PARENTING SMOKING & SOCIAL ISSUES
The place of role models is important, and if
role models are vandals and rogues, picking up cudgels in minutes and for lame
excuses. That means his upbringing was flawed and was also criticized within
the family due to their poor deeds. Such people are not deemed appropriate for
kids and family people to count on.
As they were talked of in the family in very derogatory terms. The misdemeanors
of people are not always ignore-able. Such people also bluff with petty excuses.
So, it is not admissible that the kids and family members could hold onto, as a
point of reference or a standard, anything whatsoever.
I used to hear about the formidable side effects of smoking and was very afraid
and appalled by the situation. As my father used to be a chain smoker. Used to
have cigarettes all day long.
So, it is the prime concern of the loved ones to rescue their beloved to save
them from this sinister and horrid end of life while smoking.
When I was just a young child, an uncle next door used to smoke a lot. He had a
little infection in his stomach. But every follow-up visit to the doctor was
all in vain. The doctor, after a thorough investigation, diagnosed Cancer.
One day, I saw a funeral at our neighboring house, that the same uncle, an old
man who was an athletic-looking person. Suddenly, his health
decayed unbelievably. His whole body had metamorphosed into a weak and lurching
state. He was our next-door neighbor.
He was a man devoid of any vitality or energy. One day, it was revealed that
the person had died after long ailments and medication. When asked, he suffered
from cancer. His only bad habit of smoking, which was not junk food, alcohol,
or any medicine or hormones.
The only reason was smoking, and when he died, people even considered his
clothes unwearable because people got superstitious. From there, I bore witness
to how ruthlessly people threw his existence into oblivion. The world glowed
with the same light as before.
But there is one thing that all loved relations or kinsmen had nothing on their
faces. No grief or sorrow on their faces, their body language was the same as
before, they laughed, and even sometimes they even snickered sarcastically.
Everything seemed normal, and when lunch was announced, everyone was behaving
as if everyone were beggars or people who had not eaten anything for a week.
Now people plundered and pounced like beasts released into the open.
Their family was panic-stricken with sadness, and grief was like something
inevitable, but life is indeed full of surprises, which are sometimes
deplorable and tragic, but no power can either undo or can anyone nullify time
and life. Life is like a starved dragon living for eons, perpetually swallowing
life; no one can change or nullify the tragedies of life, nor can fate be
influenced, for no one can ever alter the course of fate.
I was a witness to all that happened. It was our next-door neighbors. The uncle
was a good friend of mine. I was little at the time. When I reached home, I saw
a TV commercial in which a young man smoked, and after some days he died. Her
son and wife were so sad, but nothing could be done.
One day, I saw my father smoking, and a trail of events about two
experiences made me anxious, tensed, and unnerved. When my father slept, I took
his cigarette box and destroyed it like powder. My father asked me I was blunt.
It was not my upbringing to I would hide things he asked, and I admitted it the
first time he was not angry. The next time, he hid it somewhere I could not
approach, but I reached in, and these cigarettes also had the same fate.
When I thought that this technique was not effective. I went to the shopkeeper
who gave cigarettes to my father. I asked him what will happen to your son,
daughter, or wife if you smoke and after a while you are dead, what will happen
to them. Their life will be nothing if he does not smoke what right he has to
give my father such a horrid thing after a minute’s pause.
That shopkeeper saw him with terror and convulsion in his eyes. When my father
went to him, he refused him. He was reluctant to sell it, knowing what poison
is, and what was selling it to his customers. He smoked every time.
When one fine day. My father destroyed his cigarette box and said Son, your
peace and inner satisfaction, your comfort is more to me than smoking is
nothing. The whole world is weighed on one side and his love on the other. My
love will supersede and outweigh everything.
Smoking is an addiction that destroys and ravages nature’s most
beautiful, intelligent, and complicated creatures in the world, which are human
beings themselves.
This is a sensitive and delicate topic to write about. It is astonishing to
know that poor people do not smoke that much. There is enough knowledge for
educated people, but still, I cannot comprehend why people, despite being
educated, are still bent on continuing it with persistence.
I tell you why, because they are stuck in the matters of their families. Even though
they are educated, but are stuck in their day-to-day problems. Social
psychological, political even religious factors may be involved, which I will
discuss as we move on in the article.
But my father proved all world wrong. He, with his resolve, proved the whole
world wrong. My father was not selfish; he knew what I felt.
WHO GIVES THEM LEGALITY
Life rots away. But life is not just a muddy vessel of decay. This beautiful
life is erratic and filled with surprises. Life is a gift of nature, which
shall be relished, not destroyed at the hands of dissatisfaction or
disappointment. Life is like a roller coaster; there are ups and downs. Where
there are blissful moments, there is sadness and sorrow that is part of the
package awarded by fate.
We should stop the mourning and yelling about what others have. Just try to be
happy in your present. And make endeavors for the future as hard as one can.
First, we cry for the moon, and when you realize the truth, you get depressed.
But research shows that smoking, instead of relieving oneself from discomfort
it adds to one's discomfort to an ultimate and fatal tragedy.
And we do all the crazy stuff, and there is a saturation point which should not
be crossed, then your disorder has such robust foundations that at times it
becomes very stubborn and hard to handle. What happens is that the whole life
becomes a nightmare.
Life is not to be taken for granted. Rather, it should be kept sacrosanct. So,
destroying your life because of tragedies or something or someone whom you
loved and suddenly he/she leaves you, or there are financial challenges, or
parents argue, and you feel as if you are alone, or your marks are not as you
expected these are some reasons why people smoke and none of them will suffice
because not even one of them are more significant in your life.
WHO NEEDS TO BE BLAMED
It is the nature of a human being to always blame fate, but you know well it
tends to be an escapist approach, which is not appropriate to just save your
hide and put someone other to blame just to shift the onus of liability on
someone else.
One should have the guts to face the music. The whole system needs to be
blamed; blaming any individual will not suffice because the whole society needs
to be rectified in the best way possible.
Poverty breathes and gets nourishment in societies that are not developed.
There is an unfair distribution of wealth. Poor people don’t have anywhere to
hide, anyone to share the sorrow and grief that ensues.
Now, interestingly, poverty is not only a cause, but also indulging yourself in
the system generates diabolical and venomous babies, the product would be
laziness and lethargy in youth, and get involved in, for example, betting.
Naming fate to be the cause of every trouble and blaming one another, getting
rejected, and being disappointed by the world. We now have to stop blaming
others for the actions committed by us against others.
My father is a man of his word. He never tried to put the onus on others and
tried to indulge in blaming other incidents and people for the miseries of life
one encounters.
One tends to be a philosopher. Again, we make arguments that are not solid and
concrete, not just blowing about the bush. After someone starts smoking, a
popular experience is that he has put the onus on poverty and become a victim
of his troubles. Then one puts all the blame on other things, mainly fears of
life.
Normal perception is that smoking aids depression and anxiety. But it is
wrong in totality. Smoking increases and even accelerates the growth and the
power of anxiety, depression, confusion, and chaos in the life of not only the
smoker but also his companions, and therefore, it should be discouraged on a
global level.
Mental health deteriorates and destroys mental health. Mental health
deteriorates in people who smoke, then mental health has repercussions. It
aggravates the situation. Once you tend to be in anxiety, you should take a
strong hold of it, and discuss with professionals.
The mental health issues are present in all smoking addicts, and they don’t
stop this disease. Just don’t stop. There is no ending to this disease; just
don’t stop it, and there is no stopping thoughts that are otherwise minute,
illogical, insensible, unreliable, and insane.
The young generation takes it as a way out of sadness and grief. But it is
persistent negligence that they get trapped. You get caught up in a vicious
circle. An enigma from which there is no escape; every attempt is considered
futile.
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SMOKING & MENTAL HEALTH
Youngsters
often use it for depression and anxiety, and they don’t know that an inevitable
danger starts to emerge somewhere. Youngsters smoke for many reasons, mainly
because of depression and anxiety. These poor souls don’t understand that this
action would aggravate and catalyze a situation, unaware that they may be
trapped in a quagmire, from which the more you try to come out, the more you
get trapped in the predicament.
Ironically, youngsters take these cigarettes for many reasons, mainly due to the
presence of tension in life. Still, they do not want to acknowledge that they
are badly stuck, that there is no possible escape.
Initially, there was tension and depression; now, after becoming a smoker,
those tensions start to magnify. What was trouble now starts to aggravate. Now
it has become a herculean task to stop as now one becomes an addict and
addiction is hard to stop as addicts and addiction is hard to stop.
It takes willpower every tom dick and harry cannot summon such a great amount
of energy of opinion and intellect. Then a person gets lonely because the day
you are caught up in some trouble, this fast-paced world leaves one alone with
one’s problems.
Love and affection, and parenting go hand in hand. I have a strong example of
my father, who left his addiction just for the sake of his son. Parents are
blessed creatures and have the might of love for their parents that is second
to none.
In any relationship of love, when exposed to hatred and challenges of life, you
are alone then and there. The same happens with smokers who get sick, and if
you have your wife, children, or parents, they will come to your rescue, and
the irony is that only loved ones support you, and your loved ones also are
left alone in their struggle.
In hard times, no one gives an iota of concern; instead, they will criticize
you. He/she would give suggestions and would not help on a serious note. They
would come for recreation, not to lend a hand of concern, even though that is
artificial. Whenever I faced any challenge, only and I was only trying to help.
So that is some memories and bitter times of life. So, I would emphasize and
would place my argument that it is not only you who would suffer, but loved
ones’ lives are also in a Topsy-turfy situation.
You are lonely due to many problems in your family life, addiction, depression,
and anxiety start to conquer one from the inside, and your friends and
colleagues start to ridicule you for being irresponsible and a procrastinator,
which was a small problem has now become a juggernaut and a humongous sort of
an issue. Now you are doomed for the worst is to come, no hope, nothing can
stop or lessen the size of misery and trouble you are so badly apprehended.
The sad part is that what was used as a panacea has now become a bone of contention.
If someone helps the other to quit smoking, the smoker deems him to be an
enemy, which is the severity of the matter.
I have seen my uncle and my father both were chain smokers. I saw an ad on a
news channel in which a person was shown healthy, and he started smoking after
two months. He passed away.
I was just a child then. Whenever my papa purchased cigarettes, I opened their
box and would destroy all of them. Then my father saw my concern in it and bore
witness to my stress and tension.
WHY NO ONE STOPS THE POISON BEING SOLD
EVERYWHERE
The
answer is very straightforward, and no ambiguity lies in it because it presents
the diabolical grip of capitalism, where poor members of society are not heard,
and all those people who are big capitalists are
spared.
Because of it, governments of different countries don’t dare to ban it because
the people who are standing at the helm of affairs of the world don’t accept
the sanctity of human life.
The government or other pressure groups are in this business. Governments of
different states accept businesses, and such accept them wholeheartedly.
Even though everyone knows smoking cigarettes is self-poisoning.
This industry that devours human life should be banned, no matter what people
say or dislike. The loss of human life should be given due consideration.
People
smoke and die, no one cares a jot or ponders on what needs to be done. I saw
that ad again and again, so much so that it started to rankle in my mind. That
hurt me deep down in my soul. But it was a sigh of relief that my fathers
stopped smoking for good.
But the question is, why does no one come to stop it? Why don’t we ban smoking?
My maternal uncle died, and I was so scared and appalled he died and no one
could do anything except crying louder and louder and then he got expired My
mother was tensed, and the room where my uncle lay dead the room was so full of
macabre and grotesquely; it was so horrid and unexplainable in words. He was
also alone, now that his parents were dead, he needed love from wife and
children and mother and father but it is also a reality hard to digest is that
parents are not immortal but once parents leave the fate reconciles your life
and then you become parents and the same force than drives you and your
emotions. If this is not like it, the world will cease to exist.
DAMAGING EFFECTS OF SMOKING ON HUMAN LIFE WHICH ARE VIVID AND CLEAR
LUNG CANCER
HEART DISEASE
CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY
DISEASE(COPD)
WEAKENING OF IMMUNE SYSTEM & LUNG FUNCTION
FERTILITY ISSUES & COMPLICATIONS IN PREGNANCY
6) PREMATURE AGING
1) Smoking and lung cancer
are interlinked. Whenever this horrible disease chooses its victim, it is just
like an announcement of death. It can be less or more time, but death is
certain without a miracle. Miracles hardly happen with everyone.
A smoker always ends up with cancer or other diseases, but cancer is as if
bonded with smokers; there are miracles of recovery in this disease. Or one can
say your time is over in this world.
Among cancers, lung cancer also happens in the Lungs. One million people
die from cancer each year. 90% in men and 70-80% in women. It is noticeable
that the effects of smoking and damage to humans remain then and there.
Smoking is a habit of youngsters, and when the symptoms start to appear, it is
unanticipated, just like shock. It enters a victim’s life like an uninvited
guest. Even after you quit smoking there remains the harmful effects in the
victim and after even quitting it is highly likely that it might even bother
you still because the damage to your body started the day you started smoking
cigarettes, and then the loss and deficit that can take place in your body can
still be visible.
Parents all over the world discourage smoking for their children, and the above
factual notes also underscore the seriousness of the topic. Of what solemnity
we should as a society consider smoking people and the industry.
2)
The
world we live in today is full of surprises, and every moment could bring more
and more challenges for human beings. Everyone must know that smoking is not
only injurious not only for the one who smokes also to people who are passive
smokers, for example, those who live in the company of the smoker, it’s just
like passive income some Sometimes you cannot know who has done kindness to
you. Passive smokers are more affected than the real smokers.
Heart disease and smoking have taken 1 out of 5 lives in the United States.
Smoking deteriorates almost every organ in the human body, e.g., eyes, mouth,
reproductive organs, bones, bladder, and digestive organs. Smoking is a
prominent element that affects the heart, causing heart disease. The blood
vessels get damaged, and the flow of blood reduces because of fatty deposits
that are built up in the arteries.
So, parents in the whole world should raise their stance on the issue as it has
hit the industry of cigarettes, which is a major player in the running of the
world economy, and just like hypocrites, we discourage smoking, but nowhere is
this narrative being raised. So, it will only affect them when the whole world
of parents stands for the sake of their children to get rid of smoking and
thereby sanitize the whole environment. The real problem is that all the big
guns support them. That means they are filthy rich, their relatives. This
capitalist system is what we have to blame; it has made humans
money-oriented.
3) This disease pertains to have lung infection
with breathing problems. It damages the lungs. There are 3 million people that
been affected by this disease. High-income countries have 70% of patients with
COPD, and low and less-developed and developing countries have 30-40% of
patients with this disease because of smoking. It damages the lungs
inflammation and scarring increases in risk of COPD symptoms, which are hard to
manage. Their risk of other health problems.
4)
Developed
countries, i.e., most European countries, Australia, Canada, etc., etc.
encourage their children to play outside their homes, exploring the world, they
are always on different errands they also participate in sports a lot.
They also have dogs or other pet animals that add to their children’s cognitive
development, so what is the reason for all this exercise, why play in mud, go
on grass, play, and make clothes dirty? Is there some compulsion no not at all.
It is just to make a child’s immune system by letting them
play in mud. Making their clothes dirty because otherwise the opportunity cost
of not letting them do what they want will be a lot higher than the botheration
of dirt on their clothes. Lung function is discussed in the first heading, but
there is no mention of lungs in their individuality.
5)
Pregnant
women should not smoke as it will be a source of ill health. A pregnant woman
should not smoke because it will cause peril not only to her but the baby. One
can play or sabotage him/herself, but not three people simultaneously, one her
baby, herself, and her husband.
All are interconnected with each other, so people should be aware and
acknowledge that he/she is not only about him only but also about other family
members. Smoking causes abnormal bleeding during pregnancy. There can be other
dangers, like premature rupture of membranes.
Again, your parents and elders r your friends, cousins, or brothers, contain
the situation. Smoking can also be dangerous because of fertility
problems. It may cause deprivation of becoming a mother, not temporarily but
permanently. Smoking may cause impotence.
6)
According
to some research, smoking also impacts dermal connective tissue in nude mice.
It will encourage those patients who are more concerned about their good looks
and beautiful appearance. In research, smoking tobacco leads to the
acceleration of skin ageing. Tobacco smoke also affects other dermatological
conditions. Like acne, eczema, and hair loss.
FURTHER DELVING DEEP IN ANALYSIS
So far,
I have discussed the effects of smoking on an individual’s life. Now I intend
to place it and analyze it at a societal level. All this happens not to
individuals, but the whole society is plagued, and in the same manner, social
implications can be observed on the society as a whole.
Our society is a capitalist society where all the power and authority have been
shifted to the ones who are wealthy. The people at the helm of affairs are
either rich businessmen or political people. A handful of rich capitalist
families run our and the world’s affairs.
Parents can play the role of a guide and a trainer. That might be a
fact that physically construction is difficult in making a 50 to 60-floor
building, and let me say it, that personality development is not a job of an
illiterate mother. It takes skill, education, and training. So the mother who
is not equipped with the new status of things concerning your children, also
general maturity comes after work, not by reading books only.
She must be equipped with new techniques, requirements, and necessary education.
To learn and adapt to their sibling. Mothers should know about the psyche of a
child and devise a strategy to make it available.
Last and the most least is that she should hold knowledge about how changes,
concepts, and hopes are different and distinct. While taking this leap of
humanity was much greater than the leap Neil Armstrong took by stepping on the
moon, and the century and period I am talking about is the twentieth century,
i.e. end of the nineteenth century and the start of the 20th
century, there were many changes and shifts. The most crucial time was this one
because world wars were fought in these time periods, poets and novelists like
Dickens, Hardy & Thackeray. I will conclude by reminding you of the
words Napoleon Bonaparte said to his nation said addressing his people, “Give
me educated mothers and I will deliver you a great nation.
Every parent should harbor in their children that they should also encourage
education when they reach adulthood of men and women and they should engrave
students with these things a clear parenting strategy so that children may
learn parenting so that humans and children should get safe and health no
matter the price these inventions carry great weight age in general training to
become good parents in tested times.
Bad habits like smoking are the habit of young minds who are not mature in
their approach and manners. And in such a manner, the whole society
undergoes changes and transformation.
Among them are unemployment, illiteracy, and a sluggish attitude. The same
young fellows become heads of their families.
The same tycoons’ industrialists and political people, in the
same fashion as their ancestors, take advantage of innocent middle-class people
who do not have wealth but responsibilities; more majestic and grander are
their concerns.
These people are the ones our ordinary people copy on all social media they try
to copy them and when they reach the decision that we can never have that much
wealth as they have when they reach the reality and divorce themselves from
past delusions they have malice and jealousy so bit by bit they starts to cry
for the moon and when they are exposed to what is reality they get depressed
and starts to feel themselves in a very bad shape and misfit in he world here
they become complexes stuck and broke. That is where you need addiction so that
you may deny what reality is.
So, these are the disasters of capitalism; it is more of a playground for those
rich businessmen who do not consider human beings and their problems relevant
in affairs of the world.
. Irrational thought is underway and is encouraged. Young minds, having little
or no experience, become heads of their families. Such tendencies are a norm,
and that can be a weakness in our social structure.
Inexperienced and vision less leaders are being superimposed on us, the
so-called elite class on one hand, a poor man cannot eat decent and clean food
on the other hand, so these kinds of people are at the helm of affairs, they
enjoy everything.
The so-called American dream was a lollipop that poor people kept on licking
for some time. There was a hazy sort of situation, which is now crystal clear.
There is no clear-cut formula or theory to apply for earning money; you become
wealthy if you.
The
Great Gatsby is a good example to read to get to know capitalist thought and
the American Dream. This hard fact is now fully clear and vivid, so those
people who do not earn as they desired after putting in a moderate amount of
effort and endeavor, and wanted more.
Also, it is clear through the novel that a poor man if becomes rich still the
stigma would follow him and he will never be successful in reconciling with
those who are rich and their ancestral line was rich so this sort of people
does not let a poor man living the same standard of life for poor people to
adjust in themselves if achieve and get same respect and dignity.
So, it is this world that makes poor people gangsters and terrorists as they
are not given their due share in the public money; rather, these skillful
people do all the work and are not awarded proportionate to their efforts if
compared with these capitalists’ businessman who takes everyone’s share.
Here, the scope of parenting has increased many-fold. Parents should
increase their scope. Parents need to guide through the world where, at every
new turn, there is an ambush or a cul-de-sac. The lesser role of parents has
increased societal ills, which is the main problem we are facing today.
Where love, loyalty, honesty, and audacity cannot be found under the same roof.
One has to think and learn through past experiences and from well-experienced
parents.
Parents also should not adopt an authoritarian approach. They should be candid,
polite, and act like friends. Some parents have so strict and rigid rules that
the young generation and young kids cannot share their experiences, and if our
ascent is not appropriate, it can amount to sabotaging their life, exposing
them to apocalyptic side effects.
Parents' attitude should be like a friend, not a boss, or perhaps a monarch or an
emperor. So that student should be welcome to share nearly every experience. He
or she shares his every and minutest detail with parents. I was never
blackmailed as a child, as I never hid anything from my parents. Maybe that is
why I was never blackmailed by anyone, neither my classmates nor teachers.
It is these big guns type of personalities whom we follow, and for this
reason, people become addicts just because of social, financial, and cultural
tensions and stress levels of these poor people and middle class who become
rebels in their sense. Then, as an aftermath, they don’t have a vent, so they
cannot express their inner frustration, and it is this force of tensions that
compels you to smoke so that your tension may be reduced.
PERCEIVED OR UNPOPULAR BENEFITS OF SMOKING
APPETITE SUPPRESSION
Normally,
young fellows are too crazy about their physique. They want to be as attractive
as possible to impress and make them happy through dieting in order to normal
boyfriend and girlfriend for each other. That is a pursuit normally everyone
can do.
Nicotine can shrink your appetite, make you look younger, and smarter. So, you
can impress anyone, your girlfriend or any other loved one. Caffeine does not
show any effect on hunger; however, it showed an effect on satiety of nicotine,
and therefore, there remains a relationship between caffeine and nicotine and
time interaction.
COGNITIVE STIMULATION
Once
more blessing in disguise can be used for tasks or exercise needs you to become
vigilant, and here nicotine can be used to make yourself more attentive and
alert, so that it cannot do that kind of thing regularly. It can serve the
purpose, for not very often, very rarely.
WANT TO BE MORE OF A SOCIAL FELLOW
In some groups, smoking is a sort of ritual or a social gathering, so to fulfill
some ritual, one can smoke in these circumstances. Smoking a cigar was a part
of fashion just to project your image to be standing on the pinnacle of
satisfaction.
LOWER INCIDENCE OF PARKINSON'S DISEASE
More of a sort of limbo effect. Or one can say a possible a, so there are
situations that one can compel him/herself to smoke irrespective of it, a
jeopardy.
IMPROVED REACTION TIME
Nicotine
sends a command to the nervous system to the brain, thereby temporarily causing
smokers to show a slower reaction.
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