STEEMIT ENGAGEMENT CHALLENGE S8W3~ SMOKING KILLS

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Hello Everyone in this community and this great platform. I bring warm greetings to you, and trust that you are doing good today.

I welcome you all to this week steemit challenge contest that has been set up by steemit team to boost engagement of users in this platform.

I am @mellyann and this would be the first steemit challenge I am engaging in. I will be answering some questions on the contest topic 'Smoking Kills', I hope you enjoy and learn as you read through.

Give your view about the phrase "Smoking kills"

In every sense of the words "Smoking Kills" because in smoking one takes in harmful chemicals and substances such as cigarettes, tobacco products etc into their body system that affects their overall well being and goes as far as leading to death in no distant time especially for a chronic smoker.

Smoking harms almost all organs in the human body including tissues and cells that brings about health risks such as, heart diseases, lung cancer, stroke, respiratory diseases etc. Smoking goes as far as damaging our DNA and immune system with makes it difficult for the body to fight diseases.

For what its worth, it reads on cigarettes packs that smokers are reliable to die young. People who smoke don't plan to leave long I presume, because they wouldn't put their health and well being in such jeopardy in exchange for smoke to be honest. In essence my view is that "Smoking Kills" and should be avoided, so that one can reduce the risk of developing many health issues and also improve the quality of life and longevity.

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What are the main reasons why people become addicted to smoking

Well there are a wide range of reasons people become addicted to smoking.

First we must understand for one to be addicted to anything they must have made it a regular habits that then became difficult to resist, smoking is not an exception. People become addicted to smoking due to environmental influences, growing up in an environmental that embraces smoking as a norm tends to make one an addict at the person would not see anything wrong with it.

Another reason people get addicted is peer pressure. For young adults, they may have friends who are already indulging in smoking and they'd buy them into their lifestyle by encouraging and even go as far as telling them they are not man enough or not brave enough and also for them to feel among with them. It might become difficult to quit because they will feel like they'd lose their friends.

People also become addicted to smoking because of the routine they formed, instances like smoking after a meal or when they are with some friends . This repeated behaviours can become difficult to break and many more other reasons caused by a wide range of contributing factors.

Are you addicted to smoking, or someone you may know have addicted to smoking? What changing have you seen after addiction?

I have never been exposed to any kind of smoking substances in my life. And I haven't had close association with any smoker either but I have had experiences with some smokers in an environment I once stayed. I mean this smokers were always smoking almost 20hrs in a day, they act violently when high, they might add stealing to their deeds, when they are limited means to fund their addiction. They are way too bold when they smoke which I think is why they smoke more often, they act out of manner and very unlawful most times, they pick fights and act recklessly too.

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What should we do to reduce the rate of smoking addiction?

This is a very important question to ask, because of the awareness of how harmful smoking is to the health.
Well reducing the rate of smoking is very complex and requires multi ways to look into it. Here are some strategies to use;

Educating the people in details about the dangers of smoking and health risks associated with it will help increase awareness and prevent people from starring to smoke in the first place.

Also increasing taxes on tobacco products, this will aid massive reduction in the production of such products and in turn reduce smoking habits/addictions.

One way to reduce the rate of smoking addiction is less stigmatization to the individuals involved and more love and acceptance shown to those who wants to quit but are finding it difficult, sometimes when they think of the fact that they'd be seen or refered to as smokers they just get discouraged to work towards freedom.

Conclusion

Smoking truly kills, and this shouldn't be taken lightly. I don't encourage anyone to smoke neither do I keep friends that do because I believe if you want a great future and you want to be great, you should have good habits that promotes health enough to sustain you through the accomplishments of your dreams. You should quit smoking today!

I trust you had a great time reading through my entry. I appreciate your time!