drugs that cigarette!

Cigarettes are the gateway for drugs. More specifically, the cigarette itself is actually included in the definition of drugs. Yes, in the midst of an anti-drug campaign in the community, was not much aware of this. Smoking is now no longer a purely medical problem, but it already has its own complexity.
Drugs in the sense of active substances contained 3 groups of Narcotics, Psychotropic and Addictive other materials. Smoking together with alcohol fall into the latter group. Nicotine is one component of cigarettes is a stimulant psychotropic substances. So the fact that cigarette is a drug too. Therefore, smoking also has the main properties of other drugs like that is habituation, addiction and tolerance.Habituation is a sense of longing, constantly passing in the mind on the use of substances, so that someone will continue to want to use these substances when gathered with fellow users. While addiction is a compulsive urge to use a substance accompanied the signs of dependence.
Dependency itself can be a psychological dependence (psychological dependence) or physiological dependence (physiological dependence). Addiction is a psychological compulsion to use substances meet the psychological needs, such as for coping with stress. While the physiological dependence means that the process of the body such that the functional changes due to regular exposure to the substance.Tolerance is an example of physiological dependence, ie with increasing time of use then use the next substance needed larger doses than ever to achieve the same effect enjoyment. Tolerance is what will make a smoker, and other drug users, continue to increase the number of cigarettes smoked over time.
Cigarettes are the cheapest and OTC drugs. With a piece of money USD 1000.00 somebody was able to get a cigarette that contains 4000 kinds of chemical substances. None of the pharmaceutical product that contains 4000 kinds of chemical substances can be purchased at a price so cheap. Therefore, whoever is easy to obtain a cigarette, from their old age and elementary school children. Besides smoking also gives pleasure, although temporary, and it must have been the magnet for unstable individuals who are not satisfied of the fact of life, or for teenagers as loyal friends during get-togethers.
So do not be surprised if the bad habit of smoking has become popular in the community. Based on reports of Breslau et al (2001), 1 in 4 adults in the United States has a dependence on nicotine, although the recent popularity of smoking among adolescents of uncle Sam continued to sag. Population of Indonesia itself is one of the world's largest consumer of cigarettes, and cigarette production has a magnitude that does not lose anyway. This fact makes a variety of foreign tobacco companies like Philip Morris, fight for market share in this country.
And finally as cigarette imports and investment from developed countries are increasingly massive, the diseases associated with cigarettes are also imported.Cardiovascular disease and cancer (especially lung cancer) are currently occupying the top cause of death in Indonesia, shifting the range of infectious diseases.
There are several stages experienced by a smoker to a stage of dependency. The first stage is experimental or trial and error. They began to inhale smoke to seek peace, more energy and escape from everyday stress. At this stage, a smoker feels confident can still control the habit of smoking.
In the next stage, namely the use of routine, smokers began to be controlled by the terrible effects of nicotine. At this stage of denial plays an important role. Smokers will deny that he can not control the smoking habit again, deny that that habit can cause various fatal diseases. Actually he knows the dangers of smoking, but the pleasure has already covered the pseudo-anxiety and common sense. With this denial, it is no wonder the anti-smoking campaign that carries a variety of health hazards of smoking to be raw.
Final stage is a dependency, in which cigarette smokers have become loyal friends all the time, and without them, smokers will complain of a wide range of afflictions from bitter to the mouth of a fever. And furthermore, he will smoke more, not just seek pleasure like the early stages but to avoid the pain of withdrawal.
Given that the cigarettes came from trial and error, curiosity and solidarity, then it is no exaggeration to say that individual smokers are also susceptible to other drugs.Cigarettes are a gateway to other drugs. Deaths due to diseases related to smoking is greater than the deaths due to other drug types. Expense of the state to care for residents who suffer from diseases associated with smoking is also greater than the revenue from cigarette taxes.
Unfortunately cigarettes are the only drugs that can attack people who do not participate to use it. Several studies have mentioned that passive smokers have an increased risk of more or less the same as active smokers to suffer from coronary heart disease, respiratory tract, cataracts and even lung cancer. So there is no doubt that cigarettes more dangerous than other types of drugs.
Smoking is not just a health issue, but involves also the political, business, social, social, psychological and poverty. Although the known risks of smoking so much, it is impossible to ban cigarette factory to operate. The cigarette industry is where the velocity of money is a great form of employment as well as the largest contributor to the state tax. Some of the richest people in this country comes from the tobacco industry. Smoking has long been a major sponsor various sports programs, especially football which is very popular in the community. Cigarette ads always show a masculine figure of a man and adventurous spirit so as to win the hearts of teens who are full-time dream to become an idol. Thus, what's a little appeal to the health hazards of smoking are listed in the pack of cigarettes than tobacco advertising is so magnificent. This is what makes cigarettes as a drug that 'legalized'. Even when a drug case has been continued to fluctuate, cigarettes are always overlooked as a root of the problem drug. How might we want to eliminate weeds without unplugging its roots?
Although cigarettes fortified with sturdy by political and business elements, does not mean that efforts to combat smoking should be stopped in the middle of the road.Anti-smoking campaign efforts should continue to be encouraged, but with various other approaches. During this approach by highlighting the various health threat has been widely used, and usually less effective. Of course, rare for a smoker to stop smoking because of fear of these diseases unless he has indeed been miserable.What happens is a temporary pleasure of cigarette smoke that smokers mengebul have made myself calm down, do not worry about anything, life becomes enjoyable and obscure concerns about the future.
Perhaps more effective approach is to emphasize how important it is to stop smoking to save people who are loved as a wife or children of smokers from the dangers of passive smoking. Also currently available drugs such as nicotine replacement varenicline, this may be promising, but it could also just shift from one form of dependence on other dependencies. Not to mention the cost issues are certainly expensive because drug production is still privately held.
The ban on smoking in public places like yangt stated in the Regional Regulation (Perda) No. 2 of 2005 on Prevention of Air Pollution (PPU) in Jakarta is actually a positive effort, but unfortunately the reality was not as it should. Problems of cigarettes should continue to be addressed seriously by the various parties, in macro and micro scale, as serious as the slogans of anti-drugs that often we hear and see.
(According to the article published in the February edition of the magazine Doctor We are the result of my own writing as well)
source wikimu.com