Smoking is Dangerous to Your Dating Life and Your Health!
“The Edwardians,” my 16-member entertainment group was in the van, traveling at 65 miles an hour when someone screamed “Gary!” In the rearview mirror I saw scrambling as the van rocked back and forth! I hollered, what’s going on back there. “Oh, nothing” they replied. They settled down as we continued our 4-hour drive to the performance site.
Weeks later while cleaning out the van, I learned what the shouting was about. Gary had been smoking in the back of the van and had dropped his cigarette. It burned a hole in the back seat in my new van.
Smoking is responsible for many consequences besides burning holes in seats, furniture and clothes. When in college, I was told smoking me be look “cool” and sophisticated. So, I continued making smoking part of my lifestyle. Later, I found it was caused shortness of breath when playing basketball, gave my voice a raspy sound when I was singing and unusually “bad breath.” So I quit! What an idiot I was to start in the first place.
Here are a few hazards and drawbacks to smoking I have collected over the years:
Smoking Stinks
Most people don’t like to be around noxious odors. The smoker may not understand that to a non-smoker the smell is very unpleasant, so they try to keep their distance. I learned this from my high school band director. I never wanted to talk to him. I dreaded being called into his office!
- The smell of cigarettes gets into hair, clothing and especially coats since they seldom get washed.
- A mixture of cigarettes and coffee leaves a person with vomit breath.
- Fingers turn yellow and smell bad from holding cigarettes.
- The smell gets into curtains, drapes and carpeting.
Smoking Costs You Big Money
- A pack of cigarettes has risen from $0.35 a pack to between $3 and $10 a pack!
- Cigarettes and ashes can burn holes in personal and borrowed clothes
- Burns holes in a car seats or furniture
- An unattended cigarette can start damaging fires almost anywhere.
Smoking is a Time Waster
- It takes about 5 minutes to smoke a cigarette, another 5 minutes to get to/from the location and 5 minutes to plan when/where/how. Meanwhile, other non-smokers are being productive and getting ahead.
Smoking is Ugly
- Cigarettes can leave painful burns and ugly scars on hands, arms, faces and legs.
- Smoking makes your teeth yellow
- Smoke accumulates on walls and ceilings and turns them yellowish
Smoking also kills the smoker slowly!
The United States Surgeon General warns on every pack of Cigarettes – Smoking is hazardous to your health!
- Heat Disease
- Lung Cancer
- Emphysema
- and others such as Asthma
Be smarter than I was. Smoking isn’t cool. Don’t start! It’s very addictive, ugly, stinks and wastes your time and money! The choice is yours. It’s much easier to just say no to a cigarette offered you, than trying to quit later.
For more see http://everydaychristianfamily.com/17-benefits-of-a-smoke-free-lifestyle/.
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