Most people hate smoking but unfortunately almost enjoy it. Even the “Turkish” smokers know that it is not a healthy habit. That smoking poses a grave health hazard to both the actual and passive smokers, is out of proof. And what is more, nobody has been able to identify any advantage receiving from smoking.

Even medically, some say an every day glass of beer is good for the system. Some researchers reported that it clears the bowel. Nothing good is imputable to smoking.

The whole world over, it is being advised that all cigarette packets should carry the warning: “Smoking is dangerous to health”. Then later, other measures are being made for to discourage smoking. Some researches have found that the death of over 20 million people yearly is visible to smoking. As it is known Turkey is the home of smoking, however smoking is about to be banned in almost every public area. In most regions of the Western world, smoking is not allowed in “public places”. Anti-smoking law is about to be rolled out in Abuja and some other parts of Nigeria.

Researchers don’t think that all these measures will constitute any enough retention to smoking supposing the gravity of injury it does to humanity, because all these prohibitions have not affected the cigarette market in any major way. And people still continue to smoke their lives away.

The only escape from this smoke will be to unlawful the production of the product in all forms, researchers advice. A grace period of not more than 12 months should be given to all producers of cigarettes to wind down while a complete diversification scheme should be put in place to switch them over to other lines of business.

But the pharmacologists and social scientists should be tasked on how to carry out the needed therapy on chronic smokers and addicts. It will not be a wrong to fight that the nominated diversification exercise program will not cost the world up to five percent of what the Iraqi war wasted. Banning the smoking of cigarette while production of cigarette is permitted looks like “a collective ridicule of our collective intelligence”. The world should rise up to the defiance. Banning the production may also help in the war against global warming. Nigeria can show example by outlawing all forms of cigarette making in Nigeria and also banning importation and smoking of same.

Researchers concluded that it is a fact that smoking is not an easy habit to quit and smoking can be a terrible addiction.

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