Anyone else watch The Biggest Loser?

It's still unthinkable that people inhale cigarettes year after year without the slightest concern. (Right now though...it's easier for a kid to buy a pack of smokes than purchase a bottle of Robitusin!) At the end of the day...if some of the herd is dying off...and they're too unaware to stop themselves...shouldn't someone step in and send them off onto the right path? Tough question to answer. Maybe Darwin was right. Valhallan: Do you really think people who smoke don't have "the slightest concern?" I think they do. They just ignore or suppress the concern because they are either: (1) addicted; (2) hoping miraculously to avoid cancer or some other insidious illness and thinking that perhaps it will strike some other poor soul; (3) intentionally living "in the moment" forgetting the potential impact while knowing it exists; or (4) chosing to do it because they like to smoke despite all the risks. And there are folks "stepping in." There is labeling and warning a plenty. Speaking just for my neck of the woods, my kids are bombarded in school with anti-smoking, anti-drug, anti-obesity, pro-nutrition messages. And activity, as Geek suggested, is practically legislated in my house. But that is in my house, which is not a democracy or even a republic ... So everyone's apprised unless they're living under a rock. People simply do not always make rational choices. Sometimes people just throw caution to the wind. That's why Darwin was right.

It's still unthinkable that people inhale cigarettes year after year without the slightest concern. (Right now though...it's easier for a kid to buy a pack of smokes than purchase a bottle of Robitusin!) At the end of the day...if some of the herd is dying off...and they're too unaware to stop themselves...shouldn't someone step in and send them off onto the right path? Tough question to answer. Maybe Darwin was right. Valhallan: Do you really think people who smoke don't have "the slightest concern?" I think they do. They just ignore or suppress the concern because they are either: (1) addicted; (2) hoping miraculously to avoid cancer or some other insidious illness and thinking that perhaps it will strike some other poor soul; (3) intentionally living "in the moment" forgetting the potential impact while knowing it exists; or (4) chosing to do it because they like to smoke despite all the risks. And there are folks "stepping in." There is labeling and warning a plenty. Speaking just for my neck of the woods, my kids are bombarded in school with anti-smoking, anti-drug, anti-obesity, pro-nutrition messages. And activity, as Geek suggested, is practically legislated in my house. But that is in my house, which is not a democracy or even a republic ... So everyone's apprised unless they're living under a rock. People simply do not always make rational choices. Sometimes people just throw caution to the wind. That's why Darwin was right.