Articles & Info Health: Effects & Consequences of Smoking Habits
Dangers of smoking to smokers Content & People Around

Articles & Info Health: Effects & Consequences of Smoking Habits. Dangers of smoking to smokers Content & People Around

Introduction
Tobacco became the main ingredient in cigarettes, has been introduced as a whole, including the Islamic world, the Western colonialists who are Christians, and it has not been known in the time of Prophet Muhammad pbuh In the society for hundreds of years

earlier, smoked tobacco is not only for fun but as an event in the cultural and religious ceremonies. Muslims generally do not smoke but because terpenggaruh to Westerners who colonized them.

Today, smoking is a habit that is widely accepted in our society, so sometimes it is seen as a norm to be proud of. This false assumption arises when people who easily fall prey to a foreign culture, particularly well-displayed through the mass media, like hand-style in order to achieve the status of so-called sophistication and excellence associated with smoking. Even the habit of imitating and deviating from the right path is something that increasingly dominate the Muslim children in this age.


Harmful Content in Cigarettes (Fact)
Each lit cigarettes will produce more 4,000 toxic chemicals that are harmful and can be fatal. With every puff is like a puff of death. The contents of cigarette smoke include radioactive (polonium-201) and the materials used in the paint (acetone), floor cleaner (ammonia), medication silverfish (Naphthalene), pesticides (DDT), termite poison (arsenic ), toxic gases (hydrogen cyanide) used in "gas chambers of death" for offenders who are serving a sentence of death, and many more. However, the most important poisons are Tar, Nicotine and Carbon Monoxide.

Tar contains at least 43 chemicals known to cause cancer (carcinogens). Materials such as benzopyrene, a type policyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) has long been confirmed as the agent begins the process of cancer incidence.

Nicotine, like drugs heroin, amphetamines and cocaine, responding in the brain and have an impact on system mesolimbik that the main cause of addiction. Against nicotine addiction syndrome demonstrated phenomenon, tolerance and attraction, is probably superior to drugs. Even from the scientific study of nicotine was also a kind of drug, as has been recognized by the medical world. A person who ran out of cigarettes sometimes behave like common sense disorders and in a very depressed once. Therefore too difficult for anyone who has stuck with addiction, leave the habit forever, unless a serious effort and will of God whatsoever.

Nicotine is also a major cause of the risk of heart attack and stroke. Almost a quarter of heart attack patient is the result of the cause of the smoking habit. In Malaysia, heart disease is the leading cause of death while the fourth stroke is killer.

Carbon monoxide is a poisonous gas was normally produced by vehicle exhaust. This gas affect the supply of oxygen to the tissues until they become retarded and can eventually cause death if carbon monoxide levels in the body than 60%.

When the cigarette poison enters the human body or animal, it will bring damage to every organ along the path, starting from the nose, mouth, throat, respiratory tract, lungs, digestive tract, blood vessels, heart, reproductive organs, until the channel and urinary bladder, which is when most of the poisons removed from the body.


Effects of cigarette smoke to the smoker and The Surrounding
The smoker should not only be responsible for ourselves, but also responsibility on the people around as a result of the dangers of cigarette smoke. Cigarette smoke inhaled by the smoker or those around him, will enter the cavity of the mouth and nose through the throat to the lungs. Content of cigarette smoke will cause tissue damage along the way in this area. It can cause a variety of diseases in the mouth, throat, and lung cancer. Smoke coming through the airways into the lungs and damage the bronchial tract, causing bronchitis, diseases of the lungs. It will also damage the air sacs in the lungs (alveoli) and cause disease emfisima.

Cigarette smoke smell also goes through the digestive tract and digestion, which can cause a variety of diseases in the esophagus, stomach and pancreas.

Toxins in water-soluble cigarette smoke will enter the bloodstream and carried throughout the body. Materials nicotine, not only give the nature of addiction, but also causes the arteries to become narrow blood vessels. It also damages the arterial wall and to the detriment of related organs.

This effect, in the long run, will cause symptoms of numbness in the feet, toes, migraines, headaches, heartburn, leg cramps, heart attack and so on.

Finally filtered cigarette poison the kidneys and eliminated from the body through urine. In this process, there was also another chemical toxicity of decomposition products of cigarette smoke also damages the kidneys. Poison in the urine also cause bladder damage.

Poison from smoking will also affect response to medications. It is generally known smoking can affect the function of several enzymes in the liver, and at times it may intensify the side effects of a drug.

Effects of Cigarette Smoke Against Smoker's Wife:
- M elahirkan underweight babies
- Produce a premature baby
- More prone to cancer
- Reduced fertility and early menopause

Effects of cigarette smoke on children Smoker:
- More prone to asthma
- Getting a lung infection
- Growth of lung disturbed children
- Easy to become smokers when they grow up


Death statistics Smoking Habit
In Malaysia, smoking contributes to over 10,000 deaths per year, 30 percent were due to 10 types of cancer, namely lung, mouth, esophagus, throat, pancreas, bladder, kidney, cervix, colon and stomach, 50 percent of deaths were caused by pain heart disease and stroke by 25 percent fraction, respectively.

According to Dr Sallehudin, over 100,000 smokers admitted to government hospitals in the country due to heart disease, cancer and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and more importantly, the country suffered a loss of about $ 20 billion a year to defray the cost of treatment and lost productivity.


Benefits of Quitting Smoking
- Living longer
- Able to avoid toxins
- Able to protect yourself, your family and others from the dangers of smoking
- Be a good role model to their children
- Can improve fitness and have a healthy body
- Improves sense of taste and smell
- Whiter teeth and fresher breath
- Can avoid wasteful culture using the money to buy cigarettes to aim better and beneficial.
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Use the Right Method To Stop Smoking
- Set a date to quit smoking
- Convince yourself
- Make a note reminder
- Tell yourself, "I'm not a smoker"
- Focus on today
- Always think positive
- Get support
- Fighting the urge to smoke
- Use the appropriate therapy or treatment
- Practise 10 M to quit smoking


Source
- National Poison Centre, USM Official Website
- Ministry of Health Malaysia Official Website
- Institute of Islamic Understanding Malaysia Official Website - IKIM In Media - Daily News
- Sabahan.net
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