Smoking cigarettes can be a good thing too

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The practice of smoking according to Wikipedia dates back to the year 5000 B.C. Smoking was initially done in many different ways throughout the world, for example in Greece, smoke was used as a healing practice and also Babylonians, Chinese, Indians, Israelites and later Catholic and Orthodox, Christian churches used smoke for religious rituals.

Smoking at first was displayed as something cool and therefore anyone regardless of their age could buy it and smoke it without any hassle. Smoking was allowed almost everywhere including in hospitals and all over town, in newspapers, magazines, TV and radio adverts on cigarettes were always frequent. Today, with so many researches on tobacco we’ve come to discover its negative effects on our health therefore now they are now many restrictions imposed on cigarette manufacturers.

According to kidshealth.org, a smoker of tobacco may suffer from long-term health problems like lung cancer, heart disease, stroke, emphysema and many other sorts of health problems. For many people nowadays, smoking tobacco is regarded by them as a bad thing to do because it only brings negative effects to our health, I used to think the same also but my opinion recently changed when I read an article in http://www.sott.net that spoke about the benefits of smoking tobacco. Yes! You got it right, the benefits! Am sure you never heard about them before like me because many medical pamphlets on tobacco only speak about the negative side of smoking tobacco.

Well according to this website, nicotine found in cigarettes reduces the risk of Parkinson’s disease and Alzheimer; reduces the risk of all sort of effects of schizophrenia; it provides relief of common side effects from antipsychotic drugs; reduces the risk of getting obese; reduces the risk of acquiring certain inflammatory disorders; reduces the risk of pregnant women acquiring preeclampsia-an extremely common but deadly condition. Children of smokers were also found out by a study conducted in Sweden to have lower rates of allergic rhinitis, allergic asthma, atopic eczema, and food allergies.

Although smoking tobacco has some benefits also, it’s still recommended to avoid them or if you are already a smoker, to quit because the negative effects outnumber the positive ones.  Stay healthy, avoid cigarettes.

Sources:

·          http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_smoking;

·          http://www.sott.net/article/221013-Health-Benefits-of-Smoking-Tobacco;

·         http://m.kidshealth.org/teen/drug_alcohol/tobacco/smoking.html 

Article written by: Cristo Rutazihana