| Duration of smoking cessation | Associated health benefits | within a week | -blood pressure and pulse rate return to normal -immediate risk of myocardial infarction reduces -carbon monoxide and oxygen levels in blood return to normal -taste and smell improves | 1 to 3 months | -exercise tolerance improves -most nicotine withdrawal symptoms subside -cough reduces -cilia regrow in the lungs, increasing their ability to clean the airways and reducing the risk of infection | 1 year | -risk of pregnancy complications and fetal death is the same as a nonsmoker -excess risk of CHD is half that of a smoker | 5 years | -risk of mouth, throat and oesophageal cancer half that of a smoker | 10 years | -risk of lung cancer is 30% to 50% of continuing smoker -risk of cancer of bladder, kidney and pancreas decreases | 15 years | -risk of CHD and stroke now the same as for a nonsmoker | Adapted with permission from author, Dr J Litt (GPs Assisting Smokers Program [GASP]). See also Tobacco use in Australia: facts and issues. 2nd ed. Melbourne: Victorian Smoking and Health Program (Quit Victoria); 1995. |
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| 記者傑克‧凱利（Jack Kelly）在索馬利亞採訪時曾有過這樣的體驗：
當我們抵達一個村子時，饑荒非常嚴重，村裡的人幾乎死光了。一名記者在村子的角落裡發現了一個還有一絲氣息的小男孩。男孩混身被蟲子咬傷，肚子因為營養不良而鼓鼓的，皮膚就像百歲老人一般蒼老。 正好，有個記者身上帶了一顆水果，就把它遞給男孩。男孩太虛弱了，連拿水果的力氣都沒有。記者只好把水果分成兩塊，把半塊水果遞給男孩。
男孩拿著那半塊水果，用眼睛表達了謝意，就朝村裡走去。記者一行一路跟隨，但他並未察覺。記者這時發現，有個雙眼緊閉、看來已氣絕身亡的小孩躺在地上。小孩是男孩的弟弟。男孩跪在弟弟旁邊，咬一口手裡的水果，然後掰開弟弟的嘴，把嚼碎的水果放進去；然後爲了讓弟弟把水果吃下，就握著弟弟的下巴，幫弟弟張合嘴巴。 記者後來才知道，這個男孩爲了讓弟弟活下去，近半個月一直這樣餵養他。幾天後，男孩因為營養不良而死，弟弟卻終於活了下來。 或許，這一切如同電影「黑鷹計劃」一開始引用柏拉圖的一句話：「唯有對死者而言，戰爭才算結束。」 （本文作者為韓國女星，「宮 野蠻王妃」女主角金惠子） http://ad.cw.com.tw/reader/rain/index.asp |
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| a dog came to my house and ate my camera.
i grabbed these pics from lisa. (shes practically in everyone of them lol)
with vicky
Sukey and hari. 
i couldnt resist .... 
lisa 
盡享齊人之福??    stop laughing. i did what i had to. |
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