A HALO OF SMOKE- Part 1

Smoking is a very popular vice, especially among the young who think it is the in thing to do. The US government began investigating the relationship between smoking and health in the 1950s, and the yearly Surgeon General’s Reports that have been issued since that time have completely changed the attitude of American people towards smoking. Now that most enlightened Americans are giving up on this vice, manufactures of cigarettes are concentrating on the Asian market for their sales.

The law requires that this be printed on every pack of cigarettes; “Warning: Smoking is harmful to your health.” In recent months, the law has gone a step further to require manufactures to print on every pack pictures of caners caused my smoking. In spite of this, 700 billion cigarettes are manufactured each year in the US alone!

If you want to shorten you life, smoking is one of the most effective ways of doing it! Every cigarette smokes shortens life by 14 minutes. The average 35-year old has the prospect of living to the age of 72, but the average expectancy of a smoker of the same age who smokes only 15 cigarettes a day is shortened by 6n years. During this time he will have smoked approximately 200,000 cigarettes. The 2-pack a day smoker who is 25 years old will shorten his life by little more than eight years.

In the US it is estimated that the cost of health care related to smoking is close to $16 billion annually, to which must be added another $30 billion in lost production and wages.
What poisons does a smoker get from tobacco? The average smoker only knows of nicotine. Analysis, however, has shown that a tobacco leaf itself contains about 1,000 chemical substances. In addition to that, burning end of cigarette is an extraordinary chemical factory that produces thousands of new chemicals. In fact, tobacco smoke carries more than 4,000 chemically different compounds. It is sad that the smoker not only poisons himself/herself but dozen other innocent victims around them.