Fundamental policy.
August 2006 - Oslo.
Smokers are really dumber - it is official. The fact that a person is able to ignore all the recent information about the dangers of smoking and continue with this habit proves that the person is dumb. It is understandable to look back 50 years and feel bad for the people that got sick smoking because they did not have the same access to reliable information about the dangers of smoking. Today we live in the realm of enlightenment - supposedly.
How can any business with a little respect for it self and its own profitability hire a smoker is not understandable. Anybody hiring a smoker is really dumber than the actual smoker. What makes a smoker absolutely a malign in the business organization: So what to do is: look around the office and count the number of people that are smoking. If you end up with a high percentage you know you are surrounded by idiots. Then there is a good chance you should just drop everything any find a healthier organization to put your energy into.
What is worse of stupidity or ignorance is difficult to say, but stupidity is likely to be worse of the two. Looking at smokers you can see that a lot of this habit has to do with group mentality and a social bounding ritual. A lot of smokers see it as a social thing, where they can get together and talk. When in this situation the real reason maybe to socialize and the whole smoking is a charade. It would sound dumb to ask a person "would you like to go outside and talk for ten minutes". Whereas opposed to asking "are you ready to go out for a smoke?". Quitting smoking would also involve a breaking of this social pattern. Breaking a social pattern would mean turning against the group and that would require independence.
How is it possible to respect a person that has no respect for himself? It is very difficult. A part of a person is a person's health. If a person is willing to poison himself, he has very little regard for himself.
How many hours a week goes into smoking. You can drive a car and smoke at the same time. Still a lot of time goes into this. The smoker has to go up and down stairs - in and out of doors - if he must go outside to smoke. This time could be used on other things.
People who waste money are dumb. In some countries like Norway the government has the decency to price and tax tobacco at reasonable levels. A reasonable level is reached when a hot topic for discussion in the smoker circle becomes the price of tobacco.
Smokers are not only dumb, lazy, sickening, untrendy, but also very constrained and dependent of social constructs. Smokers may seem to be very social, but in reality they can only comfortabliy socialize when doing the smoking routine and having a cigarette between their fingers.
Author: Jarle Brandt. Copyright. Research style and method.
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