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Our
country today, health organization facing different personal health issue, and
one of those issues is smoking of cigarettes. Cigarettes have much risk in our
health and also it affects different agricultural products because of the
monopoly of the tobacco company.
Smoking
is the single largest preventable cause of disease and premature death of many
people in the world. It is a prime factor in heart disease, stroke and chronic
lung disease, and also it can cause cancer of the lungs. This is not only
affecting the active smokers, but also the persons exposed to the passive
smoke. Smoking is also a common trigger for asthma exacerbations and can
influence asthma development.
In
the Philippines, more than half of Filipino households are not smoke-free.
Among ASEAN members, the Philippines had the second highest smoking prevalence
rate. Every year, there are about 20,000 smoking-related deaths in the
country. Approximately 10 Filipinos die
every hour due to tobacco-related diseases.
People do smoke because of different reason maybe it’s because of advertising
influences, peer pressure, misconceptions that promote smoking behaviour, or
the parental influences.