Smoking is dangerous! By: Louella June Gadingan

 Smoking is dangerous!

By: Louella June Gadingan

II – Regis

87, 600 Filipinos die each year due to smoking. Cigarette has also cost P148 billion a year in economy’s losses due to illness and death. Smoking is dangerous for your health because it can cause a lot of diseases like ear infection, respiratory, and asthma. 

Smoking can cause ear infection. As we all know, smoke is an irritant to our nasal passage. Since our body is equipped with defense mechanisms, our nasal passage will thicken with mucus in the presence of irritants. As mentioned above, thickened mucus becomes a favorable home to bacteria that could travel and infect our ears. This is triggered by the protective action of our body against cigarette smoke. 

Emphysema or commonly called as respiratory breakdown. This effect is a long term effect; it is a progressive disease of lungs that primarily causes shortness of breath.

Cigarette smoke contains several irritants that have been shown to cause chronic inflammation in the airways. Such inflammation can lead to asthma. 

Therefore, for all the smokers out there, it is important that if you cannot stop smoking, at least try to avoid smoking around people because it will have bad effects on second hand smokers, and smoking can decrease your life by seven minutes each stick of a cigarette, so if you will smoke a box of cigarette a day, your life will be decreased by approximately 4 days, so you need to avoid or most preferably stop smoking around people especially children.