Smoking a cigarette is quite harmful to your life. Cigarette smoking is so harmful that even the Indian Film fraternity is showing off warning signs during the films.
Smoking a cigarette is quite harmful to your life. Cigarette smoking is so harmful that even the Indian Film fraternity is showing off warning signs during the films. There was a time when kids and avid film followers will enact the smoking scene of their favourite actor on screen. Smoking is gone on to become a worldwide destruction tool. So you may be wondering what one stick of cigarette could do to you? Well, that cigarette contains over 4000 chemicals, some of which are life-threatening in their toxicity.
Also, these cigarettes also release harmful and poisonous gases in the smoke that make the environment polluted and unhealthy. The smoke that one puffs out from the cigarette contains a chemical known as ‘tar’ which contains benzene, arsenic, phenol, carbon monoxide, cadmium, cyanide, lead, methanol, naphthalene, nitrogen oxide, nicotine and acetone.
So how does Smoking is known to affect you? Well, the most probably it will do is reduce your life span.
- For young women who smoke regularly, smoking can be quite dangerous as it can have a higher risk of developing most common type of breast cancer.
- The ones who smoke throughout the day or better known as ‘chain smokers’ can result in yellowing of teeth and tooth decay and the constant presence of smoke-filled, bad breath.
- Smoking is also known to cause heartburn, stomach ulcers and dental problems like gum bleeding and mouth ulcers.
- You may not realise this but the nicotine present in the cigarette can have adverse effects. It raises the blood pressure and makes blood clot easily. Also, the carbon monoxide present in the tobacco smoke deoxygenates blood and encourages plaque formation on artery walls.
- For women smokers, a cigarette puff is as harmful it can be. Smoking is known to be hazardous for women since they have lesser lung capacity than their male counterparts, thus mounting their threat of respiratory problems.
- Women smoking in pregnancy run a ‘high risk’ of endangering themselves as well as the one who will be given birth. The problems include low birth weight, miscarriage, and neonatal death (death of an infant within 28 days).
A report posted by The World Lung Foundation found out that more than one million Indians die prematurely from tobacco-related diseases each year. If we are to avert the smoking perils harming our society at large, we must take a stand of going against tobacco or the usage of tobacco products. At the end of the day, it’s upto us to fight it out against the lure of the cigarette stick.
