worse legal vices

gambling no doubt.

 

IMO-

Drinking followed closely by gambling then a distant last is smoking. All 3 hurt the vice user but I think drinking does more serious (even deadly) harm to others.

 

1)Smoking
2)Drinking
3)Gambling

Gambling ruins your life a short period of time before one realizes they have a problem. Many people refuse to deal with smoking until its too late. Its harder to deal with (There is not exactly smokers AA meetings)

 

Unless you are gambling on the stock market.

 

Smoking.

Besides the obvious reason (evil cigarettes!!!),

I thought about this as "ease of doing"

You can smoke a lot easier than gamble or drink, especially if you're talking about cost and availability.

So if its easier, you do more, which makes it worse.

(don't like the way that sounded, but I'm leaving it...for now)

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I only smoke mar1juana. Even then, its still much less than the average cig smoker.

 

1. Gambling is by far the worst. You can get yourself into so much trouble with a gambling addiction. A huge, huge debt is perhaps the worst thing imaginable. Gambling can ruin lives like nothing else.

As for #2, it really depends. If a person is an alcoholic and smacks around the spouse or kids whenever he/she gets drunk, then I'd be inclined to put drinking for #2.

If, however, the person just likes to drink all the time and doesn't abuse anyone else while doing so, then smoking should be #2 because it is just a wee bit more harmful to your health than drinking and is more likely to affect others.

 

Gambling by a mile.

 

I don't understand how "huge, huge debt" is worse than "smacking around the spouse or kids". And with drinking you also have drunk driving which mame or kill innocent people every day.

 

depends on ya criteria

Potential Disaster?
alcohol can kill quicker and more people
[yourself and who ever you run into . . or simple alcohol poisening]
Smoking can kills but it is slower and you can expose more people to it through second hand smoke and it will not get them for years down the line

So . . .Quick versus impact

Rocket River

 

Doritos and Chocolate Chip ice cream.

 

I think food is an underrated vice.

 

The huge debt also causes you to smack around your spouse and kids out of anger. Plus you have no money to feed the kids anything except for McDonald's 29 cent hamburgers (you have to stock up for an entire week each Wednesday).

 

Drunk driving isn't legal...

Alcohol is a vice that can hurt only yourself. You don't have to drive when you drink. You don't have to be abusive when you drink. Plenty of drunk people are happier and nicer when they drink.

Smoking isn't good for anyone, but just because you smoke doesn't mean you will get cancer, or that you weren't going to anyways.

Gambling can ruin your life and hurt everyone around you. Of course you could always become rich.

I'd say gambling because it is so easy to go to far, and it will likely lead to drinking, and smoking(at the very least second hand smoke where you gamble).

 

I the slope is most slippery with gambling. It stimulates the testosterone centers in men, which is really bad because you actually need to use your head and not your balls when playing something like poker to win. Unfortunately, the biggest constituent of gamblers constitute the poor and uneducated, which means they are the ones hurt the most by it. Granted, alcoholism and smoking affect the poor mostly too, but it just comes down to your assessment of how each vice is distributed.

I tend to believe that alcohol and smoking are more evenly distributed across the social classes than "Stupid Gambling", which would constitute slot machines, other Vegas games where your return rate is <48%, and card games like poker and blackjack WHEN you have no knowledge of the math whatsoever.

 

It is Gambling with out a doubt.

Because it only takes one day or one time to get hooked. It only takes one day to lose all your money. With drinking and smoking, it takes much longerr.

 

pick your poison? i can't say any is much worse than the other.

i'll look at it like this... if i had to choose which vice a loved one should have (given the 3 choices) i'd choose smoking.

so the worst two IMO would be drinking and gambling. can't decide between them.

 

Does the word "legal" and/or "lack of real anonymity" mean anything to you?