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there. You will never smoke again if you see this tar which normally enters your body with each cigarette smoked.
Today thousands of people world over are earning their livelihood on tobacco farming, trading, cigarette manufacture, advertisement and sale. Within a specified period alternative means to earn livelihood should be offered and established. If people unite the world over and make a serious effort to develop suitable profession/ trade as substitute to those who depend on tobacco based products for their livelihood, this planet can be 90% free from tobacco in just 10 years !
Taking tobacco in any form is harmful to body.
Let us resolve not to chew tobacco. Letus resolve not to smoke tobacco.
Smoking in all offices, industries, public gardens, roads, railways and aeroplanes should be prohibited to begin the drive with ultimate aim to stop tobacco consumption totally.
!. With growing industrialisation drinking alcohol is becoming a status symbol. A party without alcohol is not considered a 'party' at all ! Alcoholic addiction is a mental disorder (Dipsomania). It causes physical, psychological, family, social and national damage.
Let us resolve not to inhale tobacco.
Smoking affects brain and nervous system, respiratory and circulatory system. Alcohol affects all these systems and additionally damages liver and digestive system.
The drinking habit begins as a company to disillusioned friends, to have fun, to enjoy life, to get rid of disgust, sadness, humiliation, worries, anxieties, troubles etc. It is ignorance and lack of knowledge.
Unfortunately if any of these habits has been developed, one should slowly reduce and finally stop the habit. The idea that tobacco refreshes and freshens the brain and the nervous system is merely an illusion. In fact tobacco causes interference in the working of the brain and the nervous system, adversely affecting its functioning. Tobacco contains poisonous nicotine and tar. The tar enters the bronchii and gets deposited there. Slowly the deposits increase reducing the amount of air inhaled and amount of oxygen supplied to the body. Take a filtered cigarette, wet it's filter in water. Open the filtter after smoking and observe the tar trapped
"Alcoholic
Anon'ymus" Organisation is working the world over to eliminate alcoholic addiction and everyone should contribute financially or otherwise to such organisations working for betterment of mankind.
Let us resolve to make the mankind free from addiction, starting from ourselves.
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