What is Smoking?

Smoking refers to the inhalation and exhalation of fumes from burning tobacco in cigars, cigarettes and pipes. Historically, smoking as a practice, was followed by natives of the Western Hemisphere, in religious rituals and for medicinal purposes. It has a history starting from the late 1500s.

Explorers of the New World saw it fit to introduce tobacco into Europe, in-spite of the opposition from the then rulers. But the novelty and thrill factor won over many a new user. Towards the end of the nineteenth century, cigarettes were higher in demand than the cigars and pipes, which had been popular amongst smokers until then.
Health Effects of Smoking

Tobacco smoke contains nicotine - a poisonous alkaloid - and other harmful substances like carbon monoxide, acrolein, ammonia, prussic acid and a number of aldehydes and tars. Health reports giving definitive proof that cigarette smoking is a serious health hazard have been submitted from time to time by the Surgeon General’s Advisory Committee on Health, appointed smoking-pic.jpgby the U.S. Public Health Service. Findings include that a smoker has a significantly greater chance of contracting lung cancer than a nonsmoker, depending on factors such as number of cigarettes smoked daily, number of years the subject smoked and the time in the person’s life when he or she began smoking.

Additionally, the report also gave proof of smoking being a primary cause of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, emphysema, heart disease, stroke and other cardiovascular diseases.

Smoking has proved to pose a threat to male potency. Pipe and cigar smokers are a comparatively fortunate lot as compared to cigarette smokers, if they do not inhale. They are not as prone to lung cancer as cigarette smokers. On the downside, the former set is just as likely to develop cancers of the mouth, larynx and esophagus. Groups of people indulging in snuff or chewing tobacco-a.k.a smokeless tobacco - also run a greater risk of developing cancer of the mouth.

Smoking Affects those Associated with Smokers too

Health groups are increasingly targeting smokers who inhale tobacco smoke for increasing the risk of heart disease and respiratory problems for them. These have resulted in dedicated movements for smokeless environments in public spaces such as government buildings, office buildings and restaurants.

Regulation of Smoking:

Due to mounting facts of health risks, television advertisements for cigarettes are increasingly being banned and governments world over are advising for stronger warning labels on all print advertising. It is now the responsibility of The Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, a treaty adopted by World Health Organization members in 2003, to establish international standards for anti smoking measures once it is ratified. This convention creates precincts on the marketing/sales of tobacco products.

What happens when you quit smoking? What to expect when i stop smoking?

Short term effects when you quit smoking are:

Long term effects when you quit smoking:

Above all quitting smoke will give big boost to your morale and feeling of achievement. YES, I thought, I tried and I achieved it what millions have tried and failed.

What are the side effects when you quit smoking?

Once you decide and suddenly quit smoking the body is in kind of a state of loss. Your body is confused and doesn’t know how to work normally as it was unable to work normally since long. The common side effects when you quit smoking are:

There is no need to worry for the above problems since they are temporary and should vanish within 3-5 days.

40 Responses to “What is Smoking?”

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    September 19th, 2007 at 11:13 am

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  2. Chris beachum Says:
    October 21st, 2007 at 9:41 pm

    is having wrinkles under the eyes and will my breathing get bette if i stop smoking

  3. ravi j Says:
    December 7th, 2007 at 10:22 am

    hello
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  4. Naima Says:
    March 15th, 2008 at 4:08 pm

    very good website as a student i found out alot of things about smoking that have discouraged me of ever trying it out

  5. Alucia Says:
    March 25th, 2008 at 10:59 am

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  6. Timika King Says:
    March 26th, 2008 at 11:39 am

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  7. Jenny Says:
    March 28th, 2008 at 12:47 am

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  8. Yaminthu Says:
    April 3rd, 2008 at 4:17 am

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  9. sara Says:
    April 6th, 2008 at 6:21 pm

    hello everyone ..

    i need ur help .
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  10. kyle Says:
    April 22nd, 2008 at 4:44 pm

    its as harmful as gas and the ozone

  11. Laura Says:
    April 28th, 2008 at 7:23 pm

    i read your article.its really good.
    you have helped me with my homework so much and there were some things i didnt know
    i was smoking but only for a month more or less.after learning in school what happend to your body and ow it affected your health i just stopped.im so glad i wasnt addicted.
    i wont promise i wont smoke a cigarrete on satudays or fridays..but at least i wont continuo.

    thanks a lot

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  13. bella Says:
    May 20th, 2008 at 7:38 pm

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    May 22nd, 2008 at 1:50 pm

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  15. G Says:
    June 12th, 2008 at 7:45 am

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  16. Helen Says:
    June 20th, 2008 at 2:03 pm

    This is boring

  17. Ur mum Says:
    July 4th, 2008 at 11:24 am

    or not!

  18. Evan Says:
    July 8th, 2008 at 10:17 pm

    What about those new e-cigarettes with no tobacco, just nicotine and some chemical that evaporates into water vapor. Are they unhealthy?

  19. kathrina tarip Says:
    August 19th, 2008 at 12:06 am

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    September 15th, 2008 at 7:44 am

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    October 7th, 2008 at 4:10 am

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  23. Elizabeth Says:
    October 27th, 2008 at 1:44 am

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  24. roxy Says:
    October 29th, 2008 at 5:04 pm

    hey yall dont smoke its bad for you

  25. sumaera Says:
    November 18th, 2008 at 6:12 am

    hi sir,
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  26. rajesh Says:
    November 21st, 2008 at 3:56 pm

    good

  27. Parvinder Bishnoi Says:
    November 25th, 2008 at 5:01 pm

    By reading this article I get more knowledge about health hazards effect of smoking

  28. mickey Says:
    December 16th, 2008 at 1:42 pm

    i have been smoking for 3 years now and this site has helped me alot
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  29. mickey Says:
    December 16th, 2008 at 2:11 pm

    hey i have been smoking for 3 years
    and this helped me alot
    thanks.

  30. michaela Says:
    December 17th, 2008 at 3:27 pm

    hey dont smoke its bad you get old faster thats true

  31. michaela Says:
    January 8th, 2009 at 3:33 pm

    hey im doing a project in pdr and this helps a lot thanks

  32. melissa harris Says:
    January 8th, 2009 at 3:35 pm

    hey every body im only 15 and i want to know how i kan quit smoking.. kause its turning my teeth very yellow, rotting on the other side of my teeth. and i want to know how i kan stop smoking… anyway if u have any ideas send a comment back to my comment……. bye

  33. wena Says:
    January 23rd, 2009 at 5:54 am

    more power and godbless. please continue giving knowledge about health.

  34. Akhil Says:
    January 30th, 2009 at 9:51 am

    thanks the material helped me for my first speech

  35. Anant Mishra Says:
    January 31st, 2009 at 7:47 am

    If I am smoking hardly two cigarettes a day, may I consider my self a
    SMOKER?? I reduced to two from 10-15 since few years.

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    March 3rd, 2009 at 4:00 am

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  38. Thomas Says:
    April 26th, 2009 at 12:56 am

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  39. taylah Says:
    May 12th, 2009 at 4:45 am

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  40. Jer Says:
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