how does smoking effect our own lives?and wut does it do to our health?
470194
1 you can get Cancer 2 you can have a stroke 3 heart attack
159090
If you drink too much Alcohol, you become labeled an Alcoholic. But that doesn't affect me unless you get behind the wheel of a car...\n\nAs for Cigarettes, they just make you stink,(especially when I have to walk through it on my way into the mall, grocery store, drug store, etc...) and the smoke then pollutes the air, my lungs, my friends lungs, family, pets, etc... Who cares about what the smoker is doing to themselves!\n\nSo, I'd have to say they both rank as the same evils in my book.
428712
I fail to comprehend why anyone would start smoking? I challenge you to name me one benefit to smoking.
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There are so many things that smoking does to the body. The really sad fact is that it does not just hurt the smoker. It really does effect all persons around them. \nA smoker has increased risk of respiratory and vascular complications. Smoking actually creates a tar substance in the lungs and decreases the persons capacity to take in oxygen. Also smokers veins and arteries are constricted from chemicals in the cigarettes. This puts them at a higher risk for blood clot causing stroke.\nMothers who smoke when they are pregnant usually have smaller babies. A nonsmokers umbilical cord (which supplies nourishment to the baby) is usually about wide as a roll of quarters and the smokers umbilical cord is about as thick as a pencil. \nChildren who grow up in the home of a smoker are at higher risk for developing asthma and/or allergies. They can develop lung cancer just as easily as the actual smoker can. Not to mention that growing up with parents who smoke puts them at higher risk for becoming smokers themselves. \nI have a grandfather that smokes. He is eighty. The last several years he has been on oxygen. He wakes up at night because he can't get his breath. He has a barrel chest because that is what your body does to try and help you get more oxygen. Your lungs try to get bigger so they can take in more oxygen because the cigarettes have destroyed portions of the lungs over the many years of smoking. Some people would say he has made it to eighty and that is a long time for a smoker to live. You have to keep in mind that most of his family lived into or close to their 100's. They say that every cigarette takes five minutes off your life. There is no telling how long he could have lived if he had just been able to stop smoking.
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I knew all of the risks involved in smoking and started anyway because I simply just wanted to fit in.  Stupid I know, but I am proud to say that I quit smoking 2 years ago.  I also lost someone close to me to cancer.  It was my mother and she died of colon cancer.  She never smoked a day in her life.  Some people die from lung cancer and never smoke either.  Smoking is a highly addictive drug.  Even though people know what could happen to them, they just don't care anymore because the nicotine has control of them.  Its sad, but true.
408511
No because when you drink something it gets into your blood stream and smokeing it will have a differant effect, it is absobed differantly. I don't think it will actally do anything to you apart from maybe make you sick
912152
Smoking is bad for your health - period.
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Smoking affects the respiratory system by coating the insideof the lungs with nicotine which decreases the ability of the aveoli to move air. That's why smokers don't have very good stamina for sports. \n\nIt affects the circulatory system by constricting blood vessels. This increases the rate that your heart has to work (blood pressure goes up, etc.)
52242
Anything you smoke can affect your lungs. Marijuana like most things can either be used or abused, like food for example. Its incredible to me that people will criticize pot, but not alcohol and tobacco, both of which are vastly evidenced as far more harmful than pot.  But regarding your health, pot may help you relax, loosen up, have fun, etc., but the problem is when you began to crave it, need it, and develop addiction. Just be aware!
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smoking has not been proven to take away any time from your life.  \n\nBesides......what if you never smoked so you could live as long as you wanted to.....then you step out in front of a city bus and get squashed......that city bus is much easier to measure thatn the 'smoking kills' farce.
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There's no doubt that smoking is not good for you but....\nI would be more concerned about the air you breathe daily!\nI would be more concerned about what we eat!laboratory experiments show that pigs can indeed be infected by Mad Cow brains--and hundreds of thousands of downer pigs, too sick or crippled by injury to even walk, arrive at U.S. slaughterhouses every year.This article also includes info on other meat sources as well! A good read and "food" for thought No pun intended!\nDid you know that the average person takes over 20,000 breaths a day.We spend our entire day breathing in and out and yet, most of the time, we don’t even think about it.  We’re not aware of a function which is vital for sustaining life.  \nOf the air cancer risk calculated by EDF for the U.S. as a whole, 60 percent is from mobile sources and 26 percent from small business 'area; sources, with the remaining 14 percent from industrial 'point' sources.Wouldn't cigarettes be considered an air cancer risk since we breathe in the smoke?\nMore people die each year in the United States from medical errors than from highway accidents, breast cancer or AIDS, \n\nSo you see it doesn't really matter where you live,how much money you have,or what you do to earn a living,we all breathe the same air and buy our food from the same food chain,From the minute you are born,you begin to die,so don't take life too seriously,you're not going to come out of it alive,and a hundred years from now,nobody's going to give a rats behind about you any ways!so chill,don't worry be happy! and smile!
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You do not know what will be the reason you die until you do. I have known many people who smoked for many years and lived to ripe old age and died a natural death. \n What I find so interesting is that more people are getting sicker and at younger ages no matter what they are doing in their lives.\n Certainly smoking is not good for you. I do not believe people think it is cool anymore to do so as they did back in maybe the 50's. But then it was common to come home and have your wife hand you a martini after work too. Times change,attitudes change\n Habits change, lifestyles change. \n  And guess what there are smokers who actually enjoy smoking and are healthier than some of their contemporaries..\n As I said you do not know what will cause your demise. Their are many things we do and are exposed to in this world of ours that cause many health problems and Social problems (like alcohol)\n You certainly don't hear about the guy who smokes his cigerette then smacks his kids or wife around? Or woman doing that either for that matter? Yet everyone jumps on the cigerettes are bad for you bandwagon.  \n Oops off my soapbox here... Some of these issues really are so petty and are blown out of proportion that it makes me sick.....
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i think it was george carlin who said "when you smoke enough dope it starts to suggest its own disuse". \n\ntheres a list of different things out there, but you're mostly going to get answers from pot heads who wont admit that smoking can become harmful to your health, and super stuck up types, who are going to tell you its just as bad as heroin or something. \n\nit does cause impaired judgement, and memory loss (not necessarily loss, but cloudiness and forgetfulness).\n\ni dont smoke/drink/drug at all, and i never have. its a personal decision because i know that its in my genes to become a train wreck if i do. theres a lot of ppl in my family that have gone through all kinds of stuff, and even a few ppl that have had some big problems just caused by pot.
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Smoking can cause lung cancer, but few people realize it is also a risk factor for many other kinds of cancer as well, including cancer of the mouth, voice box (larynx), throat (pharynx), esophagus, bladder, kidney, pancreas, liver, cervix, stomach, colon and rectum, and some leukemias.\n\nSmoking increases the risk of lung diseases such as emphysema and chronic bronchitis. These progressive lung diseases - grouped under the term COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) - are usually diagnosed in current or former smokers in their 60s and 70s. COPD causes chronic illness and disability and is eventually fatal.\n\nSmokers are twice as likely to die from heart attacks as are nonsmokers. And smoking is a major risk factor for peripheral vascular disease, a narrowing of the blood vessels that carry blood to the leg and arm muscles.\n\nSmoking also causes premature wrinkling of the skin, bad breath, bad smelling clothes and hair, and yellow fingernails.\n\nFor women, there are unique risks. Women over 35 who smoke and use "the pill" (oral contraceptives) are in a high-risk group for heart attack, stroke, and blood clots of the legs. Women who smoke are more likely to have a miscarriage or a lower birth-weight baby.\n\nBased on data collected from 1995 to 1999, the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) recently estimated that adult male smokers lost an average of 13.2 years of life and female smokers lost 14.5 years of life because of smoking.\n\nNo matter what your age or how long you've smoked, quitting will help you live longer. People who stop smoking before age 35 avoid 90% of the health risks attributable to tobacco. Even those who quit later in life can significantly reduce their risk of dying at a younger age.\n\n\nAdditional diseases caused by smoking are gingivitis, gangrene, and emphysema
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Smoking is addictive.  Cigarettes have many different chemicals in them along with tobacco - stuff like Ammonia, Benzene, Formaldehyde, Arsenic to name a few of the worst.  The longer you smoke the harder it is to give it up and when someone does it is usually because of a major health crises.  I know because I have seen.  I have never smoked but both my parents did.  My father had to give it up when he needed a bypass and his chances were given less than a 50% survival not because of his heart but because of the shape his lungs were in.  Smoking had done so much damage that no doctor was sure he would be able to make it out from under the anesthesia. Luckily he did and hasn't smoked since.  He also used to tell my brother and myself not to smoke because even though he knew the dangers he could not at the time quit.
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Possible.  Smoking is bad for your health all the way around.  It has been known to restrict the arteries, thereby decreasing the bloodflow to the heart and brain.  So, I'm saying, yeah, sounds right.  I'm guessing he told you that to make sure you never start smoking, and I hope you never do.  Terrible, nasty, expensive habit (I know, I smoked for 11 years) that will only kill you early and painfully.  Don't bother with it.
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I don't think you'll find a verifiable answer to this question that is what you want to hear.\n\n1.  Smoking IS very bad for your health.\n2.  Smoking causes many forms of cancer.\n3.  Smoking harms those around you.\n4.  Smoke while pregnant is linked to many childhood disorders.\n\nAnd as to #5 - 10000000000000, i'm sure i can make a list, but suffice it to say, smoking is a dangerous and idiotic thing to do.