吸烟的危害（英文）

Smoking - A Bad Habit

People smoke mostly in the form of cigarette. Some people use even cigar, beedi, pipes etc. All these contain dried leaves of tobacco plant. A cigarette or any such thing is lit for the purpose of inhaling smoke. That smoke contains a harmful substance 'nicotine'. Tobacco is an agricultural product, grown in the farms. Farmers get good income by growing the tobacco as an agricultural plant. Tobacco is also used in preparation of some medicines. But when tobacco is used to smoke just for pleasure, is harmful to life.

Smoking causes many harmful diseases like lung cancer, emphysema, heart attacks, high blood pressure, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and can lead to birth effects. Some people smoke just for fashion. Generally a person starts smoking with friends or colleagues just for fun. Slowly they get addicted and later they reach to a stage where they can't resist themselves from smoking and become 'chain smoker