Tobacco Addiction

Tobacco addiction is one of the worst addictions, with the number of tobacco users and smokers having crossed the one billion-mark worldwide. Smoking has been and is being marketed, as a fashionable product is the cause for concern about smoking.

Effects Of Tobacco

Tobacco is the product that is projected to be responsible for the death of over half a million smokers this year. Tobacco is being promoted and projected as a consumer product.
The young generation is sucked into believing that it is fashionable to smoke as not being aware of the harmful effects of tobacco. At an influential age, the youngsters lap up every advertisement targeted at them and without realizing the ill effects waiting to consume them, take to smoking.

Tobacco – “Consumer Product”

For that matter, you may call tobacco a “consumer product”, because it “consumes” your health and even your life, if you are not that lucky.
It is unbelievable that such a harmful product that causes addiction, sickness and even painful death, is allowed to be marketed freely. Tobacco is among the few anti-health products that are legally allowed to be sold as consumer products.
Such is the influence of the bombardment of cigarette smoking advertisements that the warning label on every cigarette pack is ignored. It is the ‘it-can-never-happen-to-me’ attitude coupled with glamour attached to smoking, which is the undoing of most smokers.

Laws Should Be Reformed

Smoking is a serious addiction and every addict needs help urgently to get out of the habit. Tobacco reform laws need to be strict, in addition to heavy imposition of taxes, which can discourage people from getting addicted.