[nukkad] Smoking

["Mahesh chandra gupta" <>]

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Ref:

I have been smoking for last 20 years. How to assess the damage
it has caused to me? non-destructive testing.

-Rawat
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1. Damage already caused is difficult to assess, especially, by 
non-invasive means. Reason: Humans have a large reservoir capacity 
which has to be filled up before obvious symptoms or signs 
appear.

2. Damage may be caused in three dimensions:  Physical, mental or 
social.

3. Physical health--- Do you have wrinkling of face; tendency to 
cough, or, to have frequent coughs and colds [Sometimes, a term 
'smoker's cough' is used too]; tendency to get breathless? These 
might indicate obvious physical damage. High blood pressure and 
dyspepsia also go along with smoking.

4. Mental health--- Can you give up smoking in a week for ever? If 
yes, you are the boss. If not, you are being bossed over by 
tobacco. You are the slave. Mental slavery and mental health are 
antagonistic.

5. Social health--- Do your wife, children, friends prefer you to 
be a non-smoker and have advised you to quit it and have failed 
and have stopped advising/suggesting this any more? If yes, you 
are socially damaged.

Hope the above helps.

MC Gupta


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