Why Smoking is Harmful

I would like to start off with a fact that 30% of all cancer deaths are due to smoking. Despite the warnings given by doctors about the ill effects of smoking, people continue to smoke. Smokers are addicted to it, and even if they wanted to, they cannot refrain from picking up a cigarette and start puffing away. In the beginning, a teenager may take a few puffs from his friend's cigarette; then comes a time when it becomes an indispensable part of their life. Several puffs lead to the formation of a habit. Soon smoking begins to affect the health of the smoker. They then become a chain-smoker. This smoke is toxic and the nicotine in the cigarette is known to cause cancer. It is ironic that despite the fact that every smoker is aware of the ill effects of smoking, they do not give it up.
Cigarette smoke contains over 4, 800 chemicals and 69 are known to cause cancer. So why do people smoke? People smoke because of a highly addictive drug called nicotine, which stimulates the nervous system. Cigarette smoke also contains tar, which is a sticky substance that contains many toxic chemicals and causes cancer. Carbon monoxide is also in cigarette smoke and is a poisonous gas, which reduces the amount of oxygen blood can carry. Sometimes leaving you breathless. Tobacco companies are doing very well all over the world. Every packet of cigars or cigarettes has a warning inscribed in it: cigarette smoking is injurious to health." Yet the smoker never reads this warning and even if they read it they never pay attention to it.
There are several life threatening diagnosis and health risks you can develop from smoking. These include various cancers including lung, throat, neck, and mouth. You can also develop asthma, emphysema, have a heart attack or a stroke, and develop cardio-vascular disease. A smoker’s appearance is not very attractive at all. They may have yellow teeth, bad breath, yellowing of the fingernails, early wrinkling of the skin, smelly clothing, and their house and car also smell like smoke. There are many inconveniences smokers face everyday. The government raises the price of tobacco every year. This is usually done to discourage people from smoking. Yet smokers continue to be slaves of this habit and often spend a substantial part of their earnings on cigarettes. Cigarette advertisements lure people into smoking and most active smokers cause a great deal of harm to passive smokers as well. Smokers force the members of their family and friends to bear the ill effects of the smoke that they exhale also known as second hand smoke. Many places do not allow smoking and they would have to go outside in the cold just to smoke. Some people wont even date a smoker because smoking is such a turn off to most people. Because of the addiction you have to interrupt many activities to take a smoking break.
It is surely more difficult than simply talking about the dangers of smoking. Despite the fact that they realize the harm, many people simply cannot get rid of the habit. Therefore, Smoking can only be stopped by a strong will power and every person has the capacity to give it up once they sets their mind at doing so.