| Do you have any smoking family members? Do | | | | themselves indulge, instead, they also offer and |
| you know of any friends that are smokers? Do | | | | treat family members, friends and other people |
| you come in contact with smokers on a daily | | | | that come in contact with, secondary servings of |
| basis? If your answers to any of the three | | | | those delicacies (second-hand smoke). |
| questions, you SHOULD read this article. | | | | FOR THE RESPONSIBLE FOLLOWING |
| DISGUSTING CIGARETTE INGREDIENTS: | | | | INDIVIDUALS: |
| Ammonia: Perspired through our sweat glands, | | | | As a host, ban guests from smoking in and |
| thus making smoking the same as constantly | | | | around your housing vicinity as smoke flows and |
| inhaling the smell of sweat. | | | | contaminates any areas it bypasses. Toxins from |
| Tar: The black oily material used to build tarmac | | | | smokes will remain in the surrounding atmosphere |
| roads. Smoking is no different than to pour tar | | | | for longer periods than other gas substances. |
| into one's lung. | | | | As an employer, implement non-smoking policies |
| Carbon Monoxide: Emission substance from | | | | within your workplace. It is your responsibility to |
| conventional gasoline driven vehicles. Which means | | | | take care of your employees who are |
| smokers might as well put their mouth to the | | | | non-smokers. Encourage smoking employees to |
| vehicle exhaust pipe and inhale deep. | | | | quit. |
| Cadmium: A compound used in batteries. Waiter: | | | | As an individual, do not start and quit if you are a |
| 'Battery for breakfast anyone? Smoker: 'Yes | | | | smoker. Don't try, just quit. I guarantee you the |
| please.' | | | | benefits of quitting. If you are the type of person |
| Acrolein: Once used as a chemical weapon during | | | | that frequently asks 'why', the answers are listed |
| World War 1. Smokers can be said to be | | | | below. |
| casualties of chemical weapons. | | | | 'What are my benefits if I stop smoking |
| Arsenic: Insecticides used on fruit trees to | | | | immediately?' |
| prevent insects from damaging the plants. | | | | 1. Within the next 24 hours, your risk of heart |
| Smokers should just get themselves a bottle of | | | | attack decreases |
| insecticides and spray it into their nostrils. | | | | 2. Within the next 3 months, blood circulation will |
| Hydrogen Cyanide: Also found in vehicle emissions. | | | | improve and your lungs - respiratory systems - |
| While it is also a defense mechanism of millipedes | | | | improve up to 30%. |
| and burnet moths released to scare away | | | | 3. Within the next 9 months, your fatigue |
| enemies or threats, smokers simply inhale them. | | | | resistance level increases (decreasing the |
| Formaldehyde: Used as a disinfectant. No further | | | | occurrences of shortness of breath). |
| comment. | | | | 4. 1 year after quitting, your risks of sustaining |
| I have no intention of humiliating any smokers. | | | | coronary heart diseases are half of your smoking |
| Just thought they should know, or for those who | | | | counterparts. |
| already know be reminded of these facts and | | | | 5. Your risks of lung cancer, stroke and other |
| what they are actually doing by inhaling each puff | | | | chronic heart diseases decrease. |
| of their cigarette. | | | | 6. Most important of all, you stop the attempts of |
| On top of the lovely cuisines and gourmets | | | | murdering the people around you in your |
| mentioned above, not only do smokers | | | | everyday life. |