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David

David Report 25 Apr 2019 07:05


I'm old enough to remember the Dawn Chorus.
Someone would start a paroxysm of coughing til they spat.
Then the cougher would light a Woodbine or roll one.
Then another would start coughing then light up.
You would hear someone next door having a cough then a howk.
When it happened on a bus upstairs, everyone joined in.

Sharron

Sharron Report 24 Apr 2019 21:03

It does not just affect men. One of my old biddies had her bits off. It seems that smoking can hit either sex in the parts.

maggiewinchester

maggiewinchester Report 24 Apr 2019 20:43

Hmm, for some reason, that's a complaint I've never personally suffered with! :-D

RolloTheRed

RolloTheRed Report 24 Apr 2019 20:04

Some studies have suggested that smoking may increase the chance of developing penile cancer. This may be because harmful chemicals found in cigarettes are excreted in the urine which may then interact with secretions that can build up under the foreskin of an uncircumcised man resulting in abnormal cell changes in the penis.

Around 630 people die of this in the UK each year.

Dermot

Dermot Report 24 Apr 2019 17:31

Erectile dysfunction & the accidental discovery of the 'Pill' were discussed on the radio earlier this week.

Very educational.

David

David Report 24 Apr 2019 14:55


:-D :-D :-D :-D :-D

Sharron

Sharron Report 24 Apr 2019 14:46

It is a wonder erectile dysfunction would be a problem if you stank of fag ash and smoke.

 Sue In Yorkshire.

Sue In Yorkshire. Report 24 Apr 2019 12:53

The manufacturers cannot put lies on the boxes,

David

David Report 24 Apr 2019 12:30


The powers that be insisted that a warning be put on the cigarette packet

WARNING Cigarettes damage your health. Then, they took to illustrations of

cancerous lungs and heart, putting the tax up still higher. People still bought them.

If the warning had said SMOKING CIGARETTES CAUSES ERECTILE

DYSFUNCTION they might have had more success ?

 Sue In Yorkshire.

Sue In Yorkshire. Report 24 Apr 2019 10:58

Yeah and don't forget all the tins of cigarettes sent to the troops in WW1 from the King and Queen and the government.

David

David Report 24 Apr 2019 06:21


For the first sixteen years of my marriage, my wife , a non smoker must have
thought I stunk, my breathe, my clothes.
I didn't notice until I'd been off cigarettes a few months.

David

David Report 24 Apr 2019 06:12


The initial coughing and spluttering when smoking is the lungs rejecting that which has
been inhaled. Repeatedly doing this damages, then destroys the lungs.
In fires it is smoke inhalation rather than fire that is the killer. The lungs need to provide oxygen to the heart so that everything else can function. For smoking tobacco products to be addictive must be due to an "addition" by the cigarette manufactures.?

I smoked from 1957 - 1996, early on lost the ability run, a symptom, so I consider
myself to be very fortunate.

Sharron

Sharron Report 23 Apr 2019 22:58

I have never known anybody to be rushed to hospital on a cigarette or firefighters to arrive on one.

maggiewinchester

maggiewinchester Report 23 Apr 2019 21:33

...or breathing in vehicle exhaust fumes.

David

David Report 23 Apr 2019 09:12


If every cigarette tasted like the first one, we would'nt finish the packet !!

When I was much younger I recall a specialist on TV saying
"the greatest single preventable cause of premature death is smoking cigarettes"

Allan

Allan Report 23 Apr 2019 06:33

Spot on, David

David

David Report 22 Apr 2019 22:07


Smoking cigarettes is an addiction, I was an addict for nearly 40 years :-(

If the Government wasn't making so much in tax they'd have banned them long ago.

Dermot

Dermot Report 22 Apr 2019 20:29

A cigarette is a pinch of tobacco rolled by a thin piece of paper, a light at one end & a foolish person at the other.

PatinCyprus

PatinCyprus Report 22 Apr 2019 19:56

and the government a fortune in tax ;-)

David

David Report 22 Apr 2019 18:50

I'm watching a film on TV, Guns of Navarrone, everybody has a cigarette in their
hand or hanging from their lips. In all the previous films all or most of the actors were smokers. Until the last 3 decades it seemed everyone was a smoker.
Dean Martin, singer, actor, comedian wasn't killed by alcohol, he never had a cigarette out of his hand. Like everyone else he didn't know it was an addiction.
Those who make and market cigarettes ought to be held to account
Costing the NHS a fortune, and many a smoker their lives.