Yes, I despise that! But in my expiriences, I find that Americans are much more tidy with that. There are disposale areas for them everywhere.
My first impressions when stepping out of the airport in London and walking off the bus in Ireland was the large number of cigarette butts that littered the ground. Europe is better at American in many things, but keeping tidy of cigarettes is not one of them!
Virginia- I’m sorry I hear that bout your dad. I don’t want to be a downer, but it seems most things around us can give us cancer or a disease or whatever. Such as popcorn bags. It’s unavoidable in our society. Of course, this does not give your father good reason to smoke in front of you.
You saying like, the actual package, or the buttery contents that are left over? When I was little, I used to scrape off the butter once the popcorn was gone. I got into so much trouble for that.
Yeah, something about the actual package and the air inside when you open the bag. I forget the details. It seems like everything comes with a warning label about some side effect these days .And that’s funny about the butter! Butter is delicious!
Never even felt curious about it so never really saw the point! I mean it was just a stick with smoke coming out of the end as you inhaled something with hazardous chemicals. Sounded silly to me. And you could look just the same with a lollypop stick sticking out of your mouth.
I mean I had a couple of friends who did it (and university friends too) but it wasn’t like anyone made a big deal of it if you didn’t. That’s why I find some of the way shows protary schools as odd (about peer pressure and such, with cigarettes anyway). As long as you didn’t make a big deal out of people DOING it, no-one gave a damn if you smoked or not when I was at school . You did it if you were well, curious enough and someone offered. And I wasn’t curious enough though I did have people who offered. So yeah.
Aaaaand, most of the people around my age seem to want to quit now so… yeah. I don’t really care to start now. Don’t see the point.
NO. WAY. My mom taught us to do that when we were little! And I passed it onto the kids I babysit! I love eating the butter off it, but me and the brothers always attacked the bag and ripped it to pieces XD
But speaking of smoking, my grandpop died of lung cancer because of smoking for so long. It means a lot to me that no one I really love smokes, because I loved him so much and it seems so unfair that I only had him until I was six years old. It scares me to death when my dad has the occasional cigar with his friends or something. He doesn’t anymore, because he said if I promised never to smoke, then he’d never smoke again. And he hasn’t since then
I was reading an interesting article about cigarettes. It had a few facts that I thought I’d share.
*Cigarettes are the single-most traded item on the planet, with approximately 1 trillion being sold from country to country each year. At a global take of more than $400 billion, it’s one of the world’s largest industries.
*Urea, a chemical compound that is a major component in urine, is used to add “flavor” to cigarettes.
*Contrary to popular social belief, it is NOT illegal to smoke tobacco products at any age. Parents are within the law to allow minors to smoke, and minors are within the law to smoke tobacco products freely. However, the SALE of tobacco products is highly regulated with legal legislation.
*Scientists claim the average smoker will lose 14 years of their life due to smoking. This however does not necessarily mean that a smoker will die young – and they may still live out a ‘normal’ lifespan.
The U.S. states with the highest percentage of smokers are Kentucky (28.7%), Indiana (27.3%), and Tennessee (26.8%), while the states with the fewest are Utah (11.5%), California ( 15.2%), and Connecticut (16.5%).
Last semester, I had to write a paper about smoking in the workplace. I had to analyze and either support or argue against forcing smokers to change their habits or risk their employment status.
I had a co worker who would ask for a smoke break every chance he got (he is my age and he chain smokes already) long story short he no longer works with me.
Yeah, my state is second for LEAST smokers. But I think we have more pot smokers than any other state, so it evens out.
Can we talk about smoking pot here? Because what bothers me about that is that people say it’s ‘healthy’. Sure, it’s not as bad as other drugs. But inhaling any type of smoke into your lungs is NOT good for you. It’s not as bad as cocaine, but I hate when people make it sound like pot is healthy as eating carrots. It’s not!
I’ve done reaserch on pot smking. Any kind of smoke is bad ofr your lungs. By pot doesn’t harm brain cells like advertised, doesn’t harm the lung small airways, has never been the sole reason of lung cancer either, and no one has ever oded on it.
There is a reaosn why cancer patitents and aids patient are given medical pot.
According to drugabuse.gov,
Right after smoking, the average heart rate increases between 20% to 100%, and that effect can last up to three hours. This increases the risk for heart attacks
Smoking it can cause panic attacks, especially if you already have a anxiety disorder.
It can stunt emotional development and promote paranioa. (San Francisco Mental Health)
Regular users are more likely to become sick and miss work.
According to Schizophrenia.com, over 39 studies have concluded that marijuana users have a higher risk of getting schizophernia.
Three joints of weed a day can do as much damage to the lungs as 20 cigarettes. (BBC Health)
Mind you, pot is rarely presented in its pure form. Pot today is 5 times stronger than it was in the 60s and is usually laced with cocaine to make it more addictive.
Three joints thing equaling 20 cigarettes though I remeber reading about that in health but that is actually not true. Tar and carbon monoxide are the main reason why tobacco and marijuana are dangerous.
Tests have proven that the amount of tar and carbon monoxide in marijuana is about 2 times more then the amount of tar and carbon monoxide in tobacco’s. This would mean that 1 (pure) joint equals 2 tobacco’s. But Marijuana smokers smoke lesser joints then people that smoke cigarettes and there are only a very few people that smoke there joint pure.
Most of the time people mix there marijuana with tobacco, so that also lowers the above value of tar and carbon monoxide.
Lets take an example, if someone would smoke 1 (pure) joint per day, versus someone that smokes 6 cigarettes a day (most people who smoke cigarettes, smoke a lot more, but I’am going easy on them).
That would mean that the 1 pure joint that the pot smoker smoking, equals 2 cigarettes that of the cigarette smoker is smoking. So the cigarette smoker would be smoking (6-2=4) 4 cigarettes or with other words 4 times as more tar and carbon monoxide then the pot smoker.
The pot smoker would have to smoke 3 pure joints a day to match up against the 6 cigarettes that steve is smoking, and 6 cigarettes a day is not a lot for a heavy tobacco smoker.
So if you look at the facts, it is true that marijuana contains more tar and carbon monoxide then cigarettes, but when you look at it in a real life situation you see that the cigarette smoker loses against the marijuana smoker.
Who would of thought that drugs involved so much math!
I defintely see what you’re saying. I’m not debating which is more unhealthy. I’m just saying that both are unhealthy. Coming from Northern California. California, nearly everyone I know has tried pot one time or another and if not defintely second hand high. It just bothered me how people would say that pot is harmless and healthy, because it clearly isn’t!
Yeah I don’t like that either. While it does have some health beneifts it is still bad for anyone who uses it. But the push to get it legal is moving (it is alreayd decrimmalized in a few states) I am surprised that prop 19 or was it 9 in Cali didn’t get passed. These medical cards are helping pot get a better rep and that is pretty insane.
) almost daily. It makes me so angry.