The Negative Impact of Smoking To Your Health

              

           

   “Smoking is bad for health”. It is a very familiar slogan that you can easy to see in all pack of cigarettes and in public places. However, there is a fact that, despite knowledge about smoking damage, the number of people who smoke is increasing day by day. Smoking causes many negative effects than people think. It affects not only environment and society but also health many people start this horrible habit nbecause of stress, personal problem,and high blood pressure. some of people that start smoking from teenager because of peer influence,or they just want to showing off and want to enjoy it.

               First, smoking affects health of both smoking person and people around them. There are many dangerous disease germs in tobacco, so that health of people who smoke is threatened a lot when they smoke. According to World Health Organization (WHO), there are 200 toxic chemicals per 4000 chemicals in tobacco, and in these 200 toxic chemicals, there are about 40 chemicals cause cancer such as nicotine, monoxide carbon, benzene, ammoniac, etc. These chemicals have bad effect on nervous system, blood vessel and are the main reason of heart disease, cancer, memory damage. A study of WHO also shows that each day, average 5 million people die because of tobacco and this figure could rise to 10 million by 2020 if countries don’t have effective solution to restrict smoking. In addition, smoke is easy to spread in the air, therefore not only smoking people but also people around them are affected. That mean, when a person smokes, he is harming both himself and many people especially children. These people are call “passive smoking” people. Because immunize system of children doesn’t complete, they are easy to be affected by harmful factors from smoke. That’s why the threat of disease cause by smoke in children is higher than others. Some statistics in Malaysia show that about 60 -80 percent children under 5 are affected by smoke. They are also easy to get some diseases like asthma, pneumonia, bronchitis if they usually contact with smoke.

                Health issues for women are just as alarming. Women who smoke are at a risk for low birth weight babies or infant mortality. Breast milk also often smells like cigarette smoke. Also seen are complications of oral contraceptive use. Women account for 14.3 million Americans that smoke. The leading causes of death for women are lung cancer and surpassed breast cancer, which is directly related to smoking.

                Written by , Izni Syafiqah Binti Lutpi Amir