Smoking, a real life Epic Fail.

Posted under What's on my mind by Roberto Steen

The other day I was driving home after dropping my friend off at her house. I came to a stop light, and, as I often do, I looked at the people in the cars around me. To my left was an empty turn lane, and to my right… I saw a family of four. In a car. All four windows rolled almost all the way up. Seems normal enough, and sadly… it was normal. Both parents in the front seat were smoking cigarettes. I looked at them with wide eyes, then I looked back at the two children in the backseat. They glanced at me, and I clickly looked away.

It’s pretty sad when you have to accept that your parents are homicidal killers. Those parents were not only killing themselves, they were killing their children. Asthma, of course, isn’t going to be what does them in; that’s not what I’m saying. But, chances are these children are going to grow up seeing and inhaling secondhand smoke. One or both of them may become addicted to the smell. They’ll hang around their parents even more.

Eventually, they’ll turn eighteen and start smoking. Or, as often as not, they won’t turn eighteen, but they’ll start smoking. These two children in the backseat will, bordering on certainly, die from cigarettes. They’ll die just like their parents will, and probably these children’s children.

But, enough of my opinions, let me give you some documented facts about smoking! There are eleven different cancer-causing chemicals in cigarettes. Tobacco is the source of 20 times more deaths than murder. About 3000 people die every year from secondhand smoke. 100,000,000 (100 million) people died from cigarettes in the 20th century (1900-1999). 4,800,000 (4.8 million) people die all around the world every year.

One of the facts I find most shocking: There are nearly four-thousand poisons in a cigarette. Some people would say “Oh, that’s just a figure!”, but, no, it’s true. Let me break this down to you… It’s ONE THOUSAND harmful ingredients (a foreign substance that can is probably toxic, or worse)… another thousand… ANOTHER thousand. And then…almost an entire extra… you guessed it, thousand ingredients.

Some of the choice poisons in a cigarette? Insecticides (Bug-repellent). General deadly poisons. Lighter fluid ingredients. Cleaning Products. Battery Acid. About 70 different Animal or Human Carcinogens (Cancer-Causing substances). Different types of fuel ingredients. Hair Removal agents. Ingredients for Explosives. Oh, and, let’s not forget the Rat poison.

If you read this, and you smoke, or know someone who smokes, make them stop. Force them to do everything they can to stop smoking. Otherwise, you’re just an accomplice to the tobacco companies’ homicie.

Sources: The Truth, Above The Influence