Facts about Smoking Habits

In today’s life, smoking has grown into a habit that is done by many people. Smokers usually are around yourself, or it might even be you. Behind a smoking habit, lies many facts regarding smoking in the health field where many shocking relation between health and smoking habit itself.

Before talking about smoking, we need to know about the item they smoke, called Cigarette. Cigarette contains dangerous chemicals such as Nicotine. Nicotine is an addictive substance that made smokers addicted once they try smoking. This substance is the cause of why people having a hard time stopping.

There are many reasons why smoking habits developed. The first reason is smoking parents. Since they’re accustomed with their parents smoking, they consider smoking something normal and not dangerous, and even to a point where they consider it as mandatory. Second reason is peer pressure. Sometimes, one’s peer who already become a smoker pressures them to become a smoker. Because it’s related with the relationship with the peer, some people decides to give in and start smoking. Third reason is curiousity. Usually the reason of teenagers, a person can be curious of how smoking feels like and taste like, where once they do it, they will have a hard time quit. Fourth reason is advertising. The smoking products price tend to be quite low, especially in low tobacco tax coutries, making it within reach of teenagers’ pocket money. In addition, the main market targets for the companies are teenagers, which combined with the price make it a perfect choice of try.

In relation between smoking and health, there have been some staggering facts between them. There are health risks such as heart attack and stroke. In addition, not only smokers are in danger of the effects, they also threatens others who inhales their smoke, which they are called ‘secondhand smokers’. Secondhand smokers are as susceptible as the smoker to the dangers of smoking or even worse.

Statistics proven that, according to lung.org, smoking caused over 438,000 deaths and secondhand smoker caused over 41,000 deaths per year in U.S. which is a big number to see from such a habit.

To conclude, smoking habit has some shocking facts that shows the danger of smoking to human’s body. The problem lies within the cigarette itself, where the user and everyone near to him are exposed to it’s dangers. These facts shows that even a simple habit such as smoking can be dangerous to many, and should be avoided by everyone.