Want a smoke? You will now think twice before lighting your cigarette. But before I start, I want to share my experience as a smoker and the reasons why I took up smoking as my favorite pass time. I can still remember the first time I had started smoking and the pleasure I found in it was incomparable. It was a tiring day as my colleagues I and had traveled 60 km for a work trip on our bikes. When we were nearing the destination, my colleagues stopped at a tea stall to smoke a cigarette and sip some tea. I bought a cup of tea and one of my friends lighted a cigarette. He smoked few puffs and passed it on to the person next to him and it went from one person to another until it reached me. “I don’t smoke”, I whispered. My colleague insisted I should take a puff, and I eventually took the cigarette because I didn’t want to be left out from the group.
Most of the time we start smoking to please others or to act old and mature. While there are people who pick up the habit of smoking because of problems in their personal life. But have you given it a thought that smoking cigarettes only gives you temporary relief? You begin by pleasing others and once you get addicted, you end up pleasing yourself to smoke one after the other.According to scientists, smokers under the age of 50 are more vulnerable to a heart attack as compared to the nononsmokersIsn’t it surprising that young men and women who are mostly healthy and do not have health issues like diabetes, high blood pressure or cholesterol have the risk of heart attack only because of their smoking habit?
The sample group contained half the number as current smokers while the rest were evenly divided among ex-smokers and nonsmokers. Surprisingly, the study also found out that the current smokers were at least a decade younger than the ex or nonsmokers when the heart attack hit them. This data shows that smokers were three times more likely to have an STEMI than the ex and non-smokers.
