According to the experiment conducted by Seoul National University, every time one smokes a cigarret, it reduces his or her lifespan by three seconds. Do you still want to risk yourself, after hearing this shocking fact? Smoking is severe for health, economically inefficient, and causes deadly secondhand smoking.
First of all, smoking is bad for one's health as it can develop lung cancer and throat cancer which are incurable diseases. Also, cigarette is highly addictive that it is very hard for one to quit, once started. Tobaccos contain toxic substances such as tar or nicotine which are used in making pesticide. Cigarett is also dangerous in a way that it kills smokers at a very slow pace that they do not even know that they are getting unhealthy, By the time they are diagnosed of cancer, it is already too late.
Furthermore, tobacco is costly. A carton of cigarret is approximately $13. Although it seems like a small amount of money, if one is a heavy smoker, it can eventually sum up to a sizable sum of money. As a consequence, smokers have less money to spend on other activities.
In addition, smoking does not only harm yourself but also others. If one smokes in a public area, people around he or she helplessly has to be the victim of deadly secondhand smoking. People who do second hand smoking are forced to to risk cancer, while not even having a chance to enjoy smoking. More over, if one smokes outside and go home, it is still harmful for one's family as the toxic substances are alraedy soaked into one's clothes. Only a small amount of poisnous tar and nicotine are lethal enough to put his or her beloved ones to death.
To sum up, smoking ruins poeple's lives in many ways, yet most of them are not aware of the severity of it. Smoking should be stopped as early as possible because it takes about 20 years for a smoker's lung to become as healthy as a nonsmoker's. Before smoking takes away your life, the lives of your beloved ones, and precious money, you have to stop it. |