Essays

Mayara Souza Francisco
Ilene Sova
Pre-degree III
May 03 2012

No Benefits, No Reason

In the last years, the number of people concerned about healthy habits in order to achieve a long life has increased dramatically, but, ironically, humans have never faced before such a critical situation in deaths caused by addictions which could be avoided. Among all existing harmful habits, smoking is the most severe dependence and the actual main villain against people’s wellness. In fact, it is proved by science that consuming cigarettes regularly causes several fatal diseases and can damage permanently a person’s body. In addition, the illnesses provoked in passive smokers may be twice worse and, in many children cases, can result in health problems or physical weaknesses for their whole life. At last, this injurious obsession may transform the addict person into a compulsive user that will be a burden in old ages. However, users do not want to quit this killing pleasure, so maybe the time has come for non-smokers force a drastic intervention. Due the fact smoking habits can not provide any benefits to humans, the world is wondering if it should be banned. The polluted air and the modern way of life are as prejudicial and mortal as cigarettes addiction, so it is known there is a huge amount of activities in the routine that can lead to the same problems. Despite these excuses, scientists from all globe had declared that this habits can condemn the user to an unhealthy life without any chance of cure. Indeed, doctors argue about the serious diseases which clearly are induced by this choice (such as cancer, heart attack and stroke) and stated that cigarettes are the avoidable cause of death which most kill in America continent. Furthermore, there is not any possibility to users enjoy a vigorous existence and, even worst, there is the fact that it injures humans bodies and specially vital organs in such deep manner that the person loses some abilities and skills.