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Confession of a Smoker: Ayaw ko na, Ikaw ga?

I have learned how to smoke when I was in my college freshman year. My friends, being the barakos that they are, would smoke every break… every 10 minute break.

And so I was the only one who didn’t smoke. And I was laughed about.

mag yosi ka na p’re, pwede gang ikaw lang ang hinde?”, they kid me half insultingly.

No one wants to be laughed about, right?

I could clearly remember the day when Marlboro Menthol and I met. That day was a day full of coughing and sneezing and all that crap.

But that was it, I learned it and quit it thereafter.

I would sometimes ask myself, what does smoking give us aside from that cool vibe?

After finding these facts, I now have a hard time answering that question of mine.

(These are statements that I have found on the net:)

A study found that dogs in smoking households had a 60 percent greater risk of lung cancer; a different study
showed that long-nosed dogs, such as collies or greyhounds, were twice as likely to develop nasal cancer if they lived with smokers.

Cigarette butts take about 25 years to decompose.

Tobacco products are the only legal consumer products that are LETHAL when used exactly as the manufacturer intends.

There are 69 known carcinogens in cigarettes.

Every ten seconds, somewhere in the world, someone dies of tobacco-related causes. Tobacco kills more Americans each year than alcohol, cocaine, crack, heroin, homicide, suicide, car accidents, fire and AIDS combined.
http://www.healingtalks.com

One-pack-a-day smoking habit will cost you at least 2 teeth every 10 years.
According to 30-year studies at Tufts University, chain smokers lost an average of 2.9 teeth after 10 years of smoking one pack a day. Non-smokers lost an average of 1.3 teeth after 10 years. A smoker that quit will reduce his or her toothloss to 1.7 teeth.
http://www.neatorama.com

Philip Morris had originally introduced the Marlboro brand as a woman’s cigarette in 1924
The two actors who portrayed as ‘Marlboro Man’ died of lung cancer, a disease caused by cigarette smoking.

Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/329230
(For second hand smokers)
An estimated 46,000 deaths from heart disease in non-smokers who live with smokers

About 3,400 lung cancer deaths in non-smoking adults
http://www.cancer.org

Wow. The Marlboro brand is specially made for women. All the while I thought I looked macho with it. Pang chiks pala. And there still are tons of trivia and facts that would make you want to puke on smoking. There are also worlds of information on how to phase yourselves on effective smoking cessation.

Not ready to quit yet?

I mean, Why, in the name of love, not?

Mind you, no one has died of trying to live a healthy lifestyle. Unless, of course, if you choke on a mango seed or something.

But to those who keep a filthy lifestyle, you know you are asking for the limitations of your body. God knows what lies ahead of you. And with the availability of information nowadays, I think you should not know any lesser.

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One comment

  1. i think, quitting or starting, is and should be a personal choice. it’s my lungs i’m burning anyway.

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