Great American Smokeout

November 17th, 2005

Filed under: Medicine

Today is the Great American Smokeout. I was going to put up some nasty pictures of cancerous lungs, but I’m just not that evil (the pictures are truly disgusting). Instead, I decided just to quietly point out the nasty chemicals in cigarettes and the incredible variety of cancers that smoking causes.

The chemicals contained in cigarettes The various cancers caused by smoking

Finally, here’s my favorite smoking-related picture ever. I just love the irony.

smoking lady

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8 Responses to “ Great American Smokeout ”

  1. badrock
    November 17th, 2005 at 11:21 am

    Of all things wow yes thats more than a pisser, that picture holds so many trueths to list one of which is hypocricy. I can tell first hand quitting is hard but i was carring another life i wouldn’t have prolly quit easier . Another great topic to blog on could it be so possible that the human race has eveolved the proverbile giant log syndrom in there own eyes??? No more trueth to that question than that pic . Hey why not its about choices right ?

  2. TayJK
    November 17th, 2005 at 11:34 am

    Maybe you should post some pics from Villain United, like on the plane in #2 when Chesires asks if Deadshot knows how many poisons are in a cigarette.

    (From a proud non-smoker)

  3. Mark
    November 17th, 2005 at 4:32 pm

    The pregnant lady/jackhammer/smoking pic is greatness.

    puff

  4. Roger Green
    November 18th, 2005 at 12:11 pm

    I KNOW it’s none of my business, but pregnant smokers make me nuts; the low
    birth weight, etc.

  5. Jon H
    November 18th, 2005 at 4:26 pm

    Also, tobacco farmers often spray their crops with liquid pigpoop.

    There probably isn’t any left on the tobacco in cigarettes, let alone the smoke, but the image alone ought to be good for something.

    (I wonder if Muslims would give up smoking if they suspected… They might just give up American brands.)

  6. Nala
    November 18th, 2005 at 7:17 pm

    I’ve managed to finally quit and haven’t had one since March 19. It is a foul cruel addiction indeed.

  7. Bruce Small
    November 19th, 2005 at 9:38 am

    And what do you suppose her reaction would be if some nasty manufacturing plant dumped those chemicals into the ground, or into the air.

  8. Ratbat
    November 20th, 2005 at 6:03 am

    Ah, that picture I’ve seen afore, though I don’t remember where. I think I heard later that the woman in the photograph got cross at the newspaper for making her out to be someone who would be so remiss as to smoke during pregnancy.

    Uhhh….yes. The paper’s fault. Whatever.

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