Smoking - The Disease

Smoking - The Disease

In week 2 the lecture of the issue of smoking was discussed. I am a Sikh and in Sikhism smoking is a major sin, not just for the general grossness of it, but to what it does to people. I feel that it is obvious that smoking is one of the biggest threats this world has ever faced. In the lecture it was shown that smoking has become a culture, and it is also shown to be cool by the media. I find it amazing that something which is so dangerous can be promoted by the media as smoking causes death, the amount of diseases and health problems that smoking causes is very deadly.

Smoking causes 114,000 deaths per hour in the UK. Some of those diseases and problems include various types of cancer, heart disease, coronary artery disease, hemorrhage (stroke), major stomach problems leading to cancer, etc. The list of effects does not stop, health risks which also include our children contracting problems as well.

What has to be looked at is why do people smoke? there are millions of people around the world that smoke, reasons that include peer presure some smoke or started as their friends were doing it , where others do it as they see people smoking on tv, films in which smoking has been shown to be cool and seductive. Others also smoke as they blame stress, and they say that it calms them down. I feel that this smoking problem needs to be tackled in such a way that people no what could happen to them if they are smoking, or if they wanted to do it, as smoking is a drug which is addictive, and it kills. I feel the goverment needs to do more to tackle this problem.

The companys who produce cigerrates, cigars etc are making billions of pounds in this market, someone who is making so much money would not want to stop. I think the main promation that smoking gets is through the media, everybody has a tv, watches films, this is where smoking is seen, this is because the ciggerate companys pay the media so much money that they have to promote it. People also argue that there is nothing wrong with smoking to which i totally disagree with, there are no positives in smoking. Money is being made by this not just by the companys but also the goverment, i feel that the goverment should counter this problem as peoples lives are at risk.

I hope that this information has helped and to get unhooked try the following websites for more information:

http://www.ash.org.uk/

http://www.gosmokefree.co.uk/