's advice and that doctor's advice. Truth is, there are so many OTHER things that factor into the equation of disease, that just knowing that a person smokes, doesn't really pain an entirely clear picture. Smoking, in addition to a host of OTHER things, increases the chances of you getting disease X by a factor Y, sure. It also might have nothing to do with it. Plenty of people who don't smoke get lung cancer. If you start smoking at a certain age, statistics tell you that you are X% more likely to develop lung cancer once you're 70+ or whatever. Regardless of the fact that those statistics are MIND NUMBINGLY vague and COMPLETELY obscure, they leave plenty of things to consider, out of the equation.
It would be much more interesting to directly discuss why people pick up smoking despite knowing the harmful side effects instead of those weirdly absurd comparisons to justify this habit.
Curiosity - What's all the fuss about? I should try it to judge for myself. I mean you can't get addicted off one right? right? <_<
Stupidity - I don't wanna be a hobbling around with my walker when I'm old. Might as well waste some money and smoke every day till I die.
Self-absorbed - I'm a special flower and I'm not going to get addicted, I'll just smoke occasionally and it won't fuck up my health because I'm different.
Bad-assery - A man's got an image to uphold.
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And where did the fucked-up things happen? You mean in the drowning scene?
We're working on it!
-Equinox
"We're like the downtown of the Diablo related internet lol"
-Winged
I'll agree with you on the premise that marijuana can and will turn anyone who does it often enough into a "sloth." The same friend I talked about smoked before school, almost every day, for three consecutive months. He eventually got a referral to the drug counselor at school from a concerned teacher and he hasn't touched it since, but not because of the advice he got, but because he is looking for a job and he'll surely be declined a job if THC shows up in a UA.
I mean, it's annoying to see someone always high. If it was legal, I would never want to be that guy. I would probably use it once a month, like you said, because it gives my body a chance to become unaccustomed to receiving it, thus I go back in a lightweight and don't have to do as much to achieve that level of high.
And I wouldn't go as far as making tobacco illegal; there's too much of a demand for it in people who are addicts, to take it off the markets would eliminate tobacco profits for the states and just piss a lot of people off. I definitely think it's one of the worst drugs on the market now. I mean, I feel bad for my friends when they can't get smokes because they're always just... it's hard to explain, but I hate seeing my friends trying to get their fix out of a barely there cigarette butt.
Magi: I'm jealous of your ability to remember amazing dreams. The only ones I remember are ones with reoccurring locations and those are fucking weird.
I hate the way you cling to ignorance and pass it off as innocence
must be an interesting book.
"to the worm in horseradish, the world is horseradish."
Also:
I think it could be achieved over a decade or longer, keeping other nicotine products on the market, and MAYBE allowing hardcore nicotine addicts to get prescriptions for cigarettes. But the problem I see with that is we could have many people clogging up clinics and wasting doctors time. But we need to do something to stop kids from starting the habit. Education only goes so far when parents can influence us with their smoking, and of course the cool "I don't give a fuck" factor. So the cycle continues as long as cigarettes are easy to get. I actually smoked daily for five years and I managed to quit, even though I wouldn't say I have the strongest will, but I guess it would be a lot harder for pack a day smokers who have been doing it for the last 20 years to kick the habit.
But alas, the government isn't going to do that because they're making too much money from it, which is sad.
@ Venom and apples - Lol
@ Ophion - What book is it? Maybe you're looking at it from the wrong perspective. But if it doesn't interest you there's not much you can do, except maybe look for a movie version of it, or read a shorter version in layman's terms found on the net. Maybe you could reward yourself after completion lol. The more you read, the faster you get at it. Then in the future it'll take half the time to read boring ass books for school.
Education is key to drug control. I feel that if parents drop the facade that marijuana, in some way or another, is more dangerous than widely available drugs like alcohol and tobacco, than we'd see a decrease in marijuana, but people would be more understanding of those who do choose to use it. The only reason why I tried marijuana in the first place is because I was curious. At that time, I felt like I should at least try it before I took my D.A.R.E knowledge to heart and refused any sort of drug whatsoever. The "knowledge" I acquired didn't have an effect on me and that is partly due to the fact that it is faulty, hypocritical, and too reliant on the gullibility of the common 5th grader. I can almost call it propaganda.
I don't see this really happening in the near future. The only road to legalization is if one of the West Coast states like Washington or California pass an initiative to legalize use on the state level, to which the federal government can either outright attack or allow to happen, which will open the floodgates to legalization to states that do so choose to legalize. It's an incredibly hard journey because that same broken rhetoric that I learned back in D.A.R.E still permeates the arguments of adult voters. They don't take the arguments that contradict their own any more seriously than the average "pothead."
And the sad thing is that some people who are for marijuana legalization don't even use it. They are just trying to save lives and undo this crime on humanity.
I hate the way you cling to ignorance and pass it off as innocence
"to the worm in horseradish, the world is horseradish."
We wouldn't die without sex. There are SO MANY issues that can potential arise from having sex, though. We should stop having sex now.
And if you're gonna bring up procreation:
a) most people don't have sex to procreate. Just as most people don't smoke to improve their memory.
I win.
Never heard of such a thing. Link?
True, but the same can be said about caffeine. My coffee consumption is pretty low so it still works for me on those exam days at 5 am.
If you ever intend on getting a Kindle, please do not, under any circumstances, get the Amazon cover. The cover itself hasn't caused any damage to my Kindle (in fact, it's protected it from some nasty drops), but the case (but, more notably, the part that latches onto the Kindle to keep it in the cover), will cause your Kindle to freeze, restart, and refuse to come out of a device sleep.
I just realized this after not being able to use my Kindle for about a week due to the "permanent" sleep. So, if you ever buy yourself a Kindle, do not get their non-lighted case. My friend has a lighted case and his works pretty well, but I've heard issues coming from both cases. Get a third-party cover that doesn't include latches and you'll never have the same problems I have.
And, for your information, Kindles are amazing devices.
Edit: Last theme change until the end of the year. If you don't like it, that fuckin' sucks, I guess.
I hate the way you cling to ignorance and pass it off as innocence
"to the worm in horseradish, the world is horseradish."
May the force be with you.
Eh..people smoke to improve their memory?
Besides, this is a very bad example to illustrate your 'point'- sex might not save one individual but it is definitely necessary for the survival of our species. That is why it is mainly an instinctual drive. And food is a basic human need.
You win nothing since you cannot make the distinction between need and habit.
The holy truth.
Smoker's say they aren't addicted to cigarettes and can quit whenever, but they need to keep smoking to stay sane.
Coffee drinker's believe they aren't addicted, but for some reason, must have a cup to function.
Guess what! I drink coffee and I don't smoke. My coffee is only once in a while too. I'm sane. *Sees an imp, that's not really there, getting ready to prank somebody.*
NOOOO!!! You will not summon a shit flinging monkey!!
Other peoples' lack of willpower is not a reason to crucify a substance.
Quite a few people smoke to calm down. Most don't use it to improve memory because most are not aware of that effect from what I've seen.
Again, goes back to your point - it's not the main reason people have sex. A large amount of people do it for that purpose, a lot doesn't.
Furthermore, there is no proof that survival of the species is a good thing.
Sex done wrong can lead to unsurvival of individuals, or the raise of bad diseases (that threaten survival of species), or just pollution of the gene pool.
Sex is not a need. Food is not a need in the sense that we perceive food. The food we NEED is a very low profile level of food, consisting of water, some carbs, some proteins, some fats. Dessert, junk food, Coca-Cola, and grilled chicken is much closer to a want.
If you look at how humans live you will also discover most do not function for needs alone - that'd be quite a miserable existence. Or else why are you all waiting here for Diablo III? You certainly don't need it, and there are tons of more "useful" things you could be doing.
I'm also sure most of you don't exercise as much as you should, eat bad food, and do tons of other things things that would be considered "unhealthy".
Pretty much the reason why readers are not very widespread right now. The reading interfaces still need a lot of work. They're irreplaceable if you have storage problems though.
It's not about the good or the bad and the more you try incorporating these in your arguments, the further out of context they become.
Sex is an instinctual drive. Food is a need.
Those are facts. Both can lead to problems but that's not the the point at all here.
Smoking doesn't fall in either of these categories. It is a choice that is not driven by any instinct.
That is the long and short of it.
It would be much more interesting to directly discuss why people pick up smoking despite knowing the harmful side effects instead of those weirdly absurd comparisons to justify this habit.
Pot, meet kettle.
also, why spend that much on a reader when u can buy a tablet/iPad for just a little more?
"to the worm in horseradish, the world is horseradish."
Comparing a person's dependence on one substance to another's dependence on another substance is the most ridiculous thing one can ever do. Please don't do it again, for your sake.
I take it you don't smoke. You build up a tolerance to nearly everything. That's why people start smoking 1-5 cigarettes a week, then move up to 3 packs a day, or something.
Also, not everyone smokes to look "hip".
I can't be assed looking for all that has been said about smoking, but I'll reply to some of the points that I read.
My dad smoked for 30 years. I know well over 30 people who have smoked for 5+ years and 15+ years. All their mouths are normal. Sure, smoking increases your risk of getting lung cancer and a host of other diseases, but so does pollution, and a variety of things we encounter on a daily basis that nobody cares to warn us about, or we don't care enough to look up. That still doesn't mean that smoking is a good thing, but it isn't a godawful, terrible, inherently devastating thing.
For all of you saying that it isn't hard to quit, or that there's willpower involved, you obviously aren't smokers. It's easy to talk about something whilst standing on the moral high-ground preaching to all us smoking peasants when you literally have absolutely no clue about what you're talking about. It's like saying chocolate tastes like shit without tasting it, ever. It's like saying that tub of water is cold without touching the water. Twice as many people successfully quit heroin than people who quit smoking. It's an extremely difficult thing. The headaches, the cravings, the flu-like symptoms, the urges that make you lose focus and think about nothing else. Unless you go through it, you have no right whatsoever to judge the willpower or general character of a smoker.
There's an inherent characteristic in mankind. Everyone thinks "that can't happen to ME!". That's why so many people smoke, because they would never imagine that they'd get lung cancer from it, or that this or that would happen to them from smoking. It's a legal thing that's available everywhere, and it doesn't cost much (at least here it doesn't). You always hear about X and Y getting lung cancer, you always read about those statistics, you always hear this doctor's advice and that doctor's advice. Truth is, there are so many OTHER things that factor into the equation of disease, that just knowing that a person smokes, doesn't really pain an entirely clear picture. Smoking, in addition to a host of OTHER things, increases the chances of you getting disease X by a factor Y, sure. It also might have nothing to do with it. Plenty of people who don't smoke get lung cancer. If you start smoking at a certain age, statistics tell you that you are X% more likely to develop lung cancer once you're 70+ or whatever. Regardless of the fact that those statistics are MIND NUMBINGLY vague and COMPLETELY obscure, they leave plenty of things to consider, out of the equation.
Rise and rise again, until lambs become lions
Curiosity - What's all the fuss about? I should try it to judge for myself. I mean you can't get addicted off one right? right? <_<
Stupidity - I don't wanna be a hobbling around with my walker when I'm old. Might as well waste some money and smoke every day till I die.
Self-absorbed - I'm a special flower and I'm not going to get addicted, I'll just smoke occasionally and it won't fuck up my health because I'm different.
Bad-assery - A man's got an image to uphold.