Do You Smoke?
Well I’ve got news for you. You’re not smoking. It is the cigarette that smokes. You’re just the sucker at the other end. You’re the one with the foul breath; the one with ash all over your desk; the one with the stinking room and the smelly curtains. You are also the one who, in all probability, is going to die of emphysema.
Yes, I know that you can’t do anything with nice set pink of lungs in your grave, but what will two coffee bags help you until that time? And yes again, I also heard that one about smoked meat lasting longer than other meat but let’s face it, that is exactly what you are going to end up as… dead meat.
Smoking first became popular a few hundred years ago. In 1612 John Rolfe was the first to cultivate tobacco on a commercial scale. Social smoking, as we know it today, became popular during the nineteenth century and was said to be “totally harmless”. It was even prescribed by some medical practitioners to “calm the nerves”. This, certainly, must have been the misconception of the century.
We all know the consequences of smoking today. The problem is so bad that cigarette manufacturers are forced to print warning messages on their products and insurance companies offer reduced premiums to non-smokers. I am absolutely convinced that tobacco (and therefore smoking) would have been totally banned if it were not that so many people were employed by the tobacco industry and for the fact that governments earned so much revenue in taxes!
Methinks that if we were made to smoke, we would have been created with chimneys on our heads!
A great Monday to you.
Comments (28)
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Me knows better, you have nipped out for a smoke
Yes, it was a she. And old lady of 79 who sat without electricity. Anyway, she is sorted out now.
I have only smoked five times in my life. Once for twenty years, twice for about five years and twice for about a year.
But jokes aside, I still consider myself a smoker. I just did not smoke for about four months. Every time I stop smoking, it last for about two or three years and then I start again. The first time I stopped (after 20 years) I managed to do without for five years. I should not party. Every time I started again was on a party when I had a few to drink.
I'm afraid not. But strange coincidence I have never had a girlfriend who smoked. Actually, I had one but she never smoked when we were together.
Smoking is really bad for people. It should be outlawed but the economic impact will be monstrous.
Funny enough, it is not that hard to stop once you have put your mind to it. I have stooped five times. The problem is to refrain from starting again. You only need to light a cigarette for somebody and you're sunk.
There you go spilling the beans again.
I have recently given it up for the fifth time. As every time before, I done with cigarettes. I do hope that this time cigarettes are done with me too.
It is hard to do...but I know you can do it!
Some of the tips I got to quit smoking worked very well. They are:
Spicy foods bring on the urge to smoke so try and avoid them.
Break habits that go with smoking i.e. drinking coffee/tea after a meal and smoking a cig. After eating a meal, instead of smoking, go outside and take a walk breathing deep to clear your lungs.Stop drinking alcohol until you have the smoking under control. When you want a cig very badly...take a cool shower to calm your nerves. And last but not least, do not carry cigs with you. Replace them with some mints or some other type of candy. So When you want a cig, reach and have some mints or candy!
Hope this helped!
Secondary smoke is what the medical profession causes cancer. Be careful!
Secondary smoke is what the medical profession says causes cancer. Be careful!
Sorry, left out the word says.
I lost my fear for death long time ago and cancer is one of the things I'm not scared of. I know all about it.
Oops! Gotta step out again....
I don't mind if a woman drinks. As long as she does not drink more then I do. But some how I don't like it when they smoke.
He does not want then.
My neighbors wife has lung cancer, she never smoked, and no she hasn t been near second hand smoke, no one in her family smokes. Her and her husband were shocked when a docter told her ,she shouldn't haved smoked,
I only smoked ONE cigarette once with my uncle's sons when young, they said smoke can stop my stomach spasm.
I suffered from the second -hand smoke for 18 years. Now if somebody smokes before me , I will run as far away as I could .
luck of the draw...sometimes genetics are the cause... anyways try to be healthy anyways...
I'm inclined to believe that once a smoker, always a smoker. You are ok once the nicotine has withdrawn but the craving stays. I once stopped for five years but the yearning for a cigarette stayed.
That is the best medicine if you don't smoke. Run for the hills.
A funny thing, when I stopped the previous time, I developed high blood pressure and was put on medication for it. When I told the doctor about giving up smoking he assured me that it was not related. When I started smoking again about a year later, my blood pressure went back to normal and I was taken off the medication. Once again my quack told me it has nothing to do with smoking. I will have to see what happens now that I have stopped again.