6 April 2015
I'm very excited to present to you Standfor - shoes with a social message. Their first campaign is against smoking. I've collected my favourites amongst the shoes, but you can visit their website and see some more models. I don't want to, in any way, attack smokers. However, it's a fact that smoking is extremely harmful not only to you, but to those around you. I'm a non-smoker myself and I find it offensive when the people around me smoke in cafes, restaurants and even when we're just hanging out. I've prepared some facts about the danger of smoking:
1. Cigarette smoke contains over 7,000 chemicals, 69 of which are known to cause cancer. Smoking is directly responsible for approximately 90 percent of lung cancer deaths and approximately 80-90 percent of COPD (emphysema and chronic bronchitis) deaths.
2. About 8.6 million people in the U.S. have at least one serious illness caused by smoking. That means that for every person who dies of a smoking-related disease, there are 20 more people who suffer from at least one serious illness associated with smoking.
3. Among current smokers, chronic lung disease accounts for 73 percent of smoking-related conditions. Even among smokers who have quit chronic lung disease accounts for 50 percent of smoking-related conditions.
4. The list of diseases caused by smoking includes chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD, including chronic bronchitis and emphysema), coronary heart disease, stroke, abdominal aortic aneurysm, acute myeloid leukemia, cataract, pneumonia, periodontitis, and bladder, esophageal, laryngeal, lung, oral, throat, cervical, kidney, stomach, and pancreatic cancers. Smoking is also a major factor in a variety of other conditions and disorders, including slowed healing of wounds, infertility, and peptic ulcer disease.
5. Smokers die significantly earlier than nonsmokers: 13.2 years for men and 14.5 years for women.
That's how deadly smoking is for you, but if you don't care about your health that much, here are some facts about secondhand smoke:
1. Secondhand smoke involuntarily inhaled by nonsmokers from other people’s cigarettes is classified by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as a known human (Group A) carcinogen, responsible for approximately 3,400 lung cancer deaths and 46,000 (ranging 22,700-69,600) heart disease deaths in adult nonsmokers annually in the United States.
2. Smoking by parents is associated with a wide range of adverse effects in their children, including exacerbation of asthma, increased frequency of colds and ear infections, and sudden infant death syndrome. Secondhand smoke causes more than an estimated 202,000 asthma episodes, 790,000 physician visits for buildup of fluid in the middle ear (otitis media, or middle ear infection), and 430 sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) cases each year.
So every time you light a cigarette, imagine you're slowly killing someone else - your mother, your best friend, your partner, your child, because that's exactly what you're doing.
To find out more about Standfor, click on this link. There you can also shop their shoes through me, as they've launched the collection exclusively for bloggers and their readers.
xo,
Kalina
