Gold, are you sure it's just the addictive substances, and not the other hundreds and hundreds of additional ingredients worth being concerned about?Originally Posted by Gold9472
I agree that it is the person's decision.
But I also believe that the tobacco companies share the responsibility with public in properly informing smokers and non-smokers on everything that is in their cigarettes.
The public should be informing themselves more often, and more thoroughly, but even with the information there, people don't seem to care much.
In those instances, it makes me really wonder if there's something genetically inherent in the human being that makes him/her embrace whatever guilty pleasure even at the ultimate expense of death.
Sure, the environment can instill the fixation, and western culture has no shortage of influence in that regard. But when the people are basically being told that they're killing themselves, and they keep doing it, well, I'm likely to believe that there's simply a genetic predisposition to seek temporary pleasure at the expense of death + tax, and these companies are simply capitalizing on this trait.