| Probably, one of the worst addictions people have is | | | | of smoking tobacco cigarettes becomes an addictive |
| the one that they have towards tobacco cigarettes | | | | activity; not just because of the smoke emitted by it, |
| and smokeless tobacco products. Tobacco induces a | | | | but due to a substance in it called nicotine. Nicotine is |
| slightly different kind of addiction when compared with | | | | classified as a drug. And, like any other drug, if it is |
| addictions such as gambling. These are all addictions | | | | taken for long periods, the body will begin to develop |
| that come up mostly from the addictive personality of | | | | cravings for it. All of a sudden, the person will find that |
| a person itself. Tobacco, in fact, is a little different | | | | if he does not smoke a cigarette he begins to feel |
| because the substance itself is addictive in nature. The | | | | irritated and nervous. It is not just a matter of getting |
| last thing a person in his teens would want would be to | | | | hold of a tobacco cigarette to impress the friends, but |
| have his peers laugh at him, call him chicken or | | | | it is something that is done to satisfy a craving that |
| whatever daily abuse these so-called peers dish out, | | | | would not go away easily. |
| the moment he tells them ‘No, thank you,' to the | | | | In some people, this addiction to tobacco products can |
| cigarette they hand over to him. So in order to avoid | | | | turn so bad that they become what are called hard |
| being teased and pushed into oblivion he accepts the | | | | core or chain smokers. These are the kind of folk who |
| cigarette and takes his first puff. | | | | need to have a cigarette at all times. These chain |
| Sadly, the hacking that follows, which is in fact the | | | | smokers can burn three or four packets of cigarettes |
| body's way of telling a person that it does not want | | | | a day very easily. There is no use advising them |
| tobacco cigarette's smoke in its lungs, is ignored by the | | | | regarding the harm that this kind of tobacco cigarette |
| youth. It will take a brief period of time, but eventually | | | | smoking does to the human body. Cigarettes have |
| the smoker's body will become accustomed to the | | | | already reached the peak of their popularity and |
| tobacco cigarette's smoke itself. The coughing may | | | | enough research has been done to prove beyond |
| not be as severe and eventually that too will stop. | | | | doubt that smoking tobacco products causes cancer, |
| Pretty soon, the person in his youth will gain the ability | | | | respiratory diseases and heart and coronary problems. |
| to smoke a whole good cigarette without showing any | | | | In short, smoking kills a person bit by bit. Even with the |
| outward signs that the tobacco cigarette itself is doing | | | | knowledge of what tobacco cigarette smoking can do |
| him any kind of harm; to his body. | | | | to the smoker, these smokers find it almost impossible |
| It is exactly at this point in time that the very simple act | | | | to stop the habit. |