Smoking: a dangerous practice

Some illnesses are self-inflicted. Smoking, for instance, has been directly linked to 24 diseases, including lung cancer and cardiovascular problems. Every year, 4 million people in the world die of smoking-related illnesses. That figure is expected to rise to about 10 million by 2030. In the U.S., $60 billion is spent every year on treatment of people with conditions directly caused by smoking cigarettes.

Why smoke?

Why do people smoke?
Partly beacause of the effects of advertising thet promotes smoking as something sophisticated and fashionable.
Young people smoke mainly because their friends smoke, and they don't want to be different. Children of smokers tend to smoke as well.

Anti-smoking campaigns.

Tobacco used to be very fashionable, but now many people realize that it really is bad for you-smoking can shorten your life by five to eight years. One of the first anti-smoking campaigners was Britain's King James I (1603-1625). He has leaflets printed to tell people that smoking was a dangerous habit. There are now anti-smoking groups everywhere in the  world. If you care about people's health, join one now!