Puffing away

A concerned owners wrote to me to complaint. He saw the smoker smoking at the pool side next to a kid playing in the pool. This is totally crazy and unacceptable!

Smoker! Let me tell you about the facts:
Tobacco, whether smoked, chewed or sniffed contain over 4000 chemicals of which 43 are known carcinogen;

50% of smokers will die of diseases related of smoking and with comparison only 25% of all death due to heart disease. Smoking kills you first before others;

At least 40 diseases indentifed due to smoking and all organ are affected;

Smoking can cause permanent tissues damage;

You as smoker the mortality risk are:
Respiratory Airway Diseases 10-20x
Lung cancer 5-30x
Throat cancer 5-30x
Oral cancer 3-15x
Esophagus Cancer 4-5x
Pancreas cancer 2x
Urinary Bladder cancer 2-3x
Heart Disease 2-3x
Kidney cancers 1.5x

Smoking causes around 100K hospital admission to government hospital annually in Malaysia, mainly due to Heart disease, Respiratory problem and GIT problem;

And for second Hand Smoke
The side stream smoke contains higher concentration of compounds compared to the mainstream smoke;

Passive smoker have 30% higher risk of developing cancer and 25% higher risk to get cardiovascular disease compared to non smoker;

Health effects of second hand smoke exposure in adults
Lung canceer
Respiratory synptoms
Cardiovascular disease
Exacerbation of asthma
Whole lots more of cancers

Health effects of second hand smoke exposure in Children!
Sudden Infant death Syndrome
Acute respiratory illnesses
Chronic repiratory symptoms
Reduced lung function growth
Asthma and exacerbatin of asthma symptoms
Acute and chronic middle ear disease

By 2030, globally, there are 10 millions deaths due to tobacco;
27400 deaths a day
2280 deaths per hour
1 death every 3 seconds

If you are still not convince the degenerative effect of smoking, if you were to lit up, do it privately and stay away from us...