Smoking

The soot in a chimney is like the tar in a person’s lungs.  Everyday hundreds of thousands of individuals die from smoking. The lungs and the heart are both affected by smoking. Smoking for a long length of time can cause cancer as well as for some a limb being amputated. The nicotine and carbon monoxide will increase your heart rate and blood pressure, which put strain on your blood vessels. Smoking is a slow dying disease.  Men who smoke are more likely to get lung cancers than non-smoking.

There are several different methods that smokers use to try and quit smoking, however unless the individual is really ready to quit it doesn’t matter which one of these methods they try, all the methods in the world won’t work unless they are truly ready to quit.  Some of the products smokers use to quit smoking are; chewing nicotine gum, wearing the nicotine patch, nasal sprays such as smoke deter, and even cigarette filter tips. All of these items are available either online or in your local grocery stores, and convenience stores.

Second hand smoke causes about three thousand lung cancer deaths a year. There is no safe level when a person inhales second hand smoke. Second hand smoke increases the risk for lung cancer, leukemia, infant death syndrome and many other things. These levels are dangerous for adults, young children and babies who are around smoke. The next time you think about lighting up that cigarette around a non-smoker you might think about the risk you’re imposing on them.

Children don’t have the option to get away from their parents when they decide to light up. There should be a law that a person cannot smoke in a car, sit in a restaurant, or inside their home if a minor child is present. Adults have the luxury of walking away from smokers, children don’t. So if nothing else we need to protect the children in our society since others don’t. If you’re a non-smoker and you go into a restaurant with your children do you really want to sit by a smoking chimney?

So, if you take nothing away from this article but one thing please be cognitive to your surroundings when lighting up because the one you are lighting up next too may not like your second hand smoke and as mentioned above second hand smoke can be very dangerous so is it really fair to subject some innocent bystander whether adult or child to one’s own personal smoking habit?