Background of smoking
We usually mean smoking to Tobacco. There are many people who are addicted to the smoking of opium and other intoxicating drugs. People use various kinds of apparatus for tobacco-smoking such as hookah, pipes, cigars, cigarettes and cheroots.
Tobacco was first brought from America to Europe. Early one day in 1492, Columbus's shipmates saw the people of Island (now known as Cuba) smoking bundles of rolled leaves. They copied this habit and became smokers.
Sir Walter Raleigh introduced tobacco and smoking in Europe. Hookah-smoking was known to Eastern Kings, the Physicians used it as a cure for stomach-troubles. Now, smoking is one of the most popular habits but very dangerous. Even women have caught up this habit.
Today there are approximately 50 million addicted smokers in the U S A, 15 million in Great Britain and almost as many in France. In a poor country like Pakistan, people smoke away cigarettes of 150 crore per year.
Some Smoke Components
Some smoke components, such as carbon monooxide (CO), hydrogen cyanide (HCN), and nitrogen oxides, are gases. Other, such as formaldehyde, acrolein, benzene and certain N- nitrosamines, are volatile chemicals contained in the liquid and vapour portion of the smoke aerosol.
The habit of smoking prevails in every part of the world. Most eminent doctors of the world have expressed their opinions about its bad effects; yet the fashion continues. Smoking undoubtedly invigorates one's nervous system after physical and mental exhaustion. But its after effects are really alarming.
Bad effects of smoking on health:
The smoke contain very small particles of Nicotine which is a deadly poison. By breathing the poisonous smoke, we injure our health. The smoke effects wind-pipe and the lungs. The throat and lungs diseases are, therefore, caused.
It is the basic cause of cancer. The smokers suffer from cold and cough. Smokers get bad and dirty teeth, which cause order diseases. Tobacco causes bad breath and stinks in the mouth.
Eye-sight and digestion are damaged.
There is loss of vitality. Endurance power is reduced; memory becomes dead. Dead smoker get heart troubles. It is unquestionably a luxury; it is a waste of money.
Tobacco is a killer which causes the loss of many lives such as road accident.
Balzoc, the famous French writer, has rightly said; "Tobacco destroys the body, attacks the intelligence and ridicules nations".
Smoking is a pernicious habit.
How to stop smoking?
Once this habit is formed, it is very difficult to get rid of this enjoyable poison. However, there are some principles and methods which can help a smoker stop smoking. The smoker should take advantage of any break such as illness, fasting in the normal way of life. He should take light meals and plenty of water, take exercise regularly and avoid all contacts with the groups of smokers. He should very often change the brand of his tobacco.
This change will diminish this pleasure of smoking, and he will smoke less. He should eat fruit because it has been proved that apples, grapes, oranges, and peas reduce the need to smoke. A mouth wash with silver nitrate can destroy a lot of the pleasure of smoking. The first four or five days will prove to be very hard for the smoker. But the difficulty will gradually diminish.
I hope you understand irascible of smoking.
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