Topic: How are smokers perceived in you culture/Environment. (Read 41 times)

Even cold tropics people are still advised to either quit or moderate how they smoke if they must smoke on the excuse of the cold weather conditions. I don't condemn smokers because smoking doesn't interpret ones characters or innate behaviours to exert harm towards another person.

Smokers are not bad people but for the love their family and friends has for them that's why they always kick against them smoking and portraying it as something bad because it's harmful to health. For those in hot geographical locations like Africa and other parts of the East I wonder why they have to smoke the way they do when the weather is already hot over here.

I have come across similar thread where a user was lamenting how the society views smokers as bad people. Actually, in the geographical location where i come from, most people who are into smoking are always involved in one crime or the other and in a real sense, when majority is seen doing a particular thing whether with good intention or bad intention, they are to be classified in same way just like an adage that when a finger touches oil that it affects the rest of the fingers. And if you take a clearer view at it, it is literally the truth because as a smoker even if you are not a bad influence but you mingle with bad influencers since smoking can bring you all together, it means that by so doing, you are likely the join the bad influencers one day because they are the majority and in order for them not to see you as a rebel, you will also need to do what they do before they can trust you.

For me personally, i'm not against smoking or smokers but it should be moderated and also know when to smoke because the major reason why cigarretes was introduced was to make the immune system warm in a cold area or environment so why will someone who is in a hot atmosphere engage in smoking, isn't it to still add more to the hotness they are experiencing in the environment. You are free to smoke but know your limit, don't be addicted and don't be a nuisance.

First of all I always say that smoking is a choice and a lifestyle, it's the same way some love to take alcohol or drugs, smokers are simply doing what they like. But the society misjudge them for this act, they see them as people that have no future or hoodlums. As long as you are doing it moderately and it doesn't affect your cognitive reasoning then there's absolutely nothing wrong with it. The only down side to this is your health, no one can tell people how to live their life, they can clearly see that what's written on the pack of cigarettes "SMOKERS ARE LIABLE TO DIE YOUNG" so they know that they are signing up for.

The people in your country are funny if you are talking about cigarettes, because I don't see how cigarette intake will make you automatically a bad gangster or make you look irresponsible. Are you trying to tell me that in this 21st century rich and average income earners does not smoke cigarettes. If it's hard drugs, I can understand that. Down here, the underage  youths are rushing into smoking

In my country smoking is not advisable, no one praises you when they see smoking and then we have hot climate here so you wouldn't say you are cold that's why you are smoking unlike in some European or American region where people smoke periodically because they are cold.

In Africa it's hot even during the rainy season it's not freezing the weather is just mild so when you smoke around here you are likely perceived to have joined a bad gang because why will you be smoking in a hot weather and most people that smoke appear  tattered they are majorly the ones in crime, criminals are likely to be smokers.

Even on the pack of  smokes it's written with a warning, smokers are liable to die young it damages liver and kidney. Although I didn't judge a smoker as a criminal at first sight it's just not advisable but generally when you smoke around here you are perceived as not presentable.

It's very sad and regrettable that in this day and time that we are, people are still thinking such way, because I know of so many people out there that smokes, but they are one of the best people I have met.
Though in my society also, most of the bad guys or criminals are smokers, but it doesn't mean that anyone that smokes are bad guys, some individual are addicted to it, some just love smoking, some people smokes to find their joy back, so it's very bad to see all smoker as evil set's of people.
Being evil is a matter of choice or how dark the person's heart is, not because he smokes.

I live in an environment where people perceive smokers as bad people. They see a smoker as someone who is bad, Someone who is not loyal, someone who is stubborn and have no love in him, someone who can easily hurt others, someone who is capable of committing crime in the society. And many more I can't remember. Maybe when you read this you can add more to the list. The question is why are Smokers viewed this way in the society?