Why burn the temple of God?
One of the chain letters noted in my friendster recently was the bloggers’ insistent call to help a seven year old girl who was diagnosed to have lung cancer acquired from second hand smoking. No matter what the letter maybe, a myth or fact that brings others to awareness, it’s very depressing to note that the girl had developed this cancer from the hands that often hold cigarettes. A hand that grips cigarette sticks in a backhand and forehand strokes can really smash ones health and life. And often, victims who happened to be neophyte in the game becomes the loser no matter what the technique is employed to counter the powerful puffs.
Even now, public places are often mistaken by smokers as puffing area. To such, children and the vulnerable ones who were exposed to these smokes acquire if not develop illness related to cancer. Smoking in itself has long been here threatening others health while slowly destroying the temple that nourishes life supposedly. In Christian point of view, the human body often referred as flesh designed by God is doomed to live in total fitness. He resides in us, thus the way we treat ourselves is somehow the most rational fashion of accommodating God in us. Despite this effort to recognize His holiness, why burn His temple?
The gift of life is a blessing but I cannot understand at hand the motive of others in annihilating their sacredness. This may sound graceless as one may find it out of the blue but the fact that others are disturbed and harmed, it brings to a point that smokers should choose their own zone intellectually and friendly. It has been proven by science that second hand smokers developed sarcoma at faster rate as compared to the one who directly puffs the cigarette at an intense pleasure. Undeniably, non-smokers are of no match against the potent cigarette hand grips that spins the reality to devious belief.
Directorate of Academic and Students Affairs of the Oxford Brookes University reported that out of every thousand and people who start smoking when they are teenagers and continue to smoke 20 sticks a day, one will be murdered, six will die in road accidents and about 250 will be killed before their time by smoking.
Among the reasons why people result to active smoking are countless. To some, smoking is one of those routines developed when you were much younger when it was viewed as key factor in establishing confidence in oneself. To smokers, smoking as encouraged by ads in the television gives worthy appreciation to ones personality. Some smokers believed that their manhood (for men) is escalated by way of puffing cigarette more often. With this, I would like to believe that smoking therefore is a sign of men’s weakness when their confidence is weakened by the belief that smoking is the answer to the crisis on self-worth.
To date, foreign governments brought in a total ban on smoking in all public places in England last year. In this same year, countries like Scotland, the Republic of Ireland, Wales, and Northern Ireland had disclosed absolute smoke ban leaving only England to follow the example of the other countries in the United Kingdom.
Such government effort in safeguarding the citizens is of righteous consideration. The sensitivity of these foreign governments to end this cancerous addiction is taken at maximum level, not like the one that is aired in our television that the campaign against cigarette smoking is a campaign for Filipinos to buy boxes of cigarettes at the nearest stores.
Never mind the young minds being ruined by this substance but mind the money one can generate out from this business. The line, “Killing millions to get millions” is absolutely their guiding principle. No matter what the business is all about despite all these campaigns against cigarette smoking, one should be reminded that smokers never grew old – they don’t stay youthful but because they die young. (For comments, leave them in my website at www.lesiomhar.page.tl or in cp # at 09185452554).
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