Stop Smoking
These days, the term smoking is generally associated with smoking a cigarette or a cigar. However, since 5000 BC this practise has been around. Smoking was common during ceremonies especially in Africa and India. With time it has developed from originally natural plant stems and leaves to pipes to now handy and simple cigarettes.
A temporary feeling of goodness felt is the main reason why a lot of people smoke. The substance giving this feeling may change but tobacco is the most popular substance. Tobacco comes from the leaves of the plants belonging to the species Nicotiana. Smokers find tobacco addictive and enjoy it because of a chemical called nicotine. In addition to this, marijuana is also used,; normally flavored with tobacco or herbal fruits.
It is mainly teenagers who take this habit into their adulthood, especially when they start as young as 18, which is very common today. This increase in recent years can be related to the attractive advertisements of mainly cigarettes. Developing countries contribute the most smoking teenagers due to the lack of awareness of the health risks linked with smoking.
Over years of constant smoking, the chemicals in the tobacco smoke deposit on the lungs, with time, turning into a tumour, resulting in lung cancer. Smoking is responsible for majority of lung cancer deaths. The fast increase in the number of deaths due to smoking related lung cancer has to lead to many campaigns to stop smoking. Even packets of cigarettes now hold health warnings claiming that smoking is harmful to health.
Smoking has been banned in certain countriesin public areas in attempts to completely stop smoking. Almost all airports have a separate area for those who want to smoke. These attempts are to not only stop smoking people of the habit, but to cut down the number of passive smokers. Passive smokers suffer a greater risk as they do not have the advantage of the filter found in almost all cigarettes. This has resulted in many objections by passive smokers to stop smoking, not only in public areas, but to stop smoking in general.
Some may say that the industry to stop smoking is growing as fast as the tobacco industry. Things like nicotine patches, and various types of treatments are being used to help people quit the habit and stop smoking. Usually it takes a heavy smoker a few years to stop smoking completely, but with the help of these instruments the period taken to stop smoking can be much quicker.
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