Partially agreed. When it is the tenth cigarette I don't think 'choice' has a big say in it, but it is mostly driven by the addiction. And when it is the hundredth, there may be no room for 'choice' at all.LuckyR wrote: ↑February 24th, 2022, 12:57 pmAddressing smoking without mentioning it's addicting nature is misleading at best. Just as using the word "choice" to address issues that have addiction as a major facet, without also mentioning it's heavy influence is also misleading.EricPH wrote: ↑February 24th, 2022, 2:55 amHaving been a smoker, I think the first cigarette was a choice. Every smoke afterwards helps to reinforce the addiction, it is incredibly hard to break free.Sushan wrote: ↑February 23rd, 2022, 1:06 pmI think it is a habit or a choice more than ignorance. Almost all smokers know the health hazards of their habit. But they do not try to stop it because they are used to it. We see how many of them even openly speak about their illnesses which has caused by smoking, yet they never quit. Human mind and behaviour is very much difficult to understand.
Even after a forty year break, I sense that having just one smoke will send me back into addiction.
I was in my late forties when I started to search for God. Things then started to happen that reinforced those beliefs. I guess we justify to ourselves what we want to believe. Belief in God could be considered to be like an addiction we choose to feed.
We can't really be judged on what we believe. But we can be judged on what our beliefs inspire us to do.
I have never smoked. So I think first cigarette is a choice and anyone have the power to choose either to have it or not, with no influence from the 'addiction' at all.