Pandemic Survival Blog

  Get this: A cigarette's average length is about 3.5 inches, and there are about 20 cigarettes in a pack, so if you smoke a pack a day, every day for 10 years, you will have smoked 255,500 inches of cigarette (minus the filter), which totals over 21,000 feet, divide that by the number of feet in one mile (5,280) and put all those cigarettes end-to-end in the street and the grand total would equal 4 miles of cigarettes that you smoked. Take all those same numbers but use a factor of 2 packs of cigarettes per day smoked for 20 years, and that totals over 1 million inches of cigarettes , which is over 25,000 total feet, and lay all those down in the road end-to-end and you've smoked 16 miles of cigarettes . Let's take it up a notch. Take all those same figures still and now change the two pack-a-day smoker to 30 years in the making and you've got 1,533,000 inches of smokes, totaling 127,750 feet, laid out in the road is 24 miles long . And for the grand finale

Why should smokers care about non-smokers when most non-smokers don't seem to care much about smokers – right? Where's the sympathy for the plight, the blight, the addiction? Some non-smokers try to help the smokers, sometimes because they feel bad for them, or empathize, or they've heard a great method for quitting, but most smokers already have put up barriers – they've told all the people around them they know EVERYTHING and they don't want to hear it. But maybe, just maybe, if the smokers really took the time to think of what it's like to be around a smoker as a non-smoker, and see what they see, and breathe what they breathe, and KNOW what they know - well - then maybe they would WANT to quit and would ALSO KNOW HOW!   Top 20 things non-smokers hate about smokers – and why you should quit   1. The smell almost suffocates you   2. The way smokers look – holding the cigarette, their brown and yellow teeth, and their skin co