Effects of Cigarette Smoking
The addiction to cigarette smoking is highly characterized by tobacco substances such as nicotine and tar, which are highly addictive. Smokers have found it challenging to quit smoking and hence falling victims of the adverse effects of smoking and bondage of addiction. As much as cigarette smokers understand the negative effects of smoking, they cannot quit easily because of the highly addictive nature of cigarettes. Therefore, due to the inability to stop the hazardous habit, cigarette smokers have ended up in generally poor health as tobacco smoke contains a harmful substance that damages the blood system and the important organs such as the lungs. This paper seeks to illustrate and elaborate on health issues related to cigarette smoking.
Impacts of Tobacco Smoking in Individuals and Countries
It is easy to find a cigarette smoker arguing the adverse effects of smoking and failing to quit smoking. The main reason smokers find it difficult to quit smoking is an addictive component called tar. Tar is a highly addictive substance that makes it difficult for cigarette smokers to quit. Baumeister (2017) discusses that cigarette smokers experience a wide range of problems when actively smoking despite knowing the negative effects associated with the habit. For example, financial challenges, since the addiction is irresistible and victims have no option but to find money to purchase the cigarettes whatsoever the case. The World Health Organization has estimated that almost six million people die from cigarette smoking annually and 600,000 people die because of passive-smoking (World Health Organization, 2019). Furthermore, according to the World Health Organization (2019), over 80% of cigarette smokers are from low-income countries. The burden of illness related to smoking has advance affects to these countries, and it is something that can be reduced when measures are put in place. Moreover, tobacco smoking contributes to shifting household spending from the basic needs of tobacco (World Health Organization, 2019).
Addictive Nature of Tobacco and Related Diseases
It is clear that once an individual starts smoking, they easily become addicted to tobacco because of substances such as nicotine and tar (Jesus, Silva, Cordeiro, Kortchmar, Zampier, & Merighi, 2016). The government should roll-out specific and strategic education practices to the general public on the negative effects of smoking-especially to the youths who have not yet started smoking. Additionally, developing smoking zones would reduce the number of new smokers, as many starts being active smokers from second-hand smoking. The best means to counter smoking is by targeting non-smokers because once addicted; it becomes difficult to quit and in most cases remain a destructive lifetime habit.
Cigarette addiction makes it hard for users to quit despite their willingness (Coleman, Johnson, Tessman, Tworek, Alexander, & Dickinson, 2016). Therefore, there are adverse effects caused by the bad habit, and this includes but not limited to cancer, bad breaths, waste of finances in purchasing, health bills in cases of related diseases, disturbed moods and emotions, and others. Before using the drug, one should beware of the issues that come along with the drug. The use of cigarettes costs the individual a lot of money in sustaining the use of smoking. Consequently, it becomes too expensive to live with the addiction because at the end of the day they smoke more and more since addicts can’t go for a single day without smoking. The use of cigarettes affects many aspects of a person’s life, and these range from psychological health to social relationships with others (Coleman, Johnson, Tessman, Tworek, Alexander, & Dickinson, 2016). At the same time, this drug has tar that is harmful to the health of the users. Thus, it can cause lung cancer, which is terminal and deadly. Tar also leads to deaths from users when used for a long time.
Conclusion
The use of cigarettes has shown that it is hard to quit at any time. It is, therefore, crucial for the government and guidance teams to empower the people not to start the habit since once addicted it becomes hard and almost impossible to stop. The issue should be clear to the public to avoid adverse effects associated with the drug. However, the production should reconsider using a different substance that will not be addictive or dangerous as tar is. Furthermore, people should take personal responsibility to ensure they do not use this addictive drug and rescue themselves from the dangers related to the drug.