Since ages, there has been an observance of smoking performed by humans. The practice of smoking has roots in cultural customs or traditions and has eventually evolved into a practice performed by individuals for personal entertainment and enjoyment. Smoking has long been a practice executed by individuals across many cultures. From last century, the term smoking is viewed from different perspectives. It has gone from a socially acceptable norm to one with a heavily tarnished reputation.

In the early days, advertisements for smoking used to appear in television where one can witness it being endorsed by the famous stars of that era. Cartoon characters and celebrities touted their preferred brands of cigarettes for their smoothness and flavor.

Smoking is a practice in which cannabis or tobacco is burned and the smoke is inhaled or tasted. It is one of the most familiar forms of recreational drug use. The most renowned form of smoking practiced by large segment of people across the globe is tobacco smoking. In other words, tobacco is the most frequent product smoked and smoking is the most frequent method of consuming tobacco. The widely used and most common mode of smoking is through cigarettes. The combustion of cigarette releases psychoactive addictive chemical known as nicotine which is detrimental to human health. Research suggests that every year more than 4.9 million people die around the world due to smoking. The practice of smoking had been recorded as early as 5000 BC and after conquest of the Americas and the European exploration, it rapidly spread to the rest of the world.

It is necessary to say “goodbye” to cigarettes in order to live a disease free and happy life. To lead a blissful life, one has to live smoke free. Now-a-days, large segment of people in the society are aware of the hazardous effects of smoking and had borne in their mind to stay away from it. The habit of smoking embraces numerous ill- effects of human health. People who have understood the injurious outcome of smoking points out smokers as - “You are a fool if you think smoking is cool”.

Smoking is detrimental to human health and thus unsafe for human life. From past few decades, smoking has been regarded as a serious issue due to the addictive effects of nicotine which lead to different types of heart attacks, strokes and cancers.