Non-smokers and former smokers... How do u live without smoking?!


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Non-smokers and former smokers... How do u live without smoking?

Im saying it like this, us smokers envy you.


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I'm a non smoker and even before I became a Respiratory Therapist i was lucky that extreme ashthma and allergies kept me away from cigarettes. Now I know the long term effects smoking has on people. In my job I see people who have been long time smokers ane it blows your mind to think that what most consider a nasty little habit can have such a huge impact on your ability to live a normal life when you get older. Emphysema, Chronic Bronchitis, Pulmonary Fibrosis and Lung Cancer. That is how I live without smoking!! I have seen far too many people with those disesases and I say that its not at all worth it to me. Even if I didn't have the asthma, I wouldn't even try it. I don't lecture people and harp about how awful it is but i support the no smoking in public places mindset simply because when I was a child if I was around it for even 5 minutes I'd go into an attack that 4 out of 5 times ended up in the hospital. There are other people especially children that deserve to breathe. So for a smoker to be so disrespectful and say they have the right to smoke is so selfish. Think about those that have medical reasons they can't tolerate it. And for me it wasn't just cigarette smoke, disel fumes did it too, but those people don't have as much control of.




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