This is with reference to the report “Smoking kills more people than road accidents” (June 25). I completely agree with this fact since deaths due to smoking are never reported in the press, people usually don’t realize the gravity of this problem.
As per health experts, every puff on a cigarette pushes a smoker toward his death. In addition to that this habit has serious negative impacts on a person’s overall health.
Globally, tobacco use killed 100 million people in the 20th century. It is supposed to be more than the combined casualties in the two World Wars.
Everyone born in this world is bound to die one day or the other. It is only the causes of death that vary but the health issues a smoker has to face are unbearable.
Tobacco-related deaths, it is expected, will reach the one- billion mark in the 21st century if the current smoking patterns continue. Famous American television personality and renowned cardiologist Dr. Oz once said, “I don’t operate on smokers. I tell cigarette smokers that I can operate on you I get paid the same. And you might even do well. But it’s the wrong thing to do. So I refuse to operate on you until you stop smoking.”
The famous Russian-American film actor, Yul Brynner, who died of lung cancer caused due to smoking in 1985, made a video message from his deathbed. In that video he said, “Now that I am gone, I tell you don’t smoke whatever you do!”
I wonder how many smokers did take this message, seriously? Smoking is a silent killer or another form of suicide. — S.H. Moulana, Riyadh
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