Thursday, January 31, 2008

CIGARETTES AND OUR ENVIRONMENT

By Rebecca Hosking

The smoke from the end of a cigarette dissipates very quickly within the natural air so there fore has more damaging results on local environments. Just like the smell that lingers in your hair and fingers and even the fabrics in your home those smells are attached to chemicals that linger in our lungs. Not only the lungs of the smoker but everyone within the vicinity. Each day 6,000 people will take their first puff from a cigarette and at least half of them will become regular smokers. That is a lot of pollutants in the air we breathe. Secondhand smoke is an environmental menace. It fills the air with many of the same poisons found in the air around toxic waste dumps. This smoke kills about 3,000 nonsmokers each year from lung cancer. Not a very nice thing to carry on your conscience is it? Along with those pollutes most smokers feel they have the right to toss their butts out their car window while they drive down the road. Snuff a lit end out in the sand while they sun on the beach. Or even worse toss their cancer stick into an innocent lake or river while boating and enjoying the fresh air. Nearly 12.5 million acres of forest are destroyed each year to provide trees to cure tobacco. That's about a tree every two weeks for the average smoker. Each year smoking kills more people than AIDS, alcohol, drug abuse, car crashes, murders, suicides, and fires -- combined! Well hopefully I have planted enough trees to make up for the ones I've killed due to this nasty habit?

We live in a volatile environment at best and think of the numerous gases we expel with every exhalation of a single puff of smoke. An environmentalist who chooses to light a cigarette is an oxy moron. Now you know the consequences of your decision to smoke cigarettes, but didn't we already know this anyway?

It is shocking how in our society so many people live with the, "it can't happen to me", sort of attitude. Well it can and it will. By choosing to smoke a cigarette you are not only hurting yourself but the people around you. More and more everyday we are learning just how unsafe it is to light up. There is nothing cool about a cigarette except for one that is being extinguished. People look at it as a social interaction, well good conversation over some fireflies out doors is social interaction as well and far less deadly as lighting a cigarette. Let's be kind to Mother Nature she provides a lot for us. If not for Mother then do it for yourself.

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