Quitting smoking is one of the best ways to protect your lung health. Have you seen the Department of Health’s new stop smoking campaign? It comes in response to statistics that show more than a third of smokers still think the health risks associated with smoking are greatly exaggerated. What do you think?
The no smoking campaign as been going for quite some time now but needs to be continued in what ever way gets results. Agreed some of the adverts are gory but so is watching someone dying with breathing difficulties,so if it saves one life it has to be worth it, But I agree with others it should be clearer that lung cancer is not the only killer disease acquired by smoking.
Nobody wants to listen to the victims of smoking, those who have been hit with lung cancer or other illnesses as a direct result of smoking, until it's too late.
Then again, a lot of blame is put upon smoking as the cause of these conditions, yet there are many other factors that contribute. Although I smoked I know I've been exposed to other things too. I can't prove that getting pneumonia from a 'wet building' I worked in started my problems, but neither can the experts prove that it was through smoking.
The one thing that has really bugged me is that since I stopped smoking I've been hit over and over with chest infections. Once the tar and other gunk had cleared, the bugs have been able to get in. I'm told that if I had carried on smoking then I may be dead by now, but who can prove that? I may have smoked for many more years to come, and felt better for it.
They repeated the clip of 'Yes Minister' over the holidays, the one where Humphrey explains to the PM that it is not economical to stop people smoking to cut back on NHS costs in treating them as those who smoke die younger and will be less of a burden on pensions - or something like that anyway.
I'm an ex smoker with a lung condition, I don't believe half of what is being said in the stop smoking campaign. If the powers that be were so concerned they would have made smoking illegal years ago, but they are more concerned about the potential loss of taxes from the tobacco industry!
I grew up thinking it was 'cool' to smoke, there were cowboys advertising Malbourers, Frank Sinatra smoking while he sang! etc.,etc., I think instead of treating us like a drain on society the gov' should be paying us compo out of all the tax they charged us for buying cigs for all those decades, they must have made a fortune.
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