Anti-Smoking Campaign – An Eye Opener
This parcel of the World Wide Web served as an eye catcher. I have experienced listening to different symposiums or seminars about anti-smoking and all of those talked about lung damage.
Going back in our Anatomy and Physiology, the lungs play an essential role in our body. Without it, we won’t be able to breathe fresh air and expel whatever foreign body enters an organism like us. Vital – one of its concrete description, yet vulnerable once it has been damaged. Unknowingly to some most especially to the lay, its not only the lungs that can be damaged by smoking, and this includes our blood vessels. Nicotine, is one of highest content of cigarette, is potent vasoconstrictor which causes blood pressure of some to shoot up consequently with chronic smoking.
In addition, as stated in the article, fatty depositions will eventually build up, causing diameter change of the blood vessels and lead to hypertension and later on heart diseases and even stroke. See, all of our body parts are interconnected with each other. What happens to one organ, affects the other parts of the body. It’s like a chain reaction, or could be associated with Newton’s third Law of motion which states that “For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.” Smoking – is dangerous to our health, just like what most of the cigarette commercials warn their televiewers.
As student nurses, we should be advocates of good health. Anti-Smoking campaigns are examples of the activities that we need to participate. Some students are even smoking in front of their schools or even in their school grounds and these students are wearing their nursing uniforms. But I don’t want to be one of them and I want to set the example of having healthy lungs. Why would I care so much in buying one stick of cigarette and suffer later on life? I’d rather have my leisure time spent on places with clean, fresh air. In that way, I’ll be able to protect my lungs. Our organs are God-given gift, and taking care of them is our responsibility.
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