CIGARETTE SMOKING
'Cigarette smoking is injurious to health'

To smoke cigarettes after seeing this critical warning is to walk knowingly in the direction of one's own death. It can be understood if some thing dangerous is done out of ignorance but, to have full knowledge and still disregard judgments to one's benefit and engage in self destructive actions, is to invite inevitable suffering. In any case, even in ignorance, dangerous cancer producing poisonous chemicals enter lungs by smoking. Cigarettes contain nicotine, a highly harmful substance with a damaging effect to the entire nervous system. To smoke is to knowingly allow this danger to directly enter the brain. According to the scientific studies, dangers of cigarette smoking are as follows :

1. Cigarette smoking causes decrease of life expectancy.

2. Cigarette smoking causes death due to fatal side-effects.

3. Cigarette smoking is an invitation to cancer.

4. Cigarette smoking causes death due to heart disease.

5. Cigarette smoking increases the chances of death due to stomach ulcer.

6. Cigarette smoking in pregnancy causes damages to the unborn fetus. It can cause premature birth and stillbirth.

7. Cigarette smoking causes irregular blood pressure.

8. Cigarette smoking causes hardening of the arteries and thinning of the blood vessels obstructing the flow of blood. It is the invitation to heart disease.

9. Cigarette smoking causes a wide range of lung diseases such as chronic bronchitis, emphisima, cough, shrinking of the breathing passages causing breathing difficulties and swelling in the lungs. Insufficient intake of oxygen causes heavy strain on the lungs.

10. Cigarette smoking causes ulcers in the stomach and small intestines inducing vomiting and danger of death.

11. Cigarette smoking causes the production of cyandies which has strong adverse effect on the eyes, impairing vision and possibly to blindness.

12. Cigarette smoking and chewing tobacco causes throat and mouth cancer.

13. Cigarette smoking damages salivary glands in the mouth. Saliva decreases, the mouth becomes dry and digestive capacity weakens. Chemical particles contained in the smoke accumulate between the teeth and in the throat which can cause cancer or other non malignant tumors. The teeth become weak and the sense of taste and smell is impaired.
 

  Cigarette smoking causes adverse effects to all organs of the body and gives birth to countless diseases and inevitable unbearable suffering. Cigarette smoking is a waste of time and money. The amount of rupees spent uselessly and the loss of working hours is so incredibly high that it is beyond the imagination. According to one survey, annually throughout the entire world, 30,000 arab rupees go up in cigarette smoking and an estimated 2,400 arab rupees is spent on advertising. If this amount of money is spent of human development what could not be accomplished?. It is unimaginable. According to a survey conducted in 1964 in a single year a total of 30,60,000 man hours were lost due to the side-effects of smoking.

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