Smoking smells worse than butt…

Besides the obvious reason I hate smoking, which is that it’s taken the lives of people I’ve loved, including almost claiming my sweet Mom’s life… there are many many reasons why I HATE it.

First of all, let’s choose the obvious; it’s a disgusting habit. Smoker’s houses REEK and are covered in brown crap, just like their lungs. In fact, smokers themselves reek, I can tell when a smoker enters a room it smells so bad. And I hate walking behind a smoker around the university. Since they are unable to smoke indoors, they take the opportunity while they walk outside. Inevitably, I end up walking behind them, and breathing in the stench while I’m outside enjoying the weather and trying to enjoy the ‘fresh’ air. If you ask me, walking behind someone who is smoking is worse than walking behind some bloated mofo who just ate kolbassa, draft beer, beans, chili, onions and cabbage, and as a result has the rankest gas EVER. To me, catching a whiff of smoke outside in the supposedly fresh air is just as bad as catching a whiff of rotten onion sulfur farts. And yet smoking is "cool" and farting is socially unacceptable. To my knowledge, farts don’t cause cancer, second hand smoke does.

I got some interesting facts about smoking from this website: http://quitsmoking.about.com/b/a/145263.htm

I guess there’s a list of 599 additives approved by the US government for use in the manufacture of cigarettes! These secret ingredients were finally submitted by the five major American cigarette companies to the Dept. of Health and Human Services in April of 1994.

These additives, plus those naturally in tobacco, result in cigarette smoke having over 4,700 chemical compounds of which about 60 are carcinogenic. Here is a short summary of some of the toxic/carcinogenic compounds:

Carbon Monoxide
Nitrogen Oxides (NO)
Hydrogen Cyanide
Formaldehyde
Acrolein
Acetaldehyde
Ammonia
Hydrazine
Vinyl Chloride
Urethane
2-Nitropropane
Quinoline
Benzo[a]pyrene
Dibenz[a,h]anthracene
Benzo[b]fluoranthene
Benzo[j]fluoranthene
Dibenzo[a,h]pyrene
Dibenzo[a,i]pyrene
Dibenz[a,j]acridine
Indeno[1,2,3-cd]pyrene
Benzo[c]phenanthrene
Benz[a]anthracene
Benzo[e]pyrene
Chrysene
Methylchrysene
Mehtylfluoranthene
Dibenz[a,c]anthracene
Dibenz[a,h]acridine
Dibenzo[c,g]carbazole
Mehtylnaphtalenes
1-Methylindoles
Dichlorostilbene
Catechol
3-Methycatechol
4-Methycatechol
4-Ethycatechol
4-n-Propylcatechol
Nitrosodimethylamine
Nitrosoethymethylamine
Nitrosodiethylamine
Nitrosodi-n-propylamine
Nitrosodi-n-butylamine
Nitrosopyrrolidine
Nitrosopiperidine
Nitrosomorpholine
N'-Nitrosonornicotine
4-(methylnitrosamino)-1-(3-pyridyl)-1-butanone
N'-Nitrosoanabasine
N'-Nitrosoanatabine
Aromatic Amines
Aromatic Nitrohydrocarbons
Polonium-210
Nickel
Arsenic
Cadmium

Even a little second-hand smoke is dangerous. Second-hand smoke can cause cancer, breathing problems, heart disease, and more frequent asthma, pneumonia, colds and flus in the nonsmokers exposed to it.

On the other hand, the ingredients that farts contain are highly variable (depending on what you ate, how long you held the fart in, etc.) and may be negligible. These ingredients are:

Oxygen
Hydrogen
Carbon dioxide
Methane
Hydrogen sulfide
Ammonia

Even though some farts cause breathing problems and asthma-type symptoms, and you might THINK you are dying… according to the site: http://www.heptune.com/farts.html, gas has never killed anyone.

Unless of course some poor soul subjected to living with an extremely gassy person finally couldn’t take it anymore… Don’t laugh, I have known of people at the end of their ropes on this one!

Hahahaha! It’s good when you can start with a rant and end with a laugh:)

Here’s an interesting blog on quitting smoking… http://www.how-to-quit.com/blog/