Essay about smoking lead to drugs addiction

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Professor Edward Santoro

ENGL 1301

November 9, 2016

Smoking Lead to Drug Addiction

Now we are facing a serious and dangerous situation, which is smoking. Smoking can lead to many severe problems. It is a bad habit and people can be addicted to it, especially teenagers. But not only smoking is bad for our health, it can lead any addict to smoke drugs “Weed”. Using drugs in the past was for medical purposes, but now a days people who are using drugs, they using it to run away from realty.

According to Pamela Jo Bondi is an American attorney and politician and member of the Republican Party who serves as the current Attorney General of Florida, “We realize that drug addiction is a sickness, but it’s also a crime”. The illegal drugs addition causes a great number of deaths every year. It makes people to lose their loved ones, this fight for their loved ones and does not even allow them to get it punished as there is nothing a man can do with such a thing. Every year many people move towards the threat of smoking and drug addiction and meet their destiny, death. This is not enough, a great number of people develop disabilities in their mental and physical capabilities that in turn takes away the happiness of a man’s life. Moreover, it makes him a heavy weight on his family, as they have to support a person who has developed a disability for such a bad behavior (Le Moal). The family members find it difficult to cope with an illness that has been taken up by a man on his own choice and can only be shaken off if the person himself desires so. As family problems, the addict can’t function as a normal person does, his mind is somewhere else. The addict can’t feel ant emotion because drugs are in control of him. Often people who are using drugs interfere with the time spend with his family. Also drug users are afraid of risk of heart attack, because it increases the heart rate and it can be a quick death. And it causes the lost for the family either the father or husband or brother. Many families are suffered from missing their loved once who are become isolated form the rest of the family. Also some addict become dangerous in their family, when they are fear, anger, or suspicion. On many occasion they can lead their family change and to suffer from a lot of pain.

It has been seen that there are some people who do not show much concern towards their kids if they happen to see them smoking. they regard smoking a habit that does not do much harm to the body and the behaviors of their kids. That is reason whey such people are unaware of the possibility of their kids to use illegal drugs. Teenagers usually fall to the dangerous of smoking for several reason, some of the reasons for which a person starts smoking such as peer pressure, experimentation, dependence, self-medication to deal the psychological problems, to look cool, and to have pleasure.

Many addict who are using drugs are suffered from family problem like divorce. They become independent on drugs to forget the real world and to be isolated from the rest of the world. Especially minor children who are still dependent on their parents material and emotional, because they are living to separate life and it can lead to psychological problems.

Addict loses their interest in everything, like their dreams and hopes for the future. They can give up in everything to get drugs like their studies. All what thing think about is how they can afford drugs and get what they need. And if they were caught and sent to prison their future is lost forever.

Addict can lose many thing-using drugs, especially their family. Also because drugs can affect their future and the future of their children. Research shows that parents who are using drugs their children suffer from mental illness.

Cigarettes are rich in nicotine that highly addictive and helps fighting the depression. People usually start with smoking to fight the depression. They believe that cigarettes can be their peers that are always there for them whenever they need them. Because of their low prices and their ability to deal with the depression rightly just like anti-depression pills, they have become the favorite of those people who are facing depression. Such people are too vulnerable at their will their power that they fall a victim to such thing. Moreover, if they are ever told of the effects of such illegal drugs on their minds, then they will with draw from it right away. They develop an affinity towards the illegal drugs usage and end up trying hard to give up on that as Luke Davies said, "when you can stop you don't want to, and when you want to stop, you can't".

The smokers get addicted to smoking for the reason it causes them to have a pleasure. It makes them relaxed and makes them feel as if they are in place where there is nothing to worry about (Baler). At the earlier stage even the small amount of nicotine works to give this feeling, but slowly the body gets used to it and requires more of nicotine to get the same feeling the relax feeling. So, in this way the smoker becomes addicted it to. The supporters of the view that smoking leads to drugs using argue that when the cigarettes stop giving the same or desired level of pleasure to the person then he move towards the drugs. They argue that the body of the person becomes accustomed to the feeling that cigarettes give and keep on asking for more. They say that as it is difficult for a person to smoke a whole pack of cigarettes for this reason, they either choose to use drugs. They say that smoking kills the person's ability that makes him/her unable to keep away from this pleasure for large portion of time. He became helpless for this and goes for illegal drug that has faster effect in comparison to cigarettes. According to Dr. T.P.Chia, "Drug addiction can't be cured if the fear not consuming drugs is greater than the willpower to quit doing drugs". Therefore, one is ought to have a strong and dedicated will in order to abandon the drug addiction.