Smoking, a foremost intimidation towards
society
BY SHEHZADA ARSLAN HAIDER
Man is always in the pursuance of peace and tranquility.
He adopts different means to have it and smoking is one of them. Regardless of
its numerous hazards and bad effects, a smoker smokes merely to have some moment
of peace .Let us look at various affects of smoking. Smoking is injurious to
health, as the American Heart Association has stated that death rates from
coronary heart diseases in middle-aged men are 50-90% higher among heavy smoker
than among non- smokers .There is extensive evidence that smoking contributes
to the development of coronary heart diseases and eventually results in heart attack.
As a smoker grows older, carbon particles deposits in lungs. The lung cancer is
due to congestion of lungs. It can cause strain and tension in nervous system
which create depression and restless. It is well unambiguous that: Habit is the
second nature .So it is very hard to get rid of any habit in particular smoking.
If you are travelling in a van or bus and are smoking, this passive smoking is
quite death –defying for those who are pass through with you. If you are a
smoker even your own children will abhor the ill smell of your mouth. Sometimes
even animals don’t like its horrific smell. As a Muslim,
we deem in the Holy Prophet (P.B.U.H) and have staunch conviction for his
reputable Hadiths mubaraka. According to him: “Do not do that creates trouble
for others”.
It is a bad habit because a smoker can easily
be victimized for addictives. In this way, smoking is the gateway to the narcotics.
Smoker can easily be addicted to drugs and tranquilizers. This risk is present
in every cigarette, which is offered to him by some unknown person in a bus, in
college, or in a theatre.For the sake of the taste of one cigareete, he is
deliberately pushing himself towards death.
Before some people smoking is a
tranquqlity.According to them, when a man feels loneliness and boredom, he
lights a cigareete.It is his friend of seclusion. Smoking makes him quite fresh.
From the above discussion it is clear that smoking has wide range of negative or
bad aspects over its positive ones. So we ought to avoid from smoking and make
the concerned authorities aware of their responsibilities and roles.
