JCC ITT I Encourage Tunick To Quit Smoking

Already get NBA TV/NBA League Pass (my brother pays that), but sadly AT&T U-Verse doesn't offer the MLB equivalent to League Pass; been trying to get my brother to switch to another carrier (for another reason, mainly), but the ******* won't budge.

 

It's very annoying when someone you're sponging off won't allow you to direct that sponging.

 

I pay my share of the normal bill, just not for the League Pass.

 

So, was old-school tobacco from 200 years ago less bad for you? Or is it just because we're living longer now overall and that makes the ill effects more obvious?

 

http://www.lung.org/stop-smoking/smoking-facts/whats-in-a-cigarette.html

What's In a Cigarette?

There are approximately 600 ingredients in cigarettes. When burned, they create more than 7,000 chemicals. At least 69 of these chemicals are known to cause cancer, and many are poisonous.

Many of these chemicals also are found in consumer products, but these products have warning labels. While the public is warned about the danger of the poisons in these products, there is no such warning for the toxins in tobacco smoke.

Here are a few of the chemicals in tobacco smoke and other places they are found:

Acetone – found in nail polish remover
Acetic Acid – an ingredient in hair dye
Ammonia – a common household cleaner
Arsenic – used in rat poison
Benzene – found in rubber cement
Butane – used in lighter fluid
Cadmium – active component in battery acid
Carbon Monoxide – released in car exhaust fumes
Formaldehyde – embalming fluid
Hexamine – found in barbecue lighter fluid
Lead – used in batteries
Naphthalene – an ingredient in mothballs
Methanol – a main component in rocket fuel
Nicotine – used as insecticide
Tar – material for paving roads
Toluene - used to manufacture paint

 

Not gonna lie, I used to love huffing rubber cement.

 

So whose bright idea was it to put all that crap into cigarettes? Even if your goal is to just get people addicted, I would think nicotine on its own would suffice. Heck, how are they even able to sell such a product? I don't imagine that a brand of potato chips with benzene and toluene as ingredients would have much of a market.

 

Isn't that a middle school rite of passage?

 

Yeah, I had a couple of rubber cement benders, in my super-early teens.

 

Just like eating the paste in kindergarten.

 

I ****ing love you, Yvette. <3

 

I love you back!!!! <3

 

My dad died of cancer at 62. He worked hard to give up smoking, but he smoked for 40 years. He beat lung cancer, but the chemo weakened his defenses and different cancers kept rearing up and attacking.
In spite of the relative ages of people on this thread, 62 is not a ripe old age. Smoking for 40 years certainly gave the cancer a chance to take hold in his weakened/diseased insides.

You too could contract cancer after cancer from smoking. All you have to do is keep paying for a product you know is slowly killing you from the inside out.

 

Cleaning and separating tobacco is expensive. Shredding it into powder and gluing it back together to look right has less wastage (and you need less actual tobacco to fill a cigarette).

 

Hrm, cigars are hand-made right? Does that mean they're less bad? Also why does the tobacco have to "look right" when you're just going to shove it into a paper cylinder anyway?

 

Sorry to hear that. There is no convincing my dad to stop smoking and I'm sure it will be a huge factor in when/how he goes.

 

"Used to".