@jerv What I mean is that you make the choice (a series of choices, actually) to buy a pack of cigarettes, light one, and smoke it. Therefore, blaming anything else is ridiculous because the cigarettes do not jump into your lungs by themselves. The examples you gave were exterior things happening to someone, not the same here b/c with cigarette smoking it is something you do to yourself. People put down things that they are addicted to everyday. It’s wishful thinking when people blame cigarettes for things (for example, your story of you grabbing your wife). The added stress that comes with trying to stop an addiction can make it easier for people to snap in ways they otherwise wouldn’t, but it is the overall lack of self control that leads to those actions.
You’re free to have the opinion that people over-react to cigarette smoke (hell, some of them do) but I only referred to harmful effects that have been proven, not merely claimed. There is a difference between “fact” and “opinion”. You can’t have the “opinion” that cigarettes are not harmful when they are proven to be harmful. You can be delusional to the fact, but it’s not something you can have an opinion on… that would be the same as saying your opinion is that there is no gravity, no other planets besides the Earth, or any other fact.
And I don’t see where religion plays a part in being able to state facts about the harmful effects of cigarettes. I haven’t said anything that I made up or believe to be true… just things that I know to be true. You’re citing extreme examples to try to discount me, not sure why.