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Originally Posted by Kpt. Munson
Reality check here .. it takes Months if not Years for your internals to rid the crap that has accumulated in your system.
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Yeah but, some doctors would blame the common cold on smoking if they could. So I'm always dubious when if you are unwell and you go to a doctor and say so, they ask do you smoke, and if you say yes, most will be "there's your reason"
I am dubious is due to my friend, not the other one who I told you guys before is pregnant. The one I grew up with, she smoked precisely, one cigarette in her entire life. Only the one. I started smoking the day after my 16th birthday once I became legal, and just for the record, even though I had one more year of school left to go and GCSE's to sit, I never smoked in school ever and kept my weekend routine. It was cigars I went for when I got going as my father smoked cigars and I was having one or two on a weekend, I quite enjoyed them I admit. 6 months after I started to smoke I eventually got round to smoking a couple of menthol cigarettes, my mother suggested I not smoke a cigar when out with my mates so it was a good idea, and I quite liked menthol cigs.
Anyway, the point is, my friend, she never smoked before in her life. She asked could she try a cigarette. So I gave it to her without any fuss because if it was fine for me, it woudl be fine for her I assumed. So she sat smoking this one cigarette (properly too I may add) at the end of it, she threw up and was sick. She never touched another cigarette or anything that could be smoked after that, it was her first and last.
Fast forward 2 years later, she goes to the doctor with problems in her chest. What does the doctor ask her? "Do you smoke?" "no" she replies, and the doctor had to refer her because he didn't know what the cause of her chest complaints was. Turns out she had a abnormality with her heart and was making her feel unwell. Had she took up smoking that day, he would have just told her to cut down or quit.
Hence, since then I have been of the mind, yes smoking causes a LOT of problems, but I hardly think its the cause of EVERY health complaint, doctors are far too quick to use it as a scapegoat.