Do You Believe That Smoking Is Good?

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Do You Believe That Smoking Is Good?

Smoking is a practice of burning a substance, most commonly tobacco in order to get smoke taste or inhaled. Many people state that smoking is one of the worst things people can do to their bodies. Unknown writer in his entitled article “What are the real advantages of smoking” (from http: / / answers. yahoo. com / question / index? Qid = 200607 301 61102AA6Titf) states that smoking can cause cancer, emphysema, and heart disease; it can make your life shorten by 10 years or more. Smoking also can cost a smoker a million Rupiah or more in a year, it is too expensive! The most dangerous cause of smoking is addiction. In smoking, you burn a cigarette that is made by tobacco. Tobacco contains nicotine which is highly addictive. It is similar with heroin or other addictive drug, the body and mind quickly become so used to it so that a smoker needs to have it only to feel normal. But the writer thinks smoking not only gives bad effects but also some good effects especially in term of social life. So in this essay the writer is going to argue some advantages of smoking specifically in smokers’ social life and healthy.

Some smokers say that smoking can make them feel really calm, enjoy, happy and pleasure. Smokers will feel enjoy when they are smoking. It is because cigarette contains nicotine which make the smokers feel enjoys and pleasure. As the writer said before, nicotine has the same effect with other addictive drugs that can make the smokers forgetting their problem. I have a friend who is a smoker (but he is not an addicted smoker). He says that he feel really relaxed when he smoke. Actually he know that everyone says it is so bad for him, but he only does it when he is extremely stress, frustrated, or boring. When he was in senior high school, he would suck two packs a day when he felt under pressure or had many problems. After smoking he became calm and he could use his logical to solve the problems. Smoking also can kill the time when you feel boring. It is a well known fact. I sometimes smoke in order to kill the time when I am boring. When I wait for someone in certain places such as park, bus terminal, or campus, I smoke to fill spare time. People who are smoker also smoke for breaking a half any occupation time. As I see in many government offices, many staff especially men smoke in the work time. They smoke because they do not have much work. So they choose to smoke in order to avoid boring and feeling frustrated. In short, those facts reveal that smoking can make the smokers fell really relaxed; even it can reduce or avoid stress and frustrated.

Also smoking is important for social life. The first argument comes from the teenagers. Teenagers state that smoking helps them to have friends. In this case I do not suggest that they must be a smoker if the want many friends. But I am talking about the fact. In certain case they will be easy mix with their friends if they are smoker. I have experience about this situation; when I was in senior high school some of my friends are smokers. They often smoked together and formed social subgroups. During smoke-time, they often had most interesting discussion that non-smokers did not seem to have. I was very interest with their discussion. So I had to be smoker if I joined with them. Most teenagers also say that smoking is a cool action. They are proud of smoking action. I think this opinion comes from teenagers’ habit which likes the idea of doing something dangerous. Others might think a lot of people are smoke and they want to act or look like an adult. They think they look grown up when they are smoking. Whatever the reasons, the fact is teenagers’ self confidence increase when they are smoking. Another argument of the importance of smoking in social life is a smoker helps the humanity. This is an economical factor. The people, who are smoker, economically protect other people loosing their jobs. Can you imagine there are many people depends on a smoker; tobacco farmers and millions of people employed at Cigarette Factories (such as Sampoerna Tbk, Gudang Garam, Djarum etc) - and it does not including doctors, medical sisters, the firemen, serving dry-cleaners, pharmacists, cigarette shops etc - . In addition the government makes billion of Rupiah every year in taxes from cigarette industry. So if all smokers stop smoking, a majority of society will suffer because they lose their jobs and the government will lose its potential income. In short, having many friends, increasing self confidence, and protecting majority society’s jobs are some smokers’ role in social life.

Many people claim that smoking only gives bad effects for healthy, but I find some surprising facts about the good effects of smoking in terms of smokers’ healthy. I notice that smoking is a great activity to retreat into your attention and focus inward, or in other word it can increase mental focus and acuity. I want to tell you my experience; my uncle is an addicted smoker. He often smokes when he types his work in computer. Firstly I wonder why he likes smoke during his work. He states that smoking can help him focus on his work. I think it happens because of nicotine effects. Nicotine helps him calm and he will get energy for much focused task. If you look around you, you also will find another smokers smoke during their work. Another fact is smoking can reduce stress or frustration. It can be a powerful anti-depressant. It can calm you down or give you energy as you desire (by adjusting the dose). Even a doctor use smoking for a stressed patient. He/she is suggested to smoke in order to get nice effects of a drug. He/she will be calm and enjoy without impairing his/her performance like the way other addictive drug; alcohol, marijuana or ecstasy do. So, smoking can be an alternative remedy for stressed people. So if you are a smoker, you can debate any people who state that smoking only gives bad effect for your body.

Basically many people believe that smoking is a dangerous habit. They think that smoker or addicted smoker is a dull person. They think that smoker only does a useless thing; spend the money for harming smoker’s healthy. But those people must look from other perspectives or point of view. God creates something in this world with both good sides and bad sides. So smoking not only has bad sides but also good sides. Smoking gives good effects in term of social life and healthy. I do believe that smoking still has another good effect in term of another aspect.

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