People who cannot stop from smoking may see it the other way around. They may be blinded by the short-term effects of nicotine. Aside from nicotine, smokers rarely know that a cigarette contains acetylene (fuel used in welding), cyanide, nitrogen oxide, and carbon monoxide, all of which are harmful chemicals. These chemicals are also used as poison.Psychosocial factors also contribute on why people continue to smoke. Persons surrounded by people who smoke, like family and friends, can soon develop the habit of smoking. And as its addictive nature, the smoker will have a hard time quitting the habit. An environment permissive and indifferent towards cigarette smoking will produce significant numbers of smokers. Recently, researchers have reported that genetic variables also play a role on why people keep on smoking. These genetic variables affect the tendency of a person to smoke to the chances of quitting.
Given the many facts and figures related to the hazards of smoking cigarettes, the percentage of smokers has not experienced any considerable decrease. In fact, it continues to increase. The World Health Organization has estimated that by year 2020, tobacco will kill more people than any single disease in the world.
Educating the people about the dangers of smoking doesn't seem to strike sense out of smokers. For some smokers, thinking that smoking is directly related to lung cancer and eventually death is a myth yet to be proven.
But whatever the reason why smokers have why they still make smoking a habit will never justify that smoking is indeed an addiction, and sooner or later, this will eventually cause death.
