Cigarettes

Awww, pyro, you're so sweet. 😍

😑 Pyro and sweet normally don't show up in the same sentence... thanks though 😮

oh, i'm sure your sweeter than you would like to let people believe.

ssshhh...its a secret! 😛

Originally posted by plenTpak52
I don't want to smoke, but the one thing I hate is people who say that cigarrette companies try and target kids and they spread propaganda amongst kids to get them to smoke. Even if it were true, the "truth" ads do the same ****in thing just with different intentions. They say that shit like rat poison is found in cigarrettes, and that a grape company was shut down for finding 1/3 of the amount of cyanide in cigarrettes, in two grapes. What they DON'T tell you is that all that shit gets filtered! And grapes and cigarrettes WAY different. EVERYONE eats grapes. If a compant had some cyanide in their grapes, then that could result in many deaths, if young children with developing, yet weak immune sytems ate them. Now you don't see those children ever SMOKING, do you?

There also IS a warning label on the packs. If you still choose to smoke even if you know the consequences, then shouldn't you be able to?

Grapes and cigarettes have nothing to do with each other. It's the smoke that you inhale that kills you, as well as all the other things that are in cigarettes. Cigarettes are not filtered. They merely say that they are.

ssshhh...its a secret!

*looks around and lowers voice* oh, okay I see.

Good that's better 😖mart:

right, the filters are to make u think that they're safer, u still inhale the smoke, no matter what...thats why second hand smoke is almost as bad.
anyway, why would u want any of that shit in u at any time?

I wouldn't want to blow your cover KMC undercover cop.

*ahem*

Originally posted by Darth Revan
So I guess that would explain this: "If a person smokes one pack of cigarettes a day, he will accumulate up to 8 ounces of tar in his lungs in a year. Damage to a smoker's lungs can lead to lung cancer, emphysema, and acute bronchitis."

and this:"Hydrogen cyanide is a poisonous gas that temporarily paralyzes the cilia (tiny hairs that line the nose and bronchial tubes). Cilia help to keep the lungs free from germs. Long term smoking results in the permanent destruction of the cilia. Damage to the lungs can lead to lung cancer, acute bronchitis, emphysema and other lung ailments."

and this:"Carbon monoxide is a colorless, odorless, poisonous gas. It enters the bloodstream and replaces some of the oxygen in a smoker's bloodstream. Carbon Monoxide damages a smoker's circulatory system and can lead to heart disease."

Originally posted by Fallen Jedi
I wouldn't want to blow your cover KMC undercover cop.

that's the whole point of it...🙄 cover's already blown

Raven-good info...cept prolly even smokers already knew most of that
i know one...she smokes cuz she likes it...n doesnt really care wut happens, n figures by the time she gets lung cancer, there'll be a cure...shes like 18ish so...i ono, guess her philosophy works

Her philosophy is seriously screwed. The only cure right now is to stop smoking, and there is still a chance of you getting after you stop.

that's the whole point of it... cover's already blown

oops, did i do that? 😮

😱 couldn't have been...you would've had to find out first! maybe theres a leak somewhere...

Yeah which is what I don't get... I don't know about you but in just about every health class I've ever taken they've drilled that stuff into us time and time again. And most kids who have taken health can tell it to you. Yet nobody actually understands the significance of it! They can connect "cigarettes" with "lung cancer" but they can't connect the words "lung cancer" and "death"!

yeah most smokers know all the consequences, i know i do, but who cares it takes good! ...it's the same with food for me...i have really high cholestorel but i still eat the fattiest and saltiest stuff just because they taste good.

no, i meant i understand what she means, a cancer cure is prolly gonna come along, n then she can take care of it...shes, to coin phrase, smokes for the moment"

Originally posted by realworlddreams
i know one...she smokes cuz she likes it...n doesnt really care wut happens, n figures by the time she gets lung cancer, there'll be a cure...shes like 18ish so...i ono, guess her philosophy works

that's kind of a stupid thing to assume... cancer is a very strange disease in that it's not caused by a virus or by some other living, foreign body. It's just the body reacting to environmental conditions and sort of turning against itself... So I certainly wouldn't assume that they'll be able to find a cure any time soon

couldn't have been...you would've had to find out first! maybe theres a leak somewhere...

*looks around suspiciously*