subject: electronic cigarette [print this page] Author: Daniel Swearingen Author: Daniel Swearingen
Tobacco intake is the single most preventable cause of premature death in todays times. Tobacco or nicotine is the chemical that narrows our blood vessels thereby reducing the life giving air that we intake, which in turn forces us to fight for that extra air.
Why we are drawn towards smoking
The younger generation of todays times is the one, which is the most stricken by this deadly disease. The biggest reason for which is they are in a haste to prove them selves to be grownups and mature. A 13 yr old boy standing in the streets with his friends puffing the circles of smoke in air, feels he is mature and big enough to take his decisions and thinks that now it is that he has broken free from the shackles of his parents boundaries which say that smoking is injurious to health. He does so in pure enjoyment and fun, not realizing that he is indeed letting the shackles of a deadly disease trap him and is not in fact breaking free from any. .
The ill effects of smoking
Smoking is what triples the risk of dying from various heart diseases, bronchitis and emphysema. Emphysema is a particularly noxious way to check out of life with is futile gasping for air until you suffocate with all your faculties present. Not a pretty sight.
It is smoking that leads to asthma and lung cancer in many people. It is smoking that makes a person baffle for air 3 times more that a non-smoker. Smoking makes you weak and unfit for athletics and various other sports. Smoking makes people avoid you because it makes your hair and clothes stink. It stains your teeth and you have bad breath. Your lips are often cracked and you look pale. You rapidly look older than your years.
Smoking is a contagious disease because it not only weakens the victims but also those who are around him. This is better known as passive smoking where the smoke puffed out by a smoker does harm to the lungs and chest of the person who inhales that air.
It is thus the need of the hour that we should take up the matter seriously and do something constructive to free our society from this deadly disease. This article is brought to you courtesy of
