No Smoking Day

What is No Smoking Day?
The British Heart Foundation is gearing up for their no smoking day on March 14, 2012 to help thousands of people to quit the habit. This campaign will offer healthful tips and suggestions, organize events and offer an information media center, all in the name of getting more fit and healthful through throwing the smokes away for good.

It has been known for quite a while that if something in not in our sight or visual field then there is really no worry, right? It would be a wonderful thing if every smoker could see what smoking does to the insides of the body and vital organs. This can only be done through viewing an autopsy, not a pretty sight to begin with.

A Look into a Smoker\’s Body:
During an autopsy all vital organs are taken from the person\’s body, weighed, measured and dissected. This is the only way to determine a serious disease process, such as heart and lung disease. When healthy lungs are removed from a deceased person they closely resemble that of two New York strip steaks. Their color should be a healthy pink and the tissue soft and pliable. The person who has smoked for even a year and certainly people who have smoked a longer time will not show pink healthy lung tissue. The lungs of a smoker will be gray in color from repeatedly inhaling smoke. They do in actually look like two grilled steaks. This smoking process of the lungs over years continues to decreases the lungs ability to pass essential oxygen through the tissue to other vital organs. When vital organs including the blood do not get enough oxygen slowly goes into a dying process. Unless the person develops cancer, or congestive obstructive lung disease symptoms of this depleted oxygen in the body will not present itself visually or physically until it is too late to do anything about it and reverse the disease process.

www.smokerslungs.com. to view the diseased lungs of a smoker
www.lunguk.org/media-and-campaigning/childrens-charter to view the no smoking day campaign