A HALO OF SMOKE- Part 2

Carbon monoxide and cyanide are two of the lethal gases in tobacco smoke. So is benzopyne. This is in the tar which is deposited in the airways, the mouth, larynx, bronchi, and lungs. Those deposited in the mouth are swallowed, affecting the esophagus and stomach. Other are absorbed into the blood stream and many affect any organ as they travel around the body.

Remember, too, that the coronary heart disease is No.1 killer in the US and other parts of the Western world, and the vast majority of the victims are smokers.
How about women? During World War II women took up a habit, and today, in spite of the decrease in the number of smokers since 1965, more than 50 million Americans still smoke. When women smoke, especially expectant mothers, the poisons they take in go to the fetus via the placenta, thus endangering the life of the unborn child.

What is the effect of side-stream smoke which the smoker blows into the air to nonsmokers? It has been estimated that a nonsmoker who works in a smoke filled room will, at the end of eight hours, breathed smoke equivalent to smoking five cigarettes. A smoker has no right whatsoever to poison the nonsmoker!

While it is hard to give up smoking, it is not entirely impossible to overcome the habit. During the last 25 years, more than 30 million smokers in the US have succeeded in giving up the use of tobacco, and some 2 million continue to do so every year.

Suppose your friend of relative is finding hard to give up smoking, support and encouragement is the key to a sure victory. When the going was going tough fro the Allies during World War II, Winston Churchill, then prime minister of Great Britain, said, when asked for the secrete of their victory, “ Never give up, never give up, never, never, never, never.” When you wage an all-out war against tobacco in any form, remember never to give up until you overcome.