Is Smoking Really Harmful To Human Health?

No one can deny the harm effects of smoking to the human body. Smoking contains poisonous materials, such as nicotine tar, carbon monoxide, arsenic, etc. that the smoker swallows in small portions. Their harm accumulates with time to result in a gradual killing of human organs and tissues.

The hazards of smoking to the health are hard to enumerate. Cancer, tuberculosis, heart attacks, asthma, coughing, premature birth, infections in the digestive system, high blood pressure, nervousness, mouth and teeth diseases, etc, among the many healthy hazards that have been strongly linked to smoking.

These diseases may not appear all at once, how ever a smoker is most likely to suffer some of them, and his suffering increases as he grows older. Furthermore, statistics have established that smoker's age is, on the average ten years less than other people's.

A smoker wastes his wealth on something which harms and has no benefit. Smoking is not only based on cigarettes, it has different kinds but similar effects such as cigars, pipes, water pipes and chewing tobacco etc. Only few of those addicted to smoking are able to stop it. The reasons for this are many such as the smokers are not totally convinced of its prohibition and they do not have a strong determination to refrain from it.