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INTRODUCTION

“No smoking please, cigarette smoking is dangerous to your health, smoking kills!” These are just some of the most renowned phrases we could see almost everywhere in the corners of the Philippines or even world! However, it seems that smoking has already been part of our culture that Filipinos tend to pay no attention to these anymore. Air is covered with toxic smokes which mostly are brought by the smokes coming out of the cigars. The big question is; people are aware of the bad effects that smoking can bring but why is it that some still relentlessly continue to do so? Cigarettes have multitude effects to the human body, not just being dangerous to our health. Some of these effects are actually pleasurable and desirable; that's why so many people get hooked to smoking. Many people who smoke say that they feel less stressed after smoking; others say that smoking makes them look cool and perhaps they can get more friends or maybe have people

admiring them. And of course, there are still a lot reasons existing out there for each of these smokers that make them really addicted to it, but what they don’t realize is that the nicotine in a cigarette is the highly addictive substance, that once they start they will find it hard to wean off. I guess the government has done a few of the things that they can do to reduce the number of people smoking such as doing anti-smoking campaigns and increasing tax rate for cigarettes; however, it seems that none of these can overcome the addiction that most cigarette smokers have for cigarettes.

But what is smoking? And when and how did it actually start? Smoking is a practice in which a substance, most commonly tobacco, is burned and the smoke tasted or inhaled. This is primarily practiced as a route of administration for recreational drug use, as combustion releases the active substances in drugs such as nicotine and makes them available for absorption through the lungs. It can also be done as a part...