Don't get me started on smoking! My one wish is that the people I know who smoke would listen to my advice, but it seems like the drug nicotine has affected their eyes and dulled their senses

The stench is revolting; having it following me everywhere I go. Why do people have the need to smoke? All it does is lead to cancer, and death following unless you are lucky enough to dodge it. Although people manage to get out of this life threatening disease, they still seem to think “Oh who cares! Pass me your lighter,” and yes, they do decide to carry on with the filthy habit. You don’t realise how insidious cancer is. The fact that it creeps around your body without you realising it, it’s like a vine growing inside your body and taking over all your organs. Just the mere thought of it, disgusts and appals me.  

Has nobody witnessed a person dying in hospital, it is not a pleasant site to see. Seeing them when they were perfectly healthy and after that, they are transformed into skin and bone, ravaged with pain. Having to take morphine several times each day to ease pain they are going through. To look into their eyes sunk into their head. Is that the situation you want to be in? If you continue smoking, that could be your fate.

I have to say it is quite a sickening thought having a partner who smokes - to imagine all the muck going inside their body. Nobody goes around kissing an ashtray so I definitely wouldn’t want a boyfriend who smokes. Just the thought of looking at the brutal brown butts that have caused so much damage to the human body.

Moreover, there are enough adverts on television to show the devastating effects smoking has on the lungs, the mouth and other parts of the body. Seriously, is it not enough to know that 8 in 10 smokers have the risk of getting lung cancer? You could be hurting your kids. More than 17,000 children under the age of five are admitted to hospital every year because of the effects of passive smoking. Are you really going to be one of the cruel adults that put their sweet and innocent little children into hospital due to YOUR mistake? Not only could you be killing children, but about 2,700 people aged 20-64 and a further 8,000 deaths a year among people aged 65 years or older die from second hand smoke. I certainly wouldn’t want to be a part of that. Would you?

It is never too late to stop smoking to greatly benefit your health. For example, if you stop smoking in middle age, before having cancer or some other serious disease, you avoid most of the increased risk of death due to smoking. Every cigarette is doing you damage...

My one wish is that the people I know who smoke would listen to my advice, but it seems like the drug nicotine has affected their eyes and dulled their senses. Regardless of the fact that nicotine is a very addictive substance in cigarettes’, at the end of the day, it’s down to you to stop.