Subscribe by EmailWhy YOU should stop smoking right now
November 18, 2007 by Kiltak |
It’s not a myth anymore. Everyone knows that smoking cigarettes will cause serious lung diseases such as lung cancer, emphysema, asthma, and many others. It’s no secret that tobacco smoke contains a large amount of toxic chemicals (tar, formaldehyde, arsenic, etc.,) but I’m sure you’re all aware of that.
What you may not be aware of is the very real, very disgusting effect smoke has on the delicate lung tissue. The following video may convince you to stop smoking right now, or to reach out to a friend or family member that smokes.
This clip shows the result that 400 cigarettes have on your lungs: about 7200 mgr of a black and sticky substance called tar, which contains a number of other deadly elements. Forward this article on to the people you care about.
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ow and it’s cheaper
The downside is, that for some strange reason it’s band in most countries
So I guess your post would qualify as bool stool.
looks like some rant from an uneducated dumbass. the lungs only regenerate because they’re no longer being exposed to cigarettes, they’ll never reach 100% again, ever. Exposing them to the smoke causes biological changes that won’t stop unless you stop smoking.
oh and you’re an idiot. Dunno if I mentioned that already.
Example: he picked out 18 mg cigarettes. Myself, and most people that I know, only smoke 8 mg - less than half.
Also - several times in the video, you see the cigarette smoking all the way to the filter, and it’s left there even longer. Don’t know about you, but I don’t know _anyone_ that smokes the filter.
(Unless they’re drunk and light it backwards
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Smoking causes far more harm than any other type of drug use. Lung disorders are numerous along with heart, lymphatic and other disease. They occur in many times more than normal, non-smokers. This is a well documented, well known fact in any medical field since the 1950s. To state anything else is to either be ignorant or to be initiating a flame war.
Only very young smoker’s lungs may be used for transplants as they are less likely to have severe damage, and used in cases where the recipient has no other options. Even then, the lung recipient is kept on a close watch for several years after to be sure they have no underlying disease symptoms.
You are right, the lung’s abilities to heal itself are quite amazing, but only AFTER the person has stopped smoking.
If you have been a heavy smoker for 55 years, I assume you are at least 65. As you get older, you will likely regret your smoking habit. And your lungs are a far cry from being used in any donor program.
Good luck!
And that was in the 70’s.. Of course, my parents thought all of this was crap at first and continued to smoke anyways. Unsurprisingly, when they quit smoking several years later, most of my problems stopped.
So if you have kids in your life, please have the decency of at least smoke outside… or quit smoking cigarettes for good. I had 3 friends who were regular smokers die from lung cancer in the past 2 years.. and before they died, they all suffered horribly.
Yes care should be taken while smoking that kids are not around while doing so… not only this applies to parents but also to others visiting someone with kids at home… That most countries now have rules it may not be applicable still, but never ask a kid to fetch a cigarette from nearby shop.
I’ve never smoked a cigarette in my life and I’m proud of it…word! No cancer in my lungs! (from cigarettes, there’s probably lung cancer in there as we speak from everyihng else such as pollution or other pplz second hand smoke)
So yeah, quit smoking lol! Take up marijuana, much healthier and spiritual, and u dont get addicted to it physically, so you can do it like once a week and that’ll be sweeeet!
Peace
I’m an ex smoker, I smoked up to 2 packs a day normally for the last 5 years, when I went out drinking, I smoked a lot more - You are saying that its just as addictive as Heroin or any other drug, no, it’s not, it’s the same as every thing else, its all a mental addiction - I quit one day by deciding that I’m spending money on something harming me instead of something that can benefit me.
Haven’t had a craving since I quit.
Doesn’t make smoking any cooler, just these results a little over-exagerated.
@Heavy Smoker:
There’s been a new FDA study lately that low-nicotine tobacco has the effect of reducing the amount that a person smokes. Light cigarettes are not the same thing. They use more porous paper and filters to incorporate more air into the ‘drag’ than would otherwise have been there. The problem is that smokers are a hard bunch to fool, so they end up taking deeper, more frequent, drags. Preliminary studies with reduced nicotine tobacco does not seem to follow these same trends.
As a smoker, i almost want to write my cogresspeoples to urge legislation giving the FDA control over the manufacture of cigarettes, to enforce a lower yield tobacco being made available.
Another well played out experiment.
Gee what a dope
also, sweet invention… like a powered bong, can you collect the smoke to smoke later?
its true that lungs can clean themselves, also that the fertilizer used in the production of tobacco is the source of 90% of lung cancers due to the radioactive chemicals it contains, American Spirit Tobacco offers an organic alternative.
Anyways, I never started smoking, and stopped smoking weed about a month ago.
I ride my bike a lot so it’s really bad on the lungs.
An addiction is an addiction, just like porn and coffee in the morning. Ever wondered what all that caffeine does to your brain activity?
And until you’ve done heroin or crack I wouldn’t compare them to tobacco, asshole.