Some boys feel it is the manly macho thing to smoke. They
think it looks tough and cool.
A young teenager in Ukraine brought me this drawing of a young boy, himself, tied to his cigarette. He pointed to himself sadly and shook his head. We did not speak the same language but I motioned to him that Jesus in heaven could cut through the ropes of habit on the cigarettes and set him free. He smiled. A few days later he proudly announced that Jesus had set him free. |
 Cigarettes
are an item that take so much money away from the needed food and clothing
items in many families of the world. |
 There are poisons in these cigarettes that slowly kill the
body.
This giant cigarette illustrates the amount of poison that enters the body in one year from smoking 1 pack a day. Kick the habit before it kills. There are over 4,000 chemical compounds found in cigarette smoke. This is a partial list of the major toxic agents. Arsenic, Ammonia, Acetaldehyde, Carbon Monoxide, Cresols, formaldehyde, Hydrogen Cyanide, Phenol, and Urethane. |
 When
a mother smokes while she is pregnant, the baby ends up getting the poison
also. It is like they are smoking too. These children are born with
less abilities mentally and smaller bodies. |
 Advertisements lead you to think it is fun and brings joy
and friends. Actually you are destroying your life and the lives of others
around you. The unborn child can not move to another room while you do the
smoking. |
| Smoking actually shortens your life and health. You never see pictures of one who is very short of breath struggling to get air because they smoked most of their lives. |
| Many think it is an innocent thing. Yet smoking is so habit
forming that it is like ropes. In order to break the habit it takes a big
effort. If smoking is associated with the time right after eating, one can
choose to take a brisk walk during that time.
During the time one is trying to break away from the habit, one needs a great determination, prayer, and a lot of water. It helps to have a team of helpers too. With God as Partner in breaking the habit, it will be a winning battle.
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