How Addictive Are Cigarettes?
A man has a laryngectomy for cancer of the larynx from smoking, and a permanent tracheotomy hole in his neck. He resumes smoking THROUGH his tracheotomy!
A hospital patient on oxygen, lights up a cigarette (in violation of hospital rules) igniting the oxygen line and setting herself on fire - she ends up in the burn unit with 3rd degree burns. Another hospital patient once attempted to light up inside an OXYGEN Tent!
A lung transplant patient, and lung cancer survivor later resumes smoking with his "new lung."
"In 1983, our chemistry professor at FSU tells our class, he once saw a lab chemist dispensing Anhydrous Diethyl Either from a 5-Gal drum with a lit cigarette in his mouth!"
Tallahassee 1985 - A woman pumps gas, at a gas station while smoking a cigarette, sets herself on fire, resulting in 3rd degree burns over 60% of her body.
Astonishingly, many ex-chain smokers in their 50s or 60s who are on oxygen for smoking-related emphysema, continue to smoke while on oxygen. More than one smoker has set themselves on fire.
A young aspiring aerospace engineering student, touring the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, in strict violation of the rules, pulls out a cigarette and lights up INSIDE the V.A.B! He is IMMEDIATELY thrown off the Space Center, told never to return and loses his scholarship.
During the Bosnian civil war of the 1990s, starving smokers have been known to trade food rations for cigarettes.
Smokers on airline flights, desperate for a smoke have been known to tamper with the plane's lavatory smoke detector, attempting to disable or disconnect it so that they can "sneak" a smoke. They always get caught and find themselves in big trouble.
Poor people on food stamps have been known to return food items for a refund so they could scrape up enough for a pack.
"This evening my Sister, who just flew in from LA and I were on our way to visit my Dad at Tampa Gen. Hosp., when a middle-aged patient getting on the same elevator says: 'This is one of the best hospitals! I had new heart valves and a bypass done 5 days ago but I learned one thing in life... Nothing is more important than that cigarette I just had.' DeeDee: 'I thought you were smoking.' Patient said 'My doctor told me I won't need to quit yet, because it would be too stressful for me.'"
From a retired nurse in Kamloops, BC Canada: "Smoking outside in Canada is difficult for patients in the winter but they still do it anyway, so the patients on intravenous take their I.V. poles & pumps outside and the lines start to freeze and pump alarms go off."
Never underestimate the power of cigarette addiction! Stories like these demonstrate just how bad it is. Smoking like other addiction is a disease. The single most important thing you can do to improve your health is to quit smoking. Stories like these should serve as a warning call of why it's so important to quit smoking.
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