Smoke to Death

"Smoking kills, unless you kill yourself."

The above sentence is a sentence usually heard in a radio station. Of course not in any radio stations in the REAL world but in San Andreas. Because of playing it before almost everyday, I always hear the same commercial in every radio station in the game. Though this ads exist only in a game, it shows to be true.

Every people nowadays already know what a cigarette looks like. I think, I will just waste my effort to describe the physical characteristics of the cigarette. As I have said, the above sentence is true. Why? Because smokers don't only bring death to their lungs but to other's too! This is called, "second-hand smoke". The people who inhales the smoke coming from the cigarette is more affected than the one holding the cigar or in Filipino slang, "yosi".

To make a short survey of smokers in some places in NCR (National Capital Region), I brought my own counter (as you can remember, the commercial of Ben Afleck in the Axe Click, the one he is holding, that's a counter) not to count the women but to count the smokers I meet and see along the way. Of course it starts with zero. From Manila, I traveled to Makati then Pasay then back to Manila. The counter showed a total of 872 smokers of any age smoking. I have conducted the short study in just 3 places for almost only 14 hours but it showed this much.

To make a short background on the effects of smoking, here are some. Take note, I had not taken it from the Internet. I really experienced this by some people around me. First example is our neighbor. He is a tough smoker. He consumes a whole carton or I guess 12-20 pieces of "yosi" a day. He said, he is smoking since he was just a teenager and he never felt anything happening. Many days, nights and weeks passed until one day, we heard him coughing very loud. Because we were once living in an apartment, and his house is just infront of us. Then after many weeks, we just knew he is undergoing a chemotherapy due to his Lung Cancer. Another is our mechanic. He is now half paralyzed due to his stroke.

Cigarette contains some of this DEADLY chemicals: (there are 600 chemicals in one stick and 40 of these are found carcinogenic.)
*Nicotine- this is the "addicting chemical" found in the cigarette. Some illegal drugs contain this also such as heroin and cocaine.
*Benzene- a carcinogenic chemical
*Carbon Monoxide- the gas usually "secreted" by the vehicles. (Imagine inhaling and exhaling the MUFFLER of a vehicle. Yuck.)
*Tar- a dark liquid material

Last comment about smoking. Well you can't quit smoking by just controlling yourself and not holding a stick. Of course your system always looks for the nicotine in which if you quit immediately, your body may become too weak. It should follow a process. You may ask a physician about it. Well one relative of mine said "Maraming namamatay sa lung cancer ng hindi nagyoyosi". Of course, lung cancer doesn't only occur to smokers! But preventing from smoking is a big prevention from having that ailment. Another is, I won't give a time talking about smoking if the smokers will be the only one affected by their cigars. But the sad thing is, even innocent people who dare not to hold a stick will be affected once they inhaled the smoke and the breath of the smoker.