Silent Killer:
Do Cambodians commit massive suicide everyday?
You would think that drinking is the only bad habit that destroys people’s life including the life of the individual drinker.
But, smoking is another destructive addiction that once it gets to you, it will lead you to try out other bad habits, such as doing drugs, drinking, gambling and buying sex, etc.
I have seen many young Cambodians smoke and they do smoke a lot of cigarettes. Thousands more are addicted to drugs.
According the statistic that was done in 2006, some 48 percent of Cambodian males over age 15 smoke and about 4 percent of Cambodian women light up.
Smoking destroys Khmer society in many ways.
First, it costs Cambodians more money to treat diseases affected by smoking and second handed smoking.
Secondly it costs Cambodians a big chunk of their annual income to burn cigarettes. Some people sell their land little by little to smoke (and to drink.)
Next, smoking destroys Cambodian mental capacity to think clearly.
Cigarettes break down the power of persistence; destroy the power of endurance; destroy the ability to concentrate, reduce the imaginative faculty in the mind.
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All of the above factors definitely keep Cambodians from using their mind effectively.
It should be a good reason for Cambodians to do something to help stop cigarette smoking and or to slow it down to help save Cambodian lives.
Sometimes Cambodians are busy fighting over things that are less important.
We forget that there are silent killers in our society that kill our people en mass. Some of the killers are our loved ones, including our friends, relatives and family members.
So next time before you light up, THINK if you CAN.
These articles below should at least raise your eyebrows, if they do not choke you up:
All pictures are from Google.com
Timothy Chhim
New York
March 25, 2013
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