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What is with all the smoking these days? I feel like everywhere I go lately, the chemical-laden scent of cigarette vapors seek out my nostrils. Why is that? I'm just minding my business, drinking my water, and next thing I know, I'm breathing in someone else's second-hand smoke, which is actually worse than inhaling it first-hand.
I understand smoking is a right people have, but I have a right to not inhale the leftover vapors. It's not like caffeine, where someone else can ingest it and makes no difference to me. I feel like I have to walk on eggshells when around smokers, asking them to smoke away from me. They always get their feelings hurt and act like I have no right to say anything.
I do not condone drugs, legal or illegal, in any way shape or form. But when someone says they want to smoke some cannabis, I understand why. They want to get high. They obviously do not care that marijuana smoke can actually be worse than cigarette smoke. The point is, they have a goal, despite how misguided it might be. What's the point with cigarettes? Why do people start out smoking? What are they trying to accomplish? I do not know.
What I do know is that cigarettes contain a lot more than tobacco. Take a look at these wonderful ingredients: formaldehyde, ammonia, tar, nicotine, carbon monoxide, and hydrogen cyanide. These are substances that will kill you if you ingest them. Obviously the memo has not gotten out to smokers that this stuff will also kill you if you inhale it. Maybe slower, but it will kill you eventually.
The possibility of pulmonary diseases like emphysema, strokes, heart attacks, Beurger's disease (this is where your fingers and toes eventually need to be amputated because blood stops circulating in those areas) are very high. Actually if someone smokes over a long period of time, these conditions are absolutes, not possibilities.
It's just better to not smoke and just exercise and eat healthy.
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