Smoking

So, smoking. Why is that an act of 'being bad'. I must admit at first sight it does seem a rather petty action to be considered being bad, but perhaps that's the idiotic smoker in me. I say idiotic of course because lets face it, everyone knows the detrimental health consequences of smoking, let alone the monetary ones as well. But to be fair, there is one thing - if only one attribute - to smoking in favour of it. Which is of course namely, that is produces pleasure, at least for the majority of people who smoke. I've always said to myself, and I stand by it, that I can stop smoking anytime I wish, I simply don't wish to though... because it gives me pleasure. It's a curious fact that mostly what is goof for one's health is bad for pleasure, and reversed; smoking, drinking; certain foods; drugs. I speak generally of course, for there are exceptions, and that is not true for all people (not all drugs addicts get pleasure from the drugs obviously). But smoking is one that we perhaps are on firme ground as classing as such. For no doubt that it is addictive, and that is why most people smok, but if only for the very pleasure of satisfying the addiction it gives pleasure. I suppose we must weigh up the benefit of pleasure to the bad affects of smoking to see if it is truly 'being bad'. This is an enormous task of course, too much so to be fully elobrate on here. Suffice is it to say that on balance this author does consider smoking to 'being bad', as after all, with few exceptions - and even for those smoking is not the most opportune method to their aim - the near inevitable death or horrendous side effects of smoking in the end outweigh any trivial pleasure that can be derived from the act. By and large people don't want to die, and certainly not have to pay how many thousands or tens of thousands they pay to do so with smoking. Although here we must establish a maxim generally true; we value current pleasures over future effects, which is to say the present over the future, at least most often. But at the heart of 'being' bad is exactly such side effects as become from smoking; loss of health; loss of money; harm to other people. There can be little doubt that all of these crimes are commited by smoking, and thus smokers, so there can be little agument, really, that smoking is 'being bad', even if it is perhaps a lesser crime on balance than say, heroin abuse.