Today, we're going
to SHOCK a few people.
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We all know that smoking
is BAD for you, VERY BAD,
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but SHOULD YOU be financially
penalized because you smoke?
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Stay tuned...
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I'm Dr. James Marcum
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Are you interested in
discovering the reason why?
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Do you want solutions
to your healthcare problem?
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Are you tired of
taking medications?
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Well, you're about to be
given the Ultimate Prescription
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No matter what you think
of the "Affordable Care Act,"
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No matter what
you think of those in
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power in Washington, D.C.,
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no matter what
you think about taxes,
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there's a matter that
has come to light recently
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which needs to be addressed...
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It has to do with smokers
and their rights as citizens.
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Dr. Marcum, what
do we need to know?
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This is something
that we need to talk about,
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especially now that
the "Affordable Care Act"
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is coming into being. Yes
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Years ago, we spent a lot
of time and effort as a country
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and as health carers
talking about smoking
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and it needed to be.
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Smoking, if you think
about it, just to review to let
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everyone know it
raises the chance of
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cardiovascular disease
including heart attacks,
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raises the rates of
stroke, raises the rates of
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many types of cancer,
raises the chance of aneurysms,
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lots of problems
associated with smoking...
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not to mention lung disease,
lots of problems with smoking.
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Even though we really
worked hard at this - still,
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1 in 5 adults
smokes, 1 in 5, 20%,
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and this level is even
higher in lower income houses,
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those that aren't
making as much money.
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Now recently,
Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar,
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in an
Associated Press article...
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He wrote this article,
Charles, he says, "Law may leave
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smokers without insurance.
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The "Affordable Care Act"
will allow insurance to charge
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some smokers a 50%
higher premium beginning
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in January 2014" So
that's just some smokers.
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"This could cost a 55-year-old
nearly $4,200+ a year. "
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Now, workers that are on the
job could avoid the penalties
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by joining smoking
cessation programs,
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and that's why we want to
really talk about this today
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because we could have a lot
of people wanting to learn about
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health having big
financial implications,
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and here, we have as a group,
as people, a way to reach out
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and help them quit smoking,
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and also touch them
doing it for the right reasons.
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I don't think monetary reasons
are necessarily the RIGHT
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reasons MAKING someone do it,
infringing on their freedoms,
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but if this might help
them see a greater truth,
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this might be worth it.
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So anyway, more and more
people are going to come in...
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Now these different plans
operate under different rules
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and what we're going to see,
there's going to be available
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tax credits available to
low income brackets to help them
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to quit smoking cigarettes.
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Currently, right now, insurers
are not allowed to charge
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more for those
who are overweight;
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they're not allowed to
charge more for those with
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chronic pain, bad
heart, but SMOKERS - WATCH OUT!
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They're going to
get charged for this.
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Now don't get me wrong, I want
everyone to have good health.
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But I also believe
that individual rights
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as long as others are not being
hurt, that's important too.
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And, what about
the health hazards
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that we get from
losing our freedoms?
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What if someone starts
telling us what to think?
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Or what to
believe? Where does it end?
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I want people to quit smoking,
but I want them to do this
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because they
CHOOSE the right path.
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Living in fear of
the government mandating
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different things
on us also creates a
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health problem as well.
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Remember those fear
circuits get turned on,
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and fear doesn't
do a body any good.
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So again, I suggest we
love people and not judge.
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Now, I'm going to put some
important statistics on smoking
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as we talk about this today.
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Most people, do you even know
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anyone that still
smokes, Charles...
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Unfortunately, I do.
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Okay, you do, well,
I'm glad that you do.
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Most people nowadays don't
even necessarily know people
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that smoke because everyone
sort of isolates themselves
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into different socioeconomic
groups based on cigarettes,
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and in a way, if you think about
reaching all the people we can
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with good health message with
the news about loving people
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and loving them into
health and loving them to a
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relationship with the Creator,
we have to reach ALL people.
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ALL people, everywhere!
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So we have to find ways
to not only talk to people,
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but to find ways to meet these.
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One of these ways might be
through a television program.
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Hey, what you're saying here
is we shouldn't discriminate
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against people who
smoke or people who have low
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metabolism... it's sort of
like a preexisting condition.
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Well yeah and sometimes
they choose these conditions,
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but where do we draw it?
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Do we say it's a
mental health problem?
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Or if they're born with
this, where do we draw the line?
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And I try to think
of, well, how would Christ
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approach this, you
know, the Ultimate Physician.
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He would find a way
to reach these people,
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to love these people and
it might be through a simple
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television program;
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it might be
through a 5-day plan;
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it might be through
opening up programs where
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people can come in;
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it might be through
an interactive program...
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Now, it's hard to
interact with smokers, I admit
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because most nonsmokers
don't want to hurt themselves
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by interacting with them.
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And this 5-day program
you're talking about is a
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tried and true program put on by
the Seventh-day Adventist Church
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to help people stop
smoking in 5 days. Yes
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It's been around and
there are "Breathe-Free Plans"
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There are many other plans.
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The bottom line is
we're going to have a window
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to reach 1 in 5 people
that really need to be helped,
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how do we say who
needs more health help...
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Someone that
carries extra weight;
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someone that has a
high blood pressure problem;
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someone that has this
problem or that problem...
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Well, a lot of people are
going to have this problem,
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and they need help
and they need people to
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love them and not judge them
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and help them along that path.
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So you're saying that
this extra financial burden is
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a JUDGEMENT on them.
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I think so - no one
else is getting that.
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And how would you
feel, Charles, if next year,
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they said, "Well, you
know, I don't like the way
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Charles Mills rests!
I don't think he rests
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the way we like it or I
don't think the way he thinks,
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I like that" -
where does it end?
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You know, where does that end?
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Or, he carries extra weight
or he doesn't eat this or that.
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Not that I'm
condoning certain things,
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but I also think
freedom is very important.
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In fact, if you
look in the Bible,
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God works on the love of liberty
and letting His people choose,
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even when
they're not good choices.
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But He wants to love us
and help us make good choices
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and give us the
power to make good choices,
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not DEMAND that
we make good choices.
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At least the
government is making allowance
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for someone who does
smoke to take a program
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and it's paid for by the
government, is that right?
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Well, some people
can... if they have an employer
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that will do that - yes.
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So certain low income
groups do have that plan intact.
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But there are some good
things, there are some dangerous
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things I see out
there, but we have to,
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no matter what's out
there, we have to sort of say,
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"Well, how can we
help the world with this?"
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And the first place...
What an opportunity this is...
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Yes it is, but still it shocks
me that still 1 in 20 people
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today still smoke cigarettes.
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...1 in 20, is that the right
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What did I say, did I say that?
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1 in 5... 20% - that's
a large number of people!
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Lots of people
we still can reach.
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A lot of heart attacks,
strokes, cancers, lung disease,
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we can help lower those risks.
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And so the
government comes along and says,
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"Look, if you're going to
be smoking, it's costing us
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more money to TAKE CARE of you"
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So I can sort of see
why they're doing this,
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but it is a form of
discrimination because
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obesity is going to
cost them more money;
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heart disease is going
to cost them more money...
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All these things -
chronic pain, diabetes,
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this is all going
to cost more money,
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all of them are preventable.
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Where do you draw the line?
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Exactly! Where do
you draw the line,
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so that's an issue but
now that this issue is here,
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we need to sort of
use this as an opportunity
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to find out ways we can
meet people that are smoking,
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and it's hard because people
that don't smoke are the ones
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that should be
talking to these people,
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and yet we don't like
to get down there because
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we get the secondhand smoke and
we get the same risk they do.
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We don't like to eat
at the same restaurants
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or go to the same
places, we don't even sit in the
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same places... We separate
ourselves from them. Exactly!
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They've almost
isolated themselves.
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They're almost
like lepers! Yeah! Yeah!
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Almost like lepers! Yeah, true
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So we have to find
ways with programs,
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with computer
programs, with apps,
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whatever way we can
to reach these people,
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and also say, "Listen
come, leave off the cigarettes
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just for a few hours,
while we can talk to you
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because we're not
comfortable taking that... "
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...that extra cigarette
toxin into our lives. "
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Well now we have to educate
smokers also that there is
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help available, but please,
when you come and take this
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help, respect our desire not to
have that environment around us.
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We can help you, but please
don't bring that environment
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into our lives by
blowing in our faces
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or being around us
while your smoking.
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Right, and this is going to
open up a whole new realm...
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It's according to how we treat
these people as they do it.
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You know, we've got to love
them and really work with them
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and realizing this is the most
addictive substance out there...
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And in starting with it,
the first thing I would start
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with in helping someone
quit smoking would be education.
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And I'm going to throw out some
statistics there that will just
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blow people away!
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I haven't talked about these in
years because we haven't talked
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about smoking for years.
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It used to be there
were programs all over,
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we were always
talking about smoking.
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...20 minutes after
a smoker quits smoking,
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the blood pressure and
heart rate start to go down.
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Smoking is a stimulant, a
stressor that we've talked about
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...20 minutes - lower your blood
pressure, lower the heart rate.
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...8 hours after a smoker
quits, the carbon monoxide,
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that's the part that binds
to oxygen, decreases and you
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start getting oxygen throughout
all of your tissues again.
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That's pretty exciting!
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...24 hours
after a smoker quits,
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the risk of myocardial
infarction starts to decrease.
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24 hours - you
start lowering the risk.
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...48 hours
after a smoker quits,
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2 days, the nerve
endings start to improve,
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and your taste starts
to get better, the nerves,
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the cigarettes affects all
that, the different chemicals
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in the cigarettes.
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Two or 3 months after a
smoker quit, the chronic cough
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goes away, the cilia
start to move better,
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get all that stuff out of there.
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In one year after
quitting cigarettes,
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the risk of a myocardial
infarction, a heart attack,
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decreases by 50%
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So if you take 10 people,
half of them quit smoking,
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they can lower their
risk of heart attack by 50%
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That is pretty great health
benefits from not smoking.
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So the first thing I
want to encourage people
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as when we're
reaching with smokers,
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if you have to be a smoker,
the first step would be to
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educate yourself.
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We're going to need
to make some changes.
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Educate yourself
about what smoking does,
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and later on in this program,
we're going to talk about
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some plans or things that
we can do to share with you
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that might help you not
only quit smoking yourself,
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but maybe talk to
your friend or neighbor
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in how to approach
them to help them as well.
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One of the first
questions that we're going to be
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talking about on the
other side of the break here
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that has come into
heartwiseministries. org
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is electronic cigarettes.
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This is a big
thing, they are everywhere.
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Are they unanswered?
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Does that take
care of the problem?
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We'll discover the answer
to that question and many more
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on this topic of
cigarettes on our return,
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so everybody stay
RIGHT where you are.
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