Mankind is born with the curiosity to find out facts about everything.
However, facts come in two varieties.
Some facts are pleasing.
People like them and can not hear them enough.
Others, however, could be something that no one would like to hear for the second time.
The following facts on smoking belong to the second variety, especially for smokers who do not plan to quit.
But facts must be faced with properly in order to prevent them from getting worse.
The first fact that I am going to share is that 200 out of the 400 chemical compounds contained in a cigarette are poisonous and that up to 60 of them are carcinogenic.
These figures are the most astonishing ones that I have ever read about.
It would be intolerable to just image how we are inhaling those chemicals into our lungs.
Of course, the amount of those chemicals contained in each cigarette is very little.
But most of them can not be decomposed by the human body.
They are retained in our body and accumulated over time.
The second fact that I have to mention is that one person in every eight seconds on average dies of diseases related to cigarette smoking somewhere in the world.
I was one of those smokers who thought that the chance of live claiming from smoking is too slight to worry about.
However, this figure tells me that it is not that intangible.
The third fact that I will share with you is that the diseases caused by smoking are yet to be fully understood by scientists.
What does this mean? Everyone can come up with a long list of diseases that are related to cigarette smoking.
And this list will grow as we are learning more about smoking.
Facts are no more than some lifeless figures.
Their importance lies in how they are interpreted and reacted to by individuals.
One may make his or her mind up to give smoking up on the basis of one single fact.
But they might just be some meaningless figures for someone else.