How harmful is social smoking (like around 3 cigs a week, in a place which does not offend other people) ?
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ANY amount of smoking is harmful to your body. \nThis is from an article by Marie Claire magazine called "what smoke does to your body"\n*Causes strokes. Nicotine reaches the brain 10 seconds after you inhale\n*Gives you bad breath and yellow teeth. Associated with gum disease and mouth cancer\n*Gives you a two times higher risk of heart attack than a non smoker. Just one to five cigs a day can double your risk\n*Raises risk of breast cancer if you started smoking within 5 years of your first menstral period\n*Raises risk for stomach and peptic ulcers\n*In addition to lung cancer, smoking raises risk tenfold of chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder (COPD), a collection of fatal lung diseases\n*increases the odds that you wont ovulate or concieve. Smoking when pregnant increases miscarriage risk by 39%\n*Smokers have more severe PMS and 50% more cramps\n*the longer you smoke, the higher your risk for cervical cancer and colar rectal cancer\n*Hardens your arteries, raising odds for high blood pressure and heart attacks\n*Smoking can dampen libido by constricting blood flow to your clitoris\n*smoking may make bones thinner and more fragile, raising your risk of fractures\n*prematurely ages your skin by 10-20 years
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See you can beat around the bush, but jsut dont smoke. Its that simple. Do not smoke at all. The first 3 days are the roughest so suck those days up and you should be good to go.
555698
It's just like ciggarette smoke more harmful breathe in than the person who is smoking it.Just stay away from any kind of smoke.
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OMG!!! This is wayyyyyyyy too funny .......... I take it you have tried this and are still smoking this way???? \n\nHow many packs a day and where do you go for your smoke break since you can't smoke in a public restroom???\n\nI bet the other smokers around you really have something to talk about after break!!!!!
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I smoke, and I go out of my way to find a spot to smoke where no children (or anyone else, really) are around or a spot designated for smoking. I understand that second-hand smoke is harmful to children (and others); however, if I am in a designated smoking area and then someone comes around with their children, I am unlikely to move or snuff out my cigarette. Afterall, I was there first, and no one is forcing them to be there. \n\nOn the same token, I don't go to playgrounds to smoke. It's a matter of respect, in my opinion. I'll smoke in an out-of-the-way area out of respect for others, and usually I'll move if I find I am still too close to others. If someone comes into a *designated* smoking area with their children and begin to make a big scene complete with couching and hacking, I most certainly will not move.
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WOW  My Friend you said it.I'm a heavy smoker.I started at 13,I'm now 68.I ant to quit because I have had 2 hart attacks and a stroke. that is the only reason.I couldn't care less about the non-smokers.If they don't like it just don't breath while I'm smoking. nice to hear someone s on my side in this issue
600055
I would rather have my mate fart in front of me then smoke a cigarette.  LOL  Second hand smoke can kill you in the long term, a fart is harmless unless it comes from my butt.  The government rents my ass out for counter terrorism measures.  LMAO
424585
Nonsmokers have some serious issues with "control" when they start talking about not smoking outside. Just walk around the smoker huddled next to the ash can, it's really not that difficult. If he's not huddled next to the ash can do that silly fake cough thing, that will show him. Sigh.
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Because it is not. Smoking is not healthy yet how many people smoke? Choice and the consequences that go along with it. Peace.
585469
eeeeeeew!!!! smoking is the worst thing...i'm sure many girls hate it (but one of my friends think it's appealing---can't understand what's up with her). smoking is really bad for you and you'll get bad teeth, lung cancer, etc. don't do it for an image...don't do it all. Everytime i'm near someone or i walk past someone smoking and i get secondhand smoke (yuck!) i turn to my friends and we joke saying we just lost 11 seconds of our lives.
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There is definitely such a thing as secondary smoke, where the smoke from someone else's pipe or whatever gets into the air and the other people in the room breathe a small portion of it.  You should either keep the windows open or smoke outside.  On the other hand, maybe you should share . . .
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You can if you wan't to, but believe me it is best not to smoke, this could cause an infecton
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Yes a little but not enough to worry about. If you are breathing the smoke. That sounds like a good concert. I woulnd't worry about it, the amount would be tiny.
467421
no that`s never been but stop smokin however is good and if you smoke a littel just like 1-3 Cigarettes or one Sheesha at day that ain`t big deal
159809
you are in a chatroom... just smoke in the privacy of your own home... what is there really to discuss about smoking...??
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That's a very low risk, I would say (cutting out the cigars would help) but a lot of this is genetic - some people drink and smoke all their lives and never get cancer and some people eat organic food, never drink, never smoke and get cancer.  It's the way it is.  However, you'll be less likely to get cancer if you live a healthy lifestyle.
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that is very relative. I know a person who's lived for over 90 years smoking 2 packs of "PielRoja" ("redskin", unfiltered cheap colombian ciggies) since age 24. and there's plenty of factors: if you don't have the precise protooncogene, you could never develop cancer even smoking 2 packs a day. \n\nthen again, people can live with an emphysema for long, stuck to an o2 tank all their lives. you could develop Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (I think this is the exact translation), live with an annoying bronchitis for decades. ruin your skin and teeth and get to age 80 looking like shit.\n\nwhat's the point? it's not a matter of quantity of life but quality of life.\n\nanyway, from an unorthodox point of view (having discussed this with a few teachers of mine), they'd say a ciggie a day is no big deal (but if you have the protooncogene I won't be responsible).