Tobacco as an Addiction
The Drug Rehabilitation Centre in Mumbai and
the Alcohol Rehabilitation Centre in India,
came together to talk about the condition of tobacco addiction, which goes hand
in hand with the alcohol addiction, amongst the addicts. Tobacco smoking, a
habit which if you have is addictive and harmful in every possible way. The Drug Rehabilitation Centre in
Mumbai also says that the person who smokes, the friend sitting beside,
this beautiful nature and sometimes even the generation to come along suffers.
This is not something people don’t know. Each year the government spends a lot
of national treasure in order to make people stop smoking. But then again, if
the government would just ban it, they wouldn’t have to spend so much in spreading
this awareness. Yet, because of some reasons which some know some might not,
tobacco is easily accessible. You need to be 18+ in order to buy a Cigarette,
yet the average age of a person who starts smoking is 15.1 years.
More than
7000 chemicals are present in tobacco smoke out of which 250 are known to be
harmful and among the 250, 69+ can cause cancer. From toxic metals and
hazardous gases like Beryllium, Butadiene to radioactive chemical elements like
Polonium-210, a normal cigarette has it all what it takes to ruin a life.
Smoking is one of the leading causes of premature deaths around the world.
Smoking causes death from cancer, heart disease, stroke, lung disease and many
more to mention. You can imagine what all known- unknown diseases can do to 250
harmful chemicals.
It harms
nearly every body organ. One of the main diseases caused by smoking is cancer.
Cancers of lung, esophagus, larynx, mouth, throat, kidney, liver, bladder,
pancreas, stomach, colon, and cervix are a few types of cancers caused by
smoking. Men who smoke are at greater risk of erectile dysfunction. A woman who
smokes during pregnancy increases the infant’s risk of death from Sudden Infant
Death Syndrome. Passive smoking (involuntary smoking) kills more people than
regular smoking. This fact alone is enough to establish that smoking should be
eliminated completely.
Some people
have framed new views that maybe cigarette smoking is harmful but smoking vapes
or e-cigarettes and hookah is not harmful so they replace one addiction with
another. But the only difference between them is that cigarettes have tobacco
and vapes don’t. But tobacco is not the only thing causing cancer, a laundry
list of above mentioned chemicals are also present in these vapes and hookah ,
thus making them harmful as well.
Some start
because they heard somewhere that cigarettes ease your mind because of the
nicotine present, the same thing which also kills you, some because they find
it cool which happens mainly in the case of teenagers. Some smoke just to try
once in their life yet find themselves attached with it for lifetime. The irony
of the whole situation is we know we are consuming poison yet we consume it. If
you stop smoking tobacco, the side effects will be impaired cognitive
functioning, feeling depressed, irritated, you can have sleeping problems and
headaches. But it won’t do what smoking does. It won’t kill.
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