Why You Should Stop Smoking Cigarettes to Make Yourself Poo

It's the morning ritual for Mathew, my brother. Wrapping a towel around his loins, a cigarette dangling from his mouth - we all know he is heading for the toilet for a smooth elimination of what he had eaten the day before amidst a cloud of smoke.

So, is this one reason not to stop smoking as cigarettes contain nicotine that even a medical doctor admits can have a laxative effect on the digestive tract, softening the stool and consequently makes it easier to pass out stools?

A laxative which is not food is a drug. Nicotine is described as "a highly addictive drug", which is packed inside a cigarette together with at least 43 other chemicals known to cause cancer. I am sure all smokers know consciously or subconsciously, the cancer-causing part. I am more interested to weigh the pros and cons of using constipation as an excuse to keep smoking.

Points to ponder:

• Which is easier to overcome, addiction to nicotine or constipation?
• You may have a perfect time in the toilet, but what about the next user who may be your honourable mother, a non-smoker? She has higher chances - than you - of getting cancer from the wake of the second-hand smoke you have left behind.
• One blue moon, you may decide to quit smoking and do you anticipate that constipation is one of the withdrawal symptons?
• Why do you think tobacco companies pay hundreds of millions of $ due to the lawsuits against them? The evil stories about cigarettes are not myths.
• Tobacco business earns multibillion dollars in profits, more than enough to pay for the lawsuits.
• With this kind of profit, tobacco business can afford six billion dollars on advertising every year to make you feel good about lighting up yes, even to improve your bowels performance in the toilet.
• Despite outcome of the lawsuits I mentioned above, cigarettes are perfectly legal and available everywhere - sanctioned by governments monopolies.
• How many advantages versus disadvantages of puffing to relieve constipation? I'd let the tobacco propagandas tell you to decide.

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