Someone at some point in our community has to put their foot down and get real about cigarettes.
The idea that there are people tolerant of smoking just because they want to dismiss it’s danger because they think they are entitled to at least one vice and dont really see the immediate harm, is not only stupid, it is a big breach in the integrity of any community.
While many consumable and technological products have dangers, the product of cigarettes affords a person the ability to ingest over one hundred chemicals known to contribute to the, chas veshalom, worst of diseases including those which create genetic mutations which can, chas veshalom, be passed on to future generations all because daddy or mommy took maybe even just one puff before they were married.
Ammonia, nicotine, carbon monoxide, among tens and tens of other poisons are passing into the precious lungs and being dispersed throughout the entire body by anyone exposed to cigarette smoke.
And here is the beauty of it. Researchers are now adding radioactivity to the list of “nutrients” ingested by cigarette smoke.
There is evidence the soil now used to grow tobacco contains radon, a radioactive substance passed into the body via ciagerette smoke.
Interestingly, a product was developed to remove the radon from tobacco field soil, and the tobacco companies, yemach sh’mo, were not interested in using it as they felt it tampered with the flavor of the tabacco.
Cigarette smoking is a sakana, and because it is a slow damaging process, it is a favorite of the yetzer hora.