12/04/2024
CAUSES OF SMOKING CIGARETTE/HARD DRUGS
Any time I view the sachet of ci******es, I begin to wonder whether those smoking cannot read the write-up nor understand the drawing on it that is provided by the ministry of health. Is it possible for someone to understand both the write-up and the drawing and still volunteer to do so?
I remember several occasions I interviewed some of my friends, age-mate, relatives etc, who engage in smoking or taking of hard drugs. The first person I approach was a 45 years old man, he narrated the story of how he started smoking cigarette. All he said was about hardship, loneliness, and lack of parental consent.
Many young men of my age have shared with me their stories of how they started indulging in smoking, drinking, or taking of hard drugs. Some of them started it as a result of bad friends, and this seems to be the most dangerous cause of smoking and taking of hard drugs.
From the above testimonies, you will derive many causes of smoking cigarette. This includes:
1. Bad friends
2. Hardship
3. Lack of parental consent
4. Loneliness
Most people started taking hard drugs or SMOKING CIGARETTE by the influence of bad friends. Bad friends most often caused us to change from good to the bad way of life, by telling us only the sweetest side of that act in which they indulge in. Not knowing that the act(s) has more effect of them to the benefit. On the other hand, most parents failed to accomplish their obligations as parents or guardians of their children. Some even help in introducing the innocents children into hard life thereby making them to think they are doing the right thing. Also loneliness can in one situation or the other contribute to someone's hard life.
Parents must be careful with the training of their children, especially those who are already taking hard drugs or drink or SMOKING. So as to avoid the children from inheriting such acts. Also importantly, we must be careful with the friends we make so as to avoid hard life ( which is disregarded in the society).
Lastly, I think 80% of those smoking/drinking/ taking hard drugs are illiterate because the receive no education about those actions. Although literate people also may be observed to be practicing such acts, but to me I called them educated illiterate people. Because they cannot understand what they have learnt.
This write-up is not meant to offend anyone but to draw our attention to what is drastically taking away our money and causing us harm.
Thanks
Melaba, Linus Shagbaor.