It wasn't until the nineteen fifties and nineteen sixties that health  experts finally began to assert what people had long suspected: smoking  is extremely dangerous to your health.  Regardless of warnings, it has taken the past several decades for  people to finally get the message that they need to stop smoking. Why is it necessary to quit, and why  are people in denial? The answers could save your life. A Dangerous  Habit It is important that smokers stop smoking because it is extremely  hazardous for health. There are so many consequences associated with  smoking, that it is a wonder that smokers don't stop immediately! Some  consequences are long term, while others are short term. Some  consequences are vanity-related, while others are health related.  Whatever the consequences may be, they should be enough to make people  stop smoking. In the short term, smoking can lead to many problems.  Smokers tend to have bad breath, stained  teeth, and their clothes and hair smell like smoke. These  reasons are vanity-related. However, other short term consequences  include: lower athletic ability, cough and sore throat, the cost of  smoking, faster heart beat, raised blood  pressure, and increasing the risk of second hand smoke for the people around you. Long  term, the consequences are much more detrimental. They can even be  fatal, and have been for many people. The toxic chemicals found in cigarettes can lead to many types  of cancer, including lung cancer. Additionally, smoking cigarettes can  lead to severe breathing problems, a risk for heart disease, wrinkles,  increased risk for stomach ulcers and acid reflux disease, and a risk  for gum disease. Many people have died because they did not stop smoking,  either directly or indirectly. Quit For Those Around You If you won't  stop smoking for yourself, then stop for those around you. Second hand  smoke is just as dangerous, if not more, than first hand smoke.  Additionally, smokers set bad examples for their children. Pregnant  women who smoke put their unborn child at risk. The consequences  involved if you do not stop smoking do not only affect you, but the  people around you as well. Breaking The Habit People who do not stop  smoking increase their chances of an early death'and that's a fact.  Whether you stop for yourself, or for someone you love, the important  thing is that you give up the habit for life. From a personal point of  view, I detest the smell of cigarettes It reeks badly and irritates my  nasal cavity. However, after discussion with a few people who smokes; an  epiphany stroked. Smokers smoke to relieve themselves from stress and  also partly due to addiction towards the nicotine content. It's true  when they say; once you pop, you can't stop. Smoking should never even  be attempted as the quitting phase is mentally as well as physically  challenging. Do you know that when a person smokes, they're releasing  second-hand smoke to the surroundings? This means that whoever is beside  them would also inhale the smoke that they have just expelled. The  detrimental effects of smoking is that cigarette smoke contains about  1000 harmful chemicals and the  expelled smoke contains about 250 still harmful chemicals. So to those  non-smokers who breathed in whatever smoke that a smoker releases, he  would also be harmed. A smoker tends to have stained teeth due to  cigarette smoke and bad breath. Notice how someone cringes when they are  having a conversation with someone who smokes. The fact that a smoker  is actually making someone uncomfortable just by talking to them is  enough indication that it will cause relationship tension between  couples. A non-smoker in a couple will definitely be put off by the  party who smokes when they indulge in kissing. Eventually, it will cause  a relationship to collapse if the non-smoker cannot tolerate anymore  and the smoker refuses to stop smoking cigarettes when the non-smoker is  around. This means that smoking can affect a person's social life with  other people. It does not only refer to couple relationships but other  people such as parents and employers who are non-smokers themselves. A  problem for smokers to anticipate is during interview sessions with an  interviewer who is a non-smoker. Since, humans tend to be judgemental;  the odour that a smoker diffuses will definitely put off the interviewer. The interviewer might  view the smoker as an obstacle for him to achieve the company's full  potential due to the amount of time he will be spending to smoke and  also money on cigarettes.
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