reasons to not smoke?

what reasons have people given to say they dont smoke?

probably the most justifiable answer ive been given was one girl said shes an extrovert and loves talking to people and having fun but whenever she smokes, she sorta gets quiet and keeps to herself, and she doesnt like that.

meh, i find i talk twice as much, but say less stupid things, and more things that are completely random to the conversation or the moment

what have people said to you?

 

That's exactly what my mom told me, about why she never got into weed.

Anyways, besides it being illegal (collge kids worried about scholarships, career futures, even jail), I've heard people spout all kinds of garbage about what it does to you. Propoganda stuff. That it will make you insane (going schizo might be valid, but pretty unlikely too), might make them really lazy (heard that among sports types), whatever. My sister said she doesn't like it cuz she doesn't like that she just laughs and laughs, and can't stop. (I think she should worry more about her drinking, though). I guess if you can't control yourself, whatever the drug, and you dislike that feeling, then that's a valid reason not to use that drug. Like, I hate how I can't control my tongue when I'm drunk, I say really dumb stuff, get obnoxious...so I don't let myself get drunk.

 

my mom says cuz its illegal

my dad says cuz it would make him lose his ambitiona nd focus in life(hes 48 and gonna retire next year so whats the point now)
my brother is the most legitamate saying that he probably would be too careless with it nad get caught very easy(which is true he loses stuff all the time and thats why i didnt let himt ake the xbox to college)

 

How The Fuck Could You Loose An Xbox!!!

 

dood i know ppl who could lose themselves, xbox would be nothin.

 

Hell, I quit for several years. Mostly because I felt I'd outgrown my happiness with being high. It was routine. I was high pretty much 24/7 because I never ran out. I just got tired of being stoned and not really 'high' anymore. Said to myself I'd wait till the perfect situation came along to be 'high' again. Well, five years down the road.... one day my bro and I are going to concert, the suns shinin', we're on our way to a kick as restaurant and he says 'wan get high and go to the cosmic cafe?'. It clicked. That's one of the highest highs I've ever had and it wasn't even primo stuff. It was the situation. Nowadays I've even been known to turn it down because I simply just don't feel like it. I spent a couple of weeks earlier this year doing the 24/7 thing and realized the same thing. It got boring.

What gets me though are these cats that try to insist on it, like I need to be coerced. lol. idiots.

 

Best reasons I've heard:

"I'm on probation."

"Nah dude, I'm too fucked up. One more hit and I'm gonna fuckin' throw up."

 

I know lots of people that would smoke if they had easy access to it. That and piss tests for work are probably the two most common reasons I've heard.

 

lung cancer. -- just get a vaporizer
illegal. -- dont get caught.
thats about it

 

cause its illegal
and its bad for you

 

Um. It makes me more lisdexic than I already am.

 

be careful with that shit man.... i know a dude when 4 of us were toking in my friends bathroom we had smoked a shitload and then his turn comes around and he inhaled and BLAM spewed vomit all over me my other friend nad all over the floor.

 

That really sucks. I've only seen two people throw up from weed, luckily one time it was outside and the other time there was a trash can nearby. But whenever smeone says they think they're going to blow chunks, I take them seriously.

 

people care too much about the law and stuff and not enough about the real moral implications (or lack thereof) of what theyre doing in life

personally, any job that fires you for failing a drug test is obviously not a job i'd want to be int.

maybe its just caus i see myself as an artist, but i just laugh at people who have their sucess in academia and careers and stuff in their highest priority, and not living life for the fun of it.

but, if it it werent for these people, the world would cease to be the corporation that it is

 

if u think about it., alot of religions talk about a great afterlife if you do right on earth (especially christianity) and that living is onyl a means to an end. why should we care about doing good in school and what not if its going to get us nowhere in the afterlife?

i know its off topic bill but id like to here ur opinion on it

 

I've mostly heard because its illegal and bad for me... What about if it was legal? Still they'll say no but these are the same people who have said no to alcohol before and now drink every week.

That its bad for me and my lungs, i can understand somewhat but some people aren't active at all... Whats the difference, your letting you lung capacity goto waste anyways by doing nothing.

 

you should still go good at school to have the upperhand on society in those early years.

thats the only reason im going through with school i guess. because if i didnt, id get ridiculed and seen as an idiot stoner who dropped out of school. i know im not, but society sees things in its own terms. in our society, its going good at grades, or being in the best sports team in the school.

its not that i dissaprove of school and getting grades
its that i dissaprove of making that the focus in your life. it should be something you do like as a handicap over people who dont get good grades. even if it has nothing to do with your career, if two people have similar skills, theyll look at education record, and probably prefer the person in the first quartile than the guy in the third. a ticket into society. caus even a dumb person can do it.

i dislike teenage angst that goes like 'why should we have to go to school?' and 'why cant we be let into R rated movies?' or jsut 'why cant adults treat us like adults too?'

its just not realistic.

i want to get through school, SO that i can fullfil my own goals. which have nothing to do with academia.

however, college is different. if you have an unrelated degree, its pretty much going to mean nothing.

but the reason i dislike people with academic career sights and stuff is mainly caus i simply see it as leading to nothing.

since you live and die, you may as well do something worthwile to teh world, something thats your own, that you can say 'i did that, me, not someone else'.

but people go into careers like lawyer and doctor and management and business and stuff.. just like everyone else in teh industry. the whole point of these jobs is to keep the motor running.

I have a big ego and lots of ambition and thats what drives me to doing thigns my way.

nothing will determine whether im just another overambitious unrealistic teenager except time, and ultimately, myself.

and i think thats my oppinion on something but as usual ive written a post, got more stoned, and then find the last words of a message in this quick reply box.

 

oh shit i think i didnt even answer the question

anywya, the whole 'why live, if werer jsut gonna die' i think is the biggest load of bullshit. i actually wrote a thread about this in random thoughts.. but it took me so long to write that by the end of it, not only had i not noticed my internet had disconnected when i clicked 'post' (which tehrefor destroys the content of the thread forever) but i had to shorten it by 50 % because i was blabbling too much

to put it basically, i think people should stop looking for reasons to live and for the meaning of life, and all that stuff, and just give themselves their own reasons to live.

of course, were all going to die. but the very fact that life is limited is what gives it value. we should live, because we do.

rocks dont live. we do. who cares if theres no meaning to it, since its limited, you may as well get the most out of it.

people should stop caring about the meaning or purpose of doing thigns, and start just doing things.

wait, i remember:
in general, its the atheists and people who arent strong god-fearers that question teh meaning of life. its just not done: if you believe in god, you dont question his motives. but it should be the other way around. people who dont believe in god should stop pissing around looking for some given meaning to life, because meaning requires an intelligent (in human terms) creator. its the people who believe in god or gods who should be putting almost all their energy into getting to know god, learning him (because he has a personality after all, you cant doubt that if you believe in the bible, which gives god its own character) and finding his motives. people claim to have connectiosn with their gods all the time yet they still never get past 'god works in mysterious ways' or thigns similar, suggesting that his motive is of importance null.
but thats not the case in our world

youre sitting, locked in your room for eternity and a geanie pops out. he says he can let you out of your room for a bitt,but when you get back, youll forget it happened. (outside of your room is 79 hot, oily women begging to have sex with you, a hookah with a bowl the sze of the ocean, seventeen constantly updated circuses, five theme parks with free everything, a comfy couch, [better than the wooden floor you sit on in your room] and some gaming consoles.. and yeh whaver else you want, its irrelevant)

so, what, youd just not do it because in the end, it wouldnt make a difference, you forgot?

something should be done.. for the sake of doing them. because they are something, not nothing.

life is something, which is more than nothing, regardless of how irrelevant it is.

im not going to post again i promise

 

Well all kinds of smoke do cause cancer.....


Fuck cancer, I've beaten it so far


I don't worry about the law.... shit happens sometimes, just don't be stupid.

 

reasons not to smoke... apparently i can't hit a beer bong the way i used to