Those are a couple of bad examples. Smokers know smoking is bad for you, and will often tell other people they shouldn't start smoking as they regret it themselves.
As such, disliking smoking is common amongst smokers, so the irony example doesn't really work. Even if you changed it to "people that have never smoked" it's actually fairly common for people to get lung cancer even if they've never smoked - passive smoking. It's why there are smoking bans all over the place.
Irony would be a man going to a meeting about road congestion in order to argue that it isn't a problem, but being late because of traffic. Hypocrisy would be a priest laying into modern society's loose morals, and then fucking the choirboy later on.
Teclo said: Those are a couple of bad examples. Smokers know smoking is bad for you, and will often tell other people they shouldn't start smoking as they regret it themselves.
As such, disliking smoking is common amongst smokers, so the irony example doesn't really work. Even if you changed it to "people that have never smoked" it's actually fairly common for people to get lung cancer even if they've never smoked - passive smoking. It's why there are smoking bans all over the place.
Irony would be a man going to a meeting about road congestion in order to argue that it isn't a problem, but being late because of traffic. Hypocrisy would be a priest laying into modern society's loose morals, and then fucking the choirboy later on.
Yeah, I guess I used a bad example. I'm not too good with them at times.
