DON'T SMOKE

Women who smoke have a greater risk of developing coronary artery disease than men who smoke, a large systematic review and meta-analysis showed.

Ashun/Smoke in Hebrew is also an acrostic standing for Aleph–Olam/World; Shin-Shana/Time; Nun-Nefesh/Soul. The Cabala divides the body into three levels: the legs carry out action, the body cycles and the brain connects to the soul. World, time and soul in one body.

The Zohar-Book of Secret describes creation as smoke. Perhaps the predilection to smoke and the insatiable appetite provoked, to the point of addiction, is the affect of ingesting a primal metaphor into the lungs of the body, then blown out through the mouth.

The head is close to the soul but the heart connects to the Creator. The Cabala, the Jewish mystical tradition, views the head as male and the heart as female. The head is always on, being directly connected to the soul, but the heart, connected to God, ebbs and flows.

Though man and woman are equal before God, woman is more within while man is directly outward; the more within, the more sensitive and vulnerable – therefore the man is bigger, meant to protect the woman. Men and women both get sick from smoking, but women get sicker.