SMOKING ??????????????

Smoking is bad in all aspects mentioned by u guys agreed.

But if the govt wants to ban smoking in public places then there must be smoking zones created otherwise in a city like mumbai every other place(which is not public) is crowded with people so the basic idea of banning smoking in public place would go waste.
 
thanks for the information on smoking now i have to be more watchful after the bannn.............:SugarwareZ-270:
 
smoking is any way injurious so should be ban at all places..there should only be some dedicated places where it should be allowed..
 
in very simple ecomomic terms , clean , smoke free air is a public good , and so by banning smoking in public places the govt is only catering to the market
 
No one can smoking is bad... its something totally dependent on the individual... Even after knowing the aftermaths of smoking if someone still does it,you can't call that foolish...can you?
 
hen your parents were young, people could buy cigarettes and smoke pretty much anywhere — even in hospitals! Ads for cigarettes were all over the place. Today we're more aware about how bad smoking is for our health. Smoking is restricted or banned in almost all public places and cigarette companies are no longer allowed to advertise on TV, radio, and in many magazines.

Almost everyone knows that smoking causes cancer, emphysema, and heart disease; that it can shorten your life by 10 years or more; and that the habit can cost a smoker thousands of dollars a year. So how come people are still lighting up? The answer, in a word, is addiction.
Once You Start, It's Hard to Stop

Smoking is a hard habit to break because tobacco contains nicotine, which is highly addictive. Like heroin or other addictive drugs, the body and mind quickly become so used to the nicotine in cigarettes that a person needs to have it just to feel normal.

People start smoking for a variety of different reasons. Some think it looks cool. Others start because their family members or friends smoke. Statistics show that about 9 out of 10 tobacco users start before they're 18 years old. Most adults who started smoking in their teens never expected to become addicted. That's why people say it's just so much easier to not start smoking at all.
 
onjus_100 said:
I think that in public places if some one is found smoking the punisment shoould be to Smoke 20 more cigarettes at a stretch..... and then put the person in a chamber full of used smoke.... This shall make them realize the pain others go thro
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i think smokers should be shown a whole video of patients who faced the consequences a smoker has to face due to cancer ..............more awareness say in schools ,colleges should be considered..........every school and college should see to it that there are no cigarete shops out of the institute or nearby......atleast that can prohibit the youth to some extend..................
 
Effects of Tobacco Smoke
• Smoking KILLS
• Every year hundreds of thousands of people around the world die from diseases caused by smoking.
• One in two lifetime smokers will die from their habit. Half of these deaths will occur in middle age.
• Tobacco smoke also contributes to a number of cancers.
• The mixture of nicotine and carbon monoxide in each cigarette you smoke temporarily increases your heart rate and blood pressure, straining your heart and blood vessels.
• This can cause heart attacks and stroke. It slows your blood flow, cutting off oxygen to your feet and hands. Some smokers end up having their limbs
amputated.
• Tar coats your lungs like soot in a chimney and causes cancer. A 20-a-day smoker breathes in up to a full cup (210 g) of tar in a year.
• Changing to low-tar cigarettes does not help because smokers usually take deeper puffs and hold the smoke in for longer, dragging the tar deeper into their lungs.
• Carbon monoxide robs your muscles, brain and body tissue of oxygen, making your whole body and especially your heart work harder. Over time, your airways swell up and let less air into your lungs.
• Smoking causes disease and is a slow way to die. The strain put on your body by smoking often causes years of suffering. Emphysema is an illness that slowly rots your lungs. People with emphysema often get bronchitis again and again, and suffer lung and heart failure.
• Lung cancer from smoking is caused by the tar in tobacco smoke. Men who smoke are ten times more likely to die from lung cancer than non-smokers.
• Heart disease and strokes are also more common among smokers than non-smokers.
• Smoking causes fat deposits to narrow and block blood vessels which leads to heart attack.
• Smoking causes around one in five deaths from heart disease.
• In younger people, three out of four deaths from heart disease are due to smoking.
 
All this debate about banning and censuring is just not limited to smoking, there are a number of things in our society which we know are bad or good but does not suit the sensibilities of our times. Smoking is banned in public places even now but nobody cares. Why not is the real question? when one says " India ka kuch nahi ho sakta" they need to realise that they are the ones that make it. It all starts with one, as the famous ad "power of one" shows. It needs just one brave soul to say to the bystander that what you are doing is wrong- dont spit there are or urinate there or throw garbage there or cross the road when the signal is red or switch lanes or cross lines and the list goes on....Who would that soul be? YOU?
 
its good that smoking in public places in prohibited.
Sure, if someone wants a puff, go ahead and have it somewhere private, but please, please, PLEASE, don't put another's life at risk!!! Passive smoke kills as much as, if not more than, actually smoking.
im not saying smoking in general should be banned, coz its a personal choice. Just that, if u have to choose between life and death, what would you choose???
 
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