F E AT U R E
“Smoking cigarettes will
take away, at the very least,
an approximate 10 whole
years from living your life,
yet perhaps there are some
people out there, indeed
they do exist, who might
claim, “I still enjoy smoking,
I feel more patient and it
relaxes my mind so I’m still
going to smoke no matter
how slowly it kills my body.”
bodies and consumers with education,
communication and research”
(www.tveca.com).
Over time, countless piles of heightened
truthful information related to the half a
million American deaths annually or 6
million globally? Those things that have
allowed many struggling educators and
researchers to easily build a genuine
respect for their writing? Those things
that gave research studies that capability
of becoming published in well-revered
academic journals? Those things that
became objects of research for the
projects containing valid data on the
inevitability of how effective they were at
generating countless cases of addiction?
Those things when inhaled that are
most definitely proven to be the catalyst
for certain fatal illnesses that became
classified as tobacco-related?
Unyielding evidence has been reached
and agreed upon by everyone within a
research-based professional career that
smoking those things known as tobacco
cigarettes, were the primary cause
for a plethora of devastating health
issues. The statistics do not lie this
time. Organized investigation specialists
conducted research with a multitude
of categorical methods and strategies
of inquiry, from interactive field-work
to recorded lab tests, whether natural
science based studies or social science
research, their data, for the most part,
was all collected, analyzed, interpreted,
reviewed, recorded and ultimately
reported to the masses.
Reliable and credible sources to retrieve
factual information about adverse
effects of smoking was and is still
vast, so abundant and real that it was
causing these valid references, like
respected academic journals, were
becoming saturated with such research
on the harmful and damaging traditional
tobacco cigarettes. It was becoming
almost etched in stone and drilled in our
brains.
Smoking cigarettes will take away, at
the very least, an approximate 10 whole
years from living your life, yet perhaps
there are some people out there, indeed
they do exist, who might claim, “I still
enjoy smoking, I feel more patient and
it relaxes my mind so I’m still going to
smoke no matter how slowly it kills my
body.”
Unfortunately, I’ve most definitely been
guilty of possessing such an attitude
and recall that I certainly used to recite
comments similar in scope. Of course,
I’m guilty of this in past years from so
much personally addictive tobacco
abuse. Nowadays though, I'm lucky
enough to have the right to choose. Dear
tobacco, you lose pure and flab vapor is
all my lungs need to use.
(TO BE CONTINUED)...
About the Writer: Tony Ottomanelli
graduated from DePaul University in
Chicago with a Master’s Degree in
Sociology. He also has a Bachelor of
Arts Degree from Wittenberg University
where he majored in Sociology and
minored in Psychology. Ottomanelli
taught Sociology courses at Owens
Community College in Ohio while
coaching Boy’s Basketball at the High
School level.
Tony Ottomanelli currently resides in
Denver, Colorado where he pursues
opportunities in Sociology and Writing.
Not to mention, he is in the preproduction stages of making a short
documentary about how much Vaping
helps change lives for the better, in
which the film will be titled “Who Are The
Vapers?” Tony is a member of CASAA &
the advocacy group VAPERSArmy
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