Would You Suck On A Car Exhaust Just For Kicks

How many smokers do you hear make the claim thatThe lungs themselves are a highly complex and
they are completely healthy? That they have neverefficient network of intricate airways that keep your
had a day in hospital? That they know loads of peoplebody functioning. The cilia in your bronchi are paralysed
who have lived to a ripe old age despite smoking?while smoking but, due to their efficiency, overnight
Well, that's ok. Why stop smoking if that is the case?they will begin to recover. By the morning, they are
After all, life is for living and doing what you want, right?desperately attempting to clear the lungs of the thick
Of course, everybody has the right to live their livesyellow/green mucus that has built up. The lungs want
just as they want. They have the right to gauge theirrid of this because it is exactly this type of
own health and what they will and won't take into theirenvironment that encourages the growth of viruses,
bodies. That must be why they think it's fine to take inrespiratory diseases and cancer. This is the precise
carbon monoxide, ammonia, hydrogen sulphide andreason a smoker will cough first thing in the morning
formaldehyde in regular doses throughout the day. Theand what puts them off from trying to stop smoking.
fact that they are still breathing means it's still fine toHowever, it is a good sign that the body is working on
reduce the amount of oxygen their body receives.repairing the damage already done.
They are more than happy to allow their resting heartsIt is everybody's right not to stop smoking and allow
to beat an additional 36,000 times per day, putting athis state of affairs to continue but is it their right to put
strain on the heart and blood vessels, but hey, they'reeveryone else at risk by becoming a strain on the
still working! They are more than happy to pour a fullNHS through preventable illnesses related to smoking?
eight ounces of tar into their lungs, coating their mouths,The longer you continue to smoke, or passive smoke,
throats and airways every year with the substancethe bigger the strain on your lungs. Eventually, your lung
that prevents the lung lining and immune system fromwill lose some of their elasticity but because this
doing their jobs. All this and more is the right of thehappens over a period of time it is less noticeable and
smoker.often put down to the aging process. As is the
But is it not the right of the passive smoker to walk inwrinkling of skin and the grey, aged look that
the fresh air without subjecting him or herself to thisaccompanies a smoker. This is not age, this is the
sort of poison? Is it not the right of every child to haveeffect of smoking and cannot be reversed.
the healthiest start in life possible? Passive smoking isIn industrial environments, health and safety dictates a
no less dangerous than smoking itself. In fact, thesafe level of carbon monoxide a person can be
poisonous chemicals in exhaled smoke can be moresubjected to each day. A smoker's blood will contain
dangerous depending on a person's health. A passive600 times that safe level. You wouldn't dream of
smoker does not have the option to stop smoking,sucking on an exhaust pipe so why would any
particularly if the smoker is in their own home.reasonable thinking person subject themselves to this?
When a smoker inhales these poisonous, addictive,Smoking opens up the body to all sorts of onslaughts.
killer chemicals, they coat their mouth, throat, airwaysThe reproductive system, as well as sexual
and lungs with products that make the immune systemperformance, will be adversely affected as well as the
inactive. The lining of the throat will, after a shortsense of taste and smell. Still, it is up to the individual
amount of time smoking, thicken and change into thethat wishes to believe that smoking as done them no
perfect breeding ground for throat cancer.harm whatsoever.