SMOKING IS A RELENTLESS KILLER

SMOKING A GLOBAL EPIDEMIC
Authorities estimate that if current trends persist, by 2030, the annual death toll smoking will climb to more than 8,000,000. And they predict that smoking will have taken 1,000,000,000 lives by the end of the 21st century.
Tobacco’s victims are not just the smokers. Included are the surviving family members, who suffer emotional and financial loss, as well as the 600,000, nonsmokers who die each year from breathing secondhand smoke. The burden spreads to everyone in the form of rising healthcare costs.
Unlike epidemics that send doctors racing to discover a cure, this scourge is eminently curable; the solution is well-known. Dr. Margaret Chan, director-stated: ‘the tobacco epidemic is entirely man-made, and it can be turned around through the concerted efforts of governments and civil society’.
International response to combat this health crisis has been unprecedented. As of august 2012, some 175 countries have agreed to take measures to curb tobacco use. This measure include educating people about the dangers of smoking, resting tobacco-industry marking, raising tobacco taxes, and establishing programs to help people quit smoking.  However, powerful forces keep the pandemic raging. Each year, the tobacco industry spends billions of dollars on advertising to attract new customers, especially among women and young adults living in the developing countries. The addictive keep many trapped in a habit they wish they could break. That was the experiences of a young lady named ‘Laura blit’ copying the way the habit was portrayed in the media made her feel sophisticated. Despite seeing both of her parents died from lung cancer, she continued smoking, even while raising her two children. ‘I was concerned about getting lung cancer and worried about my children’s health’. She admits, ‘but I still couldn’t quit. I thought I would never stop smoking’.
Yet she could stop. She found the motivation to overcome her smoking habit in the same source that has helped millions remain free of tobacco. Laura Blit first made up her mind that wants to stop it, this first step is crucial. Then she made her move, by relying in the one person that never fails ‘God’. If you let him in he won’t disappoints you, I promise you.
SMOKING IS ADDICTIVE
Tobacco contains one of the most addictive drugs known-nicotine. It acts as a stimulant as well as a depressant. Smoking delivers nicotine to the brain quickly and repeatedly. Since each puff supplies a single doses a day, a higher dosage than in any other drug use. Such frequent dosing makes nicotine uniquely addictive. Once hooked, a smoker experiences withdrawal symptoms if his craving for nicotine is not satisfied.
The Bible helps us to have the correct view of the matter when it says: ’do you not know that if you present yourself to anymore as obedient slave, you are slaves of the one you obey’ (Romans 6:16) when an individual’s thinking and actions are dominated by a craving for tobacco, he soon becomes a slave to a degrading practice. However, God wants us to be free, not only from things that harm our body but also from those that corrupt our spirit, that is, our dominate mental inclination. (psalm 83:18; 2 Corinthians 7:1) thus, a person grows in appreciation and respect for God, realizes that God deserves his best and that he cannot give God his best while remaining enslaved to a lethal habit. That realization helps to give a person the will to resist hurtful desires.
SMOKING DAMAGES THE BODY
‘Smoking cigarettes . . . has been scientifically proven to harm nearly every organ in the body and to increase morbidity,’ says the tobacco atlas. It is well-known that smoking causes noncommunicable diseases such as cancer, heart disease, and lung ailments. But according to the world health organization (WHO), smoking is also a major cause of death from communicable disease, such as tuberculosis. God wants us to treat our body with respect; the desire to please God should motivate you to quit smoking.
SMOKING HARMS OTHERS
Exhaled smoke and smoke that comes from smoldering tobacco are toxic. Inhaling such secondhand smoke can cause cancer and other disease, and each year it kills 600, 00 non-smokers, mostly women and children, avoid where people smoke it is as deadly as a poison.
A report by the WHO warns: ‘there is no safe level of exposure to secondhand smoke’.
QUICK SCARING FACTS ABOUT SMOKING
It killed 100,000,000 people during the last century.
It takes about 6,000,000 lives a year.
On average, it kills one person every six seconds.
It kills slowly by passing nicotine to the victim’s system, thus. Exposes you to all kinds of disease.