Smoking cigarettes is good for a cold?!
Question: i have to live with my aunt now and shes really nice but she smokes a lot and i hate it. ive had to live with her for like about a year now and every time i get a cold she makes me like chain smoke a bunch of her cigarettes. she says that its because its better than vicks to get the menthol in my system and that she and my mom were raised that way. my mom smoked too but not as much. she didnt make me smoke when i lived with her. is it true that smoking menthols is good for a cold? it just doesnt seem right cause im only 12yrs old and when i ask she says she started when she was around my age so its ok and if i get hooked shell just buy them for me. so if it isnt what should i do? she says i have to live by her rules now too. i really think she is just trying to be nice. like im her daughter or something and she taking the place of my mom.
Answers: i have to live with my aunt now and shes really nice but she smokes a lot and i hate it. ive had to live with her for like about a year now and every time i get a cold she makes me like chain smoke a bunch of her cigarettes. she says that its because its better than vicks to get the menthol in my system and that she and my mom were raised that way. my mom smoked too but not as much. she didnt make me smoke when i lived with her. is it true that smoking menthols is good for a cold? it just doesnt seem right cause im only 12yrs old and when i ask she says she started when she was around my age so its ok and if i get hooked shell just buy them for me. so if it isnt what should i do? she says i have to live by her rules now too. i really think she is just trying to be nice. like im her daughter or something and she taking the place of my mom.
You need to tell an adult that you trust, like a teacher, minister or school counselor, that your aunt is making you smoke cigarettes. Your aunt is not only wrong, she's also breaking the law.
Your aunt is mistaken if she believes that smoking menthol cigarettes can help a cold. Not only does it not help, it actually will hurt you because cigarette smoke is poison. Every time you take a drag on a cigarette, you are putting hundreds of toxic chemicals into your lungs. The more you smoke, the more your lungs become damaged. The menthol does absolutely nothing for your cold. My mother believed the same thing, but it's wrong.
Your aunt probably isn't trying to harm you on purpose, but she thinks smoking is OK at age 12 because that's the way she was raised. But it's not. Please talk to somebody about this right now before you get hooked, too. Good luck.
wow...i dont kno about cigarettes being good for a cold but even if they are..at what price?
Someone needs to turn her in. NO, it's not good for you any time. That's ridiculous.
no not at all...cigs slow down ur blood flow making the healing process much slower
Smoking cigarettes is NEVER good for you......and this is something that you should NOT be doing. If your aunt is MAKING you smoke these things just because she doesn`t want to let her have medicine then this is a form of child abuse.
Some of the things we believed while we were being raised are not always right. People used to leave kids in their car unattended...now it`s against the law. People used to think that drinking Coke would heal all that ails them....now we drink it and health professionals tell us it`s bad for us. Just because she was told to chain smoke to get rid of a cold, doesn`t mean she is right.
If she makes you smoke again....contact your guidance counsellor at school...or a child protection agency. Most states and provinces have a regulated age for buying and smoking cigarettes and you do NOT meet that age limit. This is NOT a good situation. Do NOT smoke those cigarettes....
No, she was feeding you a line. Smoking damages the lungs and makes it more difficult to breathe.
Please do not damage your body with this horrible and disgusting habit. It will make your clothes and hair stink, and it will even cause your face to age because of all the chemicals going into your skin from the smoke.
Yuck, your aunt is living in a dream world, making excuses for her addiction.
STOP! STOP! STOP I started when I was twelve and I just managed to quit two weeks ago (I'm 24 now, it was my ninth try) It's hard as hell to quit and whatever misguided reasons she has for making you smoke I beg you resist them. By the way smoking is also the worse thing you can do for a cold, it resist blood flow in your lungs causing any cough or sore throat to take so much longer to heal, I used to go 3 weeks straight sick with a cold because I couldn't just give up cigs for a few days. I hope you'll heed this advice. If not you'll regret it when your trying to quit 20 years from now.
If this is not a joke..............................DO NOT SMOKE.
people who get cancer, get it because of the stress and abuse it causes on the body. Being sick is a stress on the body, so is smoking. Doing this greatly increases your chances of developing lung disease and or cancer.
Stand up for yourself, tell her no. If you have to tell a teacher to get her to stop, then do it.
(Yes she has strange ideas, and they are wrong and harmful; you do know that this much stress can affect your growth possibly.)
Smoking is indeed good for a cold... It makes it a lot easier for you to catch it, and colds love getting caught. Of course, since she only makes you smoke when you have a cold, catching another one isn't much of a concern. What happens is the smoke from the cigarett is hot, and it burns your throat, which makes it easier to catch colds.
You are under her roof, and must live under her rules. You might point out that she could get in a lot of trouble if anyone knew she was giving cigarettes to a minor, but I don't know that that would change much.
Some people are really weird. Your grandmother just happens to be one of them. I wouldn't try to convince her any different any more. Take your vitamins, and try not to get sick though, because smoking really is bad for you.
cigarette can no way be good for a cold all it does is put poisons into your system. Try taking some vitamin and give your body what it needs to fight off the cold faster.