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Addiction-Compulsive physiological and psychological need for a habit-forming substance

This post is not about me. I have no addiction..well this kind anyway :P

But this is not funny a funny not its quite serious.

Apparently the people i surround myself with are all idiots, with the exception of (a.m] and (p.m] and some other poeple but no one reads but the important people. the ones mentioned. =]

I am not in the mood. I am about to rip a few certain peoples heads off right now. Damn cancer sticks. Messin everything and one up. I was informed this past weekend that some of my very close friends have picked this stick up and began to breath in its "lovely" aroma. When i was told, I became this HULK so to say. I am so very anti-smoker. I told them to not smoke around me and they have not done so far. However I knew that as soon as I left theyd light it up. I know the effects, the dangers. My grandfather died from them. He was my role model, he was there for me when i was little, I didn't get to say good-bye. He started smoking when he was our age. From the time i knew him to the time he pasted he had a cig. I was little then, Im big now. The effects on the man i admired most has made me so passionate about this topic. I want to tell these children (which is what they are) what they are doing is soo wrong. The thing that what they thinks makes them look cool, or feel so high and mighty is horrible. Its death in a fuzzy warm jacket.

-there are app. 4000 different toxic chemicals in cigarettes
- Nicotine reaches the brain within 10 seconds after smoke is inhaled. It has been found in every part of the body and in breast milk.
-Carbon monoxide binds to hemoglobin in red blood cells, preventing affected cells from carrying a full load of oxygen.
-Cancer-causing agents in tobacco smoke damage important genes that control the growth of cells, causing them to grow abnormally or to reproduce too rapidly.
-Smoking affects the function of the immune system and may increase the risk for respiratory and other infections.
-There are several likely ways that cigarette smoke does its damage. One is oxidative stress that mutates DNA, promotes atherosclerosis, and leads to chronic lung injury. Oxidative stress is thought to be the general mechanism behind the aging process, contributing to the development of cancer, cardiovascular disease, and COPD.
-The body produces antioxidants to help repair damaged cells. Smokers have lower levels of antioxidants in their blood than do nonsmokers.
-Smoking is associated with higher levels of chronic inflammation, another damaging process that may result in oxidative stress.

-each year over 430,000 people die as a result of a smoking related disease.

I cant see why with so many risks one could STILL want to take that one puff..What drives you to it? Get away from it, pull away from the addiction. I don't want to LOSE y'all too... But I am going to stick to my fight. Going to give you the run down on how i feel about it and let you take it. I am going to walk away, keep my head high about what i said and meant, and not talk to you. You were given fair warning and if you fall back then its over.

Thats my speall for today. Enjoy your edumacation about smoking and its effects.