Project
2012
Introduction
People smoke mostly in the form of cigarette. Some people use even cigar, pipes etc. All these contain dried leaves of tobacco plant. A cigarette or any such thing is made for the purpose of inhaling smoke. It contains a harmful substance 'nicotine'. Tobacco is an agricultural product, grown in the farms. Farmers get good income by growing the tobacco as an agricultural plant. Tobacco is also used in preparation of some medicines. But when tobacco is used just for pleasure, is harmful to life.
Smoking causes many harmful diseases like lung cancer, emphysema, heart attacks, high blood pressure, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and can lead to birth effects. Some people smoke just for fashion. Generally a person starts smoking with friends or colleagues just for fun. Slowly they get addicted and later they reach to a stage where they can't resist themselves from smoking and become 'chain smoker'. Chain smoking means a person continues to smoke almost without break. If once a person becomes 'chain smoker' then it will be very tough to that person to keep himself away from smoking even for few hours and this habit leads to death.
It is found that mostly men smoke, but the habit of smoking is also seen in some women and it is a very dangerous habit for women, when compared to men. Because researchers have found that smoking leads to more health hazards (risks?) in women when compared to men. Smoking habit is found more in young women when compared to old women. Smoking habit is found in women of backward country areas and also in so called Hi-Fi society. Smoking is dangerous for pregnant women. Because it will show affect on the child in the stomach and may lead to birth effects.
Smoking affects not only the person who takes it directly, but also the people around that person. The people who are around the person who is smoking are forced automatically to perform 'passive smoking'. This passive smoking