Effects of smoking

Specialists have enough evidence to prove that lung cancer and heart
disease are closely linked with smoking. Even though over 430,000 people die as a result of smoking related disease each year, over 50 million continue to smoke, including over 3 million teens. So why do people still smoke? Don't they realise that smoking has many negatives results? Cigarettes contain nicotine which ruins people's lives in 3 ways? It has negative effects upon their physical health, their social life and their financial situation.

Each cigarette contains around 4,000 chelicals which damage the smoker's body in a variety of ways. According to the American Lung Association, cigarettes cause 87% of lung cancers and also lead to different serious disease such as heart attacks and strokes, due to the chemicals which damage the heart muscles and blood vessels. Smokers do not have to smoke everyday to become addicted. Regular smokers find that it is easier to get a cold or a cough and much more difficult to keep fit. Smokers also are more likely to have circulation problems. Diminished circulation to the feet and hands can lead to painful neuropathy. Consequently, it is common to get local infections which result in an amputation. Smoking also affects the reproductive system, esspecially in women. They may suffer irregular and absent periods, menopause, which occurs earlier, and their risk of cervcal cancer is increased. However, a common effect on men is changes in the level of sex hormones and even more serious effect is that an unborn child is at risk when its mother smokes.

Another negative effect of smoking is its impact on a damage their own health but also damage the health of those around them. As a reault, in many countries laws have been changed and today, there are only a few public places where people can smoke in public. Even though people have been educated to know the dangers of smoking and passive smoking, they still do this. More and more non-smokers do not want to be close to smokers because they know it is dangerous for them. Therefore, non-smokers separate from them.

Lastly, smoking affects a smoker's financial situation. They spend a lot of money on cigarettes each day and do not realise that they could spend money on other pleasures, which would not ruin their lives. Usually parents are a model for their children, and they give them the example that they cannot normally exist without nicotine. therefore, about 3,000 teens begin to smoke each day adn 1,000 of them will eventually die as a result.

Smoking has many negative consequences. People, who smoke, should realise that it destroys their lives in many ways. The government does everything to help people to quit because it is no longer only a health issue but a political and environmental issue as well. Everyone can see disgusting pictures, which are provided by the government, on busses, bill boards and on TV. Chemists can provide medicine or nicotine chewing gums, to help smokers to quit. Giving up smokeing is not easy for smokers but everyone knows that smoking damages life in many ways. Therefore, if you never start smoking you will never have to know how hard it is to stop.