The Silent Killer

"I am gonna quit it soon, this is the last one!" and the so-called last one is never the LAST ONE!!

Whether you call it an addiction or a habit, the fact remains the same that smoking is a silent killer. Every year millions of people die around the world from this inveterate disease. It is beyond my understanding why can't people give up this habit, despite the growing awareness of its harmful consequences. The funniest thing is when the social smokers proudly say "Mine is not a habit. I smoke occasionally and am better than chain smokers". But according to the research, people who are occasional smokers share some of the same risks as chain smokers. In simple words, it doesn't make any difference if you consume poison slowly or swiftly, the reaction is going to be the same. 

 

 

Another funny thing I find in the end of every cigarette TV commercials is a small note saying 'Smoking is injurious to your health, Ministry of Health - Government Warning'. I wonder if the government is so concerned about its citizens' health then why do they allow their channels to show such commercials? Why isn't there any ban on its consumption? Just showing a note on TV or the 'No Smoking' signs and stickers in shopping malls and public places won't work. I myself have seen people smoking in non-smoking areas but there's nobody to stop them.

 

Let’s have a look at some of the major diseases produced by smoking:

 

·           Mouth cancer

·           Lung cancer

·           Bladder cancer, Colorectal cancer

·           Coronary heart disease

·           Kidney cancer

·           Uterus cancer

·           pharynx cancer

·           Moreover, It increases the stress level.

and the list goes on. If only people would realize the value of their lives & how important are they to their loved ones!

 

I hope my message is very well conveyed to the concerned folks & I really hope that one day I'd see a better smoke-free environment in our beautiful planet.

 

It's never too late!!

Last week I came across a very interesting and inspirational forwarded email. In that email, there was a short story of a pencil and an eraser. Once the pencil was feeling sorry for the eraser that for every little mistake it makes, the eraser has to erase it & in doing so, it loses a part of itself. Thus, its life becomes shorter and shorter to obliterate the pencil’s mistakes every time. The same is the case with our parents. They are with us in all the ups and downs of our lives, when there’s nobody to support our decisions, when we really need someone to take a stand for us. I’ve learned from my own experiences that in the end everyone you trust will turn their backs on you. Your friends, your relatives and even the one you love. But the only person who’ll be with you in the time of need is your mother and your father. We don’t really comprehend their contributions to our lives. We don’t realize what we’ve got until we lose them or until we have to stay away from them or until they’re gone. When we are young, we hate their interferences, we dislike their lectures, we loathe their advices. But then, we miss those advices, those lectures when there’s nothing left in our hands. And trust me, only then we realize how true they were. Even I never bothered to ponder over what my father used to advise me when I was young. Today, when I am confronted with the realities and true face of life, now I realize how right was he. God has created our parents so that they can teach us what they’ve learned from their lives and experiences. And I believe that each and everything they’ve taught us will help us someday in our lives. But alas! We think that we know better than them and that they’ve got to learn from us how to spend their lives ‘our way’ rather than learning from their experiences. And when we realize that whatever we did was wrong, it’s too late. 

Our parents dedicate their whole lives for the sake of their children. They work hard and try to give us a luxurious life, they bless us with all the necessities of life and in the end, we give them nothing but our ignorance and anger. So guys, let’s start doing something good for our dear parents. Let's make them feel special and tell them what they really mean to us. It’s time to pay back our parents for whatever they’ve done for us, because it's never too late!!