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Is it Really a Pleasure to Smoke?

By Yicel López Diversent 
Did you know that smoking is the second cause of death in the world? This addiction inflicts serious damage to our vital organs, however, the number of consumers increase by the day.


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In recent years, the World Health Organization has reported an increase of individual smokers.

 

On the other hand, despite the damages inflicted to people´s body, smoking
also causes an adverse impact to society, the economy and the environment.


Doesn´t the smoker perceive that he or she is losing years of life inhaling nicotine?
 

People say that it’s a pleasure to smoke, but it’s a paradox, because the best pleasure one has is to love life. We must see this as a gift; it would be unjust to disregard it or maybe it’s a lack of knowledge.

 
If we understand how many years can be recovered after abandoning the addiction, one can see the possibilities of living favorably. The accumulated proof shows that cigarettes hurts the body´s organs.

 
Its consumption causes in many cases lung cancer and associated to other types of illnesses, like cervix and kidneys.

 
Other risks for the health associated to tobacco are heart attacks, neurovascular accidents; bronchitis, asthma and other respiratory ailments.

 

Women are exposed to infertility, while in pregnant women spontaneous abortions can take place and newborns, children of smokers are generally born underweight.
 

Those addicted to tobacco, develop dependency and suffer abstinence symptoms when they do not smoke. According to the WHO, if the current figure is not reduced, it will cause some 10 million deaths each year until 2020.
 

This means that the 1.3 million smokers that exist, many will die prematurely.
 

We believe it is important to persuading people to stop smoking and urge them to enjoy a healthy life free of toxins. And above all not to forgot that it will represent a health benefit and also for those that surrounds a smoker.
 

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