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Mankind Pathway to Doom?
Published on May 27, 2006 By mythgarr In Philosophy
Well, people can say that smoking is bad for your health, but do you have thought about it that smoking people can become the cause for the end of humanity?

Well, let's start with the obvious: cigars and cigarettes (and their families) are health deteriorating stuffs. They are choke full of chemical substances that are best left in a chemical plant waste processing facilities. They are saturated with excess chemical radicals resulting from imperfect oxidation (or burning) of organic materials. Some of the stuffs actually stick in smokers lung and reduce their capabilities to suck up air. Some of the said radicals bond with blood cells and body tissues and caused irregular mitosis of living cells and cause cancers and tumors to grow.

And those stuffs are not attacking the smokers only. Many of them spread all around, carried in the polluting gaseous substances that are blown out by smokers, annoying non-smokers and invading their innocence biological structures.

Smoking, in short, causes billions of dollars wasted in smoke-induced human biological deteriorations. A loss that, if not properly reduced, will hinder the growth of global economy forever.

But that's not all. Do you know that smoking can cause End of Days?

Let's start with the component that makes a cigarettes: tobaccos, spices, and...papers.
Papers are made from woods which are obtained from timbers that are harvested from forests and jungles. More cigarettes, more papers, more timbers need to be cut down.

Now, let's think of what do a smokers need to do before they poison themselves: they light up a match, oxidizing the solid phosporous substances molded on an edge of0 wooden solid stick, wasting both the precious oxigen and the ever reducing renewable resource. The then transfer the oxidizing reaction (the fire) from the match onto the cigarettes, causing more oxigen to be consumed.

Now, oxigen and woods, catch my drift?

Oxygen is the thing we needed to let our cells break up that Adenosyn Triphosphate to release energy it contains that have been powering us up. It is also the thing that fire, any kind of fire (even fire of love) consumes in order to keep alight.

Do you know where did oxygen comes from? Guess what: Photosynthetizing Leaves. They inhale carbon dioxyde (that greenhouse gas thing) and exhale oxygen. These uber-important leaves are mostly concentrated in forests and jungles, two kind of haves that have been being consumed by human civilization faster than they can reproduce. Consumed to make papers and matchsticks consumed in a smoking activity.

Well, there are other activities that consume oxygen and woods, but are you willing to believe that your cigarette is not the one who become the thing that pushed the balance between oxygen consumption and production? The thing that started a chain reaction in oxygen concentration regression? The thing that started world-wide carbon monoxyde suffocation?

Wanna be responsible for doom of mankind? Don't think of nuclear wars or uncurable pandemic virus, think about cigarettes and their deteriorating effects.

Stop smoking now. You'll be glad you are not the one who killed the mankind.

Comments
on May 27, 2006
Hmmm, somehow the words "crock of shit" come to mind...
on May 28, 2006
As a former, reformed smoker I appreciate your message. Smoking is terrible and I do not know how many years of my life have been cut short due to smoking. There is more awareness now and it is good that smoking is becoming socially unacceptable.
on May 28, 2006
aahh, the trolls are coming....
on May 30, 2006
No, trolls are the one that said things like comments no.3: witty but rude, and showing some non-hygiene mentallity.

And, yes papers in cigarettes are tiny, but they are papers nonetheless, and to make papers, you torn down a tree or two. So why don't we cut paper consumptions by say, not buying a piece of paper with primary intention to burn it down.

One thing about furniture refinishing: ever heard of a thing called "mask" ?
on May 30, 2006
heard of a thing called "mask"


Yeah, I saw that Movie!

And my son's favorite is "Son of the Mask." Great flick. Love the dance scene.
on May 30, 2006
I appreciate the concern for the world and smokers, but the idea that it is a danger to humanity is pretty haphazard. You could also say that without smoking the agricultural nations that thrive on tobacco exports would have suffered greatly. My own state, Kentucky, here in the US thrived for decades on tobacco, and it fed some of the poorest people in the US with its proceeds.

As for papers/wood, come on. The paper in the number of cigarettes the average smoker smokes in a year probably doesn't add up to a single fat Sunday newspaper, of which billions are tossed in the trash every week worldwide. Add to that all the other paper we waste and cigarettes aren't even a noticable waste. As for wasting oxygen... good lord. All the lighting of cigarettes in my city in a given year probably doesn't add up the the combustion that takes place in my own fireplace in the same amount of time.

Given that enormous amounts of people die of cancer every year, and that overpopulation is a growing problem around the world, one would imagine that things that we enjoy but that are bad for us serve a real beneficial purpose. If you balance the revenue generated by people dying slowly in hospitals and all the care that they need, employing millions of Americans in the health care industry, you get even more benefit.

Don't pretend that things that are bad for us are necessarily bad for the world or mankind as a whole. The sad fact is mankind benefits from out deaths and suffering more often than not. Civilization benefits from the time the tobacco is planted, to the time the cigarettes are made, to the time they are purchased and tax money goes to the government, to the time they put you into the hospital, and finally to the time you 'decrease the surplus population'.

This is the way the world works, welcome to it. You are born to die, and that process feeds the world that eats you. Society is no different.
on May 30, 2006
Hmmm, somehow the words "crock of shit" come to mind...


way to go Mason!
on May 30, 2006
I think this is a coherent and well-structured essay against smoking.

Some of the arguments are strong, and others are weak, but they are all presented clearly.

Thank you for speaking up about what you believe in. Figuring out what you believe, and how to explain it, is very important. You should keep up the good work.

If you're interested in improving your ability to explain and convince, I recommend taking the following steps:

1. Improve your spelling by improving your vocabulary. A spellchecker is good, but there's really no substitute for just hanging out with as many new words as you can. I hope that since you're writing here, this means you enjoy writing and reading and words in general. If so, your vocabulary and spelling should both improve on their own, as yo do what you enjoy doing.

2. Keep in mind that extreme claims require extreme evidence. Get in the habit of researching your claims before you make them. People are much more likely to understand and agree with you if they can see the same proof you see. But first you need to find that proof, and show it to them.

Again, thanks, and keep up the good work!