Everyone needs to try pipe tobacco at some point in their life. mmmmm.
[quote]SkyzykS wrote:
Put the tobacco in your bong.
Unless you don’t have one, in which case, you should get one.
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u can make one out of a plastic juice bottle and a biro pen, and make an end for puttin the tobacco/weed in on the end of the pen outa tin foil
[quote]piper1 wrote:
I watched my dad die from emphysema, I would liken it to drowning very slowly for about six months. First we had to move him downstairs 'cause he couldn’t make it up a flight of stairs, then he pretty much couldn’t get out of bed for the last month or so.
He was only 63 years old, and this was a guy that looked like he was in great shape most of his life. I know an occasional ciggarette won’t do this to you, but most people that start with an occasional one wind up being full time smokers.[/quote]
Damn similar to my dad’s story. Smoked since he was 17, died at 65 in 2004. Emphysema and COPD got him. He used to get really angry when people started the “smoking will kill you” talk and his response was always “the army gave them to us, and told us to smoke em, so it’s all their fault that I smoke.”
The last few months of his life he was on oxygen, the highest amount possible. Literally, we had to turn the oxygen tank on full for him to even feel it. Yep, he tried smoking when he had the hose hooked up. Lit himself on fire in his and my mom’s house. If he’d happened to pass out, likely he and my mom would have burned to death that night. Lucky for him he was in the bathroom when it happened so he put the fire out with water after turning off the tank.
His health declined rapidly after that (I think the fire had slightly burned his lungs, making things worse). He died about 4 months later. Thing is, that last month or so he was begging for more oxygen, always trying to make sure that the tank was on full.
Did my dad have cancer? Yep. Bone marrow cancer. Did it come from smoking? I dunno. But I do believe that the smoking contributed to his death. He also ate a diet very high in refined carbohydrates, and saturated and trans fats. Nearly the only things he ate and drank for years before dying was coffee, Pepsi, chocolate bars & Reese’s PB cups, rye bread, the occassional burger and fries, and sometimes Captain D’s fish dinners.
The thing people have to remember is that smokers don’t necessarily get cancer, and when they do it’s not necessarily gonna be lung cancer. Colorectal cancer is also quite common in smokers.
There isn’t a person on this planet who could convince me that smoking, even at a very low level, doesn’t have detrimental effects on health. It’s just not worth it, no matter how slight, and I don’t care if it’s tobacco, marijuana, or whatever comes up next.
Choose your poison, I guess.
In the end, the filter does make a difference especially if you are inhaling (which is the case for pretty much all cigarettes). It filters out tar (like someone said in an earlier post). The fiberglass myth is talking about chewing tobacco which DOES contain it to cut up the inside of you lip for faster absorption into the blood stream.
Since enough people have already said smoking is bad, coming from one more person won’t help…but filters would, just find a brand that you enjoy more than what you were previously smoking. =)
Skip the cigarretes and go for a cigar. The health effects, while still existant are FAR FAR less (you have to smoke 4-5 cigars a day for the issue of cancer to be a problem)
I used to smoke, but honestly, whats the point. A cigar is atleast enjoyable ( and I do enjoy them)
This has to be a joke.
[quote]abcd1234 wrote:
The vast majority of the cancers caused by tobacco(cigs, dip, etc.) are due to radioactive components from phosphate fertilizers. For those who care, there are organic cigarettes avaliable, and even though it’s not PC or popular to say, they probably are safer if you consider the aforementioned estimates.
I myself am not a huge fan of cigs. I can stretch a pack a month or more. I bought my last pack 2 weeks ago and only smoked four so far. I don’t find nicotine to be that addictive, but occasionally I like to relax with a cigarette or cigar(I prefer cigars, even the cheap liquor store ones).
That being said, inhaling any smoke will kill your lung capacity if you do it on an every day basis, multiple times throughout the day. The fact that I do HIIT and don’t like inhaling too much is another reason I prefer cigars on the rare occasion I light up. [/quote]
I actually read recently that the organic cigarettes do not have significantly lower levels of polonium etc… Apparently it’s in the dirt and the tobacco just sucks it up somehow.