Is smoking really that bad?

This is one debate that’s never going to end. As far as the medicinal groups are concerned and of course health officials, they’ll blow their top whenever cigarettes are mentioned. It’s mandatory for cigarette manufacturers to print statutory warnings on cigarette packets regarding the harm cigarettes can cause. However, who is to answer the question regarding how bad it really is, or the larger question is it really bad? In most societies drinking is considered a social practice, but little do they harp on the evils it causes. Drinkers more often than not can display signs of multiple personality disorder after a few drinks and can quite conveniently forget everything when they’re back to their senses. They’d pick a fight, tease people, be really loud, boast and may even cause an accident if behind wheels. Of course there’s all the throwing up, breaking things, causing a mess and regular embarrassment. In comparison, smokers are a peaceful lot. They smoke, stay in their own and don’t trouble people around them.

Another really good thing about smoking is that it helps you relax in many situations. The logic is simple. When in a tense situation, people usually say, sit back, relax and take a deep breath, problem is we know all this but don’t really do so because our nerves are incapable at such intense moment. However taking up a cigarette at such a moment automatically causes you to soothe your nerves and clear your thought process because you inhale slowly, take a deep breath and feel the smoke. The health prospects maybe bad but the god it does at such nervous moments is incomparable. Lighting up a cigarette after your meals ensures that you don’t conveniently jump into bed right after eating which is a very unhealthy practice, causing people to put on weight and of course in hampering with your digestive system which is put to a test.