Steemit Engagement Challenge Season 8 Week3: Smoking Kills

Holla everyone here on this platform, I am very glad to make a content about Smoking Kills on steemit engagement challenge week 3. Much thanks to the community @steemithealth for bringing up this beneficial engagement contest.
Smoking is one the most common addiction found in our community, people suffering from it finds it so hard to leave the cage while quitting and resuming. Here I believe the quote that says " you first take the drink then the drink takes you" which is also applicable to smoking. People practice smoking as a form of pleasure maybe getting high to forget events and memories but later find it hard leaving the addiction. Addiction which is easy to form but hard to break.

Picture I drew portraying dangers of smoking

Just like other addiction, smoking kills just like other major disease and illnesses because it damages human health. Keeping imagining how people inhale smoke from burnt tobacco into thier body, like how do you want the lungs and the heart to look like? From my perspective the Lungs and heart will automatically look burnt and dark. Smoking kills everyone indulging in making your lifespan 10years shorter than a non smoker. So every smoker should try read the notes attached to every tobacco smoked, which states that smokers are liable to die young.
So many get convinced that smokers live long than the non smokers, I totally disagree with them. Smokers that live long are those with genetic variance which allows them exposed to carcinogen which prevent them from lung cancer, So those without the traits won't live long as a nonsmoker.

Females too indulge greatly in smoking which affects thier reproductive life also giving birth to babies that are not healthy.

There are so many reasons why people find It hard to leave smoking. Smoking is a strong addiction that leaves the host restless, people indulge in smoking to clear out some certain memories maybe advised by peers. I kick against it erasing memories because after getting high from the smoke you get back to your normal senses to still experience those memories running through your mind.
Family background is another major reasons why youths indulge in smoking, some of the immoral activities practised by the youths are from the elderly ones or parents. So many parent smoke passing down the habit to their children which they will automatically want to smoke more sticks than their parent. Also not guiding and counseling a child can let him or her not see the dangers of smoking taking it as a normal lifestyle.

Peers are the main reason why youths indulge in smoking at a early age, I can remember when my friend introduced me to smoking telling me it makes you stand out, thinking straight and being loud. I didn't fall into that because I know the truth about the dangers of addiction and I can't imagine myself blowing smoke. So peers stimulate others to the urge of smoking

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What changes have you seen after addiction
I am not addicted to smoking because I knew about the dangers of it from good moral lessons set out by my parent and teachers. I know someone who is so addicted to smoking being one of my coursemates, Before now he took it as fun but come to see it now he can walk miles just to purchase cigarettes. Have tried my best helping him out rather he's trying to lure me in so decided to leave him behind so i won't be convinced Instead. There are so many changes he's portraying walking with set of gangs he never walked it, staying depressed and paranoid after taking much of it.

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One of the ways of reducing smoking addiction is education on the dangers of drugs abuse. Some many people are ignorant about the dangers facing the smoking addiction, You first take it then it takes you fully. Smoking destroys essential human organs keeping them inactive to continue necessary health acitivies.

Prices of tobacco and other hard drugs should be increased to minimize the involvement of the public in such addiction. The higher the price the lower the demand for such commodity, so the prices of it shouldn't be around 0.05 Steems anymore.

Rigid laws should be enacted to curb the public involvement in smoking. Smokers should be arrested when caught if they're caught smoking.

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