Dear everyone. Smoking is bad for you. Don't complain about how much it costs, because the high cost could be saving many lives, whether you want to save yours or not. It drives me crazy that people complain about not having money and smoke. Then quit.
"it's hard" and "it's an addiction"
I don't care if it's hard, because people quit all the time. My grandma and grandpa smoked for years, and they quit. So you can too, there are no excuses.
-4.5 trillion non-biodegradable cigarette buds are discarded every year.
-600 million trees are destroyed every year to provide fuel for tobacco production, this accounts for %12 of deforestation.
-Cigarette smoke contains around 4000 chemicals, 200 are poisonous and at least 69 have been proven to cause cancer.
Why do kids start anymore? In all honesty, a lot of the time it's because parents or other people that they are around a lot smoke and the've become addicted without a choice of their own.
Everyday I'm disgusted by how many people smoke still, how many people smoke around their children, and how many people START smoking. There is absolutely no excuse to start anymore, not that there ever was a good excuse anyway. But it's not cool. It doesn't make you look good, it yellows and rots your teeth, and whether people tell you or not, you smell AWFUL.
"Studies show that thirdhand smoke clings to hair, skin, clothes, furniture, drapes, walls, bedding, carpets, dust, vehicles and other surfaces, even long after smoking has stopped. Infants, children and nonsmoking adults may be at risk of tobacco-related health problems when they inhale, ingest or touch substances containing thirdhand smoke" -Mayo Clinic
So you don't smoke in the house or in your car when kids are there, but you do all the time otherwise? You're still hurting them. They're still inhaling your chemicals without a choice in the matter.
Here's what you're REALLY smoking (and releasing into our atmosphere, and letting decompose into our earth and into our groundwater, and making everyone around you inhale.) :
"it's hard" and "it's an addiction"
I don't care if it's hard, because people quit all the time. My grandma and grandpa smoked for years, and they quit. So you can too, there are no excuses.
-4.5 trillion non-biodegradable cigarette buds are discarded every year.
-600 million trees are destroyed every year to provide fuel for tobacco production, this accounts for %12 of deforestation.
-Cigarette smoke contains around 4000 chemicals, 200 are poisonous and at least 69 have been proven to cause cancer.
Why do kids start anymore? In all honesty, a lot of the time it's because parents or other people that they are around a lot smoke and the've become addicted without a choice of their own.
Everyday I'm disgusted by how many people smoke still, how many people smoke around their children, and how many people START smoking. There is absolutely no excuse to start anymore, not that there ever was a good excuse anyway. But it's not cool. It doesn't make you look good, it yellows and rots your teeth, and whether people tell you or not, you smell AWFUL.
"Studies show that thirdhand smoke clings to hair, skin, clothes, furniture, drapes, walls, bedding, carpets, dust, vehicles and other surfaces, even long after smoking has stopped. Infants, children and nonsmoking adults may be at risk of tobacco-related health problems when they inhale, ingest or touch substances containing thirdhand smoke" -Mayo Clinic
So you don't smoke in the house or in your car when kids are there, but you do all the time otherwise? You're still hurting them. They're still inhaling your chemicals without a choice in the matter.
Here's what you're REALLY smoking (and releasing into our atmosphere, and letting decompose into our earth and into our groundwater, and making everyone around you inhale.) :
- Beryllium (used in nuclear weapons and x-ray machines)
- Styrene (used in car tires and asphalt)
- Formaldehyde (used in explosives, car wax, and carpet cleaner)
- Hydrogen CYANIDE (used in rat poison and chemical weapons)
- Carbon Monoxide (you know, that gas that people have detectors for in their houses because they're scared of it? You are voluntarily inhaling it and filling our air with it)
- Lead (which is no longer allowed in paint because it's extremely poisonous, but go right ahead and fill your lungs with it)
- Ammonia (found in cleaners that you use gloves for...)
- Cadmium (in batteries and car oil)
- Butane (used in lighter fluid)
Go ahead and tell me you don't care if it hurts you, but do you care if it hurts the people you love? In more ways than one? Do you care that they have to take all that into their lungs just to be around you? Do you care that they'll have to be the ones left here missing you when cigarettes kill you? Are your daily smokes enough to risk not seeing your children, grandchildren, nieces, nephews, and other family grow up? And what if they decide they can't justify letting you put them at risk and stop coming around?
You may not care what your cigarettes do to our world, but cigarettes are AWFUL for our environment.
If your not going to quit for yourself, do it for the people that love you. This is the tough love, brutal honesty right here. Don't be selfish about it, it's not all about you, no matter how much you try to convince yourself it is.
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