WE 171:Smoking is dangerous to your health

Smoking is dangerous not just to your health but also to the people around you.

I grew up in a home with no one is smoking. My father didn't smoke and so my younger brothers and I am so blessed to have them. Our mother always told us that smoking is dangerous to your health. She keeps on telling us to cover our nose and if possible avoid people who are smoking.

As I grew up I understand more that smoking is really not good for our health. It brings a lot of diseases to our body like cancer, lung diseases, heart diseases, stroke and many more.

Why people smoke?

I always wonder why people smoke even though they knew that it is not good for our health. Aside from that, cigarette is also a waste of money.

A young boy in his teen age once said to me, I smoke because when I do it, I felt like I am a grown up man and look so cool for the ladies.

My workmate who really go outs at the office to smoke after our lunch said that it can gets the uneasy feeling after eating.

A carpenter who smoke very early morning in the morning while having coffee said that he felt full after it and he can eat breakfast in the late time of the morning.

A student said, it was a peer pressure that if they don't smoke it seems that they don't belong to a the group.

Other said, they do it out of curiosity until they do it more often.

People have different reasons why they smoke but smoking have the same effects on their body. Cigarettes smoking is killing smokers slowly.

I hate smoke from cigarettes

I always hate the smell of cigarettes. I can't stand with it. Everytime I can smell it, I felt like vomiting.

I make sure that our little home is a no smoking place. If we have visitors who smoke I always told them in a nice way that if possible no smoking here.

When we transfer here, I felt sad at first because our neighbor is smoking and at the same time drinking alcoholic drinks almost every evening and worst is that the air will carry the smoke towards us. I always wish that someday he will quit smoking. Fortunately he smoke but not as frequent before and he drink alcoholic drinks now occasionally.

I never ride on a tricycle that the driver is smoking or unless he will throw or stop it.

I also avoid places with lot of smokers because I will feel dizzy and nauseous when smelling smokes from cigarettes.

I felt pity to smokers

I always felt pity to smokers because I know it's bad effect to their body. I also felt pity to children whose father and or mother is a cigarette smoker.

My brother in law is a smoker and we always advised him to stop smoking if possible. Also we advised him not to smoke while taking care of his baby. My husband, his brother also told him how much money he spend on cigarettes everyday. My husband reminds him to provide his family's needs first.

Do you smoke? Why? Are you aware that it is not good for your health?

Is your partner, your husband, your mother, your father smoke?

There is a saying that if we can't stop them, let's join them but when we talk about smoking I can't say this but instead, if we can't stop them, let's just give them an advice. It is their choice to quit or go on with smoking. Let's tell them, we wanted them to quit smoking because we wanted to live with them longer and we don't want them to have a premature death.

If you don't have plan to quit, atleast please give some respect to people who don't smoke. Smoke at your own risk and please don't smoke with people around who don't smoke. You never know how they struggle, or how they suffer because of the smoke from your cigarettes.

Please quit smoking, your family loves you.

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This is my participation for sir @galenkp weekend engagement #171. Want to join? You still have time.

Thank you so much for reading.