The Realities Of Cigarette Smoking
Author: Rhett Downs
In the sixties, when the hippies ruled the world, cigarettes were available just about anywhere, and they can smoke pretty much anywhere they please - even in hospitals! Different advertisements of cigarettes filled the streets as well. But nowadays we're more aware about the different effects smoking can bring. It has also come to a point where smoking is prohibited in public places, and cigarette packets are required to include fair warning about their product's ill effects.
Here are some basic information about smoking:
1. Smoking is one of the most common forms of recreational drug abuse. Smoking, once started on, is a hard habit to break. This is thanks to a substance called nicotine which is found in tobacco leaves. Nicotine, like heroin and other addictive narcotics, make the mind and body quickly get used to it that it does not feel normal without it.
2. Nine out of ten tobacco and cigarette smokers taste their first puff before they reach the age of eighteen. And most adults who have started smoking in their teen never thought they would get hooked on the habit when they started. This is the same reason why they advise that it is easier not to get started on the habit.
3. Smoking increases a person's risk of developing heart diseases like heart attacks and stroke. It also increases the chances of having different forms of cancer like lung cancer, throat cancer, and cancer of the mouth. It may give a person lung problems like bronchitis, and emphysema.
4. Smokers are more likely to be absent from work than non-smokers, and their illnesses tend to last longer. This means smokers may incur more medical costs because they see physicians more often. They also have a tendency to be admitted to the hospital more often and for longer periods of time as compared to those who do not smoke.
5. Smokers have a lower survival rate after surgery than non-smokers. This is because cigarette smoking may also affect the body's immune system, which may cause delayed would healing, and reduce immune response. And because the immune response is reduced, there is a great probability that complications may come up after surgery.
6. Periodontitis, a serious gum disease which may lead to tooth and bone loss, may also be caused by cigarette smoking because it smoking affects the body's natural ability to fight off infection and repair damaged tissues.
7. Smokers have a higher chance at developing peptic ulcers, which can be located in the stomach and the duodenum, as compared to people who do not smoke cigarettes. If peptic ulcers are left untreated, this condition may be fatal.
8. Aside from serious medical conditions, smoking may also give a person bad skin. This is because smoking restricts blood vessels, preventing oxygen and other nutrients from getting to the skin.
9. Cigarette smoking may also leave a person with bad breath. And if it becomes persistent, it may develop into a condition called halitosis.
10. The smell of stale smoke lingers and sticks to a smoker's clothes and hair. And it is pretty difficult to remove.
Before you start smoking, think it over and ask yourself: "Do I really want all these medical conditions to affect me?" This may as well help you decide whether or not you're going to light that first stick or not.
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Can you give a lecture on the negative effects of smoking cigarettes, so i have my husband read it?
What are the long term, negative effects of smoking cigarettes? I am trying to help my husband, who has been smoking for 10 years, to quit. Maybe if he hears from others, besides me, it will help.
Be honest, be dramtic if you have to! Dont sugar-coat it! If you can provide links with pictures of lungs, etc, that would help.
Really give it to him! Dont be scared. He needs to know what can, might, and will happen.
Please no cussing though, or putting him down, that doesnt help a person.
Thanks!
Alot of bad side effects. Quit now and your lungs will start to repair themselves. I hate I missed your earlier question, but 16 drops = 1 cc/ml., 5ml = 1tsp, 15 ml = 1 TBS… Nurse Stay RN, BSN
I just tried smoking my first cigarette yesterday?
It was viceroy menthol. Suprisingly I didnt cough or anything but might be because I didnt inhale deeply enough.But I inhaled enough to blow out a little smoke.
Cant believe a person can get addicted to this stick anyway…lol…But I wanna train until I can smoke like a normal smoker( doesnt look like a first-timer ) ,BUT I dont smoke unless someone offers me a cigarette when I go out party or something so that it isnt odd…
cheers guys!!! BTW smoking is unhealthy so dont smoke too much…
and I know u guys gonna lecture me abt the effects of smoking. I fully well know it, but i often find that the media potray it too extremely. Showing pictures of people with lung cancer, blood from the brain etc when this cases happen to people who are heavy smokers and have been smoking for years…
ok i dont really get it…
ur excited that u smoked BUT ur telling people not to smoke cause its bad…??
w/e smoking is disgusting
How to create the effect of smoke coming out of your mouth without cigarettes?
I was at the mall today and saw one of those Electronic Cigarette smoking everywhere things and it was interesting. You can buy them without nicotine or tobacco, and it still creates smoke. I really like the way smoke looks in pictures when coming out of somebody’s mouth. How could i do this without photoshopping it in, smoking a cigarette, or buying these $150 e-cigarettes?
thanks
Make a fire(or something that creates smoke), when the smoke rises get a mouthful of it, and then blow it out. It works! I’ve done it and it doesn’t taste bad!
Hope this helps.
What is “TERTIARY” cigarette smoke? Can’t find it on Google.?
Someone told me it’s “What the fetus of a smoking mother injests” but I know the fetus gets it’s oxygen from the mother’s bloodstream, not directly from the air. Some other genius told me it’s “The 3rd-hand harmful effects of cigarette smoke such as smoke in clothing or even pictures of people smoking” . THE REASON I AM WONDERING is because they passed an anti-smoking ordinance in my city but never define tertiary smoke in the ordinance (weird for a legal document!)
tertiary is 3rd hand smoke like someone else said but I cannot define the types of 3rd hand smoke
Why do people like to smoke cigarette?
People say smoking is “cool”, i say smoking is stupid and not cool. I thought if people smoke the first time, they cough. Then why do they want to do that again? Who the hell likes coughing?! Besides won’t they know already that smoking is bad, they put up sign boards, internet, newspaper and TV, and they even put those harmful smoking effects picture on the cigarette box. Can’t those smokers see?!
People who say Smoking is “Cool” obviously don’t know Cigarettes will kill you in the end.
I’ve been smoking for 2 years now (I’m almost 20, started when I was 18) and trust me … once you start smoking and keep the routine going it’s very very hard to quit. I’ve tried quitting (no nicotine or anything just willpower) and I relapse not even 5 days in. And yes, we do see the warnings on the box. Most of us though, willfully ignore it.
Also, yes you do cough when you first start smoking and it ain’t pretty. But once you’ve gotten use to that it’s all downhill with the addiction. And soon after that comes the smoking when you’re stressed and need to calm down .. then you’re in it for the longrun.
Hopefully though, most will people learn that smoking should not be a means of looking “Cool” nor should it be a means of relieving stress. There are other options that are healthier.