I never "knew" this, but for some reason, when I lit up I always blew out the first puff(s) without inhaling, so I guess I was avoiding this specific kind of damage(?). (I guess this matters if you think avoiding the inhalation of one type of gas makes any difference when you've already accepted that "it's OK" to inhale the mix of hundreds of gases coming out of that choke-stick.)Light up with a lighter, you breath in lighter fluid.
Uh-huh, sure. Tell yourself whatever makes you feel better about being unable/unwilling to quit (despite at some level knowing full well you should).Natural Tobacco is healthy for you.
And hey, did you also notice all the soap ads that appeared everywhere after it was invented? Just imagine how much money is being made annually from soap sales. Someone's definitely f--king us out of our money. (Insert example of Amazonian tribe "X" that doesn't use soap, but survives just fine even today, with maximum reported lifespans of 100 years. Don't forget to present this dubious anecdote as "scientific proof" in the most serious of tones.)BTW: Notice the huge increase in Smoke Cessation products ads everywhere? You got it. Big Pharma cashing in.
Ooh! Ooh! Ask me! Ask me! (You already know what I'm going to tell you, don't you?)Go around and ask smokers and non-smokers who gets more colds.
It's hard to tell, because my "sample" is contaminated with significant diet improvements - I quit smoking soon after adopting a much healthier diet, so I couldn't say for sure what caused the improvements, but I can tell you when I smoked I used to get a cold (pharyngitis, bronchitis etc.) about every 3-4 months, but after I quit I went almost a whole year without any respiratory infection whatsoever. My last cold had been in November 2006 when I quit smoking in January 2007 and since then I've only had one mild cold (with a runny nose as its only symptom) in October 2007. Hell, these respiratory annoyances were one of the main reasons I decided it's over - no more periodic combustion residue inhalations for me.If you stopped smoking, are you getting more colds? (Answer truthfully.)
Uh-huh. You call it whatever you want (e.g. "learning"), but telling other people to do what you do just because (and assuming that) you happen to have no visible adverse reactions to it (yet?) is still bad advice. Just because Jeanne Calment smoked until 117 and still lived to be 122 doesn't mean you can do the same, it doesn't mean anyone who reads your advice can do the same and also, importantly, it doesn't mean she couldn't have lived even longer had she not smoked at all.At the time, I thought like everyone else, cigs. are bad for you. But over the last 6 months, I've been learning a lot.
Edited by donjoe, 01 January 2008 - 08:33 PM.