A smoker always thinks that cigarette is causing no harm to him and that is obviously a forced thinking because a smoker can not smoke with pleasure and relief if he starts thinking about the deadly effects of smoking. So it is actually a smoker’s denial of cigarette bad affects which makes him to keep on smoking cigarettes until he becomes addicted. So there are few things which a smoker necessarily needs to know. First off, the harmful effects of smoking and secondly how he is affecting the people around him with cigarette smoke.
Well, the list of deadly effects of smoking never ends. You can find this list of hazardous smoking affects on the Internet easily. Moreover, TV and printed media also can help you in this regard. Even kids know that smoking is not a good habit because it destroys you and the public around you. Then why you are denying the deadly affects of smoking? Why are you acting deaf when the world around you is shouting that cigarette is alarmingly dangerous? You need to ask this to your self sincerely….!
Let us name few diseases that you can get from cigarette smoke. Cancer, cardiovascular diseases, COPD, smoking cough, emphysema, gangrene are just a few names. If we talk about cancer, there are various types of cancers which a smoker can easily develop. For example, lung cancer, cervix cancer, mouth cancer, throat cancer, pancreas cancer.
According to studies, there are many other types of diseases too which a smoker can easily develop; non-smokers, on the other hand, rarely develops such cancers. If you are thinking that the cigarette you have right now in your hand is safe, you are absolutely wrong. You are bluffing your self!
Not only this, a smoker equally harms the public around him with the smoke he exhales. He leaves the air filthy with all the carcinogens present in the cigarette smoke. A non smoker passing by a smoker or sitting with him has to inhale this dirty carcinogen-full air. Thus, almost same smoking diseases can develop inside a non-smoker through second hand smoking (SHS). So a smoker should be well aware of the fact that he is not only destroying himself but also the many around him.
According to a research, smoking can kill 2.5 million middle-aged people only in 2010 and this shows that smokers die young. Research also shows that a long-time smoker can die almost 23 years early. A smoker really makes wrong use of this beautiful life and sadly, die so young!!
So if you are a smoker and you really want to know that why you should stop smoking then this article is the clear answer. You have to stop it for your health and the health of your loved ones around you.
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