Should smokers bear the responsibility for the health risks of cigarette smoking?

by Patrick Sills

I am a smoker and fully aware of the reported health risks associated with the practice of smoking. How could I not be? We are bombarded with warnings on a daily basis, and it's...read more

by R.L. Deeter

My mother died in January of lung cancer. She had smoked from the time she was 19 years old and died at the age of 64. That's a span of 45 years. I loved and still love my Mo...read more

by Leann Zotis

If tobacco was a product being imported from Columbia or some other South American country, it would have been banned decades ago. Tobacco is a "cash crop" in the United States...read more

by Ann Johnstone

Today we live in a world that minimizes personal responsibility. A ridiculous example of this is often given of a criminal who, arrested for breaking and entering, sustains an i...read more

by Heather Saulsbury

Each day we wake up to an unlimited amount of choices to make. Some are easy and some are hard. Do we get out of bed? ? Do we want Trix for breakfast or Lucky Charms? Do we ...read more

by Gary Appleton

As a smoker, I believe that we should pay for the increased burden we place on the health system. But I believe I already do. I smoke a packet of twenty cigarettes a day, at a c...read more

by Sara Mcgrath

I see a lot of propaganda for both sides of this "public health" argument. Some examples: "The Anti-Smoking Conspiracy: Attacks on smokers destroy your liberties, too." "K...read more

by Tena Kight

We make choices when we're young that are based on the feeling that we will live forever. I smoked for 11 years, starting in my teens . I didn't grasp the reality of how serious...read more

by Jinai

It is the fault of the tobacco industry that I have lung disease, the fast food industry made me fat and at risk for a heart arrack, the coffee makers caused my insomnia and ...read more

by Stella Dean

The first warning to get slapped onto a pack of cigarettes in the United States said "Cigarette Smoking May be Hazardous to Your Health" and took place in 1966. From that point...read more

by Tuomas Tapola

People who smoke have always started smoking voluntarily; some of them might claim that they were pressured by their friends, or other people working around them. Even then it w...read more

by Cheryl Burger

Medical costs have been skyrocketing and is it any wonder? The smoker has caused directly, and indirectly, some of the most costly abuses to them, and others around them, and p...read more

by Richard Saare

I do believe that a smoker should bear the responsibility for medical costs that are relevant to smoking. I smoked for 14 years and due to an incident while in the military I co...read more

by Ethel Smith

Many years ago, in England for example, cigarette smoking was freely advertised in magazines, on television and even as sponsors of sporting events. This sponsorship must have b...read more

by Jana Christian

KILLING TIME ON PLANET EARTH One Ex-Smoker's Journey The POWER OF PRAYER 11/27/07 I remember the first cigarette I picked up. I even remember why I picked it up. I had...read more

by Rich Rivers

Everyone is entitled to be responsible for the consequences of his own doing. Like smokers, they are also responsible for whatever health problems they would soon acquire being...read more

by John Gugie

I believe that smokers should bear the responsibility for the health risks of cigarette smoking. This subject needs to be split up into two different eras. First, we have the...read more

by C.D. Crowder

No one is forced to smoke cigarettes. Therefore, smokers must be willing to take full responsibility for the health risks associated with smoking. There are warnings are each ...read more