Just seen this, gross!!

[RATTER15]

Sorry not a question just thought I would share it.

So glad I gave up, I smoked 50 a day.

[Mojo-Jo-Jo]

Good for you, but they're my lungs.

[jno]

so say that brown smudge is a tenth of a millimetre deep... at 50 a day that would be 5 millimetres deep... after a year that'd be, say 6 foot deep. Were your lungs clogged with 6ft of residue each year? Or might the experiement be slightly flawed?

Not trying to promote smoking, just wondering about some of the science I see on YouTube

[RATTER15]

Either way jno, its still gross, nobody is suggesting it carries on building up in your lungs, just that it contaminates so quickly and leaves a large amount of residue.

[seadogg]

I guess the body is good at trying to protect and purify itself but eventually these protective systems must break down.

[Mojo-Jo-Jo]

It leaves a large amount of residue in a plastic bottle.
What temperature were those bottles at?
What was the humidity in the room?
What tar rating was the cigarette?
It's meaningless. I know smoking is bad but you're comparing throwing a smoke bomb into a lift carriage with doing the same on the top deck of an open topped bus.

[RATTER15]

lol Mojo, a little disturbing for you maybe?

[DTCwordfan]

Good message to show kids though...............

[jno]

I think Mojo's right, though. This is a scare tactic with no attempt to demonstrate accuracy.

[Mojo-Jo-Jo]

Oh no DT, not disturbing at all.
I have faced death. I know the risks in my life. I'm not frightened. I like a fag. :)

[RATTER15]

Good for you Mojo :-)

[DTCwordfan]

Think you are targeting the wrong person, Mojo. I mentioned it was a good message for kids, not adults......

[Mojo-Jo-Jo]

You're right DT, the last comment was meant for Ratter. Sorry.

[Jordyboy9]

You are pishing in the wind ratteris15 it will not convince smokers to stop they will find some excuse.I stopped 45 years ago and have saved a few bob for holidays abroad that i would not have had.

[Mojo-Jo-Jo]

I have no excuse Dorromay. I don't need one.

[Mick-Talbot]

It's the only pleasure they get

[Mojo-Jo-Jo]

Oh I wouldn't say that Mick :P

[lcg]

i'm a qualified quitters nurse (one of my many talents). i also did my dissertation on the smoking ban in acute psych wards and an entire msc project on educating smokers about the content of cigarettes and their smoking behaviour. end result....i know a helluva lot about cigarettes and the damage they do.....but i still smoke! i also smoked a lot of cannabis daily from the age of 15 to 33. i have tried to give up so many times, but always end up going back. it's the only thing i do that's naughty now, though......x

[DTCwordfan]

What are your views to the new generation smoking, Mojo, the current one in schools? Surely there is a role to deter smoking there? With all respect, hardened cases like you are not going to move to non-smoking that easily......this message that ratter has shown has its purpose in targeting our children/grand-children.

[Jordyboy9]

mojo you dont need an excuse i wasnt getting at you its your life good luck to you,i have a habit i like a dram and sometimes too many so who am i to preach to others.

[askyourgran]

I can only say I gave up smoking because I wanted to. No-one could have made me give it up, all the advertising, the cigarette packets with cancer pictures on them etc, talks from counsellor, the comments about clothes smelling of tobacco, even leaving Mrask standing in the pub on his own while I went outside for a cigarette. If anything it made me not cave in to the pressure, I objected to being told I must stop. I stopped because I eventually realised that I didn't really want that cigarette or the next one etc....