Why do people that smoke get such a hard time, but fat people...?

Get a free pass? Why is it socially acceptable to tell someone that they're gross and disgusting for smoking cigarettes in their own free time, but it's not acceptable to tell some morbidly obese person that they're disgusting and killing themselves quicker than cigarettes would?And for that matter, why do obese people get handicap parking strictly for being obese? Shouldn't they be forced to park in the back of the (Walmart) parking lot so that they would have to walk farther? You don't eat yourself into a disability.

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As with so many bigoted people, you make the assumption that someone is overweight by choice.A person chooses to smoke but many people have health issues that make weight loss virtually impossible.Also, unless you're on a plane, it's rare that an obese person has any effect on your health the way 2nd hand smoke can affect others.I assume that since racial jokes are now considered offensive, you are rather provoked that you can only humiliate and attack the overweight.Please tell me that you are childless and will not be training a new generation to be as nasty and offensive as you are.

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• Indeed we need to help both out say not to smoking and eath unhealthy.
• your point are well taken
• Actually cigarettes are much more harmful. I wish they would ban cigarettes forever. Like 2nd hand smoke is bad for people. Obese people don't have a "2nd hand" thing if you know what I mean
• From a public health standpoint I think obesity is a much bigger problem. For one thing you must eat to survive (unlike smoking).Imaging telling an addict they had to quit, but giving them just a little bit of their drug every day for the rest of their life.
• It's rude either way (unless someone is smoking in your face). Everyone has the right to do what they want in there life weather that effects there health or not and no one else has a day weather they can or cannot do it. At the end of the day IT'S THERE LIFE. Not yours or anyone else's. so to JUDGE someone else is rude and disrespectful. Unless you are an all around 'perfect' person then you don't have the 'right' to judge someone else period. Why care? That's there life, there consequences so let them deal with it. People just need to mind there business and stop looking to judge others. If they're wrong? Tell them politely and if they don't listen? So be it. Live your own life and move on. Don't dwell on other people's actions that have nothing to do with you.
• Obese people don't threaten my health or impact my enjoyment of the locale by eating a big mac within 3 meters of me. I can't say the same about a smoker. A smoker puffing away within 3 meters is likely to involve a lot of coughing by me and any bystanders in proximity to this guy's cloud of exhaust.
• I can smoke, drink, fart and tell dirty jokes. If someone doesn't like it they can f^ck off.