Cigarette Smoking - the Causes and Contributing Factors

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Cigarette Smoking

The causes and contributing factors

Today, smoking is one of the concerns and topics being discussed globally. There have been various reasons cited as the contributing factors for people to engage in smoking especially the young people. Quite a number of parents have been found to smoke while their children are there watching which is a sense of neglecting their role as parents. Accordingly, the children find it overwhelming and they end up smoking out of being curious. Some parents send their kids to buy cigarettes on their behalf and goes to the extent of leaving the cigarettes in places where kids can access them with no trouble which makes the kids to be tempted to smoke.

Peer pressure is an added contributing aspect. During adolescent, there is a tendency of kids to follow and copy their friend's behaviors without being aware of the repercussions of them and being in such a peer. Therefore, if a child is in a peer of smokers, he will be influenced by the others to start smoking. The media to some extent too do contribute; as some of the young people involved in this menace claim to have learnt how to smoke via the media. There are those who start the habit with an objective of getting self identity. Why? Because they think that those people who smoke are mature and as such they want to show others that they are mature by smoking.

The effects of smoking cigarettes

Smoking effects on the human being health are severe and lethal in most cases. The cigarette smoke contains a large number of toxic chemicals that affects the internal body functions to the expectation of a healthy immune system. The effects are destructive and extensive. Every year thousands of human beings die due to diseases caused by smoking, it contribute to cancer infection. Combination of narcotic chemicals and carbon monoxide raises the pace of heartbeat and blood pressure which strains the heart and blood vessels. This can later lead to heart attack or stroke. The tar creates a coating in the lungs similar to soot in a flue which then leads to cancer infection. Also the carbon monoxide produced competes with body organs like muscles and brain for oxygen making the heart to work harder.

Smoking makes everything around to stink something that people who do not smoke hates a lot. The smokers normally have stinking hair, breathe, garments, and more so a smelly room for those who have a habit of smoking indoors. The reek from smoking stays for a long period of time and hard to rid of even after one quits smoking. Smoking also tarnishes the teeth yellow or brown though people do not give it much consideration or probably are not aware when they start to