My mom never had one cancer cell from it. But the COPD and the nearly annual bouts of pneumonia caused by it twenty years after she QUIT eventually got her.
Well, anything at all that distracts your attention from driving while doing that is dangerous, be it smoking, drinking any beverage, looking for something dropped or anything else. I don't see how one is any worse than the other if it can result in an accident.
But more likely to score a direct hit - with a higher probability of taking your eyes off the road.
I ended up in hosi for 3 months with pericarditis. I was convinced that the gasping and wheezing was smoking-related that had caught up with me even though I'd quit (using Zyban) 10 years earlier. I was sh!tting bricks thinking I'd developed lung cancer or something.
I said to the radiologist after the first CT scan 'I suppose this is due to smoking then?'
'Oh no..we don't see any evidence that you were ever a smoker' he replied, '..but you like a drink don't you? Don't worry, it's nothing excessive, just a few spots on your liver.... and you have pericarditis by the way'.
I was somewhat 'relieved' to say the least.
I said to the radiologist after the first CT scan 'I suppose this is due to smoking then?'
'Oh no..we don't see any evidence that you were ever a smoker' he replied, '..but you like a drink don't you? Don't worry, it's nothing excessive, just a few spots on your liver.... and you have pericarditis by the way'.
I was somewhat 'relieved' to say the least.
Got that! Thanks. I wasn't sure. Hork! About Hork: A shout of derision by a grampa bullfrog.
That may be true, but forcing them to regenerate may end up with a mistake in the regeneration process that might lead to cancer. It's best not to smoke in the first place, although quitting is ALWAYS advisable. The sooner, the better.
Yep; my mother died from smoking related lung cancer and my father, from emphysema. The latter was fifteen years of progressively worsening hell.
My brother and I hate smoking and neither of us has even tried one because we were subjected to the vile stink all of our childhood. I couldn't even touch one when it was alight.
We still talk about those long trips in the car as kids, where my parents chain smoked and when we opened the windows in disgust, we were told to close them as it was too windy. I still can't believe it, especially since having my own kids (now adults) and of course treating them like actual people, I'd never have done that! Bitter? For sure! 😡
Hmm... I smoke electronics.... I'm rather good at it. Last year I had an amp that smoked twice... the 3rd time I was warned not to do it again... ran it right into the protection, but it didn't smoke at least. Smoked another one three years ago.
I've also blown speakers, but those didn't smoke. Woofers, tweeters, midranges.
To me the smoke test is for real. Indeed, I quit doing electronics design and went full time into firmware because It's harder to smoke things. Mind you, I have smoked electronics when integrating and testing the firmware too.
I do smoke cigars too... but those I'm not too worried about.
I've also blown speakers, but those didn't smoke. Woofers, tweeters, midranges.
To me the smoke test is for real. Indeed, I quit doing electronics design and went full time into firmware because It's harder to smoke things. Mind you, I have smoked electronics when integrating and testing the firmware too.
I do smoke cigars too... but those I'm not too worried about.
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You did ask him at which university hospital he ran his lung disease department?
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18 months be great, have heard more like 5 to 7 years.
Smoking is a hard one to quit for some reason.
Alcohol I could drop quickly, when it was the opposite for all my younger friends.
All quit smoking easily, if they drank it almost got worse.
Smoking is a hard one to quit for some reason.
Alcohol I could drop quickly, when it was the opposite for all my younger friends.
All quit smoking easily, if they drank it almost got worse.
Whatever god-awful thing happens to smokers as a direct result of their idiotic, selfish and disgusting habit is 110% deserved.
Understood, peoples perfume will make me sick for hours if I smell them too much.
I dont like perfume, and that awful krap people plug in walls, or garbage bag liners stink pretty stuff is really bad.
Instant headache.
Fruity Tootie Vape stuff is pretty bad too. I understand the obnoxious smells that we cant choose we like or not.
Our brains body just react how they react.
I dont like perfume, and that awful krap people plug in walls, or garbage bag liners stink pretty stuff is really bad.
Instant headache.
Fruity Tootie Vape stuff is pretty bad too. I understand the obnoxious smells that we cant choose we like or not.
Our brains body just react how they react.
I watched smoking kill my father at a relatively young age.
I have never smoked, which I feel is a good plan as I would only have six years left if I lived until his age...
I have never smoked, which I feel is a good plan as I would only have six years left if I lived until his age...
Whatever god-awful thing happens to diyers
as a direct result of their idiotic, selfish and disgusting habit is 110% deserved.
I had to have my chimney removed after 70+ years of smoking...to do so the surgeon in Edin. had to open up my chest and redo some plumbing.
Have smoked 25% of one cigarette since and that is from a diet of 40+ a day. Of course I have emphysema as a reminder - it does slow one down, but having hit 83 yesterday I feel lucky that the Scottish coronary care is so good!
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