7 - The Untold Truth About Smoking

According to studies, you reduce your life span by 11 minutes every time you smoke a cigarette. Smoking can cause lung cancer, pneumonia, emphysema, stroke, and even heart disease that’s why we should start making an action to prevent everyone from smoking. 

Last October 2015, we’ve had the chance to listen to Engr. Emer Rojas, a cancer survivor who is the founder of New Vois Association of the Philippines. He shared to us his story about how he lost his voice box. He told us that he became addicted to smoking on his teenage years and because of that he got diagnosed with throat cancer losing his voice box. In order to speak, he uses a device called electro-larynx which replaces the functions of the vocal cords to produce sound. Through his experience, he started a campaign against smoking to prevent people from having diseases caused by smoking.

Because of his campaign, he was awarded the 2015 Healthy Lifestyle Exemplar Award. In our school, he presented some cigarette pack samples which have pictures of different diseases that can be obtained through smoking. Hoping that it will discourage these young people who thinks that smoking is really cool. He even gave free T-shirts with an indication of “No Smoking” on it to those students who will admit that they smoke. 

Every time that I go to school in the morning or buy something outside the campus, I always notice some APC students and faculty members smoking to kill some time during their break. I guess it is really hard to stop smoking in an instant but I know that the number of smokers in the whole world will soon deplete. To those smokers out there, smoking may look “cool” to you but the truth is it will just reduce your life span.

 

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