smoking is technically a choice. Eating varies depending on every individuals metabolism

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Eating more than what your body needs is also a choice, right?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Your diet and exercise are choices and that's all you need to control your weight.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I wonder who would die first, a lifetime of smoking or a lifetime of obesity.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Obesity. It's the number one killer of people, ahead of smoking related deaths.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

That's because there are more obese people than there are smokers. 33% of Americans are obese vs 20% for smokers. It doesn't mean obesity is more unhealthy than smoking. At least one study found that people who were somewhat overweight (BMI 25-30) were more resilient to heart attacks than people of normal weight, and tend to actually live longer on average.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

It would probably depend on how obese the person was.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

But obesity doesn't really put anyone in any particular danger, apart from the overweight person in question. Smoking is a habit that usually directly affects other people. And when I say usually I mean very, very often.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

That is... until the fat person sits on someone else.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I am doing my college English paper on how second hand smoke is harmful. It causes all kinds of health problems you wouldn't really think of.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

It makes me incredibly angry when I see a pregnant woman smoking, or parents in a house with kids smoking. I think it should be considered child abuse.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I have customers at work who come in with newborns in their arms and buy smokes, or they have kids trailing along behind them. One time a little boy asked me not to give them to his mum when she was buying them. It's tragic, really.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I've literally seen women (yeah, this wasn't just on one occasion) open a baby bottle and pour in a Pepsi for their 1 year old, while smoking.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Yeah, but everybody has to look at the fat slob, which is almost as bad.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

What's also ironic is when somebody rolls down the window of their hummer 3 to yell at a smoker for polluting the air with noxious second hand smoke.

by Anonymous 12 years ago