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Researchers from the San Gallicano Dermatological Institute in Rome found that cigarettes can cause acne as well as cause dull and wrinkled skin. They found that noninflammatory acne affected eight times more smokers than nonsmokers. Most of the nonsmokers that had acne lived or worked in environments with heavy smoke. Cigarette smoke can cause skin cells, called keratinocytes, to proliferate and clog pores.

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The seemingly endless holding pattern I’m currently in has my mind bouncing from subjects. I’ve also decided ~ in my ultimate unwiseness ~ that this is the time to give up my longest relationship. Cigarettes.

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Let's get this one out of the way; I hate cigarettes and the smoke that's associated with them, but I don't hate cigarette smokers. I would say that I don't understand how people can keep smoking the way they do with all the literature that's out there telling you the problems you're going to have later in life. As someone who has his one addiction, though supposedly minor by comparison (just can't give up the sweets; I've talked about this before), I know what it's like to try to stop doing something. However, if I, or my parents, had some of the information they have today about how bad some foods are for you, I can guarantee you that my parents would have never started giving me stuff in the first place.

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1) Heart Disease
Coronary heart disease is the leading cause of death in the U.S., and the leading cause of death caused by smoking. The toxins in cigarette smoke cause plaques to form in the arteries, which leads to atherosclerosis, otherwise known as hardening of the arteries. Smoking is hard on the heart.

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For those of you that smoke, like myself, you should read “The Easy Way to Stop Smoking� by Allen Carr. And I’m talking about cigarettes, not crack. Sorry crack heads. Anyway it’s a wonderful book for those of you trying to quit the rotten tobacco demon. It basically dismisses all the myths and fears that people have about quitting smoking. Now before I sound like a hypocrite promoting this book and yet I’m still a smoker, let me tell ya, I quit for a while after I read it. However, I moved up North from Texas and I drove. And that’s a hell of a long drive of NOTHING, so I got bored and brought some smokes. Plus, my heart was hurting because my gal left me. But that’s no excuse for my weakness.

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Paris is burning, and no, I don’t mean cars getting torched in the Parisian suburbs.

My first time in Europe was about two years ago. I landed in the Copenhagen airport in Denmark, stepped off the plane, and got a nice big cancer-causing whiff of cigarette smoke.

The last few years living in Europe has consisted of an onslaught of second hand smoke attacks. You can’t walk down the street in Paris for more than a block without choking on someone’s cigarette smoke, unless it’s 7am on a Sunday.

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People who do drugs sound like this ----------> An obtuse ambience seemed to sliver over my computer piteously. I looked up and noticed that my rabbit was naked in the grass of Habonara.

It’s cool, huh? So sniff, puff, swallow and inject it all up!

Today this jerk was practicing mongolism. I found it so hilarious that he was sitting across from me with a cigarette in his hand saying, “drugs are for losers!‿

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A friend and I were talking about his addiction to tobacco. I asked him how much he spent a day on smokes. "About $5.00" he said. It seemed a little low to me but I started figuring out the cost for his habit.

$5.00 x 30 days average a month = $150.00

$150.00 x 12 = $1800.00 per year.

In ten years he will have spent $18,000.00

In 20 years it will have cost him $36,000.00

What could you do with an extra $36,000.00? What if he saved that money and put it at simple interest over twenty years? That's about $2600.00 if you figure it on 4%. That's $38,600.00

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It takes only a few minutes to be a little thoughtful. Today, I walked out to my car and a shopping basket was pushed into it. I am more than certain it wasn’t on purpose, but still, how many seconds does it take to put the cart in a secure area where it won’t scratch or damage someone’s car? There are in fact, many thoughtless acts perpetuated by people who are only thinking of themselves.

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I am happy that smokers have the right to smoke their smoke. Freedom grants that choice, however ill-informed.

And, I wish their smoke would not get in my eyes, lungs, hair, clothes, and on and on. Recent research has even indicated that increasing death from lung cancer is occuring as a result of second-hand smoke.

Help me out here. How can I avoid the shit that comes out of smokers mouths, without compromising my own freedom too significantly?

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