Hi Hassaan,
I have been meaning to reply to your post since I saw it last week. The following is a shameless plea for you NOT TO START SMOKING, because it is a nasty and obviously addictive habit that will be very hard to break (and you'll gain weight if you ever manage to do it!). I quit 3 months ago.
I began smoking at 22 ! Like you, I knew all the bad stuff about smoking. But after work (waitress at the time), I'd go hang out with my colleagues, and one night I bummed a smoke. Made my head spin, was pretty weird. No big deal.
Then on a slow night at work, bummed another. Same effects, except my body had already made a pleasure-association with the cigarette. Then I started bumming (asking someone for a cig) from time to time. Still, under control.
Then I went down to see some friends in Richmond, VA one week. They were smokers. Bummed one one day, three the next, four the next... So then I bought a pack.
ANd the rest is 13 years of history. Smelling like an ashtray, yellowing teeth, premature signs of aging, empty pocketbook.
Just don't do it. Don't give the cig. companies any of your money. It's a trap, you can fall in without realizing it. Ask any smoker, they'll all tell you, don't ever start smoking.
End of shameless plea.
Take care,
Sara
Originally posted by Hassaan
Well, I would like to ask opinions about smoking and its effects on sporting activities (like cycling and swimming).
It is true that it decreases the stamina, but what if one is only puffing the smoke and not inhaling, and smoking not more than 5 or 6 cigaretts daily. Does that harm aswell?
And another thing...if anybody knows: Is it true that cigar and smoking pipe are far less harmful than cigaretts because they dont contain the smoke of paper (which has carbon mono-oxide)?