"DON'T GIVE BIRTH TO A SMOKER'S CHILD"

For decades, Environmentalists, Biologists and Socialists are trying hard to create awareness about the harmfulness and the effects of smoking. I don't wanna list out the number of diseases that you gonna acquire while you are smoking because, the bitter truth is the damages that smoking cause are not very instant and therefore you guys never really cared and when you really do care ,it will already be too late. Two-third majority of college students smoke. one- third majority are addicted to it. Again the sad part is its treated as a trend as if a basic qualification of any student and people are proud about their skill of addiction. The point is you are not only spoiling yourself like the traditional advises say but the stability of the future generation as a whole.

There is this concept " Epigenetic modification"( chemical alterations of the DNA affecting the activity of the genes). This epigenetic modification takes place in your gene when the tobacco burn, damaging your genetic makeup permanently, like altering more than 7000 genes. And then you suffer with stroke, heart-attack, cancer, asthma, etc.., reaping your fate. But here your child faces diseases and your entire generation will suffer. How?

If you have smoked during the period of conception( egg being fertilized in a woman's body),it will lead to pregnancy no doubt But your child will weigh less than 2500 grams, chances of preterm birth(less than 9 months), chances of miscarriage(abortion), chances of SIDS- Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.If you are smoking for a long period of time, the genetic makeup of yours will affect your child with Wheezing illness, mental disability, mental retardation, ADHD (Attention deficit hyper activity disorder), Delayed speech, Behavioral problems, Learning problems, Impaired maths ability. The damages you made in your gene is affecting the nervous system of your kid's brain. On top of all these researches prove Cardiovascular diseases, Cancer, Diabetes chances are high among the kids of smoking parents. 

These are not just as simple as you look at. You might not able to even understand some diseases. "Smoking" results in LOW SPERM QUALITY and sometimes even INFERTILITY, this is way better than destroying a newborn's life. It takes 5 years after quitting to smoke for the genes to recover. But we are at the stage where we understood there is no point in writing pages about the cause and effects to those for whom only their addiction matters. These effects get passed onto Generation after Weaker generation after Worser generation and ends at a stage where there is no Generation at all- "The end of mankind".

So, this is a warning for the woman of this entire nation. Just wake up! we know how much Love, aspiration, passion, life and pain it incurs to bring about a child to this world, you always wanted to give her/him the best, the fullest, the entire. Never with a bad choice. Protect yourself from the SECONDHAND SMOKE! because

You are not just giving birth to a child
 but raising a generation which mustn't be weak or worse.

                               "WINDOW SEAT"

As usual after the college my friends and I boarded the bus with a fruit salad plate in our hand which we rushed to buy seconds before. It was unusually crowd and only I got to sit, in my favorite last window seat(conductor seat), that day we were actually having fun and that mood just reflected in the bus like people looking at us might think "these girls are acting weird". Unmindful of those I wanted to share the fruit pieces with the guy sitting near me, he politely denied it. He looked young,dusky and in his early twenties. He had a broad,deep and kind smile when he looked at me. On top of all he din't see me weird.  Then I put on my earphones and in between we girls were having some conversation in sign language , laughing aloud, passing mobiles and all those common things.
         
When it is only 4 kilometers away from my place , the guy started the conversation asking whereabouts and whatabouts and it was my turn and now I noticed something "his hand" its not a real hand its a leather setup! He noticed that I noticed and said " I am returning from Ganga hospital after fixing this hand, its been a while (8 months) since I lost my hand and thats an unfortunate industrial accident in salem and I'm a BE graduate" . There was a deep seated pain but a really broad smile and a matured mindset of handling this situation .All I had to say him is " Can I touch  that hand?" he smiled. Then he said this thing " you all look so happy, just enjoy your life like this."

I'm still figuring out what was in his mind. Probably he  remembered his college days were he had so many friends to laugh, hug and make fun of, about the bikes and cars he loved riding, about the fights, about the food they had cursed  in hostel, about his girlfriend whom he texted all night and may be he is dying inside and wants to cry aloud may be more. I know no words of compromise will do any better . I invited him to my college telling him my name and department. With the bus already reaching my place and getting down it just striked I did not even ask his name.

I wish I meet him again and talk to him beyond his hand and its not out of sympathy but for the reason that he dint see us weird when everyone else did.