Smoking

Have you ever thought about smoking and its risks? Do you smoke regularly or only when you are out and about with friends?


I personally have never even tried to smoke a single cigarette. Why? First of all because I do not want to die from lung cancer or any disease related to smoking. I have never seen any advantage in being a smoker. In my opinion smoking should conflict with your common sense. On the one hand you pay a lot of money for the cigarettes and on the other hand they will cause diseases you might die from. Smoking harms nearly every organ of the human body and causes !87! percent of lung cancer deaths. There are many other diseases smokers are likely to get such as an emphysema, a heart disease or a stroke. Women who smoke are likely to suffer from pregnancy problems - the baby could die from sudden infant death syndrome.


There are multiple reasons why people start to smoke: 

1. Stress - when people are stressed at work or at school they often seek for a substance or element to calm them down

2. Peer pressure - it often happens at schools. Some of the older students smoke regularly and force younger students to try it at least one time. But once can be enough to start smoking. 

3. Boredom - I have talked to many friends and some of them told me that they had started to smoke because they did not know what to do in the afternoon when they were at home alone


Cigarettes contain nicotine which is an addictive drug. If you smoke a cigarette the nicotine is absorbed into the bloodstream and stimulates the adrenal glands to release the hormone adrenaline. Blood pressure is increased as well as the heart rate. The nicotine increases levels of the neurotransmitter dopamine, which affects the brain pathways that control reward and pleasure. Addiction is the result of smoking.


Are you still convinced of smoking now?