"Cigarette smoking is dangerous to your health" ... the infamous tagline of cigarette commercials. Smoking by far has the biggest percentage in causing the dreaded lung cancer.
to all those smokers out there, friends and brothers, this is not to threaten you. I myself is a an occasional smoker. I started tasting the carcinogen back in college. I never had to make it a habit. Just purely for fun and for the trip of it.
this (smoke trippin) has continued back in my call center days and till now as an office worker, where occasionally, my friend Jordan would offer a stick or two of Marlboro Lights. I can't say no to it and have to light it and puff...
The frequency of it is relative, based on the impulse of my mood. I haven't finish my "isang kaha" of Lights which was bought two months ago...
I don't have any idea though what is the effect of this long term habit of mine on my health in the long run. Is it worse than a being passive smoker or the so called sidestream smoke? I found out that passive smokers - those who are non- smokers that inhales the smoke of others by chance or by repeated cases inevitably ((eg) a non-smoker person who lives with smokers in which case, he constantly inhales the smokes of the other person.), have a higher risk of getting a lung cancer. About 30% greater risk is the damage being done. With this fact in mind, i was contemplating, what could be the effect on my case who occasionally smokes? Am i worse compared to the mainstream smokers or the sidestream smokers?
It made me think twice this moment, if i should stop this once in a blue moon habit. To quit or not to quit....
On a segway, checking the video on this post, It seems that the baby being tagged smoking cigar isn't a baby at all. Try to notice his manners and the way he looks and stares, there's an aged maturity on his mannerism and the way his eyes would gaze.
Honestly, we know the facts, the danger, the effects of this bad habit. We aren't alarmed by it because the returns aren't showing instantly. If only we could psyche - condition our brains "hey! this is bad for you, you gotta see the results soon... beware, you will be able to enjoy your retirement years no more cuz your health is at risk", - easier said than done they say.... as for me, i know what i want, and to enact it is a surer way to consider it done or accomplished.
Smoking is the perfect way to commit suicide without actually dying.
I smoke because it's bad, it's really simple
~Damien Hirst
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