Smoking can be active or passive. It is active when one lights and smokes a cigarette stick. It is passive when one is near an active smoker and inhales the resultant smoke the fills the surrounding.
People damage themselves through smoking. Incidentally, smoking is allowed by the society, though it is dangerous to health. This attitude may be explained because it produces pleasure. In addition, cigarette production provides revenue and profit to the manufacturers.
Cigarette smoking and indeed, the inhalation of cigarette smoke has proved to be the most important cause of preventable ill health and early death in modern society. The leading causes of death from smoking are heart and lung related diseases, especially lung cancer.
Smoking can be active or passive. It is active when one lights and smokes a cigarette stick. It is passive when one is near an active smoker and inhales the resultant smoke the fills the surrounding. So if anyone should smoke, such smoking should be out of doors, to limit the effect of passive smoke on housemates and co-workers. This was the reason behind the law prohibiting people from smoking in public places.
The active ingredients in cigarette are nicotine, carbon monoxide and tar (benzophrene) and these are cancer producing agents.
