Each cigarette pack has a formidable warning that smoking is harmful to health, that smoking contributes to such terrible diseases as heart attack, stroke and other illnesses that smoking kills. But every smoker thinks that such a disaster will not happen to him. And most people continue to smoke a cigarette for a cigarette, digging their own grave with their own hands.
Where did the fashion for smoking tobacco come from?
Tobacco was first built in the third century BC.in Central America. The Indians were the first to grow tobacco for smoking. Tobacco attributed painkillers, medicinal properties, just the Indians believed that with the help of the inhalation of smoke you can communicate with the gods. Tobacco smoking was a ritual in religious rituals, during political and military negotiations.
Indians of North America used tobacco pipes for tobacco smoking, and in South America they smoked cigars that were made from twisted tobacco leaves.
After the discovery of the mainland by Columbus, tobacco spread all over the world, first it was brought to Spain in 1493, and then to Portugal, Europe and gradually the cultivation and smoking of tobacco penetrated all corners of the globe.
Initially, tobacco smoking was accepted into "bayonets", in Europe, smokers were accused of being associated with the devil, Turkey was provided with the death penalty for those who smoked and spread tobacco. And in Russia, by order of the tsar, heavy smokers were flogged, exiled to Siberia, tore their nostrils.
The first workshops, which produced tobacco for smoking, appeared in Russia in 1812.Just in the course was smelling tobacco and makhorka. Later, cigarettes were produced and in 1844 there were dozens of tobacco manufactures in Russia and many small workshops where cigarettes were made by hand, and in 1914 a large tobacco monopoly appeared. It was called the "Saint - Petersburg Trade and Export Joint - Stock Company" and included 13 factories for the production of tobacco from different cities.
Why people smoke
When a person is asked "why does he smoke?" - some respond that smoking gives them pleasure, relaxation. Others - helps to cope with stress, relieve fatigue, anxiety and nervous tension, get ready for the spirit, others seek to smoke for the company, believe that using a cigarette it is easier to communicate and establish contacts with another person, and when you do not know what to talk about, you can simplysmoking. To someone without a cigarette, it's simply impossible to cheer up or calm down, and if you do not get your nicotine dose before going to bed, you can not fall asleep.
But in reality, the cigarette does not help either to remove fatigue and nervous tension, neither to relax or to cheer up, nor to concentrate, because the cigarette does not possess such qualities.
The main reason for smoking lies in psychological dependence. Nicotine acts as a psychotropic agent, smoking a person, as it were, takes an exciting substance. In the first minutes, the activity of brain cells weakens under the influence of nicotine and a state of calmness and peace comes, then after a few seconds the process is accompanied by a sharp increase in brain activity, and the person feels uplift and satisfaction, and later there is a desire to cloud his mind and again to repeat those short moments of bliss.
When a person starts smoking and smokes one cigarette after another, he develops nicotine dependence and as soon as the blood level of nicotine decreases, a person experiences cravings for smoking, his head is occupied with thoughts of a cigarette and everything falls from his hands, the desire to smoke like thirst, onlythe body does not require water, but nicotine.
What harms smoking for health
We all know that nicotine is a poison, we know from the school bench that a drop of nicotine is killing a horse, but we consider ourselves stronger than a horse, which will be made from one pack of cigarettes, but even one cigaretteis enough to damage your health.
Most often the smoker does not think that the substances contained in tobacco smoke enter his body, penetrating into each cell and gradually accumulating there.
Tobacco smoke, in addition to nicotine, has in its composition a variety of chemicals: such as ammonia and acetone, methanol, benzpyrene and many other harmful chemical compounds.
These substances, in fact, are poisonous and promote the growth of cancer cells and provoke the development of serious diseases of the internal organs of man and lead to premature death.
We will not describe in detail how smoking affects our internal organs, just list some of the severe and sometimes incurable diseases that the cigarette contributes to.
These are lung diseases - bronchitis and pneumonia, lung infarction and cancer of the mouth, throat, lungs. Cardiovascular diseases - arrhythmia, stenocardia, atherosclerosis and further strokes and heart attacks, thromboses and, as a rule, amputation of the lower extremities. These are diseases of the gastrointestinal tract and many other diseases. Smoking can provoke blindness and deafness, nervous diseases and mental disorders.
Harm to women's health
Nicotine addiction develops faster in women, and quitting smoking is much more difficult than for men.
. In addition to all the above mentioned diseases, smoking causes infertility in many women, since sex cells, receiving a "portion of poison," are not capable of fertilization. Often the pregnancy ends with miscarriage, premature birth, the death of the baby.
Children who smoke women are born with less weight than non-smokers, with physical defects of the limbs, with deafness, mentally retarded.
And if the child was born healthy, the smoking of the mother will still affect his development. The child will inevitably be weaker than other children, will lag behind in growth and study worse, his immunity will be weakened and he will be more prone to colds.
Smoking women deteriorate hair - they become brittle, dull, and as nails - they break down, break down, turn yellow. Cigarette smoke causes problems with the skin, the skin of the face and body becomes dry and flabby, fades faster.
Non-smoking women stay young for longer, and smokers first acquire wrinkles, unhealthy complexion, their skin is rough and the teeth and whites of the eyes have a yellowish tinge.
Harm to men's health
Among other diseases, smokers are weakened by erections and impotence, impaired quality and quantity of spermatozoa, which leads to infertility.
Smoking reduces life expectancy
Worldwide, the fight against smoking, in many European countries, the number of smokers is declining, people are aware of the harm of smoking and throwing a cigarette. In Europe, it's fashionable not to smoke, it's fashionable to be healthy.
In Russia, on the contrary, every year the army of smokers increases, among young people it is fashionable to be smoking, the cigarette is considered an attribute of a beautiful and successful life, and more girls and boys, imitating movie heroes, favorite singers and artists, and adult smokers, add to the addiction,coffin his health and reduce the duration of his life.
I do not know who invented what a drop of nicotine kills a horse. Does not kill, because the horse does not smoke. A drop of nicotine kills a person.
The human body does not need nicotine, because in childhood we do not need these substances, we feel great and do without them.
But it is only worth trying the taste of nicotine and it is already impossible to live without cigarettes, imposed on us by annoying advertising and manufacturers of tobacco products, which purposefully poison and kill huge masses of people.
Smoking a cigarette, a smoker steals from himself a minute, and maybe even an hour of his life, he kills his body, consciously strives for serious illnesses and premature death, because he knows perfectly well that smoking damages and destroys health.
And how many cigarettes do you smoke per day, per month, per year? How many years have you stolen and continue to steal from yourself- 10.15 or 20?
You are young and healthy and think that it will always be so, but if you do not extinguish a cigarette flame, this light will inconspicuously burn your life, illness and old age will come faster, and every day will bring pain and suffering.
But you are young, smart and strong, love yourself and your loved ones and you have a long, happy life ahead of you, so if you read this article, you will say - there is no nicotine! And defeat the dependence on tobacco!
Good luck and good health!
Everyone is aware of the harmful effects of smoking on human health, but the number of smokers on our planet is steadily growing every year. The number of people who depend on nicotine around the world is already over 1.5 billion. Every year about 5 million people die from diseases caused by smoking. In Russia, according to the Ministry of Health, more than 260,000 smokers die each year. And how many smokers become disabled?
