Dangers of Smoking

DANGERS of SMOKING

Smoking is a dangerous habit established by the American people and transferred to Europe by Christopher Columbus. Also, Smoking has many dangerous and fatal effects on both individuals and societies. Cigarettes contain a lot of deadly elements (Nicotine, Arsenic, Methane and many other elements of tobacco) - most of them are used either to kill rats or used as fuel for rockets. I disagree with smoking because it has severe dangerous effects but, I will focus only on three main effects in the following paragraphs.

Regarding health effects, smoking cause serious damage to your body in all different parts of it. Especially, heart disease which is the leading cause of death in the world today and the cardiovascular disease which caused 1,690,000 premature deaths among smokers. In contrast, against people's expectation of lung cancer as well as COPD only 850,000 died from the first and 118,000 from the second. Another problem, is that nicotine can get you easily addicted to smoking. In addition to other health effects, like less sense of smell, thyroid diseases, poor circulation, sore throat, liver cancer, spin fractures and many others. Do you know that smoking related -diseases kill one in 10 adults which anticipated to rise by 2030 to one in six people?

Social effects, smoking affects the society as a whole and without any exceptions. First of all, smoker is often isolated by most members of the society, because most of the people do not like smokers as a result of their bad smell and they also don't want to catch dangerous disease like cancer. The second effect, is having a weak society where all members of the society are smokers; in fact, this society will definitely suffer from many diseases caused by smoking (laziness, dependence, sickness and other social diseases). Despite the strong ties between the Middle Eastern families, many a time there has been fatal misunderstanding between parents and their children (teenage smokers) ,also among other dear relatives. The reason is that culturally smokers are not accepted in the society; therefore, the hatred that develops among family members is mainly due to smoking.

Economic effects, It has been found that the average smoker spends about one fourth of his monthly income on cigarettes. This means a great loss of money, and a negative impact on the family livelihood and economy. Moreover, the smoker not only spends his money on buying tobacco, he also spends much more money on the consequences of smoking such as medical care. Cigarettes are the leading cause of several fire deaths and injuries in many countries, which causes $552 million of indirect property damage annually. Many countries in the world have started to think of ways to reduce the number of smokers so as to save their money and to improve the health of their people; incidentally, taxes is the best way to