Many underage youths (actually all the people out there) are smoking nowadays and enjoys it, without even being aware of the harmful effects of smoking and its consequences, and how it will affect their future and oneself. Therefore, iKnow is here to control and stop your hungry desires for smoking!

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As you have read from the earlier posts, smoking contains many harmful chemicals which will cause cancer and eventually kill you. We are going to talk about a new form of smoking. NRT. Nicotine Replacement Treatment. The reason you are addicted to cigarettes is nicotine. NRT sastisfies your cravings without the harmful effects. it is available at pharmacies in the form of sin patches, chewing gum, tablets, lozenges, nasal sprays and inhalers. NRT is proven and research shows it doubles the chances of quitting sucess. TRY IT TODAY!

-Josias
There are not many smokers about who started smoking after the age of eighteen. In fact, the majority of smokers took up the habit in their early or mid teens.

At such a young age, you don't really think about the health risks of smoking and you certainly do not realise how addictive smoking can be. As a teenager you probably think that you can try smoking a few times and then take it or leave it.

However, the reality is that it doesn't take long to become addicted to nicotine and smoking. Within a short period of time, children can experience the same cravings and withdrawal symptoms as an adult, as well as smoke as many cigarettes or more.

There are several reasons as to why children or teenagers start smoking.

Peer pressure plays an important part. Many children start smoking because their friends have tried it or smoke themselves.

Those children may have started as they have grown up in an environment where their parents, grandparents and older siblings smoke, and so they smoke in order to look and act like them.

Other children start smoking as an act of rebellion or defiance against their parents or people of authority.

Sources: http://www.helpwithsmoking.com/why-people-smoke.php-

-Tain
It is easier to stay out than get out.




Of the 3,000 teens who started smoking today, nearly 1,000 will eventually die as a result from smoking.


Kids who smoke experience changes in the lungs and reduced lung growth, and they risk not achieving normal lung function as an adult.


A person who starts smoking at age 13 will have a more difficult time quitting, has more health-related problems and probably will die earlier than a person who begins to smoke at age 21.


Of every 100,000 15 year old smokers, tobacco will prematurely kill at least 20,000 before the age of 70.


The heart speeds up, from 10 to 20 beats per minute when you smoke


The temperature of the skin drops by 6 degrees Fahrenheit (that's because the blood is rushing to the heart, where it would be needed in a real crisis)


The blood vessels constrict, or tighten, so that blood pressure goes up 5 to 10 points.


Source of Information: http://www.smoking-facts.net/ :)

-Mei Yi
    After reading the post below, i feel extremely disgusted!!! Bet you are too. I didnt know they contain over a thousand chemicals, and the chemicals it contain are really inedible!!!

    Can you imagine drinking the main component of nail polish remover into your mouth?! It's really extremely superbly gross. Moth repellent being sprayed into your mouth?! I'm seriously disgusted after finding this out and I am sure I will never smoke in my life...EWWWWW!!!!! :0

-YangYao

Do you know that smoking is highly dangerous?! Well we have got some shocking news for you. Probably this would enlighten all smokers out there who are still thinking that there is no harm in smoking, please READ THIS. It is for the welfare of your own health and body. Well here goes...   :o

~Case Studies~

30% of men and 19% of women around the world smoke. 100, 000 children under the age of 15 start smoking every day! One of every ten deaths around the world is caused by smoking-related diseases. With statistics like this, it's hard to imagine why smoking continues to be so widespread!

~Chemicals It Contains~

There are over 4,000 chemicals in a single cigarette, some of which are HIGHLY POISONOUS. Examples include naphthalene, which is used in moth repellent; acetone, the main component of nail polish remover; butane, a constituent of lighter fluid; and formaldehyde, used in embalming. Cigarettes also contain nicotine, a highly addictive stimulant that causes physical and psychological dependency!

Source Of Information: http://www.wisegeek.com/why-is-smoking-bad.htm

-YangYao
Smoking is a practice in which a substance, most commonly tobacco or cannabis, is burned and the smoke is tasted or inhaled. This is primarily practised as a route of administration for recreational drug use, as combustion releases the active sunstances in drugs such as nicotine and makes them available for absorption through the lungs. It can also be done as a part of rituals, to induce trances and spiritual enlightenment.
The most common method of smoking today is through cigarettes, primarily industrially manufactured but also hand-rolled from loose tobacco and rolling paper. Other smoking implements include pipes, cigars, bidis, hookahs, vaporizers and bongs. It has been suggested that smoking-related disease kills one half of all long term smokers but these diseases may also be contracted by non-smokers. A 2007 report states that about 4.9 million people worldwide each year die as a result of smoking.
Smoking is one of the most common forms of recreational drug use. Tobacco smoking is today by far the most popular form of smoking and is practiced by over one billion people in the majority of all human societies. Less common drugs for smoking include cannabis and opium. Some of the substances are classified as hard narcotics, like heroin, but the use of these is very limited as they are often not commercially available.
The history of smoking can be dated to as early as 5000 BC, and has been recorded in many different cultures across the world. Early smoking evolved in association with religious ceremonies; as offerings to deities, in cleansing rituals or to allow shamans and priests to alter their minds for purposes of divination or spiritual enlightenment. After the European exploration and conquest of the Americas, the practice of smoking tobacco quickly spread to the rest of the world. In regions like India and Subsaharan Africa, it merged with existing practices of smoking (mostly of cannabis). In Europe, it introduced a new type of social activity and a form of drug intake which previously had been unknown.
Perception surrounding smoking has varied over time and from one place to another; holy and sinful, sophisticated and vulgar, a panacea and deadly health hazard. Only relatively recently, and primarily in industrialized Western countries, has smoking come to be viewed in a decidedly negative light. Today medical studies have proven that smoking tobacco is among the leading causes of many diseases such as lung cancer, heart attacks, COPD, erectile dysfunction and can also lead to birth defects. The inherent health hazards of smoking have caused many countries to institute high taxes on tobacco products and anti-smoking campaigns are launched every year in an attempt to curb tobacco smoking.


Source of Information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoking

-YangYao