Some people are under misconception and take smoking as a hobby.
According to recent studies conducted by AMA, American Lung and
Heart Associations and the American Cancer society smoking is
one of the main causes of premature death. Smoking means you are
giving to yourself a slow poison treatment. Smoking does not
only meteorites the smoker's health but it also affects the
nearby standing person like your kids as their organs are on
developing stage.
Smoking problem
It has become an accepted fact worldwide that cigarette smoking
is the main agent of avoidable and premature death rate. It
results in one in five deaths in United States. The data shows
the deaths of over 400,000 people from 1995 to 1999 in U.S per
year. Smoking acts as a catalyst in lung cancer, coronary heart
diseases and chronic airway obstruction.
If we exclude adult deaths which is commonly a result of
secondhand smoke, we see that both adult males and females have
lost on an around 13 to14 years of their life expectancy. If
this pace of consummation of tobacco goes on then approximately
6.4 million children will loose their lives prematurely. Economy
has to endure the expenditure of over $100 billions in health
care costs annually which results in loss of productivity
including the death rate and medical expenses. Smoking has
direct relation to the sources causing the lung cancer,
emphysema and chronic bronchitis.
The primary cause of the death in U.S is cardiovascular disease
which is again partially an outcome of the tobacco use. A survey
shows the deaths of 65000 women who died of the lung cancer and
85000 men who died of lung and bronchus diseases. This shows
that smoking is much injurious to health than the most people
are aware about its harmful effects. This data should act as a
statuary warning for people but instead of becoming aware they
get back to the same habit again.
Some people do want to quit smoking and some even tries to make
an attempt which is good starting for a good cause as done in
2001 by many people but to increase this figure it is essential
that the victims should be encourage so that he may get counted
in the list of successful.
About the author:
Tony Robinson is an ex-smoker, Webmaster and International
Author. Visit
http://www.quit-smoking-assist.com/ for his quit
smoking tips.
