Steemit Engagement Challenge Season 8 Week 3: Smoking Kills

Hi steemians,
Welcome to my blog today. This will be my entry number 2 in this week's engagement challenge and I do hope you will enjoy reading through my blog. This week, the steemit health community talks about a unique topic titled smoking kills.

This phrase is a very familiar one for us because I'm guessing most of us have heard about it over and over again. In this contest today, I will be discussing my view of the said word via the questions given below. Without further ado, let's get started.

The phrase smoking kills is an important phrase for everyone to keep in mind as the saying is very true. Indeed smoking kills and that is why it is boldly written on the packets of cigarettes that smokers are liable to die young. The ministry of health has boldly written on all packs of cigarettes here in Nigeria.

To further illustrate what they are saying, they drew the kidney of a human on a pack of cigarettes and showed how it got damaged due to the excessive smoke. So the phrase is not out of place at all.

One may dare to ask if this smoking kills why then do they still allow it's sold? A cigarette is designed initially for those leaving within a cool environment to take at least one and keep their body warm and it is once in a while hence it won't have a significant effect on their health.

But over the years people use it anyhow. It is allowed to be sold today despite its side effect because everyone has the right to what he or she wants to be it life or death. The government has done their part by giving warnings to people telling them the danger of cigarettes.

Many factors make people addicted to smoking and a few include depression, environment, peer group, association etc. Most times, we fill that when we smoke, we will be free from our problems or probably forget about them for the time being. This is very true and this is one of the major reasons why a lot of people today get addicted to smoking. They want to forget about their worries even if it is for a second.

The environment, peer group and associations we find ourselves in can also be a factor that will lead to addiction. If you see yourself in the company of those who are a smoker and you also decide to join them and if every time you stay together all you do is smoke then you will get addicted to it with time.

No, I'm not addicted to smoking as a matter of fact, I don't smoke. Indeed I know someone who is addicted to smoking and I have also seen a variety of changes within this person since his addiction. A friend of mine after travelling for a while came back and became very addicted to smoking, he won't stay an hour without smoking.

He became so addicted that for any money that comes into his hands, he must budget for cigarettes first before any other thing. He may not have money to purchase food, but he will always look for money to smoke even if it means him begging.

This is indeed a very great change on his part because, before this time, he doesn't play with food for his stomach but today he considers smoking more valuable than the food he will eat daily. This is what being addicted is all about. You can't stay a while without the substance.

There is nothing much to do other than always having a health seminar to educate people about the dangers of the smoke in their lives and also for people to be aware that the life they leave is not completely theirs hence they ought to preserve it at all cost.

When we have health seminars and we have men of God who will tell people the truth about their life's importance then a lot of people will work hard to get their selves off any form of addiction.

People should also not be left in depression. When we see a depressed person, instead of judging and condemning we should seek ways to help the person by encouraging and bringing the person closest to us. In this way, we will be able to help reduce the addiction to smoking among people.

Smoking indeed kills and that is the reason we all must be careful with our lives. It hurts your lungs and your kidney greatly. The federal ministry of health here in Nigeria has said smokers are liable to die young because of this destruction. It's recommended that we try at all means to keep our lives and those around us safer. I want to finally invite a few friends to also join the contest today. I call on @alegnita, @msharif, @eliany, @irawandedy and @sduttaskitchen to join the contest.