Effect of Smoking on Health:
In our country smoking and taking tobacco has become a habit and a fashion. There are several ways to consume tobacco such as smoking cigarettes, bidis, cigars, hubble-bubble, etc. Tobacco is also eaten in many forms such as eating “paan”, tobacco mixed with lime, “jarda”, etc. There is a dangerous toxic substance called Nicotine in tobacco. There are other toxins like ammonia, carbon dioxide, etc. Nicotine has its adverse effect on the head which begins to feel giddy, and then the heart is badly affected.
The harms of tobacco on health are as under:
- Eating or taking tobacco weakens eyesight.
- It increases heart beat. One catches heart diseases which often prove fatal.
- Studies have revealed that tobacco consuming contracts blood vessels.
- Tobacco benumbs the body tissues. One does not have good sleep and ultimately suffers from sleeplessness.
- Stomach begins to remain upset with tobacco consumption.
- Tobacco also causes cough, and the consumer of tobacco is prone to lung diseases like T.B.
- The possibility of catching cancer increases with the excessive use of tobacco, particularly the cancer of lungs and throat.
