according to my family, the news said that there were teenagers having strokes and heart attacks because of ENERGY drinks.
and the fact that one can is 2 servings, they're chock fulla caffeine, and have chemicals to make the caffeine more powerful. this surprises no one.
so, because the news claims these things can kill people, my family thinks I should cut back on energy drinks.
who's gonna tell Chris? he'll drink, like, 3 in a day. I drink 1, if any, in a 24 time frame. and I'll open it and not finish it for, like, hours on end. I'll have it with lunch and still have a little left for dinner. sometimes. when I do chug the suckers down, I only have one, and it's when I'm really thirsty (and times when I was playing DDR)
so, energy drinks could kill me. so can lots of things.
and all this 2nd hand smoke I'm inhaling on a daily basis can't be too damn good for me either, can it? 18 years of it. (ok. no clue if my parents smoked often in my infancy, but they have been smokers since before my sister was born)
I went from living with 2 smokers, (mom and dad) to living with one (after dad died from complications with diabetes and alcoholism) then to living with one who smoked OUTSIDE ('cause my mom and I lived w/ her sister in Ventura for about 5 months or something), to living with THREEEEE smokers (here at Ed and Penny's. I'm the only one in the house who doesn't smoke. and several of their friends smoke) and I hate it. I really do.
I don't hate it because it's unhealthy, per se.
I hate the smell. I hate the concept. and I do hate the risks.
I mean, my mother's in her early-mid 50's. She looks much older. she coughs constantly. She coughs when she gets up, she coughs before she goes to bed, she coughs throughout the day. Not, like, every 5 minutes, but often enough to notice. and it's a pretty nasty cough, too.
I'm worried about her health. But I know she's too stubborn to want to quit.
so is my non-existent-addiction really all that bad? I can recall about 3 days where I had more than one Rockstar in a day. (or Monster. 2 at Warped Tour, 'cause they were free) I've been drinking them for maybe around a year, if even. I used to have one every Friday night, and maybe 1 or 2 randomly throughout the week. now I drink maybe 6 a week. and when I drink one, it lasts a loooooooong time.
I have a feeling these kids who had medical problems because of them drink them daily and obsessively.
years of smoking is going to catch up to them. I'll be sad, but I wont be too surprised. like how years of drinking caught up with my dad.
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