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The adverse effects of smoking
Author(s) -
Dasgupta Prokar
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
bju international
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.773
H-Index - 148
eISSN - 1464-410X
pISSN - 1464-4096
DOI - 10.1111/bju.13665
Subject(s) - headline , opposition (politics) , appeal , population , medicine , public health , government (linguistics) , history , political science , demography , environmental health , law , advertising , sociology , pathology , business , linguistics , philosophy , politics
During my teenage years, I remember smoking being ‘cool’ and fashionable amongst the young. This misconception was largely driven by Hollywood, Bollywood and the rock ‘n’ roll belief that a cigarette dangling casually from your lips somehow made you look more attractive. Perhaps it did, but the deleterious effects within the body took many years to manifest and many lives were lost as a result, often unnecessarily.