What are the benefits? None!!
But the list of disadvantages is very long...
So why do people smoke?
- People usually start smoking because their friends smoke
- They think it’s a grown up thing to do
- Or it looks cool (how wrong they are!)...
Once they’ve started, it’s very difficult to stop as people become hooked on the nicotine in cigarettes very easily.
And so to the list of disadvantages...
The long term effects
- High blood pressure
- Narrowing of the arteries
- Heart attacks
- Lung cancer
As a teenager, these long-term effects may seem light years away but remember ...
As a diabetic, your chances of developing a smoking related illness increases dramatically
The short term effects
- Smoker’s cough
- Shortness of breath
- Decreased blood flow to the skin, therefore insulin absorption could be decreased
- Premature wrinkles
Social effects
- Bad breathe
- Smoky clothes and hair
- Expensive
- Damaging health of people around you (passive smoking)
- Damage to the environment
