I've only smoked 3 cigarettes in my life and 1 black and mild but I am 15 and I am worried that smoking will diminish my health much faster than if I was older. How many cigarettes would it take to develop a cancer of the mouth or the lung? Is having only 1 cigarette a week or every other week damaging my body a lot?Wednesday, December 28, 2011
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I've only smoked 3 cigarettes in my life and 1 black and mild but I am 15 and I am worried that smoking will diminish my health much faster than if I was older. How many cigarettes would it take to develop a cancer of the mouth or the lung? Is having only 1 cigarette a week or every other week damaging my body a lot?
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Mary - Theres not a definite answer, everyone is different. However, smoking cigarettes under 18 is extremely detrimental to your health, i would know. I used to smoke all the time when i was your age, for about two years. and now I have a terrible cough and I have terrible health problems involving my lungs. And everyone has cancer, it just depends what triggers it. It could be the first cigarette, or the 1,000th. everyone is different, best way to make sure is to just not smoke them.
ReplyDeletegreg - Oh god. What don't people get about this? If you're having one cigarette a week, eventually you'll decide you can have two one week, and the next week, youll think the same thing because it felt so good last week, and soon it'll become the norm. Before you know it you're addicted and smoking 2 packs a day. It happened to my dad, it happened to many of my friends.
ReplyDeleteAnd by the way, in a fire (other than staying away from the fire itself), what are you supposed to do? That's right, DON'T INHALE THE GODDAMN SMOKE!!!!!
Bird - Every cigarette you smoke takes 11 minutes off your expected life span. You can get lung cancer without ever having smoked a cigarette in your life. PLEEEASE stop smoking before you pick up the habit. I started smoking when I was 15, and after being a smoker for 10 years, I finally quit. Cigarettes stink, they're expensive as hell, and they're extremely bad for you. They cause premature aging, especially in women, and they ruin your voice. My Mom has been a smoker for 30 years and her voice is now deep like a mans. Don't smoke once a week, don't smoke at all. When you smoke, what you're basically saying is, "I don't care enough about myself to NOT put poison in my body".
ReplyDeleteSerene E - sigh.....you're being stupid and silly, dude. It takes 20-40 YEARS to get cancer from smoking!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteMy husband got lung cancer aftr smoking for 42 years at the age of 67!!!!!!