Where smoking is a topic that arises causing inflicts, one cannot ignore the famous names that set such examples as well. It is proved that smoking can cause immense relief and has a very calming effect on the smoker and therefore, these people feel that they need the relief the most because they are in the limelight at all times. However, if this relief turns out to be as crucial as losing their life, one should seriously consider letting go and find other ways of calming their nerves down. Once a person realizes what they are risking, perhaps this goal of quitting would be easier to achieve.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon is a name that we relate as the founder of the Spurgeon’s charity organization and he is known as the “Prince of Preachers” as he is a British Baptist Preacher. Drew Barry shares this love for smoking and started smoking when she was hardly 10 years old and today smokes almost 2 packs of cigarettes today. Similarly, Kate Moss, a famous model, has been smoking since before her teens and other names include John F. Kennedy, Johnny Deep, Meg Ryan, Albert Einstein and Thomas Edison.

These names are just a few out of a long list of people who have embraced smoking. It is because of these people and the image they carry with themselves that cigarettes are sold all over the world and USA alone is the bearer of more than 40 million smokers. Out of this 40 million, 24% range from the age of 28-45 and at least 10% are people who are aged more than 60 years.

Smokers are usually captured as independent, bold and adventure loving people who do not care what happens the next second and just do and go for anything they are attracted to. Behind this image of “chivalry” and style lies the undeniable threat of death that these people ever so easily ignore. Even though you may get pleasure like no other, this pleasure comes with the high price of taking your life away from you.

Bette Davis, an actor, struggled with breast cancer because she was a victim of numerous strokes all thanks to her deadly habit of smoking. She passed away in 1989, losing the battle to cigarettes. Similarly, Sammy Davis Jr. had lung cancer and died at the age of 64. The evergreen Walt Disney also lost his life to lung cancer at the age of 65. Imagine the person who still entertains us was a victim of this deadly habit.

Even though these all are names that we have heard all our lives, we refuse to see the message that their death carries with them. Every year, almost 500,000 people sufferer from the harsh reality of losing their life to a pack of cigarettes. Cigarettes take more lives than alcohol, aids, drugs and accidents do but people remain aloof to the fact that they are risking a whole lot more than their calmness when the refuse to let go of this death wrapped in paper.

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