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Introduction



 Current articles:

I saw the name and loved it, it has so many unanswered questions after the pregnant pause at the end!

Smoking related… what? What already?


Here's a few of the topics I hope to find time to look at over the next few months:

Smoking related illnesses
Smoking related facts and fiction
Smoking related 'cures' - helping you give up smoking
The perils of passive smoking and of smoking
Toxins and poisons in cigarette smoke
Smoke, smoking related deaths
Links to government, institutional and tobacco informational sites.



Death on a stick


Smoking kills Smiley is confused I'm sorry, have I missed something here!?

When even the tobacco companies state categorically, smoking kills…

OK, I'll hold my hands up, I'm a life long non-smoker and would gladly see a global ban on the filthy things tomorrow.

I registered this site after some fool, using the name "Live and Let Live" started preaching in the local papers that 'Fact: Passive smoking never hurt anyone.

Okayyy, even as an infant I didn't need to hold my hand in the (coal) fire to know it burns. Right about the same age I decided smoking was right up there in my list of dumb things never to do! Years later I found I had a knack for chemistry. Even in full denial, your average 40 a day chemist will admit that most of the chemicals they are inhaling - and breathing out on the rest of us - should be bottled up in cold storage, padded-locked and kept well away from naked flames.

Let's put it into perspective:
If tobaccos company were not (ab)using 'influence' then the bans around the world would be stricter
If governments across the world weren't taking billions in tax venues...

Smoke if you must, but lock yourself in your shed or something first, eh, those things'll kill you!




Views

( Reprinted from the Blog on my Ackadia site )


Passive smoking? What peril!?
I have requested permission to reprint the article, but the author in question appears to be of the opinion that passive smokers are hysterical and over-emotional

I won't type up the letter from the local paper without permission, but here's the sarcastic reply I send in:

'Dear Star' Editor,

Just based on the fact you even published that ridiculous letter on passive smoking I can only assume you too are a smoker with the same selfish and frankly uneducated views!

Yes, I am a (lifelong) non-smoker but, genuine health concern aside, I have been so for two reasons:

Firstly, like most addictions, it is and always has been ridiculously expensive. According to Saturday's 'Daily Mail' the average smoker (on 15 a day) will spend £91,832.43 on cigarettes in their lifetime! (£1,493.22 a year).

Secondly, it stinks! Cigarette smoke permeates almost everything and lingers for ages.

As for all these young girls taking up smoking - whether to appear 'cool' or to follow the crowd - here's a little test: Look closely at a half full ashtray, then imagine passionately running your tongue around it; if that thought doesn't revolt you enough, by all means go ahead and try it! Nice, isn't it? By a curious coincidence, that's what it seems like for a non-smoker to kiss a typical 20 a day person.

As for the harmful nature of cigarette, I can barely even lower myself to comment on the writers viewpoint. The only people who really argue against their carcinogenic nature are nicotine addicts lacking the willpower to stop and the cigarette companies protecting their profits and frankly terrified of losing even one lawsuit. Oh, and governments softly-softly stance which has rather more to do with tax revenues and such.

Nevertheless, quoting one government web site (chosen at random from Google), Cigarette smoke contains over 4,000 different chemicals including noxious gases and tiny droplets of tar and nicotine.
When you take a puff on a fag you are inhaling smoke that contains chemicals found in insecticide, explosives and floor cleaner!"
[ source: http://www.lifebytes.gov.uk/smoking/smo_cig.html ]

Hmmm, the smoker in question, apparently, would rather sit next to another nicotine addict than an alcoholic or a drug addict. Funnily enough, I have never in my life heard of a druggie casually sharing his stash of crack cocaine with complete strangers in a bus queue, nor a boozer offer everyone around the cafe a measure of his Glen Glenfiddich. Strange that these social pariahs won't share, yet this self-righteous smoker - and countless like him/her - not only share, but thoughtlessly, selfishly force it down the throats of everyone around them. Given the same question, there is only one I would make a point of moving away from - and that would be the one who wrote in with this diatribe.

One has to have to wonder what Roy Castle's widow would have to say about the stance of 'Live and let live'.





Saturday 8th October 2005


Put this in y' pipe and smoke it!
Never smoked myself and, to be honest, from the earliest age I've never understand it. I'm 43 now and I still don't get it! It's expensive, off-putting to others around you, it stinks…

Did I mention it's expensive?

Compliments of today's Daily Mail are these figures compiled by Clerical Medical. Based on just 15 cigarettes a day, on average British smoker:

Naturally, if you smoke twice as many a day, the figures rise in proportion…

Hmmmm. £200,000 house, or a my first fag, then a lifelong addiction to cigarettes?
Decisions, decisions!
I know, I'll smoke, that way I'll look trendy to me mates. Smiley Boggle!

Smokers, eh!   D'oh! Smiley gagged



Passive smoking and smokers


I'll build this up in a few days, but here's a genius statement from a hardline smoker*:

Fact: Smoking can damage your health
Fact: Passive smoking doesn't damage your health Smiley twitches

I'll get the exact wording later, but this is the science. If you inhale cigarette smoke it is proven to be a really bad thing. If, however, you inhale the smoke and breath it out into the room - complete with any germs you happen you have - or if you leave the fag burning and the smokes circulates around the air, but heck no, it's a 'fact' that there is no danger…

I've heard of being blinkered, but really, whatever this guy is smoking, it's burning his brain cells at a most impressive rate, eh!