Posted on June 27, 2007 in Latest News
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 
by 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.
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April 3rd, 2008 at 4:17 am
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April 22nd, 2008 at 4:44 pm
its as harmful as gas and the ozone
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
May 20th, 2008 at 10:24 am
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June 20th, 2008 at 2:03 pm
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July 4th, 2008 at 11:24 am
or not!