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The painful facts.
Scientists estimate that 90 percent to 95 percent of tobacco users are addicted. Once addicted, smokers repeatedly expose their brains and bodies to hundreds of toxic chemicals contained in tobacco and tobacco smoke. Some, including ammonia and rat poison, are to amplify the "Buzz," which is actually an effect similar to the temporary shutdown (Static) caused by huffing vapors from gasoline or aerosol. This is made worse when tied to Nicotine's highly addictive qualities, which are up there with things like heroin and crack.
Nicotine, like many addictive narcotics, acts on the opiate receptors of the brain, usually acted upon by endorphins and enkephalins to reward instinctive actions necessary to survival--eating, drinking, perpetuating the species, all of that good stuff. So essentially, it programs your subconscious and your very instincts to desire more of the toxins that are killing it.
The list of cancers that tobacco causes is impressive, from cancers of the mouth, head and neck to cancers involving most of the vital organs. Smoking also causes heart disease, emphysema, and other lung diseases.
Every year, tobacco kills more than 400,000 Americans. This is more deaths than all Americans killed in World War I, World War II, and the Korean and Vietnam wars combined. Every year the tobacco industry loses 2 million smokers; 80% of those quit, the rest die. The industry recruits teenagers to replace those losses.
The sad part? It's "cool." Smoking is deified by movie stars, musicians and some of the finest comedians worldwide. Any smokers, even my dearest friends, that read this will be at best, completely unaffected, and the others will think less of me for being a whiny bitch. The truth hurts, and when your own fucking subconscious is telling you that it's good, that you can quit anytime, that if you stop eventually there'll be no harm done, it's hard to accept facts to the contrary. Even when they slap you in the face every time you notice a hoarse raspy undertone in your breathing, or experience a sudden coughing fit.
Wanting a cigarette is not comedic, despite what modern society would have many people believe. It's sad that it's so acceptable, to the point of burdening others with your current inability to satisfy a pathetic addiction.
Yes, non-smokers die every day too. I wouldn't mind it so much if it only entrapped total dumbasses, but I know some very bright people still saying they can quit someday, still dooming themselves to look back at 40 and think, "I wish I would have quit someday." Death happens to everyone, but there are few deaths as agonizingly painful as those caused by smoking. Not only do you die much sooner, you lose your health, your ability to get up and do anything, sooner as well. They are imposing self-inflicted invalidity on themselves. FOR NO REASON. And there's nothing I can do to convince them otherwise.
Scientists estimate that 90 percent to 95 percent of tobacco users are addicted. Once addicted, smokers repeatedly expose their brains and bodies to hundreds of toxic chemicals contained in tobacco and tobacco smoke. Some, including ammonia and rat poison, are to amplify the "Buzz," which is actually an effect similar to the temporary shutdown (Static) caused by huffing vapors from gasoline or aerosol. This is made worse when tied to Nicotine's highly addictive qualities, which are up there with things like heroin and crack.
Nicotine, like many addictive narcotics, acts on the opiate receptors of the brain, usually acted upon by endorphins and enkephalins to reward instinctive actions necessary to survival--eating, drinking, perpetuating the species, all of that good stuff. So essentially, it programs your subconscious and your very instincts to desire more of the toxins that are killing it.
The list of cancers that tobacco causes is impressive, from cancers of the mouth, head and neck to cancers involving most of the vital organs. Smoking also causes heart disease, emphysema, and other lung diseases.
Every year, tobacco kills more than 400,000 Americans. This is more deaths than all Americans killed in World War I, World War II, and the Korean and Vietnam wars combined. Every year the tobacco industry loses 2 million smokers; 80% of those quit, the rest die. The industry recruits teenagers to replace those losses.
The sad part? It's "cool." Smoking is deified by movie stars, musicians and some of the finest comedians worldwide. Any smokers, even my dearest friends, that read this will be at best, completely unaffected, and the others will think less of me for being a whiny bitch. The truth hurts, and when your own fucking subconscious is telling you that it's good, that you can quit anytime, that if you stop eventually there'll be no harm done, it's hard to accept facts to the contrary. Even when they slap you in the face every time you notice a hoarse raspy undertone in your breathing, or experience a sudden coughing fit.
Wanting a cigarette is not comedic, despite what modern society would have many people believe. It's sad that it's so acceptable, to the point of burdening others with your current inability to satisfy a pathetic addiction.
Yes, non-smokers die every day too. I wouldn't mind it so much if it only entrapped total dumbasses, but I know some very bright people still saying they can quit someday, still dooming themselves to look back at 40 and think, "I wish I would have quit someday." Death happens to everyone, but there are few deaths as agonizingly painful as those caused by smoking. Not only do you die much sooner, you lose your health, your ability to get up and do anything, sooner as well. They are imposing self-inflicted invalidity on themselves. FOR NO REASON. And there's nothing I can do to convince them otherwise.