We’ve all heard about the official polls that tell us that 80% of all smokers want to quit.
Well a week or so ago I put a simple poll in my sidebar asking visitors the simple question, “Do you want to quit smoking”.
There were only four simple answers:
YES, NO, NOT SURE, & OTHER. (I’m not sure why I included other?)
Now I really didn’t expect anything dramatic, as I suspected that as this blog is obviously pro-smoking there would be a bias to not quitting. However I was also expecting more yes votes polled, due to anti-smokers visiting and attempting to pervert the poll to some extent.
The total number who filled in the poll was only 123, but as I monitored over the days the ratio of yes’s to No’s never changed.
The Tobacco Control industry were right in the respect of 80%, but surprise, surprise the poll shows the exact opposite in opinion.
YES: 6.5%
NO: 82.11%
NOT SURE: 1.63%
OTHER: 9.76%
Obviously the Tobacco Control polls would have couched their poll answers slightly different to mine.
“Yes I want to give up smoking to save the planet from global warming”
“No I don’t want to give up as I want to kill all the children with my passive smoke”
I’ll leave it up a while longer to see if the ratios change. Then I may start another survey on a pet hate of mine. Wind turbines.
The question asked will be on the lines of:
“Do you think that wind turbines are the best thing since sliced Birds bread”.
I recall being questioned by some official or other along the lines "haven't you been able to give up smoking? Is it because you don't have enough will-power" Assumptive cow. I replied "I like smoking and have never tried to give up because I don't want to".
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Thanks. Obviously voted "No".
ReplyDeleteThanks. I voted "no" of course!
ReplyDeleteThe result doesn't surprise me at all. I currently don't know any smoker who wants to quit. The smokers I've known in the past who wanted to quit, did. No drama. And no patches / gum either. They just, for their own reasons, decided they wanted to stop smoking, so that's what they did.
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