Binge smoking

[DavesFlaps]

We've all heard about the consequences of binge drinking in terms of your health, but what about binge smoking ?

Say someone is an occasional smoker; from time to time they'll smoke up to 10 cigarettes a day, but they'll do it in short periods - on the journey to and from work for example. Are they doing themselves more harm than someone who smokes 10 a day at relatively regular intervals?

[itsnotarace]

Other than a sore throat, I doubt it (no medical qualifications but I have been a smoker for 20 years). You're still inhaling the same tar and nicotine you would if you spread the smoking out over an entire day.

[pbirkett]

I'm pretty sure its been proved that whilst social smoking is still obviously not good for you, its better than smoking all of the time, as the lungs at least get some chance to repair themselves. I'm sure I read that the lungs of 2 people were compared once, one who was a social smoker and the other who was a chronic smoker, and the one who had breaks from it still had much better lungs than the one who did all the time...

Fairly obvious I suppose.

Still I wouldnt recommend it (even though I too have the odd ciggie when drunk).

[ShadownINja]

At a guess, it could screw up your kidneys as they are the filters of the body and the bladder as that is where the extra toxic urine would store before being passed through the system. Kidney and bladder cancers are more common amongst smokers. But if you didn't do this regularly, they should repair themselves (complete guess but the human body is pretty resilient).