Cigarettes

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thats some long ass essay lol

 

kinda reminds me about the family guy episode "SMOKE" loooool

 

Hmm i see your point. While i respect your views, for me I just would not want to live that long. 60 is enough for me if i even get there. It probably might be the state that im in right now with the whole depression and being bipolar/ADD who knows my views may change but for now I can honestly say I could care less.

 

OK. I have been studying cigarettes/nicotine/tobacco for the past TWO WEEKS. Sythe, what you said about Tobbaco being much safer than alcohol is not entirerly true. Cigarettes can kill you just as fast as illegal drugs. It is slightly better than eating tar. Cigarettes contain over 4,000 chemicals and 43 of these are carcinogens. [cancer causing substance]

Yes, alcohol makes people do stupid things, but smoking imo, is worse. It has MANY MANY MANY side effects such as: Killing off your cilia [easier to get diseases]
Killing off aveoli[Air sacks in the lungs] That allow you to breathe and function normally.
Oral cancers
Receeding gums
Gum cancer
Tooth decay
Ets [Secondhand/sidestream smoke] This is actually more dangorous than a cigarette. sidestream smoke can be inhaled by other non-smokers and have DEVISTATING consiquences.

For example.
A woman flight attendant worked on an aiplane serving smoking travelers for about 8 years. She was then diagnosed with lung cancer. Having no other reasons to beleive why she got it, she sued major tobacco companies for 200 million+. She LOST THE USE OF HER RIGHT LUNG. She did nothing wrong.

Sure a smoker might be able to liive with destroying his own body, but what about others?

ALSO: smokeless tobacco is 3x more toxic than cigarettes. Cigars 2x.

 

@Sleeping:
On a side note, you obviously don't smoke cigars like you smoke cigarettes.

 

First hand smoke over 20-30 years of smoking can cause cancer. You think second hand is worse? Wrong.

Sythe summed it up rather well actually.

 

Keep it going..

 

So what one was it? (why did you start in the first place?) I started because i thought it was cool and everyone around me was doing it so it just was something that passed on to me from the family i guess.

How old were you when you started? i believe 13 maybe 14.

Any regrets? I regret it 100% im addicted and waste money on smokes almost everyday. I am for sure 100% going to quit in time to come! Its no way to waste money or get cancer!

 

This may be a little off-topic, but you can replace everything with Marijuana and get the same outcome. If this is applied, why do so many people have a prejudice opinion on the herb? Is it because of the urban influence, or the government's concern on the few parents who actually smoke pot (again on your argument). This is so true though man.

 

Addictions are for the weak willed.

If you had a reason to quit you could quit.

I smoked cigs, did painkillers, pot for 3 years and when one of my girlfriends encouraged me to quit I did and it was a little difficult but I was fine, you know what took 5 times as much effort in doing? when I quit caffeine still did but know I decided I need the energy in the morning so I am starting back up but not as much as I was.

 

17 years old and never smoked a cig or weed. Don't plan on doing that either, I'd rather spend the money from that crap on my life.

 

I've smoked countless cigarettes, black n milds, cigars, and even dipped a few times.

I quit cig's cause of there taste, without a problem. I go weeks sometimes without any form of tobacco. So what I'm trying to say is, they aren't as addicting as people make them out to be.

You actually can, you may not die, but I've overdosed on tobacco before and it was not fun. Just mainly throwing up.

A matter of fact, you can overdose and die off of nicotine gum.

 

Exactly how old are you?

Also, I think I know you from somewhere. Maybe SlashScape lol?

 

The study you have linked to only showed that moderate drinking causes the brain to shrink. It makes no claim about cognitive function. I found a study about brain size related to cognitive function in brain shrinkage caused by aging. It showed no corilation between the two. Because the cause of the shrinkage is different, it does not show difinitively the harm caused by this shrinkage. In fact having one or two drinks per day has been shown to be benifitial by many studies. On the other hand I do think that bienge drinking is more harmful socially and healthwise.

"Sensible drinking also appears to be beneficial in reducing or preventing diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, bone fractures and osteoporosis, kidney stones, digestive ailments, stress and depression, poor cognition and memory, Parkinson's disease, hepatitis A, pancreatic cancer, macular degeneration (a major cause of blindness), angina pectoris, duodenal ulcer, erectile dysfunction, hearing loss, gallstones, liver disease and poor physical condition in elderly."
- http://www2.potsdam.edu/hansondj/alcoholandhealth.html

shrinkage study - http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-06/ra-sbb060905.php

Putting asside the obvious flaws in the evidence you provided for moderate drinking, your argument has little merit. You are just using something you deem more harmful to justifify something else thats bad for you. "Oh look those people are huffing glue now I can feel good about smoking cigarettes instead"

Furthermore you go on to make several false claims while at the same time chastising others for not providing evidence.

You can overdose quite easily on nicotine.

Alcohol is very weakly carcinogenic. Tobbaco has many carcinogens and nicotine itself is even a carcinogen.

I find your position to be a tough to argue for. You are for the use of tobbaco, as if the benifits outweigh the risks. Smoking is harmful, there is no doubt about that. I agree that people should have the freedom to choose to put whatever they want into there bodies, but i'm not going to enchurage others to smoke. I do not smoke cigarettes, though i do enjoy cigar or hookah every couple months. Starting to smoke regularly is a poor choice that is usually made by someone to nieve to weigh the risks before getting addicted. Once your smoking its very hard to stop and many people who now regret starting are unable to stop to prevent the long term harm it causes. Anything in excess can be a bad thing including cigarettes cigars hookahs alcohol weed exc.

 

16 years young.

 

People do anything they can to try to make this life a little less shitty . I would wrather die at a younger age than normal then have to live in these horrible times. if you still live with your parents you wont understand.

 

Started smoking tobacco right before I tried marijuana, To compare these two, I prefer tobacco since it's not as mind twisting and unpredictable as pot. I do not smoke tobacco that much only on some occasions, I used to do it couple days a week, then I would do it weekly, then these weird patterns, and now I haven't smoked for like a month, it's not really THAT addicting for me, but yeah, I would 100% prefer it over marijuana, I'd rather have a healthy state of mind, now don't throw bullshit at me that tobacco is more bad for your mind than marijuana, after a few tries of marijuana I have gotten pretty bad anxiety and other bullshit that bothers me everyday, after tobacco, nah, just bad breath for a day or two. And yes I do know that tobacco is hazardous for your health, I'm not gonna lie, it is dangerous for the lungs, thats why I do not do it often. But meh, at least it's not crack.

 

If you do tobacco occasionally like you say, you will get a high... Which isn't called getting high, it's called getting "buzzed," and it can fuck you up.