11 Reasons Why You Shouldn't Smoke

Cancer on sale as fake cigarettes hit Nigerian market

Fake and possibly harmful cigarettes are set to be released into the Nigerian market
unless relevant government regulatory and monitoring agencies swing into immediate
action, Consumer Protection Council (CPC), has warned.

By Konye Obaji Ori, Lucas Radicella       

According to intelligence reports, five of the ten containers load of cigarettes containing about 4,560 cases of a fake and harmful cigarette product loaded on trucks belonging to a tobacco dealer in Nigeria have left Lome Port in Togo, and heading for the Niger-Nigeria border for possible entry into the country.The other five containers however are already at the Tincan Island Port in Lagos ready to be cleared and distributed.The CPC council in an attempt to save Nigerian consumers from effects of substandard cigarettes have sent letters to Standards Organization of Nigeria (SON) and the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) on this development, charging them to intercept before the contents of the containers get into the markets.The council in its letter to the two authorities said: ‘Our recent findings, however, show that while some manufacturers/importers are making frantic efforts to follow the implementation schedule for the new changes, others appear to be looking for possible avenues to circumvent the rules.’The products in the containers have not complied with the labeling requirements and the CPC have warned that allowing this products into the market would constitute a breach of the resolutions reached by all stakeholders in the industry to comply with Cigarette Standard NIS 463: 2007 at a recent workshop organized by SON.The General Secretary of the Health Care Providers’ Association of Nigeria, Dr. Adeyeye Arigbabuwo, has disclosed that about 32 Health Management Organisations (NHIS) and 7,000 providers had so far been accredited for the Nigerian Health Insurance Scheme.“As of today, about three million Nigerians benefit from the NHIS,” he said, adding that one hundred and thirty seven (137) million Nigerians were not covered by the scheme.Should these cigarettes hit the Nigerian market, not only will the risk of cancer, already associated with long-term cigarette smoking, be particularly problematic for the budget-strapped health sector but also immediate health hazards to millions of Nigerians without appropriate health insurance covers.

Source: http://en.afrik.com/article14799.html

smoking makes it hard to get an erection.

the cadmium build-up blocks the blood vessels in the penis.

If yu dont want to disappoint yur woman dont smoke

Friends out there,apart from the reasons listed out there,i want to react to LOSTPIXIE if whatever you are doing is morally justified i know you will not hid it from your parients.that tells you smoking in the first place is not morally justified.please quit smoking now its for your own good, thank you for yeilding to my advice.GOD BLESS YOU.

The fact is that most smokers really want to give up but cannot because they are hooked and enslaved to the dreaded monster, Mr Nicotene.
Their inability to quit the grave anti-social habit makes them find reasons to justify their enslavement to Nicotene.
i was a heavy smoker who chain-smoked for 9 years and  by the grace of God,i finally quit on sept 15,1990 and since that glorious date, i have not touched a cigarette
Smoking is one of the most dangerous addiction a human can indulge in.There are no benefits but grave dangers to health.
Before sept 15,1990 i made countless failed attempts to stop.
Every smoker should make up his mind to stop at once and for all times and have not looked back since then.
pls stop smoking,Mr Smoker.

Hey,

everyone is talking about disadavantages, disadvantages, disadvantages,  but are there no advantagess of smoking? can someone in the house tell us about the good sides of smoking? Maybe some of us are missing something                                                                                                                             Hey, there 's no advantage in smoking, all it does is damages.