Smoking not only harms our health , but also drains our purse . Most of us living in villages are poor people . Already we find it difficult to meet the bare necessities of life . It will become all the more difficult if we indulge in smoking and wasting our money . Smoking is a silent killer . It affects all the vital organs of our body . It can lead to lung cancer . It can seriously damage the arteries of our heart . Some smokers think that smoking is a stimulant . They say that it makes them feel more alert and clear-headed . But all this is merely an illusion .
The paradox with smoking is that at one dose it stimulates at another it soothes . And ultimately , the efficiency of a smoker falls far below that of a non-smoker . There is another point . It is not only the smoker who harms himself by his smoking ; he harms even those who are around him and those who don't smoke . The exhaled puffs of tobacco smoke are inhaled by non-smokers who happen to be around . Thus they become passive smokers and suffer as much as the active smokers do . So it will be in our own interest as well as in the interest of those among whom we live that we give up our habit of smoking .
Some dangerous effects of smoking with data are represents below :
Cigarette smoking is the major factor for lung cancer ; smoking is responsible for 87% of lung cancer deaths . Cigarette smoking is responsible for more than 480,000 deaths per year in the United States , including more than 41,000 deaths are caused by others smoking exposure . About one death in five deaths are caused by smoking and also 1,300 deaths per day . In India, according to a survey 28.6%(266.8 millions) of adults (aged 15 or above) are use to smoke and 3.7%(34.4 millions) are occasional smokers . Presently, there are approximately 120 million smokers in India . According to World Health Organisation (WHO), 12% of the world smokers living in India . More than 10 million people dies per year due to smoking in India .
In a bid to educate people about the harmful effects of cigarette smoking, the Government of India has been taking serious steps . A few years ago, it was made obligatory for all cigarette manufacturing units to put a statutory warning on their cigarette packs : 'Smoking is injurious to health' . Now all cigarette packs bear this warning, but smoking has in no way become less common . Smokers don't care for such a warning because they already know what is written on their packs of cigarettes . They are addicts and addicts never care about the harm of a drug they take . Similarly, censorship of all cigarette-smoking scenes in Indian movies won't help in any way . The only remedy lies in banning all cigarette manufacturing units . If government can ban the making of cocaine, why not the making of cigarettes ?
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