Cigerettes: Any safe dose?

[TABula rasa]

hey all, just thought i'd bump this after my sister gave it her first post. so show some respect, she's with me!
(by the way, she's lauren9663)
-ade
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A feeble brook will oft assume
In the wild woods, among the mountains lone,
Where waterfalls around it leap forever
Where woods and winds contend, and a vast river
Over its rocks ceaslessly bursts and raves.
--Percy Bysshe Shelley
Il buon tempo verra

 

[day_for_night]

there is no 'safe' level at which to smoke anything. smoking *insert drug here* is bad for your lungs, end of story.

 

[dark falcon]

ha ha. Even though I don't always follow that advice, I have to agree with day_for_night.

 

[NiQu3LorD]

Because cigarette smokers who quit for 15 years will be back to baseline risk for most serious ailments

Conflicting information here, I have heard that it is closer to 6 monthes following quitting that the risk returns to basline. I think it was through an ACF leaflet no less too.
Actually considering that, it could have been said that 6 monthes after quitting smoking your risk of being struck down by CANCER soley is baseline.
I think ill read up a bit.
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- Don't ever try your best, it's the first step to failure.
- It is far better to be pissed off than pissed on.
- If someones life is in danger, do not help them, this will almost always bring you to the same fate.

 

[Dr. Quack]

I have seen cadaver lungs……. They are pretty interesting. Little clumps of tarish sort of stuff, tissues gray and blue. The little chunk’s are a bit crumbly if you crush them. Moderate smokers or people who quit after awhile lack many of these, but have gray dead looking tissues, as opposed to the goodie goodie’s with pink happy lungs. Pretty nasty.. Your lungs CAN repair themselves and get a lot of the crap out if you truly quit, little hairs will pull the crap out eventfully.(not all mind you) I seriously seriously doubt second hand smoke will cause the type of damage that that taking it from the tap would though…….I agree that people working in 2nd hand smoking environments every day is bad, but standing next to a guy smoking couldn’t be much worse than hanging out by the camp fire. Just chew…..

 

[housefreeeek]

I've done a lot of reading on the effects of cigarettes in the hope that it will be enough to put me off...unfortunately it doesn't. Anyway, if you stop smoking, it will take roughly 10-15 years for your lungs to clear out to the same level as a non-smoker. That means not even 1 cigarette in that time. As for marijuana VS tobacco cigarette:
GAS PHASE ANALYSIS
MJ Tobacco
Carbon monoxide (vol%) 3.99 4.58
Ammonia (ug) 228 178
Acetaldehyde (ug) 1200 980
Acetone (ug) 443 578
Benzene (ug) 76 67
Tolune (ug) 112 108
Nicotine ---- 2850
Napthalene (ng) 3000 1200
etc.....
Not as harmless in comparison to cigarettes as you may think...
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[Level 5 all the way baby]

SMOKING MAKES YOU COOL....GOD WE ALL KNOW THAT

 

[AbraMontague]

"Conflicting information here..."
According to the American Cancer Association, your risk for stroke will be back to baseline after 15 years of abstenence.

 

[MI2HI4U]

As with exposure to other drugs, cigarette
smoking has effects that vary tremendously
from user to user.
A typical smoker can have roughly half a million cigs before getting emphysema. Their chances probably increase with the first puff, but only by less than one part in a million!
A small number of people with an extreme susceptibility known as alpha-1-antitrypsin deficiency, however, are extremely sensitive (as much as 100 times more sensitive than average)to the effects of smoking. With the most extreme form of this disease, they can smoke maybe a pack a day for a couple of years before needing multiple organ transplants. Although their health is not perfect without smoking, it is smoking that greatly accelerates the tragic effects.
It is possible to test for this, by the way.
This is almost never done until people are already deathly ill, though I would recommend getting tested as soon as you start smoking

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Similar variability probably exists with many other drugs, but there is much more research on smoking. If you are curious whether you might be special in this sort of way, immoderation is the path to understanding.