Harmful Effects of Smoking

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Social Smoking – A societal poison

Social smoking is referred as a pattern or guide of tobacco use based on the context of use (for example, smoking more in social settings like sporting or music events, nightclubs, bars, and pubs). These social circumstances triggers or act as a social signal to tobacco use. People who smoke mostly or only in social settings, and in the company of others (mainly other smokers), are termed as “social smokers”. They can be called as “socially cued smokers”. They can also be incorporated in a large group of smokers known as “occasional smokers”.

Smoking is injurious to health-Get rid of it

“Smoking is injurious to health” is a common quote found almost everywhere and known by everyone. But the question arises that how many people actually obey the quote and act accordingly. It is quoted that "A cigarette is a pipe with a fire at one end and a fool at the other".

Knowing the injurious effects of smoking, don’t be the fool to try it. Cigarette smoking is addictive and harmful. In a single cigarette, there 4000 chemicals which are highly poisonous and few are carcinogenic (cancer-causing).

Heart Diseases–Vulnerable to smoker’s heart

Most people associate cigarette smoking with lung cancer and breathing problems, but few realize that smoking is also a major and powerful cause of heart disease. Globally, cardiac disease is the leading cause of death among smokers. A report suggests that in the year 2000, worldwide, there were 1,690,000 deaths from heart diseases among smokers; in contrast to 850,000 lung cancer deaths in the same year. Cigarette smoking is a major cause of heart stroke and heart attack.The term heart disease is an umbrella term for a range of various diseases affecting the heart directly.