RRS-1980 said:

You forgot that your therapist told you to stop comparing other people to yourself?

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I once discovered one of my buddies secretly hates my other buddy. I simply couldn't understand why, what grudges he could bear? It turned out he couldn't accept the other had less vices and more talents than him. True story.

Wrong answer.

You are supposed to say something along the lines of, 'I am inexplicably attractive to people of all ages and genders, astonishingly charismatic and sadly the smartest person I know, I see it as a curse'.

I then propose marriage.

Warbler said :

true, but at least when I booze and/or over eat while sitting next to someone, I am not giving them heart disease and/or liver problems.

True but have you heard about a domestic abuse case directly linked to smoking? I could imagine one linked to giving up smoking but not smoking itself. What about the hit and run drivers where their judgement was blurred by tobacco.

You never hear someone say the next morning, "I'm really sorry about those really awful and hurtful things I said last night, it was just the fags talking".

And the effect of watching someone you love destroying themselves with booze and over indulgence is exactly the same as watching someone chewing their lungs away on tobacco. Not everyone who smokes does it in close proximity to someone else.

Everyone who drives however is pumping crap into the faces of anyone nearby but cars don't have to have diseased lung livery or only drive in covered areas.

Some motorcyclists do however wear skulls and such and I have to love them for that.