APC Anti-smoking campaign

APC Anti-Smoking Campaign

We all know someone who smokes on a daily basis, right? Whether it be a family member, a close friend, or maybe someone who you happen to just pass by every day. But it does not matter if you know the person or not, you should at least be concerned for their health.

According to various websites, smoking can cause so much harm to your health. One of the main health threats caused by smoking is lung cancer.

Written in Wikipedia, lung cancer, also known as Lung Carcinoma, is a malignant lung tumor characterized by uncontrolled cell growth in tissues of the lung. If this is left untreated, this growth can spread beyond the lung by the process of metastasis into nearby tissue or other parts of the body.

This is mainly caused by smoking tobacco, and also often caused by a combination of genetic factors, and exposure to radon gas, asbestos, second-hand smoke, or other forms of air pollution.

Lung cancer is the number one case of cancer deaths in both women and men worldwide according to MedicineNet.com. There are two types of lung cancer, which grow and spread differently, are the small cell lung cancers (SCLC) and non-small cell lung cancers (NSCLC).

Treatment of lung cancer can involve a combination of surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation therapy as well as newer experimental methods.

If you know someone who smokes, and this person is someone you hold very dear, tell this person to stop. Tell them that it is not good for their health. Also, you could try and persuade a stranger, tell them about the bad effects of smoking, tell them that they’re cutting their lives very shortly.

And if you yourself are smoking, tell yourself – “Is doing this going to benefit me in a way?- I mean if smoking is your way of getting rid of stress, there’s got to be another, and albeit, healthier way, right?

Think of the consequences it’s going to cause you, the treatments you’ll need if you get complications, and more importantly, think of the people you’d leave behind.

So stop smoking now, and help raise awareness.