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Introduction

We’re Creatures of Habit

«Form good habits… be a good person» is the universal motherly advice every one of us can recall when we scratch the realm of our memories. Tiny tots and youngsters are forever bound, protected and guided by their seniors and elderly in order to help them on to tread the path laid on time tested principles of honesty and good behavior. Yet sometimes unknowingly they take the forbidden route just to prove things for the heck of it.

Due to the extreme stress, strain and stretch of the competitive world around any person today is more susceptible to succumb to pressure and buckle under it. Here’s where the need for addiction in any form arises which however provides only temporary solace rather than erasing the real cause. We sometimes latch on to it and slowly get further and further suck into its false whirlpool leading us to lose our will power.

An addiction simply adheres itself to our self-belief eroding it gradually by digging into it. We just remain a shade of our previous selves hereby taking a short cut to a track that leads us to more acute physical and mental problems. Any addiction can be overcome, any bad patch overridden if only we could endure it by facing it head-on keeping the following lines from Kipling in mind —

If you can fill the unforgiving minute

With sixty seconds worth of distance run

Yours is the earth and everything that’s in it

And – which is more – you’ll be a MAN!

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The Ugly Truth

Tobacco usage causes more than 430,000 adult deaths per year in the United States.

Around 5 million under 18 years will die prematurely from smoking-related diseases.

More than 4,000 chemicals have been identified in tobacco smoke of which at least 43 cause cancer in humans and animals

Exposure to passive smoking, 3,000 nonsmokers die of lung cancer every year.

150,000 to 300,000 infants and children less than 18 months experience lower respiratory tract infections. Asthma and other respiratory conditions often are triggered or worsened by tobacco smoke.

Smoking among 8th, 10th, and 12th graders varies between 18% to 40% (including 9% to 13% females)

Tobacco use is linked with numerous adverse health outcomes, disability, and death across a spectrum, including heart disease, cancer, and chronic lung disease.

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Is it Worth Smoking?

10 Reasons for Picking the Habit Up

A sudden rise of energy level to combat stress, stretch and strain of our daily schedule

A concentration pill

To overcome frustration due to the indomitable desire of achieving the very best even beyond our limits

To bridge the gap between our desired aspirations and hard core reality

Already Addicted and finds no valid reason to quit

A style in the society

The additional energy level for repeated sexual interaction in a row

To avoid boredom

Its a tradition and doctor’s advise is a foolish notion

Just to enjoy

The smokers treat all the above as valid points and the non-smokers feel these to be

Smoking Ain’t Cool

The following factors induct the youth into tobacco usage in which nicotine is found which results in addiction. These are responsible for initiation of the adolescent amongst whom 76% of the daily smokers believe that in 5 years they would not be smoking. However the trend shows that 5 to 6 years later 73 percent of these persons continue to smoke having built up yet another make believe resolution to quit smoking in another 5 years when life would cool down a bit. 46 percent of the daily smokers however do succeed in having stopped smoking for at least some periods during the first 5-year phase. Yet remarkable there is a less than 3 percent population though insignificant who stop smoking permanently.

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Tragically this habit that starts as a style spreads its roots from an age when most people just begin to give shape to their dreams, ambitions and careers. This «style becomes killer’ tip toeing on the sands of time snuffing out lives leaving behind in its trail more than 5 million years of potential life lost every year the world over.

Socio demographic factors like coming from a family with low socioeconomic status.

Environmental factors include easy accessibility and availability of tobacco products, cigarette advertising and promotion by legends and stars and the widespread affordability of tobacco due to its low price.

Personal factors include borrowed perceptions from peers and siblings that

«tobacco use is normal’ and lack of parental involvement.

Low self-esteem and the lack of ability to refuse offers to use tobacco further fuels the wrong notion that tobacco use benefits.

Facts About Tobacco in America

Men are more susceptible to smoking than women.