This song just for my Dad...

Hey dad look at me
Think back and talk to me
Did I grow up according to plan?

Do you think I’m wasting my time doing things I wanna do?
but it hurts when you disapprove all along

And now I try hard to make it

I just want to make you proud
I’m never gonna be good enough for you
I can’t pretend that I’m alright
And you can’t change me

Cuz we lost it all
Nothing lasts forever
I’m sorry
I can’t be perfect

Now it’s just too late and
We can’t go back
I’m sorry
I can’t be perfect

I try not to think
About the pain I feel inside
Did you know you used to be my hero?

All the days you spend with me
Now seem so far away
And it feels like you don’t care anymore

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And now I try hard to make it
I just want to make you, proud
I’m never gonna be good enough for you
I can’t stand another fight
And nothing’s alright

Cuz we lost it all
Nothing lasts forever
I’m sorry
I can’t be perfect

Now it’s just too late and
We can’t go back
I’m sorry
I can’t be perfect

Nothing’s gonna change the things that you said
Nothing’s gonna make this right again
Please don’t turn your back
I can’t believe it’s hard
Just to talk to you
But you don’t understand

Cuz we lost it all
Nothing lasts forever
I’m sorry
I can’t be perfect
Now it’s just too late and
We can’t go back
I’m sorry
I can’t be perfect...

WHAT DOES SMOKING DO TO YOUR BODY?

WHAT DOES SMOKING DO TO YOUR BODY?

If you were asked to name a part of the body that was damaged by smoking, chances are you would say lungs. Whilst this is absolutely true, smoking can damage every part of your body from your head right down to your toes.

So starting from the top here is our list of nasty illnesses:
STROKES
These are caused by damage to brain cells when their blood supply is interrupted. This often causes death or leaves people disabled, unable to speak or with memory loss depending on which part of the brain is affected. Although there are different reasons why people have strokes, smoking is the single biggest cause. We know Smokebusters are a brainy bunch so look after those billions of brain cells that are thousands of times more complicated than your computer!
BLINDNESS
We all value our eyesight but the nasty chemicals in smoke can make you go blind – another great reason to be smokefree!
MOUTH CANCER
Add to this CANCER OF THE NOSE AND THROAT for a trio of really dangerous illnesses that are mainly found in smokers. You may lose your voice box or have part of your mouth removed if you get these types of cancer.
SMELLY BREATH, HAIRY TONGUE AND ROTTEN TEETH
You certainly won’t look or feel your best with these and everyone else will notice them too. Hairy tongue is caused by the papillae on the surface of your tongue growing longer so they look like hairs. It can be caused by poor oral hygiene, chronic oral irritation and/or smoking. How gross is that? Add in smelly breath and yellow and black teeth….and, to think, some people say smoking is “cool”.
LUNG CANCER
Of all the different types of cancer in the world, lung cancer causes the most deaths. Over 90% of the cases of lung cancer are caused by smoking so by being smokefree you have a great chance of protecting yourself against the number one cancer killer.
EMPHYSEMA
Hard to say, hard to spell and even harder to live with, this is a lung disease where the air sacs in the lungs become very big and look like black honeycomb. It can’t be cured and people who have this disease find it really hard to breathe. Imagine how much that would affect your life. No running, no playing and no having fun.
HEART DISEASE AND HEART ATTACKS
This is the most common cause of death in Britain and can happen when the heart doesn’t get enough oxygen. Smoking takes away your oxygen and can also block the arteries that bring blood to your heart. Smoking is the single biggest cause of heart attacks so you know that being smokefree makes a lot of sense! Be kind to your heart and don’t smoke, take plenty of exercise and eat healthily.
CANCER OF THE DIGESTIVE SYSTEM
This includes CANCER OF THE LIVER, STOMACH AND INTESTINES which are more common in smokers than non smokers. It just goes to show that all those harmful chemicals don’t just stay in one part of your body – they get everywhere!
GANGRENE
We said smoking affects you from your head to your toes and here is the bit about toes. We need oxygen in every part of our body. We already said that smoking takes away your oxygen and if it can’t reach your fingers and toes the tissue dies. The skin becomes pale and then turns black and the fingers and toes have to be removed by amputation which means they have to be cut off. This can also spread to your arms and legs. Thanks all the same but we’d rather hang on to our bodies!

Cigarette Addiction

Cigarette Addiction

• Cigarettes affect your entire body in a negative way. Eight seconds after you inhale cigarette smoke, nicotine (the chief active principle of tobacco) reaches your brain and stimulates pleasure centers. You like the feeling, so you smoke again. Your body eventually builds up a tolerance for tobacco and you need more to get the good feeling. Eventually, you realize how much you're harming your body and you decide to quit. But not smoking gives you headaches and makes you grouchy, restless, depressed and hungry. You're addicted, and the chances that you'll be able to quit are only one in 10, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

Effects of Cigarettes on Your Body

• According to an August 2008 American Cancer Society study, smoking lowers the amount of oxygen in your body. Tiny air sacs in the lungs are damaged as soon as smoke hits them. Lack of oxygen leads to lack of energy. This, along with diseases caused by the cigarettes (such as emphysema, tuberculosis, cancer, bronchitis, asthma and pneumonia), eventually destroys your lungs.

  Smoking also affects your circulation. The cilia that move cells through blood in your body are damaged. Blood vessels are damaged. Your heart beats faster and your blood pressure goes up. Smoking cigarettes can cause heart disease and strokes.

  Cigarettes negatively affect your sex organs and reproductive system. According to a 1996 study by the American Council on Science and Health, men who smoke are twice as likely to have problems getting an erection. The sperm count is lower and the sperm don't move around as much. Women who smoke are more likely to get breast and cervical cancer. Conceiving a child is more difficult for female smokers, and menopause comes earlier for them. Pregnant women who smoke can miscarry, have a baby with a low birth weight, or have a premature or stillborn baby. Babies with smoking parents are more likely to die of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. Breastfeeding mothers who smoke should know that tar and nicotine are passed to their babies through breast milk.

  Your stomach and kidneys don't perform effectively if you smoke. Cigarettes can irritate and cause inflammation in the intestines and stomach, and painful ulcers can form, according to a July 2007 study by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. Your skin wrinkles quickly because of poor circulation. You have bad breath, yellow and brown stains on your teeth, Diagnostic tests can be inaccurate, and smoking cigarettes can affect the way your medication works.

Cigarettes Affect Nonsmokers

• People who don't smoke are affected by the cigarette smoke in their environment. The Environmental Protection Agency estimated that 3,000 nonsmokers died of lung cancer in 1999 because of second-hand smoke. The American Cancer Society's November 1999 study on second-hand smoke proved nonsmokers develop lung cancer, heart disease and many other illnesses from inhaling somebody else's cigarette smoke. Children also suffer damage from second-hand smoke: They're more likely to have respiratory problems, asthma, infections and other illnesses. Babies' lungs are too tiny to be able to tolerate cigarette smoke, and being around smoke can make it difficult for them to breathe.

  There are better ways than smoking to handle stress that won't kill you and those around you. Knowing how cigarettes affect your body is good motivation to find them.

How does smoking affect our lungs?

How does smoking affect our lungs?

Smoking is harmful to our bodies in many ways, but it is the most harmful to the lungs.

Smoke from cigarettes contains tar, which sticks to the cilia in our lungs. The cilia usually act like little brooms to sweep out harmful dirt, but when you smoke cigarettes, the cilia can't work because they're covered in sticky tar. That means that dirt can stay in the lungs and cause problems.

Even if you don't smoke, your lungs are still in danger if you breathe in smoke from another person's cigarette. This is called second-hand smoke, and it is as dangerous as smoking the cigarette yourself! That's why you should always try to stay away from smokey places. Keep your lungs healthy and stay away from cigarette smoke!

Do you know that tobacco kills more people in Canada each year than car accidents, suicides, murder, AIDS, and drug use all together? 100 Canadians quit smoking every day... because they die. Don't fall into the same trap they did!

5 reasons to never start smoking!

Smokers get seriously ill more easily than non-smokers. Some of these sicknesses are bronchitis,emphysema, lung cancer, andheart disease!

Most of these sicknesses are a result of damage to the cilia (the little brooms) in the lungs. Without the cilia working, the dirt-filled mucus slides down into your lungs and blocks the tiny airways so that the air can't get in and out! You may notice that people who smoke seem to cough a lot. This is because they have to cough to get rid of the dirty mucus in their lungs. People who have healthy lungs hardly ever need to cough, because we have those great cilia working to get that dirt out!

Tobacco smoke contains dangerous chemicals

Nicotine is the addictive drug in tobacco smoke that causes smokers to continue to smoke. Addicted smokers need enough nicotine over a day to ‘feel normal’ – to satisfy cravings or control their mood. How much nicotine a smoker needs determines how much smoke they are likely to inhale, no matter what type of cigarette they smoke.

Along with nicotine, smokers also inhale about 7,000 other chemicals in cigarette smoke. Many of these chemicals come from burning tobacco leaf. Some of these compounds are chemically active and trigger profound and damaging changes in the body.

There are over 60 known cancer-causing chemicals in tobacco smoke. Smoking harms nearly every organ in the body, causing many diseases and reducing health in general.

In Victoria, it is illegal to smoke in cars carrying children under 18 years of age.

Tobacco smoke contains dangerous chemicals

The most damaging compounds in tobacco smoke include:

• Tar – this is the collective term for all the various particles suspended in tobacco smoke. The particles contain chemicals including several cancer-causing substances. Tar is sticky and brown, and stains teeth, fingernails and lung tissue. Tar contains the carcinogen benzo(a)pyrene that is known to trigger tumour development (cancer).
• Carbon monoxide – this odourless gas is fatal in large doses because it takes the place of oxygen in the blood. Each red blood cell contains a protein called haemoglobin – oxygen molecules are transported around the body by binding to, or hanging onto, this protein. However, carbon monoxide binds to haemoglobin better than oxygen. This means that less oxygen reaches the brain, heart, muscles and other organs.
• Hydrogen cyanide – the lungs contain tiny hairs (cilia) that help to clean the lungs by moving foreign substances out. Hydrogen cyanide stops this lung clearance system from working properly, which means the poisonous chemicals in tobacco smoke can build up inside the lungs. Other chemicals in smoke that damage the lungs include hydrocarbons, nitrous oxides, organic acids, phenols and oxidising agents.
• Free radicals – these highly reactive chemicals can damage the heart muscles and blood vessels. They react with cholesterol, leading to the build-up of fatty material on artery walls. Their actions lead to heart disease, stroke and blood vessel disease.
• Metals – tobacco smoke contains dangerous metals including arsenic, cadmium and lead. Several of these metals are carcinogenic.
• Radioactive compounds – tobacco smoke contains radioactive compounds, which are known to be carcinogenic.

Effects of smoking on the respiratory system

The effects of tobacco smoke on the respiratory system include:

• Irritation of the trachea (windpipe) and larynx (voice box)
• Reduced lung function and breathlessness due to swelling and narrowing of the lung airways and excess mucus in the lung passages
• Impairment of the lungs’ clearance system, leading to the build-up of poisonous substances, which results in lung irritation and damage
• Increased risk of lung infection and symptoms such as coughing and wheezing
• Permanent damage to the air sacs of the lungs.

Effects of smoking on the circulatory system

The effects of tobacco smoke on the circulatory system include:

• Raised blood pressure and heart rate
• Constriction (tightening) of blood vessels in the skin, resulting in a drop in skin temperature
• Less oxygen carried by the blood
• Stickier blood, which is more prone to clotting
• Damage to the lining of the arteries, which is thought to be a contributing factor to atherosclerosis (the build-up of fatty deposits on the artery walls)
• Reduced blood flow to extremities like fingers and toes
• Increased risk of stroke and heart attack due to blockages of the blood supply.

Effects of smoking on the immune system

The effects of tobacco smoke on the immune system include:

• The immune system doesn’t work as well
• The person is more prone to infections such as pneumonia and influenza
• Illnesses are more severe and it takes longer to get over them.
• Lower levels of protective antioxidants (such as Vitamin C), in the blood.

Effects of smoking on the musculoskeletal system

The effects of tobacco smoke on the musculoskeletal system include:

• Tightening of certain muscles
• Reduced bone density.

Other effects of smoking on the body

Other effects of tobacco smoke on the body include:

• Irritation and inflammation of the stomach and intestines
• Increased risk of painful ulcers along the digestive tract
• Reduced ability to smell and taste
• Premature wrinkling of the skin
• Higher risk of blindness
• Gum disease (periodontitis).

Effects of smoking on the male body

The specific effects of tobacco smoke on the male body include:

• Lower sperm count
• Higher percentage of deformed sperm
• Genetic damage to sperm
• Impotence, which may be due to the effects of smoking on blood flow and damage to the blood vessels of the penis.

Effects of smoking on the female body

The specific effects of tobacco smoke on the female body include:

• Reduced fertility
• Menstrual cycle irregularities or absence of menstruation
• Menopause reached one or two years earlier
• Increased risk of cancer of the cervix
• Greatly increased risk of stroke and heart attack if the smoker is aged over 35 years and taking the oral contraceptive pill.

Effects of smoking on the unborn baby

The effects of maternal smoking on an unborn baby include:

• Increased risk of miscarriage, stillbirth and premature birth
• Low birth weight, which may have a lasting effect of the growth and development of children. Low birth weight is associated with an increased risk for heart disease, stroke, high blood pressure, being overweight and diabetes in adulthood
• Increased risk of cleft palate and cleft lip
• Paternal smoking can also harm the fetus if the non-smoking mother is exposed to second-hand smoke.

If the mother or father continues to smoke during their baby’s first year of life, the child has an increased risk of ear infections, respiratory illnesses such as pneumonia and bronchitis, sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) and meningococcal disease.

Diseases caused by long-term smoking

A lifetime smoker is at high risk of developing a range of potentially lethal diseases, including:

• Cancer of the lung, mouth, nose, voice box, tongue, nasal sinus, oesophagus, throat, pancreas, bone marrow (myeloid leukaemia), kidney, cervix, ovary, ureter, liver, bladder, bowel and stomach
• Lung diseases such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, which includes chronic bronchitis and emphysema
• Coronary artery disease, heart disease, heart attack and stroke
• Ulcers of the digestive system
• Osteoporosis and hip fracture
• Poor blood circulation in feet and hands, which can lead to pain and, in severe cases, gangrene and amputation.

Where to get help

• Your doctor
• Your pharmacist
• Quitline Tel. 13 QUIT (7848)

Things to remember

• Many of the 7,000 chemicals in tobacco smoke are chemically active and trigger profound and potentially fatal changes in the body.
• Smoking harms nearly every organ in the body.