#dont smoke

curvygirl1972:

danipup:

highwarlockofhogsmeade:

anti-stupidity-capaldi:

justbecauseyoubelievesomething:

extraordinary-arbiter-bluebird:

keyhollow:

theprofessor86:

psiioniic-miracles:

lost-and-maybe-found:

alt-j:

nah I think we should really stop glorifying cigarettes

you sound boring.

You sound like you’ve never had the scent of cigarette smoke ingrained in your clothes to the point where people in middle school thought you smoked at eleven because your parents couldn’t be bothered to go outside. You sound like you’ve never had your mother flick cigarette ashes out of the car window and have them fly into your face. You sound like you’ve never been kept up at night by the sound of your dad hacking up a lung because he has to get up for his midnight smoke. You sound like you’ve never had to run into a convenience store to get your mother cigarettes as soon as you turned eighteen and cringed at touching the box because you know they’re not only killers but government sanctioned killers because they can not only tax the shit out of them but ensure people buy more at the cost of young lungs and a once beautiful home now plagued with the smell of smoke and ash. You sound like you’ve never had a great grandmother who stopped smoking 30 years before her death who still got lung cancer and subsequently died. You sound like a Fucking ignoramus. Smoking isn’t Fucking cool, it isn’t fun to glorify, it’s disgusting and makes not only you but your children smell bad. Makes not only you but your children cough, get cancer, get sick.

You sound like a Fucking moron. Smoking isn’t cool. Grow the Fuck up.

No, you grow the fuck up. There’s mountains of constant judgment when it comes to smoking. How about you leave people alone and let them do what they want with their bodies.

There is a REASON. It’s not just their bodies they’re fucking. It’s never just their bodies with something fucking airborne. Especially when you have CHILDREN AND PETS.

My grandfather smoked in his house decades ago. We moved in. We started working on it. After just one day of having the AC off so it could be worked on, I could no longer stay in the house because the smell was coming out of the walls <I>so strongly</I> and triggering my asthma to the point where I couldn’t breathe. My grandfather is dead and his smoking still managed to effect me that negativity. It is not just their body.

My aunt took up smoking in secret as a coping method for her depression. My cousin found out and she was so scared for her mom’s health that she hid the cigarettes. But when my aunt noticed they were missing, do you think she had a calm conversation about the whole thing with my cousin? Nope. She stormed into her room in such a rage, my cousin was too scared to even argue. She just gave the cigarettes back and prayed for her mom to leave the room. There was no explanation for why she took up smoking, for why she was trying to hide it, no reassurance for her worried daughter, not even a question as to why my cousin took them… there was just addiction-fueled anger. Directed at a child who had no control over her environment.

And then there’s my own mother, who has never taken up smoking, but who grew up with two chain-smoking parents. My mom who has permanent lung and throat damage from a lifetime of breathing in smoke that she didn’t ask for. My mom who now takes daily medication so her throat doesn’t ache.

But, tell me again how smoking only affects your body?

I grew up breathing not only my step-dad’s cigarette smoke, but all his friends as they’d frequently hang out in the living room together creating a cloud of smoke that permeated the whole house.

I got asthma at 10.

I found a growth in my left lung at 30.

I now have 1 lung. 1 lung and I’m still asthmatic.

Fuck people who smoke around children.

If you can’t agree with this, then fucking unfollow the shit out of me. Too many people in my family have died. My grandfather lost his wife to Lung Cancer. He still smokes though. And my dad who stopped cold turkey when my oldest brother was born and went through hell to make sure his first kid wouldn’t have to also. But did it help? No. Because his mom didn’t care that she had a newborn inhaling her goddamned secondhand smoke. Don’t you dare say it only affects the smoker. Don’t you dare.

as a person who was diagnosed with a super rare genetic lung disorder (alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency) when i was in my thirties, which might not have ever affected me at all had my parents not both chain-smoked in our house and in the car during winters with the fucking windows rolled up because they didn’t want to be cold, all through the first 18 years of my life, i am reblogging the absolute hell out of this.

so yeah, you’d never know i have this thing to look at me, but i have to have an IV plasma infusion every week for the rest of my life because of it. my endurance for aerobic activity is super limited, so my workout options are, too. (i’m basically limited to yoga and weights. not being able to run was reeeeeal shitty to find out, people. i loved running.) basically, if you can hike a steep hill or a shit ton of stairs, like say, up a basilica or a castle tower in fifteen minutes, it’s going to take me a goddamn hour because of the short breaks i have to take.

so yeah. smoking affects MORE THAN THE PERSON SMOKING. i can’t believe it’s 2018 and we even need to reblog this at all.

Huge anti smoker here too

Watching my dad die from emphysema aged just 59 after a lifetime of smoking. Struggling for every single breath for nearly two years before that and hearing him tell me that it felt like he was drowning alive

Then having to relive the same horror, as my mum went through the exact same thing a few years later.

I was there listening to her right until the very end.

I get angry at them for dying too soon, when they could have prevented it

We interrupt the sexy to bring you this important discussion about a really dreadful cause of death of someone I loved - My Dad.  And I gotta tell you, that a few years after he passed, when My brother’s wife made some remark blaming smokers for their own deaths, I totally hated her.  I get that she was right.  Ultimately, even with the lies the tobacco industry pushed, saying it wasn’t addictive, nor harmful, My Dad knew it was killing him.  He called them coffin nails, for God’s sake.  But it was still a shitty thing for My sister in law to say.  I’m not angry at My Dad, but I am incredibly sad I’ve been denied his company.

Don’t smoke.  And encourage others not to smoke as well.  I know a lot of people who have quit.  Let’s all increase the number.

WW2 poster, NARA ID 514034.

GOV’T ANTI-SMOKING CAMPAIGNS WW2
By Miriam Kleiman, Public Affairs

56 years ago this week, the Surgeon General announced a definitive link between smoking and cancer. As these World War II posters show, previous gov’t messaging linked smoking notto cancer but to sabotageandforestfires!

STEP ON IT!NARA ID 515487.

FLICKED ASHES = SABOTAGE! NARA ID 535252.

DON’T SMOKE IN BED!NARA IDs 514165and514164.

CRUSH OUT YOUR CIGARETTE! NARA IDs 514319and7387427.

NARA ID 535261.