Smoking has become very common and fashionable,
especially among young boys. This habit usually begins at school when boys try
to experiment with every new thing that they can lay their hands on.
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 want to, they cannot refrain from picking up a cigar or
cigarette and puffing away. Some youngsters smoke for the sake of society and
some feel that would make them appear liberated and broadminded.
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 his life. Several puffs lead to the formation of a habit. Soon smoking
begins to affect the health of the smoker. He becomes 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, he does not give it up.
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 he reads it he never pays heed to it.
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 to bear the ill effects of the smoke that they
exhale. Smoking can be stopped by a strong will power and every person has the
capacity to give it up once he sets his mind at doing so.
