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Dec 28 10 9:29 AM
Here is a video from 2006 addressing the cold issue:
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Jan 5 11 6:10 PM
Whenever I do my first day slide presentation, members of the audience often openly express this sentiment. We explain how smoking causes heart disease, cancers, circulatory conditions, emphysema and many other deleterious conditions. We go on further to claim that cigarette smoking is the number one most preventable cause of death in the United States, causing an excess of 434,000 premature deaths yearly. This is more deaths than those caused by all accidents, infectious diseases including AIDS, murders, suicides, diabetes, atherosclerosis, kidney disease and liver disease combined. More Americans will die this year from cigarette smoking than all the Americans killed in 24 years of battle deaths from World War I, World War II, the Korean War and the Viet Nam War, combined!
These statistics are staggering. Many smokers assume that if cigarettes were this dangerous they would not be allowed legally on the market. Chemicals like cyclamates, red dyes and other carcinogens are pulled off the shelf. Cigarettes are sold, so they must be safer. People thus suspect that my figures must be greatly exaggerated.
In response to this skepticism, let me explain that these figures originate with the United States Surgeon General's Reports. Since 1964, these reports have been produced annually by the government's office of Health and Human Services. The reports review all studies and available information, not only from America but from all over the world. The general consensus for over 20 years of accumulated data is that cigarettes are killers.
Some people assume that the government is exaggerating how deadly cigarettes are. This is not very likely. If the government was going to mislead the public on the dangers of smoking, it would be denying the dangers, not exaggerating them.
The United States Government has had a strong vested interest in tobacco production and dissemination. In 1984 tax revenues generated from tobacco products exceeded 6 billion dollars annually. The government owned close to one billion dollars of surplus tobacco. Even with this strong vested interest, the report that year claimed that over 300,000 Americans died prematurely from cigarette smoking that previous year.
Before 1964, the U.S. Government did not issue much information about the dangers of smoking. Other developed countries without vested interests were warning their citizens of the inherent dangers of cigarettes. Today, the evidence is so conclusive that the government recognizes its obligation to report the facts. The United States government, medical associations, and the general world-wide medical community all agree that cigarettes are lethal.
Consider this information when confronted with what some ads call the smoking controversy. The only controversy is with the tobacco industries. They claim their product is harmless and offers great advantages to their customers who smoke it. This "harmless" product is everything but harmless. It is addictive. It is expensive. It is deadly. Consider all this and remember- NEVER TAKE ANOTHER PUFF!
Written originally in 1984, which is why the dates and stats were so old, and the statistics are now somewhat out of date. It is now estimated that over 400,000 Americans die every year from smoking, and worldwide, smoking is responsible for close to 5 million deaths annually.
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"You don't have the option of one, and if you try to test the theory,
you are going to find yourself a smoker again."
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Doc Quit date 14th October 2008
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Lucie -Congratulations on Bronze! I can't believe how much your post from the 17th reminds me of my former life!Isn't freedom great?It keeps getting better and better!See you at Silver and beyond.Nancyquit February 4 2010
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I'm feeling really low and sad and there's a little voice telling me a cigarette would make it all better - firstly, I know full well it will change nothing and after 3 and a half months I am not going to throw this quit away, I've come too far, its too precious and I do not want to return to the dark days of smoking. My emotions have just taken me by surprise, my daughter (she's 19) went to Africa on Tuesday volunteering she will be away from home for 5 months (going to Australia and NZ too) and I miss her so dreadfully. I think the biggest thing for me is that this is the start, her horizons will be broadened and I'm sure she will want more, as will my other daughters, which is great I want them to see and experience wonderful things but my emotions are so raw.I am at home alone, feeling sorry for myself and smoking keeps popping into my head - I hate it, I feel so vulnerable, I could blow this so easily. My answer is to come here and read read read, like I did several months ago right at the start of my journey. So thank you to all those from whom I am taking strength - funnily enough the newer members who are going through the hardest part - you remind me how I do not want to start all over again, why I began this in the first place. If I'm honest I think I am also feeling so very sorry for all the lost time when I sneaked away from my girls to smoke, but I am a good Mum, I was just a horrible addict and I will not let it take over my life again.A little sad, and a little lonely but still not taking a single puff.LuciexxxxxxI have been free for 3 Months, 2 Weeks, 4 Days, 17 hours and 13 minutes (110 days). I have saved £531.44 by not smoking 1,771 cigarettes. I have saved 6 Days, 3 hours and 35 minutes of my life.
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