SMOKING has lot of harmful effects, few of them are

a) decreasing stamina

b) some diseases

c) u die early (i dunno if thats actually a harmful effect)
....and more

still.....ever wondered y do people although most of them
aware of all the disadvantages smoke

the members of th blog may have stumbled upon an answer:

1. the psychological side of the answer
in indian society(here nofra/ncs) -> smoking is usually pictured as
a 'bad' habit, but few of us who generally hav problems with some
rules and conventions of the society and cant understand the requirement
of these particular conventions, think of making their personal
conventions
and
their it is the first drag of a young going to be nicotine addict.

2. the scientific(more like chemical) side of the answer:
now wen a person who is not already an addict takes a puff th percentage
of nicotine increases in his blood, now if that person dosent smoke for
some time it reduces the nicotine percentage in his blood that makes him agitated, irritated etc etc...
so just to suppress all these feelings he takes another puff......bingo......now hes an addict

(although regular smokers very often hav a limit on fags/day above which they get uncomfortable)

its not that i am a rigid supporter of some smokers club or something
i believe it shud alwayz be a personal choice if u dont smoke fine but that dosent mean that other who do are retards, they chose how to live their lives leave them be

besides there are other benefits of smokin some of them are

a) it works like caffine gives ure brain a kick
WARNING : nicotine is 10 times more addictive than caffine
(a pretty good no. of college students smoke b4 their exams)
b) in order to relieve emotional tension
c) relaxes ure muscles.....n thats y smoking and workin out cant go together
(wen i say it relaxes ure muscles i mean every muscle in your body....to the point that some people do take a smoke in the morning to crap)
d) helps offset boredom

it is said in a scientific journal
"Smokers are often found to be extroverts, they tend to live faster, more intensely and to be more socially outgoing."

for further information chk out
"h**p://www.library.ucsf.edu/tobacco/batco/html/13300/13328/ otherpages/7.html"

besides these other health benefits of smokin also exist but are heavily outnumbered
by the disadvantages

to chk out some of the medical benefits of smoking here's the link :

"h**p://www.quit.org.au/quit/fandi/fandi/c03s14.htm"

thats all folks
do watch out for some stunts soon.........they're comin ure way
till then "PEACE"