The air in KL....*cough*! No words to express...the way it makes my throat dry. Just one thought i had was......imgaine....if all smokers quit smoking, wouldn't it make a big different to the quality of the air we all breath?
I wonder...how can a person smoke....even when the traffic's so heavy...air already polluted...hard to inhale...yet someone will be there, lighting a cigarate, puffing away. Even worst, when eating in the restaurant today, i also realised so many of the smokers smoking away...ignoring ppl who are trying to breath & eat at the same time. Besides that, at the hills and mountain trying to breath in fresh air once in a while, there'll be ppl puffing away. Sad case.
Smoking Worse Than Exhaust for Air Pollution, Italian Tests Show Cigarettes Emit 10 Times More Particulate Matter, Aug. 23, 2004.
- "Environmental tobacco smoke is a major source of particulate matter pollution."
- The cigarettes produced 10 times as much particulate matter as the auto, comparing the first hour after starting the engine with the first hour after lighting the cigarettes.
What are the two big diseases you think of being related to smoking?
- Heart disease holds first place
- Researchers report that worldwide, there were 1,690,000 premature deaths from cardiovascular disease among smokers in the year 2000.
- Smoking is the leading cause of lung cancer
- Lung cancer now surpasses breast cancer as the number one cause of death among women
- Secondhand smoke is the third leading cause of lung cancer and responsible for an estimated 3,000 lung cancer deaths every year.
(http://www.webmd.com/asthma/news/20040823/smoking-worse-than-exhaust-for-air-pollution)(http://www.epa.gov/iaq/radon/healthrisks.html & http://quitsmoking.about.com/cs/nicotinepatch/a/healthrisks.htm)
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