Life and Smoking Bans

Today I saw one of the most badass things. I saw a man smoking a ciggerette while he was at a gas pump. I know what you may be thinking. What was he thinking? Was he trying to blow up the gas station? And ofcourse your wondering how I could possibly think that something so dangerous could ever be constructed as cool. Well... society in itself needs to reevaluate what it considers "dangerous".
Everyone today is concerned about things they construe as risky and dangerous behavior without realizing that by emphasizing these behaviors in usually results in rebellion and escalates from there. Take smoking for example. Up until recent years smoking was allowed in public places such as resturants, bars, and airports. Now everyone is so concerned about getting cancer that in many places you have to be 50 feet away from the building. WTF? My parents smoked in our house most of my chilhood and teenage years and I turned out healthy as did many of my friends. Now society says its illegal to smoke in bar or even in front of a bar that only allows adults to enter? Lets face the one universal truth... When its time to leave this world it doesnt matter if we smoked or if we were around 2nd hand smoke. When your numbers up your going regardless of what kind of abuse you put on your body.
Society enforces these rules because by doing so we feel as if we are the ones controlling life and death. That implementing a no smoking ban or whatever law you choose will bring us more control over a choatic world. Reality check. There are far more life threatening matters out there to worry about whose lighting up. Yet its these major issues such as the conflict in Afghanistan, the drug war in Mexico that is leaking over into our boarders, and third world countries having nuclear capabilties that the average American could care less about. I see their reasoning as to why they prefer ignorance. One indidviual cannot control world events but avoiding cancer is something realstic and possible to avoid. Sadly many non smokers contract cancer too. And if each individual citzen in America took more of an interest in world events than maybe society as whole would appericiate the country we live in. As an added bonus America would look less like hypocrites to the rest of the world.
So enojoy life because no matter how many smoking bans America implements, we still have no control over how long we have to enjoy life.

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