Steemit Engagement Challenge Season 8 Week 3: Smoking Kills
Welcome to my blog friends, I trust you're all fine. It feels good to be here once again to participate in the ongoing contest for the week.
We have yet another interesting topic before us themed Smoking Kills and am so happy to drop an entry, sharing my little knowledge about the subject matter. Join me as I take you on this journey using the guideline for this contest.
Smoker are liable to die Young... I don't know if this is a general writeup found on every pack of cigarette all over the world... In Nigeria, it written boldly on most pack of cigarettes. This leaves a question on my mind. Am like why will a sane human being see his death warrant and still decide to sign it willingly.
The truth is, the statement is very true, every smoker is liable to die from the act of smoking. Smoking does a lot of damage to ones health , it gradual but sure. Many people are ignorant because they they do not see the consequences of indulging in this act immediately, by the time most of these people realize, it becomes too late.
Addiction is something that happens over time. You must have indulged in the act of smoking more than once before you can become very addicted to it. People get involved in this act due to several reason. Which I would be explaining below.
The first is environmental factor. Most people find themselves smoking because of the kind of environment we find themselves. Infact it becomes a taboo when you get to a certain age and do not smoke. They feel you're not man enough. It's just the ideal thing in some environment. It more like a yardstick for manhood.
Another reason people get addicted is to maintain a fearless countenance. This is true because those who indulge in this act tend to be unusually bold under the influence of cigarette or in most cases Indian hemp. They become daring each time they take it and in a bid to continue in that spirit, they make it addictive so that they never for once appear timid.
Lastly people get addicted to smoking because they have gotten to a point in their life where they no longer have control over the desire to smoke. In the course of smoking willingly, they have unlock certain hormones in their body that find pleasure in smoking.It therefore becomes difficult for an individual to decide against smoking.
I have never attempted cigarettes or any substance in this category. I have always been a church boy since I was young...lol. Or should I say our little home training kept us from misbehaving. However we attempted some funny stuffs along even as a kid, I was ignorant but curious.
There was this local mat we had in our house then. We would detach a part of it and light it up with fire and then begin to practice what we saw people do then. We were smoking particles from a locally made mat... We were indeed naive and ignorant. Am glad we didn't go beyond that. Maybe we would have been chain smokers by now.
I do not really have people around me who smoke, my circle is just so enclosed and I mind the kind of people around me. Although from studies and observation, people who smoke are usually aggressive, they flare up at little things and in most cases, this act alters their facial look as you can tell when a person is a chain smoker.
This is a very important and sensitive question, since we know smoking kills. The best solution would have being to identify the source of this substance and then stop it. But it's quite unfortunate that it can't be completed stopped because the company producing this substance pay their dues to the government that brings in this parcel of death to her people.
Since it's quite difficult to stop it from the source then the viable thing to do is to control the inflow of this thing and how do we do this. We can do this by imposing heavy tax on such commodity.
I think I learnt this in school in one of our economics class. That when heavy tax is imposed on certain commodity, it discourages mass production of such commodity. If this is done in the case of cigarette then the production and distribution will be minimized.
Another way we can do this is also to sensitize the people. We need to let them know the danger they expose themselves to when they smoke. Many are ignorant and little sensitization on the consequences of engaging in this act will go along way in helping them stay away before most of them become complete slave to the act.
Smoking indeed kills, I wish there were better ways to communicate this so that people can steer clear from this act. I do my part, each time am privileged to. Infact you can't be in my close circle if you smoke, yes! That's because our ideologies differ. Am not ready to lose a so called friend due to careless living...
Let me just tie up my submission here. I hope you enjoyed every bit of this writeup. Feel free to share with me your thought in the comment section...and just before I go, I would love to invite my friends @josepha @ruthjoe @enamul17 to this contest. Gracias!
Regards
@lhorgic♥️
Thank you for inviting me. I am preparing my own entry.
Thanks for coming over dear friend. I appreciate.
Thanks brother for inviting me. I really enjoyed reading your post. I really dislike people who smoke, because they are driving the people around them to death, which is a form of attempted murder. And it is very sad to see that they smoke even knowing the risk of death.
Hmmm...it's quite disheartening indeed to see these people smoke at their own detriment. I hope they change from this habit.
Yes you are right that there is a quote written always at a secret pack as in your country area also. My country Pakistan it is written on every packet of cigarette that smoking is injurious to health but I don't know that why people take it so much for granted they don't take it serious and that's why become victim of many diseases and ultimately lungs cancer.
I like your all experiences and knowledge that you have about smoking and cigarettes.You give good awareness to all users.Thanks for this.
Thank you friend, I never knew this is also written on pack of cigarettes there in Pakistan. Thank you friend for interacting with my post.
Your welcome and I wish you good luck also
Hi @lhorgic,
I totally agree with you that some people get addicted to smoking due to bad environment. Your post is very informative, thank you so much for sharing. I wish you all the best in the contest.
Regards,
@malikusman1
Thank you dear friend, am glad you can relate with one of my cogent point. I wish you the very best.
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@lhorgic 🌹🌹🌹🌹
Many times a person forgets that the end of smoking is not read by him alone but his whole family has to suffer and the person has to lose his life, on the contrary, his other family members also get worried and Always advise others to quit smoking and quit smoking yourself I always learn something every time I read your post and you are doing a great job and my prayers to you. are with....)
Thank you friend... I really appreciate your comment. It's is true that smokers do not really face the consequences alone...they drag their own into it which is what they fail to understand.