Smoking out Good Health

"One thousand Americans stop smoking everyday-by dying"

                                                        AUTHOR UNKNOWN

Smoking that mean to say taking or habit of taking cigarette, cigar and other form of tobacco products is a major and recurrent issue in our present World. It  started centuries ago when aborigines of American sub-continent and Australia chewed tobacco. It become worldwide phenomenon after Sir Raleigh introduced it into English Royal court. Subsequently, habit of taking cigarette, cigar and pipe spread with English imperialist conquest around the world.

By 2000,there are about 1.1 billion smokers worldwide and 943 millions are in Developing Countries. Many reasons people give for smoking or given why people smoke range from coping with life pressure, peer pressure, in order  to  forget their problems ,justifying  the belief that everybody is taking it, boredom, curiosity and ignorance among others.But put in another way the addiction from tobacco taking particularly smoking of cigarette is in this pattern. You take one stick and you want to take another,(craving) and when you take another, you want to yet take another. And in this way you are experiencing what  is  scientifically refer to as TOLERANCE,PHYSICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL DEPENDENCE.

 So for one reason or the other you light a stick of cigarette and in that combustion you generate 4000 chemical substances, which goes into the system. Chiefly, among them are nicotine, carbon monoxide and tar. The effect boomerang not in a day or two in most cases, it manifest latter in life as cancer of many part of the body most especially lung and upper part of the airway. Other effects are heart diseases, chronic bronchitis(related to the lung) and deleterious effect on pregnancy which range from low birth-weight of the child, spontaneous abortion, premature delivery and showing of physical and mental development in children of mother that smokes. Memory problems are not left out, so also production of abnormal spermatozoa in adult males that smokes.

And these generate a startling statistic-10,000 people die from smoking everyday. Maybe something would kill us, as some people would say.But the poser is that why allow what could be prevented kill us.Which unfortunately is an activity so commonly encouraged by availability of tobacco products and money to push it around the world by rich multinational tobacco companies.

Maybe  let stop and examine what smokers say, particularly nudged on by emerging scientific findings which show that it reduces incidence of Parkinson’s disease and Inflammatory Bowel Disease and minimally in Alzeihmer’s Disease.

Could the benefit ever outweigh the risk,particularly the risk to the smoker and the people around him from second hand smoke.Second hand smoke is significantly injurious to innocent bystanders.A quitter of smoking reduce his risk of smoking-related shortening of life expectancy related disease and lost of man hour from such disease among other things.

A quitting Government is also very important. It is not enough for health authorities world-wide to enforce placing of warning on tobacco pack or advert.More punitive measures have to be taken which goes beyond the aforementioned one and slamming greater tax on tobacco products. Oxford medical companion a medical text summed it well-a cigarette is the only legally  available consumer product which kills people when it is entirely used as intended. 

Its Never Too Late to Stop Smoking. (National Film Theatre, Beverley Road, Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England)Source: Charles Rispin [CC-BY-SA-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons