In this era, cigarette becomes as one of the necessities in human life that must be fulfilled. Southeast Asia Tobacco Control Alliance (SEATCA) reported that Indonesia is the country with the most smokers in ASEAN which is 65.19 million people in 2016 (Widowati, 2019). The government does many things such as raising the price and changing warnings on cigarette packaging to reduce the use of cigarettes in Indonesia. Unfortunately, smoking has become a part of human life. It makes a lot of lacks such as damage to the human body, the environment, and the generation of this country.
Everybody knows that smoking will kill us. In 2015, the Ministry of Health Republic of Indonesia showed that deaths due to consuming cigarettes more than 230.000 every year (Kemenkes, 2019). The use of cigarettes can interfere with health such as cancer, heart, lungs, and so on. However, the most possible effects of smoking cigarettes are getting heart disease and cancer. Dresden (2019) stated heart diseases, blood vessels, and blood cells can be broken by smoking cigarettes. The buildup of plaque in the blood vessels (Atherosclerosis) which is caused by the chemicals in cigarettes can build up limit blood flow and induce dangerous blockages. Overall, high smokers are susceptible to heart attacks and stroke. Tontonoz (2018) indicates there are about 7,000 chemicals in cigarette smoke, it is known that there are more than 70 carnoxigens. Carnoxigen is one of the ingredients that increase cancer cells, causing DNA damage and causing mutations. It is no secret that smoking is the cause of cancer. Lung cancer suffered by many smokers around 85%. Besides, smoking also causes bladder cancer, head and neck, esophageal cancer, mouth cancer, and so on In addition, someone can be a smoker without consuming a cigarette who called a passive smoker. World Health Organization (2018) presented there are 890.000 passive smokers who died in the world every year. It means that smoking can hurt people around us.
Consuming cigarettes does not only ruin human health but also can affect the environment. Dunning & Wilson (2018) argue that every year, the environment through climate change, water, and land use, and toxicity are influenced by six trillion cigarettes. (Rinkesh, 2018) shows that tobacco is the main ingredient in making cigarettes usually tobacco is planted in the rainforest. Large deforestation occurs in various areas where tobacco is grown. Starting from small lands to large fields covered by vast forests, tobacco cultivation begins. Deforestation itself can lead to reduced availability of food crops, loss of biodiversity, soil erosion, and increasing global temperatures. Chlorpyrifos, distance DF, dichloropropene, imidacloprid, and methyl bromide are toxic waste that is produced from cigarette production which can endanger the environment, humans, and animals (Rinkesh, 2018). In addition, fragile ecosystems and increasingly scarce resources are the effects of smoking. However, tobacco is very valuable for the livelihoods of some people and development throughout the world (Dunning and Wilson, 2018). Thus, natural resources and ecosystems such as animals and plants can be brittle by smokers. It is because this world is not talking about humans.
Nowadays, most smokers are youth which can ruin the next generation in this country. According to Astuti and Freeman (2018), In ASEAN countries, a fifth of Indonesians whose age between 13 and 15 years old are smokers. One of the reasons teenage want to smoke in society. For instance, Wika the person who smokes since junior high school told he is interested to smoke because of his friend and his family (Kompas, 2009). It shows a bad association ruins good habits. In addition, students who smoke from a young will be addicted. They are not reluctant to smoke in school. Furthermore, survey Global Youth Tobacco Survey (2014) explained 89.4% of students agree with the prohibition of smoking in the room of public areas and 80.9% of students agree about the prohibition of smoking outside the room. School is the second place for educating students, after the family. Thus, schools must be assertive about smoking in order to be not a habit. It is because a habit will form a character.
Mostly, people will smoke after eating, while drinking coffee, or just being curious. Whatever the purposes are, it will kill us, our health, our environment, and our future. Unfortunately, a lot of smokers ignore the caution and do not realize that they will hurt someone they love. Besides, it is also not easy for them to stop consuming, because consuming cigarettes becomes their habit. Thus, if you are a smoker, you can consider those effects above to save your health, environment, and others. Please, love yourself!