- 1 Post - 0 Comments There are lots of smokers in Hong Kong.
While you pass by on the street, you will surely inhale in some
air filled with smoke as you walk by. Both smokers and non-
smokers are affected by smoking; as unfair as that sounds, it is
true and it is called 'second-hand smoking'. Recent researches
have also found that passive smokers die more quicker than
smokers. According to the study of School of Public Health and
Department of Community Medicine, The University of Hong Kong,
tobacco is responsible for 5,600 and 1,300 deaths caused by
smoking and secondhand smoke respectively. It is said that the
life span of smokers is shorten by 10 years compared to that of
smokers. Dozens of diseases (eg. respiratory and heart diseases)
arise from consuming cigarettes and most commonly, lung cancer
is caused and mainly causes death of smokers. There are
different reasons why people smoke, some do so to release stress
while many these days smoke due to curiousitiy (mainly the teens
nowadays). What will the