Is it eating refined white sugar?
Is it sitting for more than 6 hours daily?
Is it obesity?
While all the above are harmful in their own ways, the number one spot belongs to "Tobacco".
Yesterday was "World No Tobacco Day". We trust that many of you came to know about it and have taken steps to prevent yourself and your near and dear ones from the ill effects of tobacco. It should be a continuous battle against tobacco.
Why do we continue to tolerate "tobacco" products and be addicted to it in-spite of knowing the harmful effects?
Hmmm. Our brain is not capable of anticipating long term consequences. Since most of the ill effects of the tobacco take more than 10 years to appear, we underestimate the complete consequences of being addicted to tobacco. Along with that is the pitfall of observational bias.
Many of you might have seen an eighty year old smoking and living a relaxed life. This at times gives ammunition to young addicts to argue that look tobacco does not kill! They are falling prey to observational bias. Many friends of this 80 year old who used to smoke with him would have dies of heart disease, cancer or lung disease and since they are not alive to say the story we misinterpret.
You want to see the effects of tobacco? Visit any cancer hospital or heart hospital or lung hospital.
Well, time for you guys to know what all organs are affected by tobacco.
Is it sitting for more than 6 hours daily?
Is it obesity?
While all the above are harmful in their own ways, the number one spot belongs to "Tobacco".
Yesterday was "World No Tobacco Day". We trust that many of you came to know about it and have taken steps to prevent yourself and your near and dear ones from the ill effects of tobacco. It should be a continuous battle against tobacco.
Why do we continue to tolerate "tobacco" products and be addicted to it in-spite of knowing the harmful effects?
Hmmm. Our brain is not capable of anticipating long term consequences. Since most of the ill effects of the tobacco take more than 10 years to appear, we underestimate the complete consequences of being addicted to tobacco. Along with that is the pitfall of observational bias.
Many of you might have seen an eighty year old smoking and living a relaxed life. This at times gives ammunition to young addicts to argue that look tobacco does not kill! They are falling prey to observational bias. Many friends of this 80 year old who used to smoke with him would have dies of heart disease, cancer or lung disease and since they are not alive to say the story we misinterpret.
You want to see the effects of tobacco? Visit any cancer hospital or heart hospital or lung hospital.
Well, time for you guys to know what all organs are affected by tobacco.
- Smoking causes cancer, heart disease, stroke, lung diseases, diabetes, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), which includes emphysema and chronic bronchitis.
- Smoking also increases risk for tuberculosis, certain eye diseases, and problems of the immune system, including rheumatoid arthritis.
- Smoking is a known cause of erectile dysfunction in males.
- For every person who dies because of smoking, at least 30 people live with a serious smoking-related illness.
Protect yourself, your children, your near and dear ones from tobacco.
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