Your Lungs

‘Smoking is injurious to health’. No, no, ‘smoking causes cancer’. Umm no, what should be the punch line? These lines are so common, people see it everywhere everyday, in movies, televisions, advertisements and even in the packaging of the box of cigarettes. But nobody cares. Do they? People know that they should not take it, but they are taking it consciously. Have you ever wondered why this happens? Okay, cigarettes are harmful to our lungs, to our body. So, if we are to prevent people from taking it, we have to help them to love their bodies, their health. Because if you don’t love your body truly, you won’t do anything to keep it healthy and sane. There is a saying, “your body is a temple”, and temples are to be worshipped and treated purely. So, in order to prevent cancer and other diseases caused by smoking, you have to love and worship your health make people, around you, understand the importance of healthy living.

Now, these awarnesses are not going to strike in people’s head overnight obviously. So, what’s our part in it!? Our part is not only to spread awareness but to find a way to make the awareness long lasting; and that is through education. The more children become educated; they will be able to spread cognition in the society. Though the idea of making a disease-free world is so Elusive and utopic, and we can not eradicate all the wickedness from the world, what we can do is to make our surroundings a better place to live in; to make the society a healthier one. And I am talking not only about physical health but the mental sanity that keeps us aware of the anatomical well-being. Moreover, we can just say things like “you should do this, you should do that” but to understand such things like loving and worshipping your own body are not so easy on the part of many people. This takes a lot of time.

And addiction is something that kills you slowly. Nobody can help you, no doctor, no therapist, except you. If you are capable to make right decisions and strong enough to stick to your decision then only you are spared, unless may God save you; save you not from any particular disease but your failure to love yourself, that is God’ creation. I don’t know if I got the punchline for my article, but I made it very clear, I guess, that if you don’t love yourself, this whole “Do Not Smoke” thing becomes worthless.

--------- Aditi Sarkar