Cola or Cigarette?

onemorechance · 24-11-2009 02:12PM #1

I have been in the habit of smoking one cigarette a day until recently I started to drink one can of cola a day! I think that one can of cola may be worse than one cigarette! Just to gauge opinion, which do ye think is worse, one can of cola or one cigarette?

Long Onion · 24-11-2009 02:14PM

Depends - are they being dropped from a high building?

Zombienosh · 24-11-2009 02:15PM

hmmm, cigarette! surely, even more expensive no? or wait ... is it. if u buy a 20box, 1 smoke a day = 20days..price/20... hmmm

i dont even know how much smokes are anymore. why have either?

i remember when i quit smoking i swapped my habit for coffee.... ended up drinkin 10 or 12 cups a day..:rolleyes:

WindSock · 24-11-2009 02:15PM

Cola.

Depends on what your health is though.

If you have Diabetes then cola, if you have bad respiritory problems then the fag.

davyjose · 24-11-2009 02:15PM

Would you give a ten year old a cigarette or a can of coke? Cigarette is worse.

WindSock · 24-11-2009 02:17PM

davyjose wrote: »

Would you give a ten year old a cigarette or a can of coke? Cigarette is worse.

Depends on how good they've been

Thirdfox · 24-11-2009 02:17PM

Sugar/carbohydrates can be worked off through exercise. You can't go into your lungs to scrub off the tar.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar · 24-11-2009 02:18PM

but you can cough onto road surfaces to fill up potholes

Naos · 24-11-2009 02:19PM

Why would you smoke one cigarette a day and who's cigarettes are you annoyingly bumming?

onemorechance · 24-11-2009 02:23PM

Naos wrote: »

Why would you smoke one cigarette a day and who's cigarettes are you annoyingly bumming?

I buy 20 and give to a friend and smoke one a day after dinner!

Thirdfox · 24-11-2009 02:24PM

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »

but you can cough onto road surfaces to fill up potholes

Road paving is done through bitumen (pronounced "bitch-u-men") not tar. Good idea though.

And the polonium 210 you get from cigarettes can be used to make nuclear weapons too

(just like the gelatin in jellies ----> TNT)

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/01/opinion/01proctor.html

rap sheet:

Cola:
sugar (real or artificial), carbonic acid, artificial colourings, caffeine - keep in mind that sugar is something the human body needs in moderate doses

Cigarettes:
Arsenic, cyanide, nicotine, polonium, tar, DDT, lead etc. etc. - obviously some elements are at a minute level (otherwise smokers would be dead instantly).

seamus · 24-11-2009 02:26PM

One can of coke contains approximately 200kcal.

Over an entire year, that amounts to about 73,000 additional calories, which translates into roughly 21lb of fat, or almost 1.5 stone.

In order to fight off this weight gain, you will need to walk for 30 minutes, every single day. And that's just to maintain your weight, not to lose any.

In addition, a can of coke costs (I think) €1. Over a year, that coke will cost you €365

Smoking a cigaratte on the other hand, only takes about five minutes, will actually supress your appetite (potentially leading to weight loss), and the total cost of 365 cigarettes is roughly €156.

I think the choice is obvious.

Zombienosh · 24-11-2009 02:27PM

seamus wrote: »

One can of coke contains approximately 200kcal.

Over an entire year, that amounts to about 73,000 additional calories, which translates into roughly 21lb of fat, or almost 1.5 stone.

In order to fight off this weight gain, you will need to walk for 30 minutes, every single day. And that's just to maintain your weight, not to lose any.

In addition, a can of coke costs (I think) €1. Over a year, that coke will cost you €365

Smoking a cigaratte on the other hand, only takes about five minutes, will actually supress your appetite (potentially leading to weight loss), and the total cost of 365 cigarettes is roughly €156.

I think the choice is obvious.

COCAINE

Herbal Deity · 24-11-2009 02:27PM

Probably the can of cola. I would reckon you'd do the same amount of damage to yourself walking around town inhaling car fumes and whatnot as one cigarette.

Thing is though, you likely won't progress to drinking 20 cans of cola a day.

Long Onion · 24-11-2009 02:28PM

seamus wrote: »

One can of coke contains approximately 200kcal.

Over an entire year, that amounts to about 73,000 additional calories, which translates into roughly 21lb of fat, or almost 1.5 stone.

In order to fight off this weight gain, you will need to walk for 30 minutes, every single day. And that's just to maintain your weight, not to lose any.

In addition, a can of coke costs (I think) €1. Over a year, that coke will cost you €365

Smoking a cigaratte on the other hand, only takes about five minutes, will actually supress your appetite (potentially leading to weight loss), and the total cost of 365 cigarettes is roughly €156.

I think the choice is obvious.

Ah, but if you had a can of coke, some rolled up bank notes and a mirror, you could make lots of money whilst losing weight.

seamus · 24-11-2009 02:30PM

There's also much talk about shortening your life.

If you go with cigarettes a pop-culture soundbite is to say that every cigarette costs you five minutes off your life.

So if you smoke a cigarette per day over the next 40 years, you will lose about 50 days off your life. However if you go with the coke/walking option, you'll spend an extra 304 days of your life pounding the pavement and getting nothing else done.

So smoking in reality will give you an extra 250 days of getting things done.

Kiera · 24-11-2009 02:30PM

onemorechance wrote: »

I buy 20 and give to a friend and smoke one a day after dinner!

So smoking is a habit for you and not addiction. Have something lowfat after dinner to replace this habit.

I clean my jewellery in coke and my Mam has cleaned oil stains in the driveway with it too.

Give up both.

onemorechance · 24-11-2009 02:31PM

Well it seems that the cola has somewhat surpressed to need for that cigarette, although I think the cola is worse it is probably going to be easier to quit in the future!

WindSock · 24-11-2009 02:36PM

Well I haven't had a can of coke today, so I think I'll roll me a smoke.

ScumLord · 24-11-2009 02:37PM

I don't think one cigarette a day is even that bad for you. It's a kind of hazard that the human body could fairly easily handle.

amacachi · 24-11-2009 02:38PM

Can of pepsi while having a smoke, nothing beats it.

Podge2k7 · 24-11-2009 02:42PM

Why do you bother smoking one fag a day? It's pointless tbh.

jumpguy · 24-11-2009 02:42PM

Expense wise, lets say a pack of 20 cigs costs 8.50 (that's what they are these days, right?) Eact cigarette works out at 43 cent. So, from a very basic point of view, cigarettes are cheaper for every can of coke.

But how much "cigarette" are you getting from a cigarette? What's the value? This would probably depend on the amount of nicotine of whatever you're smoking. A can of cola has 330mls of Cola in it. The true value is hard to ascertain. Cigarettes are also always sold in packs of 20 or more, so it'd be more fair to compare with a multipack of Coke.

Health-wise, cigarettes are worse. They leave with a higher risk of lung cancer and heart failure, numerous other cancers, reduce your lung capacity, effect circulation, and so on and on. A can of coke doesn't effect your lungs, and if you exercise alot the detrimental health effects to blood sugar levels are lessened. There is also the option of sugar free, which still have drawbacks (depending on what you think as artificial sweetners like aspartame too).

onemorechance · 24-11-2009 02:44PM

Podge2k7 wrote: »

Why do you bother smoking one fag a day? It's pointless tbh.

Do you think it would be less pointless if I were to smoke more than one?

WindSock · 24-11-2009 02:47PM

Podge2k7 wrote: »

Why do you bother smoking one fag a day? It's pointless tbh.

Nicotene hit!

ScumLord · 24-11-2009 02:49PM

jumpguy wrote: »

Health-wise, cigarettes are worse. They leave with a higher risk of lung cancer and heart failure, numerous other cancers, reduce your lung capacity, effect circulation, and so on and on.

That's probably based on a regular smoker that smokes a pack a day, does any of that hold true if your only smoking a maximum of one a day?

G_R · 24-11-2009 02:51PM

before this goes any further, lets get one thing straight. Its called a can of Coke, not cola.

as for which is worse, cigarettes are because you dont just have one cigarette

Podge2k7 · 24-11-2009 02:53PM

onemorechance wrote: »

Do you think it would be less pointless if I were to smoke more than one?

Just don't smoke at all.

Thirdfox · 24-11-2009 02:58PM

seamus wrote: »

One can of coke contains approximately 200kcal.

Over an entire year, that amounts to about 73,000 additional calories, which translates into roughly 21lb of fat, or almost 1.5 stone.

In order to fight off this weight gain, you will need to walk for 30 minutes, every single day. And that's just to maintain your weight, not to lose any.

In addition, a can of coke costs (I think) €1. Over a year, that coke will cost you €365

Smoking a cigaratte on the other hand, only takes about five minutes, will actually supress your appetite (potentially leading to weight loss), and the total cost of 365 cigarettes is roughly €156.

I think the choice is obvious.

One can of coke contains 139kcal
over a year that's less than 51,000 calories
divided by 9 (9 calories in 1 gramme of fat) = 5.637 kg of fat (if you don't move at all).

However, considering that adult males need 2500 kcals a day - one can of coke can be fitted into a healthy and balanced diet.

Seamus makes the incorrect assumption that a person does not adjust their consumption with the extra intake of foods and beverages. It'd be like me randomly deciding to have an extra cheeseburger a day and not cutting back elsewhere - having that cheeseburger would fill me up to the point that I would eat less at other times.

So that 5.6kg is a worst case scenario. Most people would see very little change I suspect.

Though I don't smoke and I prefer drinking water but that's just me.

Herbal Deity · 24-11-2009 03:03PM

Podge2k7 wrote: »

Why do you bother smoking one fag a day? It's pointless tbh.

Not really. When you're not an addict, smoking them all the time, they can be quite nice now and then. One while relaxing with a cup of coffee is very nice, for example.

They're also nice with a beer, which isn't ideal, as one tends to drink more than one beer in a session, resulting in potentially smoking a lot in a night.

And of course, the more you smoke, the more likely you are to get an urge to smoke in other situations, and if you begin to give into these urges, you're going to start to get hooked.

Personally, I've been a light/social smoker for about two years now. It's enjoyable and sustainable if you're disciplined enough to keep it that way. I wouldn't encourage anyone to start, however, as it's kinda playing with fire (actually, you could say it's literally playing with fire, hurr hurr hurr!).

seamus · 24-11-2009 03:11PM

Thirdfox wrote: »

One can of coke contains 139kcal

Grand so, I was going by the google result.

Seamus makes the incorrect assumption that a person does not adjust their consumption with the extra intake of foods and beverages.

You're making the incorrect assumption that someone *will* adjust their intake after adding a single drink to their consumption.

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