A brief project of Creative Thinking & Critical Reasoning related to smoking, its causes, as well as the facts about smoking..

1. Smoking, An
Inception
towards
Destruction
To:
Prof. Muhammed
Shafiq
By:
Malik Taimoor
Raja MuneebAnwar
Muhammad Owais
Shuja-Ul-Islam

2. INTRODUCTION:
Smoking is now becoming a big issue throughout the world and especially in the Pakistan.
Everyone knows the side effects that the cigarette is giving to its user but the hardest thing to
understand is that why do smokers still smoke regardless of its bad effects.
According to WHO statistics
"Tobacco is the second major cause of death in the world. It is currently responsible for the death
of one in ten adults’ worldwide (about 5 million deaths each year). If current smoking patterns
continue, it will cause some 10 million deaths each year by 2020. Half the people that smoke
today - that is about 650 million people - will eventually be killed by tobacco."
PROBLEM STATEMENT:
Nicotine is the addictive drug in tobacco smoke that causes smokers to continue to smoke.
Addicted smokers need enough nicotine over a day to ‘feel normal’ – to satisfy cravings or
control their mood. How much nicotine a smoker needs determines how much smoke they are
likely to inhale, no matter what type of cigarette they smoke.
Along with nicotine, smokers inhale about 7,000 other chemicals in cigarette smoke. Many of
these chemicals come from burning tobacco leaf. Some of these compounds are chemically
active and trigger profound and damaging changes in the body. Following are the problems
(Premises) related to smoking.
1. Smoking leads to death.
2. Smoking is a major cause for different health diseases.
3. Smoking causes cardiovascular diseases.
4. Smoking effects environment and surroundings.
5. Smoking is difficult to quit.
6. Smoking is a fashion nowadays.
7. Smoking begins from the influence of celebrities.

3. DEFENSE(Logicalstrength)
1. Smoking leads to death:
Smoking causes more deaths each year than all of these combined
 Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
 Illegal drug use
 Alcohol use
 Motor vehicle injuries
 Firearm-related incidents
Smoking causes about 90% (or 9 out of 10) of all lung cancer deaths in men and women.
More women die from lung cancer each year than from breast cancer. The risk of dying
from cigarette smoking has increased over the last 20 years in men and women in
Pakistan.
2. Smoking is a major cause for different health diseases:
Smoking is estimated to increase the risk
 For coronary heart disease by 2 to 4 times
 For stroke by 2 to 4 times
 Of men developing lung cancer by 25 times
 Of women developing lung cancer by 25.7 times
Smoking causes diminished overall health, such as self-reported poor health, increased
absenteeism from work, and increased health care utilization and cost.
3. Smoking causes cardiovascular diseases:
Smokers are at greater risk for diseases that affect the heart and blood vessels
(cardiovascular disease).
 Smoking causes stroke and coronary heart disease—the leading causes of death in
the United States.
 Even people who smoke fewer than five cigarettes a day can have early signs of
cardiovascular disease.

4.  Smoking damages blood vessels and can make them thicken and grow narrower.
This makes your heart beat faster and your blood pressure go up. Clots can also
form.
 A heart attack occurs when a clot blocks the blood flow to your heart. When this
happens, your heart cannot get enough oxygen. This damages the heart muscle,
and part of the heart muscle can die.
 A stroke occurs when a clot blocks the blood flow to part of your brain or when a
blood vessel in or around your brain bursts.
 Blockages caused by smoking can also reduce blood flow to your legs and skin.
4. Smoking effects environment and surroundings:
Cigarettes do not just harm the people who smoke. They also harm the people who are
near cigarettes and breathe the smoke. This includes fetuses (unborn babies still inside
their mothers) and small children. They are breathing second hand smoke. Second hand
smoke is the smoke that comes out of the lit end of a cigarette and that a smoker exhales
(breathes out). Second hand smoke is also called passive smoke, involuntary smoke, and
environmental tobacco smoke.
5. Smoking is difficult to quit:
As more people learn about the dangers of cigarettes to everyone, city, state, and national
governments are passing laws against smoking. Smokers are finding fewer places outside
their own homes and cars where they can smoke. Smoking is no longer socially
acceptable. Less than ten years ago, people could smoke almost anywhere and feel
comfortable. One result of these new laws and increased public information about
cigarettes is that more and more smokers are quitting. More than 3 million Americans
quit smoking each year.
6. Smoking is a fashion nowadays:
Although smoking is bad for one's health, it is fashionable. Smoking has always been
featured in television and movies as a feature of fashion. The fact that smoking is bad for
one's health makes it more attractive. People who are fashionable do not care of they will
die young because they care more about having fun.

5. 7. Smoking begins from the influence of celebrities:
Many teenagers see different movies in which they see their favorite celebrities smoking.
This thing influences a lot in their minds and as a result, they start smoking which they
think they represent their celebrities.
RECOMMENDATIONSand CONCLUSION:
1. Smoking leads to death.
It is recommended that smoking should be avoided, if your relative or friend is smoking
then it is recommended to tell them the hazards of smoking. Whatever the mental state
will be, smoking should be avoided. It is because the awareness about the hazards of
smoking is very necessary.
2. Smoking is a major cause for different health diseases.
People have different perceptions about their attitudes their natures which lead them
towards smoking.
3. Smoking causes cardiovascular diseases.
Heart disease and stroke are major causes of death and disability in the United States.
Many people are at high risk for these diseases and don't know it. The good news is that
many risk factors for heart disease and stroke can be prevented or controlled.
4. Smoking effects environment and surroundings.
Separating smokers from nonsmokers, opening windows, or using air filters does not
prevent people from breathing secondhand smoke. You can take steps to protect yourself
and your family from secondhand smoke, such as making your home and vehicles
smoke-free. Not allowing anyone to smoke anywhere in or near your home. These
include the following:
Avoid breathing secondhand smoke
Eat a healthy diet

6. Maintain a healthy weight
Exercise regularly
Limit alcohol use
5. Smoking is difficult to quit.
Government should distribute free medicines and rehabilitation from smoking. Patches
should be provided for free or at low cost.
6. Smoking is a fashion nowadays.
Teach your children to stay away from second-hand smoking.
7. Smoking begins from the influence of celebrities.
It is recommended that different TV shows and movies should flash a message against
the smoking. The inspirations of youth should also participate in antismoking campaigns.
Always being a good role model by not smoking or using any other type of tobacco.
FINDINGS:
1. Research found that old people are heavy smokers than young people who are less than
25 years.
2. Most of the youth smoking just for fashion and some of them smoke due to stress of
education. That’s why smoking is common among youth.
3. Married people are agreed that they smoke when they tired and smoking wakes them up,
on the other side unmarried people are neutral on that aspect. So that married people
smoke more.
4. Most of student thinks that smoking gives them some rid of from tension of education, so
that their percentage is more than the others.
5. Educated people think that smoking effect their health. So that they don’t smoke.
6. Tobacco use climate also influence other people to smoke because most of smokers have
other smokers in their household and friends.
7. One other interesting thing is found that bad company force people to start smoking
because most people told that they smoke 1st with their friend.
8. Old people agreed that they are addicted to smoke while youth disagreed.
9. Most of people that smoking has no effect on weight.

7. 10. Most of the people say that they have seen the advertisement of smoking and antismoking
messages on television, billboards, posters, newspapers, magazines, and movies but had
no effect on them.
11. Most of the people agreed that there was a minimum legal age for buying but there was
no implementation on this law.