Smoking - pleasure or pain?

Smoking – Pleasure or Pain?

Nicotine is a drug, and just because it is legal it does not mean it can’t kill you or cause you serious harm. Most cases of lung cancer are caused by smoking. About 25% of heart disease is caused by smoking. Every cigarette you have shortens your life by five and a half minutes, and if you smoke regularly your life is shortened by one day per week. These are a few of the harsh facts related to smoking nicotine. Even if you give up smoking you can still contract lung cancer and other diseases years later, for example George Harrison smoked since he was seventeen, but gave up about a decade ago. He was diagnosed with lung cancer a short while ago.
Many people who smoke wish they could give it up, but physically cannot because they do not have enough willpower. If smoking was banned by the government then the majority of these people would resort to buying cigarettes off the black market, as do illegal drug addicts. These nicotine addicts ar...