Smoking

The world's number one public health enemy, causes two million preventable deaths each year. Smoking the delivery system usually takes possession of its victims in their early teens and rapidly becomes an intergal part of their styles of life. The popularity of smoking is understandable. The very ritual of lighting up and smoking confers a sense of poise and security, and each cigarette reinforces the addiction by instant satisfication of the smoker's craving. What makes people start and continue to smoke in the face of incontrovertible evidence on the adverse health effcts of tabacco use? Smokers themselves, understandably, tend to see the habit in less negative terms. They may regard themselves as addicted , and they're to describe smoking in terms of pleasure. But usually as a matter of smoking ''calming'' them.

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