The advice and admonitions have all been heard so many times that it can be tiring, if not annoying, to have to listen to the same old record being played over and over again.
But how long can we persist in turning a blind eye and a deaf ear to the chilling facts? Each time a person pulls on a cigarette, he sucks into his body a.
variety of poisonous chemicals ~ of which the most noxious are Nicotine, Carbon Monoxide and Tar.
Worse still, every time a smoker exhales, he spews these same harmful substances into the surrounding air, forcing even non-smokers in the vicinity to inhale the same poisons.
It is a sad feature of our society that people who for politeness' sake do not pass flatus or wind in public, think nothing of emitting poisonous cigarette fumes into the air that others have to breathe.
It is well known that cigarettes are the main cause of lung cancer, which in England alone kills one person every fifteen minutes.
In fact it was the British King James the First who described smoking as far back as the early 17th century as a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain and dangerous to the lungs.
Cigarette smoking causes chronic lung diseases such as bronchitis, which is manifested by repeated coughing, breathlessness and phlegm in the chest.
What is also not so well-known is the fact that smoking greatly increases the risk of high blood pressure, heart attacks and diseases of the blood vessels.