Dangers of smoking
Smoking is injurious to health; this is the
caution advice that we read on all cigarettes packets. Still we go ahead to
take that puff of ecstasy. Why? Are we trying to be ignorant or is it something
else.
Tobacco intake is the single most preventable cause of
premature death in todays times. Tobacco or nicotine is the chemical that
narrows our blood vessels thereby reducing the life giving air that we intake,
which in turn forces us to fight for that extra air.
Why we are
drawn towards smoking
The younger generation of todays
times is the one, which is the most stricken by this deadly disease. The
biggest reason for which is they are in a haste to prove them selves to be
grownups and mature.
A 13 yr old boy standing in the streets with
his friends puffing the circles of smoke in air, feels he is mature and big
enough to take his decisions and thinks that now it is that he has broken free
from the shackles of his parents boundations which say that smoking is
injurious to health. He does so in pure enjoyment and fun, not realizing
that he is indeed letting the shackles of a deadly disease trap him and is not
in fact breaking free from any.
Hey! Boy, QUIT SMOKING, or else
soon you will be in the clutches of the deadly disease.
Ill
effects of smoking
It is smoking that triples the risk of
dying from various heart diseases, bronchitis and emphysema. It is smoking that
leads to asthma and lung cancer in many people. It is smoking that makes a
person baffle for air 3 times more that a non-smoker. Smoking makes you weak
and unfit for athletics and various other sports. Smoking makes people avoid
you because it makes your hair and clothes stink. It stains your teeth and you
have bad breath. Your lips are often cracked and you look pale.
Is
that what you call looking mature. No. So quit smoking because it will do no
good to you.
Smoking is a contagious disease because it not only
weakens it victim but also those who are around him. This is better known as
passive smoking where the smoke puffed out by a smoker does harm to the lungs
and chest of the person who inhales that air.
It is thus the need
of the hour that we should take up the matter seriously and do something
constructive to free our society from the grips of this deadly disease.
Article written by Rob Mellor
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