Bad habits grow unconsciously. My father regularly used to tell this quote in my childhood days. I remember these words when I see people who are smoking. They know the consequences of smoking but they are unable to stop because of addiction.
Almost everyone knows that smoking causes cancer, emphysema,
and heart disease; that it can shorten your life by 10 years or more; and that
the habit can cost a smoker thousands of dollars a year. So how come people are
still lighting up? The answer, in a word, is addiction. Once You Start, It's
Hard to Stop. Smoking is a hard habit to break because tobacco contains
nicotine, which is highly addictive.
Cigarettes contain more than 4,800 chemicals - 69 of these
are known to cause cancer.
Parents who smoke can create health problems for their
children, including exacerbation of asthma, increased frequency of colds and/or
ear infections and sudden infant death syndrome.
The ingredients in cigarettes affect everything from the
internal functioning of organs to the efficiency of the body's immune system.
The effects of cigarette smoking are destructive and widespread.
highly addictive.
Smoking still remains one of the leading cause of
preventable death. Smoking has the dubious distinction of affecting all the
systems from head to foot. Smoking causes many diseases like
High Blood
Pressure
Heart
Disease
Pulmonary
Disease
Vascular
Diseases
Stroke
Laryngeal
Polyps
Impotence
Wrinkling
of Skin
Mouth
Disease
Respiratory
Infections
Smoking and
Ulcer
Smoking causes delivery
complications
Increases risk of
pre-term delivery
Giving birth to
low-birth weight baby
Slows fetal growth
Smoking also
increases risk of serious health problems to the newborn such as:
cerebral palsy
mental
retardation
learning disabilities
Effects of Smoking
Several studies have also shown that smoking leads to less
stamina
Interferes with the
functions of thyroid
Causes bone loss
leading to bone fractures
Accelerates the
development of the macular degeneration
Increases the chances
of developing multiple sclerosis
Predisposes to
cervical dysplasia
Staying smoke free will give you a whole lot more of
everything — more energy, better performance, better looks, more money in your
pocket, and, in the long run, more life to live!
