"pipe down"...muthfucka, WHAT?!?!

Um, what? She isn't publishing this in JAMA. It is, as you say, a personal piece. She's describing her own subjective personal experience. As a recovered anorexic, I can really relate to this, and could give a shit what the medical consensus is. She never said she was speaking medically, and it's not written in a…

I understand why you would take this perspective, but it's one thing to search for medical explanations, and another to completely discount the subjective experiences of all of the people who describe their lifelong struggles with these illnesses. There's no medical consensus that it's not true.

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I am just about to take a nap.

No.

My three-year-old just said she wanted to be this little girl for Halloween.

And it's that attitude that means there will always be smokers, de-incentivizes smokers to quit. It's similar to the "I don't care about women I just want babies to stop being killed" attitude toward abortion.

I don't actually give a shit about smokers. As someone with a lifelong health issue because of smokers, I care more about innocent children being exposed to smoke.

That's a very small part of the picture and is a band-aid. It has decreased the effect on non-smokers, yes, and that's good. But that could have been done without the stigma of smoking being equated to a personality flaw. It could have been done with facts about second-hand smoke, which it was.

I personally think it does help. Sigma has helped ban smoking in public places.

The discussion isn't whether smoking hurts people around you. It's whether the stigma helps. It doesn't.

It's because smoking hurts people beyond the smoker. My grandmother died from lung cancer. I have severe asthma because my mother ignored my doctors and exposed me to smoke. So I don't care about classist, or "addiction", smoking hurts the people atoms you.

I have lifelong health issues because of family members smoking. So yes, I judge smokers who are hurting their kids with their habit.

I think the stigma against smoking is doing more harm than good. I mean, look at these comments. "I judge smokers more harshly than almost anyone else."

I was indoctrinated as a child that only trashy, ill-educated, dirty people smoke. Please nobody flame me—I am parrotting my upbringing and not personally slamming you. It is still extremely difficult for me to not judge smokers, and I have found myself more than once using, "Smoker!" as an epithet. I remember being…

As a smoker, I feel very much put down and discriminated, as if I were a walking disease. Also feel the pressure of people, such as in the family, telling me I set a bad example for the younger generations, as if it were my fault if they picked up smoking (I would never give a cigarette to somebody underage, or…

I am so happy that indoor smoking is outlawed where I live. Being around cigarette smoke makes me ill for weeks. So I definitely hold a stigma against smokers, for reasons: