Cigarette smoking is definitely worse than drinking alcohol. Cigarettes are addictive, but alcohol is not as addictive. I have actually heard that second-hand smoke is also dangerous, so smoking doesn't just affect the smoker.
I have to agree strongly with Pat. Nicotine is very addictive and will cause tar buildup in your lungs reletively in a short perid of time. Alcohol will also cause many bad stuff but it is spread over a long time. It is a certainty that excessively, it will corrode your liver.
In most cases, I'd say smoking's more dangerous than drinking, but some people are more dangerous while drunk than second hand smoke could ever be. So, yeah, smoking's more dangerous than drinking, with a few exceptions. IMO, that is.
Smoking is much more addictive in my opinion. While it won't kill you quickly, it tears you apart over time. Oftentimes, both will power and medications can't break the cycle... I know of a lot of accounts where the smoker quit because of something very important in his life. My friend's grandpa for exapmle: Willpower and medication were not enough with the incentive of: I want to quit smoking, so I don't die I the future. When my friend was born, his mom told her dad (his grandpa) that he could not EVER be near him unless he quit smoking. Now it is: quit smoking so I can spend time with my grandson.
Second hand smoke is really bad too, some say even worse. Second hand smokers inhale and take in the harmful smoke, wile smokers tend to not inhale or not inhale as much of it.
Now drinking: It can kill you fast, and when intoxicated, your a moron beyond belief. As for danger to others, you should have the common sense to not get in a car with a drunk person at the wheel, unless, you too, are intoxicated.
Second hand smoke is really bad too, some say even worse.
That's something that I don't understand. The smoker is smoking the cigarette, blowing it out, then breathing that air. So the smoker would have it worse.
I say they both have the ability to kill you.
Drinking a mass amount of alcohol in a single day can kill you. But smoking a lot of cigarettes in a day will not. It takes time for cigarettes to kill you.
but for most addictive, they are kind of equal.
I suppose so. Some people get addicted to the nicotine in cigarettes and some get addicted to alcohol.
Also, alcohol is a depressant, so that's bad as well.
That's something that I don't understand. The smoker is smoking the cigarette, blowing it out, then breathing that air. So the smoker would have it worse.
I'm sorry matrix, but, no, no no! You kind of answered your on question, the smoker blows it back out, as you just said. The victim, would generally inhale the smoke, and not exhale, unless you are physically holding your breath or what-not to avoid it. Plus, it is not as concentrated, so I suppose it would be harder to get rid of.
I'm sorry matrix, but, no, no no! You kind of answered your on question, the smoker blows it back out, as you just said. The victim, would generally inhale the smoke, and not exhale, unless you are physically holding your breath or what-not to avoid it. Plus, it is not as concentrated, so I suppose it would be harder to get rid of.
Two people are in a car with closed windows. One of them lights a cigarette then starts smoking, the other one isn't smoking. He's the one that deals with the second-hand smoke. The smoker is smoking and breathing that air. The other person is just sitting there breathing the smoke air instead of smoking the cigarette. The smoker has it worse than the person that's not smoking. They are both breathing the smoke air, but one of them is actually smoking a cigarette while the other one is not.
You just put us into another scenario, no ventilation. They both have it equally bad in my opinion, now.
Interesting facts, courtesy of the Mayo Clinic.
Secondhand smoke contains over 4000 chemicals including more than 40 cancer causing agents and 200 known poisons. Secondhand smoke has been classified by the EPA as a Class A carcinogen - a substance known to cause cancer in humans. Secondhand smoke contains twice as much tar and nicotine per unit volume as does smoke inhaled from a cigarette. It contains 3X as much cancer-causing Benzedrine, 5X as much carbon monoxide, and 50X as much ammonia. Secondhand smoke from pipes and cigars is equally as harmful, if not more so (Mayo Clinic release, Aug 97).
