Sad Reality of Smoking

"Cigarette Smoking Can Kill You". This is one advisory that I have read in a certain pack of cigarette yesterday. Before I forget that was not I saw before. If I am correct that would have been " Cigarette smoking is dangerous to your health". I then realize that the government campaign against smoking is now getting intensive. Why would they do that?

I did a little research and find out something that might help the campaign against smoking. We all know that smoking not only shortens one's life, but may also make a daily life harder to manage in the old age. Most smokers are well aware that the habit really affects their health and will surely shorten their lives. But what they may not realized, that is so clearly evident in the following study, is that the effect of smoking in their everyday lives.

According to what I have read, A research of 1,658 men who were initially healthy from the ages between 40 and 55 at the start of the study. That time 37% said that the had never smoked, 39% were former smokers and the rest were current smokers. For more than 26 years, the majority of smokers eventually quit.

For the conclusion, the men who had smoke in middle age tended to die earlier. Heavy smokers in the middle age (20 or more cigarettes/day) died an average of 10 years sooner than those men who had never smoked. Smokers also have more problems with their physical conditions. They tend to have the difficulties of doing their daily activities like walking in short distances, climbing stairs, carrying groceries or as simple as bathing as they grew older. That is a very poor quality of life. Men who had quit smoking after the study's start did not catch up with never-smokers in terms of physical functioning. This is not a good news for smokers even those who quit after the middle age. However quitting will lower the risk of acquiring diseases that is caused by smoking. It is always beneficial to the health when smoking stops.The earlier in life a smoker can quit, the better, and the best choice, of course, is to never take up the habit.

In general smoking obviously can't kill instantly but it may cause illness that will kill a person in no time. :(. The government are trying to prevent the people from smoking but as long as the product is there then it is our responsibility for ourselves to stop what is not good for us. I hope every smokers will realize the risk and will force theirselves to stop smoking. And to those who haven't smoke yet, please be aware to the goverment's warning in smoking cegarettes. Good health to everyone!