Why Smoking Should be Stopped?
Aside from cigarettes can
cause of premature death of a person, cigarettes is no good benefits to our
body it can cause of addiction of a person because of the nicotine causes
pleasant feelings that make the smoker want to smoke. In our case today 4.9 million People dying because of
tobacco use in a year. If this trend continues, the number of deaths will
increase to 10 million by the year 2020, 70% of which will be coming from
countries like the Philippines.Also the second hand smoke can cause of death of a person each year, about 3,400 non-smoking adults die of lung cancer as a result of breathing second hand smoke.
Each
year second hand smoke also causes about 46,000 deaths from heart disease in
people who are not current smokers. Individual behavioral and pharmacologic
interventions to promote smoking cessation are beneficial. However, to have
greater effect in eliminating the increasing number of first time smokers and
help the current smokers to quit, it is imperative that smoke-free environments
be supported.
There have been great steps taken in
promoting smoke-free environments, such as the implementation of the Clean Air
Act of 1999, the World Health Organization Tobacco-Free Initiative, the
Comprehensive Anti-Smoking Ordinance, and Republic Act 9211 - an Act regulating
the packaging, use, sale, distribution and advertisement of tobacco products
and for other purposes. These facilitate
limiting the access of children and youth to cigarette; limit the advertisement
of cigarettes, observance of smoke-free institutions and establishment, and the
establishment of Smoking Withdrawal Clinics to provide counseling regarding the
hazardous health effects of tobacco.
Promoting
a smoke-free environment in the Philippines is therefore an important component
of promoting healthy lifestyle among individuals and in communities and also to
avoid some risk that can cause of premature death of many people. Even we need
to sacrifice many jobs of Filipinos and the improving of our economy, for the
sake of a healthy living. Not to influence the children and the youth of using
tobacco, and to avoid them to risk of cigarettes smoking.
To promote a healthful environment to lessen the air pollution in the
surroundings, and also to protect the youth like me from being initiated to
cigarette smoking and tobacco use by prohibiting the sale of tobacco products
to minors. We have only one life, spend our life without using cigarettes,
spend it with a healthy living and enjoy life without worrying in our health
change our lifestyle into healthy living now.
