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51. Smoking is butt-ugly. Cigarette butts are ugly and disgusting eyesores.
52. A cigarette butt along a forest path is disappointing. A cigarette butt outside the church door makes me sad.
53. Smoking causes addictive, insane thoughts: "When's my next cigarette?", "Do I have enough cigarettes to make it thru the day?", "How many packs do I have to get me thru the week?", "Where did I leave that half-gone pack I smoked?" Even when I was smoking a cigarette I was thinking about the next one...
54. Smoking causes fear... "What if I can't smoke during the retreat?", or "What if my cigarettes get wet in this rainstorm?"
55. Smoking causes agitation, nervousness, even crazy fear when you can not smoke, or are getting low on smokes.
56. Smoking causes rude behavior..."How long is this wedding going to take? I need a cigarette, I'm leaving... (Quitting smoking also causes rude behavior, you will be a SOB for a while, until the demon named Nic is kicked out of your life!)
57. Hacking cough.
58. Nasty lung tissue.
59. Constant craving for nicotine.
60. Lack of energy.
61. Shame. Ashamed in front of kids, peers, family and friends.
62. Smoking limits opportunities. We are too ashamed of addiction to seek out positions such as coach, teacher, mentor, public office.
63. Most people do not smoke, have never smoked, and do not have the desire to smoke.
64. The overwhelming majority of people, 75%, 3 out of 4 people do not smoke.
65. Most people flourish without cigarettes and live full lives of excitement, joy, sadness, fulfillment, love, defeat, tragedy, challenge and victory WITHOUT tobacco.
66. Smoking is a relatively new addiction among civilized society. Tobacco addiction was limited to native Americans before Columbus brought the evil weed to Europe in 1492. Tobacco did not reach the masses until 1900. 1963 was the peak of smoking, and is now on the way OUT.
67. Smoking does not define who I am.
68. Smoking is not a hobby, unless you consider slow suicide a hobby. Smoking is a useless, worthless, meaningless waste of time.
69. Smoking is an addiction, a scourge, blight, a plague, a disease, and a sickness on humanity and civilization.
70. Society is waging righteous war against tobacco addiction. I can be a soldier in this war and help save people, including children, from misery, disease, and early death.
71. I am making a true and righteous decision by simply not smoking, and not paying my money to tobacco companies.
72. Smoking statistics are sad and horrible.
73. More than 400,000 Americans die each year from tobacco-related disease.
74. One in two long-term smokers will die early as a result of smoking, from one of the three main diseases; lung cancer, lung disease (bronchitis and emphysema) and coronary heart disease.
75. Smoking is responsible for one in five U.S. deaths.
76. Smoking causes thirty per cent of all cancer deaths (including at least 80% of lung cancer deaths), 17% of all heart disease deaths and at least 80% of deaths from bronchitis and emphysema.
77. Deaths caused by smoking are more than 5 times the total deaths resulting from: road accidents, poisoning and overdose, other accidental deaths, murder and manslaughter, suicide, and HIV infection.
78. Tobacco advertising targets the most vulnerable in our society, the poor. Tobacco advertising glamorizes smoking, which is a total LIE.
79. I am sick and tired of being sick and tired. I am sick of "smoking like a chimney", and I am tired of being a "cigarette fiend".
80. Those who succeed in quitting are much more likely than unsuccessful quitters to come to some important realizations about themselves.
81. Think of yourself as a non-smoker, and you will eventually realize you are a non-smoker.
82. Smoking is no longer socially acceptable.
83. 4000 chemical compounds are produced when tobacco burns, including lethal nasty poisons.
84. Burning tobacco produces the poison Acetone (damages vessel walls).
85. Burning tobacco produces the poison Arsenic (stops your heart).
86. Burning tobacco produces the poison Benzene (Ultra deadly poison).
87. Burning tobacco produces the poison Carbon Monoxide (insidious killer replaces oxygen).
88. Burning tobacco produces the poison DDT (damages your DNA).
89. Burning tobacco produces the poison Formaldehyde (carcinogen).
90. Burning tobacco produces the poison Hydrazine (heavy carcinogen).
91. Burning tobacco produces the poison Hydrogen Cyanide (damages vessel walls, stops your heart).
92. Burning tobacco produces the poison Nicotine (1/10 of a teaspoon will kill you).
93. Burning tobacco produces the poison Pyrene (stops your heart).
94. Burning tobacco produces the poison Vinyl Chloride (carcinogen, hardens arteries).
95. Burning tobacco produces the poison Toluene (heavy carcinogen, causes brain damage).
96. Burning tobacco produces the poisons Acrolein, Cadmium, Ammonia, etc.....
97. Cigarettes commonly include Polonium 210 - a radioactive element. Smoking 20 cigarettes a day for a year is equivalent to receiving the radiation of about 200 chest x-rays!
98. Tobacco is the only legal drug that kills you when you "use as directed".
99. Today is a good time to quit. Social pressure is weighing in heavily against smoking. Currently, there is an anti-tobacco campaign in full swing. Smoking has steadily declined since its peak in 1963. 1998 numbers of people smoking matched 1942 numbers. There is also a lot of organized support out there for you.
100. Each year about 1,300,000 smokers quit successfully!
101. I would like to be around to watch my kids and grand-kids grow up...
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