And for many it is also true that they don't want to quit because they think they can'tKieran Huggins wrote:If you want to smoke, smoke. You won't be able to quit unless you actually want to.
Here in Europe there are more and more countries who finally disallow smoking in bars and restaurants. Like Belgium (my southern neighbors), Italy and a couple of other countries. Maybe for America that's nothing, as the anti-smoking has been going on there for a bit longer. But here in Europe it's still a slow process.
I'm glad though and hope the Netherlands follow soon. As it is now, the bars and restaurants have to decide for themselves to allow smoking or not. But obviously that doesn't work. They are afraid they loose clients. But in those countries which have banned smoking in bars the turnover has actually increased. Maybe because more non smokers can finally go out or because people eat more if they aren't in someone else's smoke.
But back to quitting: I agree with Kieran. If you want to smoke, fine. As long as you don't bother other people with it I don't mind. Also, because people who smoke live around ten years shorter (so less retirement remittance necessary) and pay a lot of taxes (on the cigarettes), the extra costs of treating smoking related deceases are well compensated. So financially it doesn't matter too much for a country if people smoke or not. (ok, that might be totally wrong, but you get the point
Anyway, good luck Ninja!