My father was very bothered by cigarettes, so at 15/16 I would smoke a pack of 10 on weekends.
For society it’s cool, we all know celebrities smoke and in formal wear!
A cigarette after sex is like bread with pasta. In socideath, one feels proud of what harms them.
I kept those ten cigarettes a week for about three months.
Then I would smoke one after school. Then another at night if we got together to watch movies, during the week.
Suddenly I experienced my first emotional grief, I started smoking 20 because at first “it calmed me down.”
Over time, I felt 5 times fewer aromas and flavors. I had less strength and endurance, I breathed with my nose always blocked.
Mucus, body aches. Hoarse voice, dry cough. I no longer ran and only walked.
My digestive system collapsed, nerves, stress. I smoked 3 packs and started in the morning.
The tingling in my legs was already normal, before I felt it with the first one of the day that had flavor…
Over time, I didn’t even feel the smoke in my throat.
I quit smoking twice, until the third time I understood that smoking was not the problem but paying for the poison that society sold me.
I cleansed myself with meditation and plants
I understood that I didn’t have to do the opposite of my father, nor continue paying to kill myself.
I quit the habit first with “organic” tobacco when rolling my cigarettes. It was barely better than industrialized.
If machines process it, distill it, and use chemicals to make it burn, have more aroma, and be more addictive.
I was still in the same situation, smoking all day to generate more nerves, anxiety, and stress than I felt if I didn’t smoke.
Industrial cigarettes are the most addictive drug put into our days.
It’s legal, like banks, paying taxes, and junk food.
Today I smoke mapacho in a pipe, the cut leaf. And it’s like drinking water after having drunk sodas all my life.
It wasn’t tobacco that was killing me.
Industrial cigarettes are not tobacco
Tobacco heals, while the cigarette that is marketed POISONS AND KILLS.
Its production is disastrous and if you are smoking right now, it would be best if you throw it away and start remembering your human side.
Around 7 out of 10 are women, and about 1.3 million children under 14 are exploited in tobacco cultivation.
If you buy and pay for what they sell you instead of tobacco, you do it to smoke more than 7000 chemicals. And you pay dearly for it.
The tobacco plant grows naturally, and real tobacco, besides healing, can be obtained for two bucks.
[PDF] List of additives in industrialized cigarettes
Potassium lactate
Calcium lactate
Sodium citrates
Potassium citrates
Calcium citrates
Sodium tartrates
Potassium tartrates
Sodium and potassium double tartrate
Starches, modified starches, and soluble starches usable in food
Sodium salts, potassium salts, ammonium salts, calcium salts, magnesium salts of carboxylic acid
Chlorides of calcium and magnesium
Officinal alum
Cellulose-based natural fiber materials
Paper pulp
Cellulose acetate
Hydroxyethylcellulose
Hydroxyethyl ethylcellulose
Hydroxyethyl methylcellulose
Methyl hydroxypropyl cellulose
Carboxymethyl starch
Mannans, galactans, possibly modified
Calcium and magnesium salts of carboxymethylcellulose
Urea
Glyoxal
Titanium dioxide
Oxides of aluminum, magnesium, calcium
Hydroxides of calcium, aluminum, magnesium
Silica, kaolin, bentonite, talc, diatomaceous earth
Magnesium silicate
Sulfates of aluminum, potassium
Potassium chloride
Ammonium chloride
Magnesium nitrate
Phosphates of sodium, magnesium, calcium, potassium, ammonium
Magnesium formate
Acetates of potassium, magnesium
Magnesium lactate
Magnesium citrate
Tartrates of calcium, magnesium
Malates of sodium, potassium, calcium, magnesium
Magnesium alginate
Adhesives and other binders: animal adhesives, gelatin, casein, starch adhesives, dialdehyde-starch adhesives, polymers and copolymers of alcohol and vinyl esters, synthetic polymers and resins of melamine-formaldehyde and urea-formaldehyde
Auxiliary production products used in packaging for food products: binding and precipitating products, dehydration accelerators, dispersion and flotation products, preparation plasticizers, antifoaming products, antioxidants, fungicides and bactericides
Liquid paraffin
1,2-Propylene glycol
Yeast
Oils and fats
Calcium hydroxide
Ammonium chloride
Sorbic acid
Sodium sorbate
Potassium sorbate
Calcium sorbate
Benzoic acid
Sodium benzoate
Potassium benzoate
Ethyl p-hydroxybenzoate
Sodium derivative of p-hydroxybenzoic acid ethyl ester
Propyl p-hydroxybenzoate
Sodium derivative of p-hydroxybenzoic acid propyl ester
Methyl p-hydroxybenzoate
Sodium derivative of p-hydroxybenzoic acid methyl ester
2-(4-Thiazolyl)benzimidazole
Hexamethylenetetramine
Formaldehyde
Humic acids and their alkali salts
Curcumin
Lactoflavin
Tartrazine
Quinoline Yellow
Orange Yellow S
Cochineal
Azorubin
Cochineal Red A
Erythrosin
Patent Blue V
Indigotin
Chlorophylls
Caramel
Brilliant Black BN
Carbo medicinalis vegetalis
Calcium carbonate
Titanium dioxide
Oxides and hydroxides of iron
Potable water, distilled or demineralized water
Ethyl alcohol, brandy, rum
Isopropyl alcohol
Glycerol and aqueous solutions of glycerol
Sorbitol syrup
1,2-Propylene glycol