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The pleasure of smelling the roses.
   
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The pleasure of smelling the roses.
With the amount of money spent by governments on anti smoking
campaigns, the various controversies over cigarette advertising
and the number of places where smoking is no longer permitted,
ever cigarette smoker in the western world must be aware that it
is a habit that at least damages their health and at worst will
kill them.
And yet, depending on whose figures you take as the best
estimate, it seems between 15 and 20% of the population still
smoke cigarettes.
Even though I gave up my 30 plus a day habit nearly 20 years
ago, I can still remember that tight feeling across my chest
in the mornings and the need for a throat clearing cough after I
had brushed my teeth.
I also never realised then that food had so much variety of
taste and flavour or that actually being able to smell the roses
was such a pleasure.
I guess there is little or no chance of my lone voice having any
effect when I tell people they really should stop smoking, as
they continue to ignore the severe warning metered out by the
great and the good.
There has been a great many views expressed on the benefits or
other wise of smoking so called low tar cigarettes and
investigation into the subject does indicate that along with the
habit forming nicotine and hundreds of other chemicals inhaled
in the cigarette smoke, none of which do you any good, it is the
sticky tar that leads to repertory difficulties and depressed
sense of taste and smell.
There are a number of devises on the market that smokers can use
to reduce the intake of tar and one of the most practical seems
to be a mini, inconspicuous cigarette holder called targuard.
A good friend of mine swears by them because without the use of
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chemicals or moving parts, they manage to take out well overCognac is located in the region of Poitou Charentes, towards the
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half the tar before the smoke is inhaled.
It is all done by the centrifuge principal, or so he tells me,
but whatever it is there is no doubting the disgustingly visible
brown sticky deposit left in the filter and the certainty that
it is better left in there than taken into the body.
He uses them for four or five cigarettes and then throws them
away and he really does reckon that his breathing has improved
considerably since he started using them regularly and he
notices more subtle differences between the various red wines he
is for ever sampling.
So from me one last plea to readers who still smoke cigarettes.
Please do try once more to give up, there are after all any
number of courses, patches and other forms of help readily
available.
To those that ignore this plea, at least smoke in a little less
unhealthy way by using targuard or something similar to take out
a substantial amount of the damaging tar before it enters your
body.
The End
Article by author and journalist Hannah Chartwell who can be
contacted at hbc@severnc.co.uk
More information on targuard can be found at
www.healthiersmoking.co.uk
About the author:
Article by author and journalist Hannah Chartwell who can be
contacted at hbc@severnc.co.uk
More information on targuard can be found at
www.healthiersmoking.co.uk