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Smoking (part 1) - a dangerous addiction

These days, most, if not all, people are aware of the dangers of smoking. Why then do so many smokers persist with a habit they know is slowly killing them? It is estimated that there are now 1.5 billion people around the world who smoke.
It has recently been reported that some 4 out of 5 smokers wish to quit but are unable to do so. It seems that a minimum level of nicotine is required in the bloodstream of a smoker in order to prevent withdrawal symptoms occurring.
This level, equivalent to inhaling the smoke from 10 cigarettes a day, is enough to prevent withdrawal in even the most addicted smoker. So another vital question remains - why do some people smoke more than is necessary to satisfy their addiction?

In the US, each year, smoking accounts for approximately 350,000 preventable deaths - almost 8 times the total number of US soldiers killed throughout the entire Vietnam War. In that country, smoking kills 7 times the number of people who die in car accidents. Yet even these horrifying statistics are not enough to make the majority of smokers quit. Even though tobacco smoke has been recognised for 4 decades as a dangerous carcinogen, causing cancer in the lung and damaging vital tissues and organs of the body, smoking remains the most serious form of drug addiction worldwide.

A recent survey claimed that 87.5% of smokers reported smoking to be a pleasurable activity, and it may be that nicotine stimulates the pleasure centres of the brain. It takes only 7 seconds of puffing for one quarter of the nicotine inhaled to reach the brain and have the desired effect. Since the instant pleasure afforded by smoking is clearly too great a temptation for most people to resist, the lesson seems clear - don't start smoking.