Real Facts and Figures about Tobacco Smoking

All that is found here on this earth today was created for a purpose, and a good purpose at that. However, when something is used wrongly, it can create serious damages. Just like in the case of tobacco. Tobacco actually has a number of medicinal benefits, but because it is being abused, it is now one of the leading causes of cancer and health diseases. What God originally intended as a gift is now instead converted by humans into a hazard.

A lot of information can actually be found on the dangers of smoking, via newspapers, television, even in the Internet. We are constantly warned by healthcare professionals and even the government about how harmful smoking is to one’s health. Compared to non-smokers, a smoker’s lifespan is decreased and a lot of them die young.

What is disturbing though is that despite all this, there is a steady increase in the number of individuals who smoke. Such is the case in a study done in Nigeria, wherein the production and purchase of cigarettes, as well as the death rate because of smoking, has risen.

Not only has there been an increase in the mortality rate of smokers, but those of passive or secondhand smokers as well. In the UK, approximately 11,000 people have died within a year just by inhaling smoke puffed out by smokers.

Death can be a result of natural causes, old age, stress, unemployment perhaps, as well as structure of a household. But based on research conducted on death causes, smoking is the top cause of death.

Currently, experts in the health and medical fields are pushing for the absolute ban of smoking in public areas, such as restaurants, malls, public vehicles, and institutions, as well as the enforcement of rules and regulations for protection against the harmful effects of smoking.

Despite knowing that tobacco is quite harmful, it is still continuously being grown in farms and cigarette manufacturers and producers are earning millions out of it. We are putting the lives of the ones we love at risk by burning a lot of money buying this stuff despite the warnings being placed on the packs that “Cigarette Smoking is Dangerous to your Health.”

All this information should be a heads up to law makers and the government to take the necessary steps to ensure that the dangerous effects of smoking are lessened. These steps should not be limited to just banning cigarettes. Other related drugs, such as heroin and cocaine, should be banned as well.

On top of that, there should be a strong willpower and determination on the part of smokers who want to quit. There is nothing impossible as long as one puts their mind to it. Just think positive and have the strong resolve never to smoke again. By doing so, we are ensuring the future of the youth and the lives of our children.

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