Smokers

How would you like it if every time I urinated I held back a little just to run over to you to finish off? This is exactly how disgusting it is for non-smokers to be in the presence of smokers in any enclosed place.
All these militant smokers who believe that they have some sort of right to inflict their bad habits, and weak wills, upon those of us with enough individuality to not succumb to ‘peer pressure’ need to be taught a lesson in basic respect of human life. I don’t have too much of a problem with you killing yourself, simply because if it’s a human right to live, it’s a human right to die, but as soon as I can smell your cancer sticks, you’ve come close enough thank you.
Now im not trying to say that we should outlaw tobacco completely, cigars (not cheap ones, but a nice Monte Cristo or any other with a pleasing aroma) and pipes aren’t such a plague on our health, quite simply because if we did there would be a £3.5billion defict in the already stodgy looking budget. This much toted argument that alough smokers have a direct cost to the NHS of £500m, this is vastly outweighed by the £4+ billion in tax revenues tries to make out that people who smoke are making some kind of conscious decision to help the encomy and stop the local library from closing. True if we lost, or greatly reduced, the level of smoking we would loose tax revenue, but along with that we would need to spend less in propping up the NHS to treat the long list of affliction that affect any long term smoker.
A smoking ban in all public places would have many many benefits. The foremost would stop the annoying frequency of having to dry clean one’s coats and jackets after a night out to fumigate all the ash, arsenic and aroma that permeates every part of me after going to any establishment that allows smoking. And girls often notice how quickly their hair seems to absorb the putrid smells, tarnishing both the fragrance and shine of healthy hair.
Also by pushing smokers to get off out of their seats and go outside to smoke, they may gradually begin to smoke less and less as the stress put on their (now diseased and clogged) hearts is balanced by an increasingly small amount. This gradual withdrawal from daytime and non-social smoking could hopefully be the first step towards them giving up. And after a year or so having given up, when you’ve finally finished cough up the last of the dead parts of your own lungs, you might once again be in possession of all 5 senses!
Being able to actually smell stuff with intensity and diversity, not overtones of grey, be able to taste food with delicate nuances in flavour, not sticking to the extremes where you no that at least some taste will make it through the scorched taste buds. Maybe 5 years down the line, and with a little chemical help, you could even begin to scrub away the layers of soiled enamel that coats all your tea colour teeth.
To think that it is our choice to ‘opt-out’ of smoking, failing to accept that you must have made a positive decision to smoke, its more that just ignorant, it is disrespectful to all those who have that small amount of willpower to never take an easy way out to relieve stress. I understand that a strong nicotine addiction is more powerful that heroin, and that once hooked, a person may never regain their freedom from its grip, but to all those new to university, I implore you to either never start or quit now while your youthful lungs can still just about manage to repair the damage done.