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We all know smoke kills, and I beg anyone who has a link to a significant quarterly peer reviewed scientific publication to send it along if it purports to show that smoking -doesn’t- cause cancer.

However, the news of Dana Reeves dying as of late, and her having never smoked really makes it tough for people who quit and want to stay that way. You see, she did smoke, but not by her own accord: fund raisers, parties and other activities put her at great risk.

Now, a study shows just why some women who never smoked get lung cancer.

Anyway, that’s all for today. I’m still holding off until my link cache gets big enough that I can really hammer it home with some “Second Hand Smoke DOES trigger Asthma attacks”.

(Yes, I’ve been told that doctors have stood on the pulpit, bible in hand and declared that sic(smoking doesn’t aggravate asthma in kids). Funny, mine doesn’t, nor his assistant.)

As a nice side note, I did suggest Chantix to two people today, since they were having a real rough time stopping. One woman was 70 years old + and has COPD.

So secondhand smoke is the topic of this rant, and the ignorance that many people continue to pass off as academic proof. The evidence is clear to the danger you put everyone in, whether you intended to or not by smoking. Don’t believe the toothless old woman who tells you that ETS/Secondhand smoke/Sidestream smoke doesn’t hurt anyone.

I for one am the type of person that likes to know what’s killing him, and how much of that damage is reversible. Smoking was one of my worst hobbies that turned into a wide scale addiction that followed me everywhere I went.

Did I say that smoking followed me everywhere? Work, car, and the home, there was no escape anywhere for those that didn’t want to smoke. Did any of the objects in my home desire to be subjected to endless clouds of smoke? I’m sure the computer desk and the chair that sits under it didn’t really have an opinion, but other objects in my home that were breathing the same air as I sure did.
The problem is, our kids, which could include our pets won’t complain about these things.
I’ve found that my son now, after 6 months of me not smoking (ok, at this time of writing 5 months 3 weeks), will now ask if daddy has been smoking when I’ve been around people that do.

It’s enough to make you never want to smoke again, but then it gets worse on the next statement that his little head can think of: “Smoking is bad daddy.” I agree with him now, just like we told him smoking was bad when he was 2 years old, except one major thing has changed since then.

Stopping smoking was something that was truly hard for my wife, but easily defeated by me using a little pill. My wife liked to smoke, and figured smoking helped to ease up her stress level, so she resolved to not quit, since it helped her so much. In the end, I found the easiest assertion to stop smoking was the most heart felt one: your children are depending on you.
Our son didn’t challenge our smoking, or tell us it was bad. He didn’t repeat the things we wished we could follow ourselves. Knowing smoking was bad, but equating it to a trip 6 feet under was a different story. Knowledge that it would send -him- six feet under was what broke the back of the argument.
I’m sure many countless parents have never argued, or truly beat themselves up over smoking around their children. Those parents that have beat themselves up could be counted as some who had SIDS to worry about. Ignorant parents, those that continued to smoke, despite warning from the doctors that SIDS was likely herded into a baby by smoking, probably blamed the death on something else.

We for one are not taking any chances with our child’s life anymore, seeing as we have another one on the way. This one has had little or no nicotine in the body, and will lead her life not addicted to nicotine.

So, leading up to this simple link was the hardest thing to do, since the information inside it is such a boring read for the majority of the people who will ever visit this blog.

I have no doubt that even medical students like those in Grey’s Anatomy will have a hard time sitting through all the jargon and the lifeless depiction of the chemicals inside of smoke. What you will get however by sitting still and reading the information it gives you, is a good look at how long chemicals live inside of you and the areas around you.

If you are like me, counted as a paranoid, the feelings you get from a document that just merely states science is important. You are not paranoid, but trying to make an informed judgment about your body, so take heart.

Read on, keep this close and make it another reason to never smoke again.

I’m like most people, who remember Peter Jennings succumbing to lung cancer recently. It scared me, here is yet another person to die of lung cancer. Is the experts right? Could there finally be a link in smoking and cancer?

So why quit at age 30? Because it’s the last few years you can and still escape in most cases unscathed further smoking past this only locks in your chances to die.

I like most people started smoking for one of many reasons.