Harmful effects of Smoking

By: Aditya Rai

Smoking is an extremely crucial public health issue which is considered to be an immediate and serious threat to many developing countries across the globe. Being one of the most significant determinants of increased rate of mortality and ill-health throughout the world, smoking is still a preventable epidemic.

Smoking is major health risk, but still people give different reasons for smoking most of these justifications are not very reasonable.

Smoking is mostly starts at young age because teenagers think that if they start smoking they will be considered as mature, but of course they are wrong and causing serious health risk for themselves. Smoking by many is way to relax, but it comes with greater health risk for damaging the brain.

Harmful Effects

If you smoke, you:

reduce your life expectancy and your quality of life

increase your risk of many conditions and diseases as well as of dying prematurely.

It can be a long time before smokers get a smoking-related condition or disease. Because of this, some people believe it won’t happen to

them.

In fact, up to ⅔ of long term smokers will:

die of a smoking-related disease

have their life cut short by about 10 years on average, compared to non-smokers.

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