One of the necessary conditions for relevance in modern times is to be ultra modern, and that is what i will be trying when talking about tobacco. Have you heard about, or familiar with e cigarettes? In the time of e mails , e dating and e banking it looks like the way to go.
In spite of the increased use and enhanced tactics used by e cigarette makers, there is no evidence as per NIH that e cigarette eliminate any of medical problems associated with tobacco use.
Tobacco as we understand it is the leaves of the plants belonging to the genus nicotiana, used for centuries by native americans; and brought to Europe by Spaniard after columbus discovered americas. The plants can grow anywhere where plants can grow.
Soon its use spread world wide, making millions of victims. It is an alkaloid ‘nicotine’ that is the addictive component in tobacco. However there are many other compounds generated during processing of tobacco and thousands more when burned as in cigarettes.
Nicotine acts on brain stimulating release of epinephrine and dopamine contributing to its addictiveness.
Anyone who smokes will be well aware how not using it makes you irritable, angry, anxious and restless.
Chewing tobacco can cause cancer of mouth and pancreas whereas smoking can lead to severe breathing problems including chronic bronchitis, COPD, lung and throat cancer.
We may falsely assume that it will be only the individual affected, in fact passive smoking (breathing air contaminated by cigarette smoke) is dangerous as well.
If being near a smoker when he smokes could be dangerous just imagine a pregnant woman smoking
It affects her unborn baby extensively leading even to miscarriages, premature birth and low birth weight. Learning and behavioral problems are also associated with smoking during pregnancy.
In addition to other cancers like leukemias, liver and kidney cancer and a variety of others smoking is an active contributor to heart attacks and strokes. In fact some peripheral artery diseases are almost exclusively associated with smoking.
It is recognized almost 40% of tobacco users ultimately die from some tobacco related illness.
Have you heard of anecdotes that there are some people who smoked for decades and never developed cancer? i know one person like that too. At around age 80 he decided to quit, you know why? He had lung cancer spread almost everywhere; sadly he was too late in making that decision.
Now is sort of less serious way let me mention the only positive aspect of smoking.
In USA one house is reportedly burglarised every 15 seconds. If you have at least one member in the house the chance of your house being burglarised may decrease dramatically. Please do not stop the video for a puff now. You know why smokers house is protected against burglary?
Smoker will be short of breath and coughing continuously, making him unable to sleep.
When you can not sleep for days and years you will be grouchy, irritable and angry.
Means you will be shouting and yelling waking up every one else including children
Children will scream, grown ups will yell , some may even curse: in essence there will be a lot of commotion in the house. Naturally no one will turn the light off.
Which burglar with even a little bit of common sense will ever try to enter that house?
