Fed Up of Being Regarded As a Villain With a Cigarette

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While I fully understand the consequences of smoking both for the person doing it and the people around them, I choose to smoke anyway (as my entire family smokes also). I started when I was 16, and I found it rather strange that it somehow provided me with a twisted approval from people around me; beforehand, ever since I came to Canada when I was 11, I couldn't fit in at all, and I was what you would call the outcast kid that everybody made fun of. I'm not saying that smoking made me a better person, but it did indeed improve my social status and my overall confidence with it, as I slowly began more efficiently socializing with people right at the beginning of the year that I began smoking. I know a lot of non-smokers are frowning and scoffing right now, so I'll get to the point. Smokers may have a dirty habit, but they are by no means "bad people"; Tell that to the people who judge them based on their habit, though, or the policemen who assume that a high school student that smokes, also carries illegal substances. Tell that to the American and Canadian government that bans smoking in bars, pool halls, and internet cafes (and just about anywhere else, pretty soon, I'm sure). Tell that to just about anyone that doesn't smoke, or who quit smoking, and they will menacingly wiggle their index finger at you, indicating their supremacy and power over you, because you are the "slave" of the cancer-stick. Not everyone is like this, and I have nothing but respect for the people who have to put up with smokers and second-hand smoke and don't complain about it - and don't get me wrong, nobody should have to do that. I'm much more concerned about the moral and ethical outlook that some non-smokers have towards smokers, and the spite they support for them. Smokers are people just like everybody else, and I have a problem with being persecuted as one. I go out of my way to assure that I do not bother anyone with my habit, and I still receive wise comments and negative feedback just because I choose to do something that is not a physical pro. I personally love smoking, and not because I think that it makes me cool or anything of the sort; simply because It is one vice that I profoundly enjoy.