Smoking, to get and to give
We’ve been talking about how much smoking cost you on a monetary basis. Now let see what you can get and what you can give from smoking.
- What you get
It has been scientifically identified that tobacco smoke contains more than 4000 chemicals. Among those at least 400 are poisonous and more than 50 are the cause of cancer. Basically tobacco smoke has three main components. Those components are:
Tar
Tar is a black sticky residue which usually produced from coal as a byproduct of coke production, petroleum, peat or wood. Normally it is used for covering the road surfaces. Yes, ROAD SURFACES. It can clog in your lungs and predisposed you with the risk of having a lung cancer.
Nicotine
It is a powerful and addictive drug. Nicotine is a stimulant, which means it will give you the feeling of energized. It can make you feel fresh and spirit full in doing your daily activity. It makes your heart rate and blood pressure rises and increases the diameter of the blood vessel. This is actually the reason why it is difficult for a smoking person to quit smoking. Yet do remember that in the end it will also predisposed you for having a heart attack or a stroke.
Carbon Monoxide
It’s a gas, the same gas with what you found in the car exhaust smoke. When entering you body, carbon monoxide will rob the oxygen for your muscles, brain and body tissue making your heart work even harder. Over time it will also swell up your airways and let less air to enter your lung. So no wonder a heavy and chronic smoker usually suffer from short of breath and lack of stamina.
Now you see what you actually get when you smoke a cigarette. Is it bad? Well if you think so there’s an even worse fact you should know.
- What you give
Smoking not only mean you to get “things” but it also mean you have a big chance to give.
Of all the smoke you make when smoking, you only take about 10% to your body. The 90% goes away to your surrounding as an environmental tobacco smoke (ETS). In other word the one who get the most tar, nicotine, and carbon monoxide is actually the people around you.
ETS could,
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causes lung cancer in people who have never smoked before. |
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causes heart attack, especially among the spouses of smokers. ETS also increases the risk of repeated heart attacks if one has suffered from heart attack before. |
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increases the risk of heart disease, lung disease, asthma, allergies, sinus problems, blood vessel disease or worsen the symptoms if one is already suffering from these. |
You could be glad and thankful for this fact. Yet bear in mind that the term “people around you” could also mean “your children”, “your spouse”, “your parents”, or in a single term “your beloved one”.
So quit smoking is not only about caring yourselves, but for most it is about caring people you loved around you.
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Comment by Ari Tickett — December 1, 2008 @ 11:26 pm
nice frend..
Comment by tiyo — December 2, 2008 @ 12:12 am
I think it is good that you are getting the word out about Non Smoking. Cigarette companies have put a lot of time and money into making sure their product gets sold.
dhoni say: yeah, and those money surely not goes for nothing.
Comment by Beamer — December 2, 2008 @ 8:20 pm