Smoking Is A Bad Habit And A Slow Killer, But People Still Continue, Why?

Then you might ask, if every body knows that it is such a dangerous habit, then why do so many people still become, and continue to remain smokers. Well, the reason is because of a paradox that is involved in the habit of smoking.

If all those who smoked, kicked the bucket at the end of the month, then nobody would even think of smoking. But the paradox is that not everyone who smokes hits the grave that fast. Smoking as a habit is a slow killer. It does not paint all smokers with the same brush of death. On the other hand it is like a florist who picks a few flowers here and a few flowers there to adorn the house but at the same time leaves some flowers on the plant so that the garden does not remain bare.

The problem is that because cigarette smoke as a killer is so choosy, most smokers just keep on hoping that he or she will remain on the plant in the garden forever. In this modern age when we are all so educated and well informed, isn't it kind of silly to leave ourselves in the hands of fate and just keep hoping that we wont be next. The funny thing is that we do have a choice.

But there's more to the story. The matter of choice is something that exists only in the initial stages. At that time its just a puff here and just a puff there, more to impress others than any thing else. But soon enough things start slipping out of our control and before we know it we just cant do with out our daily dose of nicotine in whatever proportions we demand it.

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It is not just some thing about smoking. It is a general tendency of every human being. The moment some body tells us not to do something a strong feeling develops in us to do the very thing that we were asked not to do. If you want to understand what I mean, just consider how people really want to touch and get the wet paint on their hands in spite of a big sign that says wet paint.

There are many laws which we cant break for fear of ending up in a cell, but there is no such law against smoking and so its just one big, its my life kind of attitude that makes most youth pick up the habit.

We are all intelligent to know what a message means. When we read the statutory warning that says, Cigarette smoking is injurious to health we know what it means. Even a kid knows what it means. It is not like a bolt from the blue. Ignorance is the last thing that we can connect to the habit of cigarette smoking. But then when we see a sign that says wet paint it is very much the same thing. The message is loud and clear that the paint is wet but yet we have to touch and make sure.

Cigarette smoking may be dangerous to health but just how dangerous is something that we have to convince ourselves about. But the sorry fact is that unlike wet paint, we just cant wash of the effects of smoking with water or turpentine. Nor do the effects fade over time, they just worsen. Smoking is not something that we can experiment with. You just cant take a risk like smoke for a couple of years and say, look guys, I survived. It is a matter of life and death.