Lung Cancer

An Interview with a senior health official in my community on the current issue of Smoking. 

In Victoria, Village on the East Coast of Demarara Guyana, we the members of this community are faced with a social health issue that has the capacity to affect our community’s economic, educational and social standing in the years to come .Men and a few women of various age groups are seen smoking at the corner of the road on a daily bases many of whom are not self or otherwise employed.     

As a result of my observation I conducted an interview with Michael Gillis who is a Health Promotion specialist and a Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist  and also a member of the community, he highlighted to me that smoking is a social addiction hence person who are involved in smoking will most times do it with another individual or a group of persons but that does not according to him “take away from the Health dangers it can pose”.

Smoking is said to be one of the most dangerous addictions mainly because it is the leading cause of lung cancer around the world.  Cancer problems  Lung dysfunction hearth rate climbing and heart diseases which can cause premature death and lung cancer are all associated and almost directly cause by smoking.   

Michael also alluded to the fact that smoking can be addictive, so along with all that was mention above one can see that smoking is dangerous since the smokers can become addicted to things that can cause health risk like the ones mention above. This creates an issue for the Victoria people as a village and even families, Victoria by means of my opinionated prediction will suffer as a village from largely men being affected with lung cancer if the ideological social addiction does not change.

What is of more concern to me presently as a community resident, is that if person are addicted or can become addicted to these substances they smoke and they are not being funded by means of their employment or another person’s willing, then they could seek to get funds to support their addiction by being engaged in malpractices. This will then create other forms and off- spills of difficulties and social issues that villagers w  

ill be made to deal with given that these men are residents also.

Statistics from the U.S. National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) indicate that people who abandon smoking, notwithstanding their age, have a reduced amount of probable of dying from smoking-related complaint than those who remain smokers. Quitting is possible and help is needed, it therefore should be the concern of prominent person in our village and even concern residents to seek to offer help in whatever way possible to help our young men and women who are practicing smoking as a social activity or an addiction. 

This can be done with unity and love with the coming together of reasonable persons and inviting even doctors and health care workers, also persons outside of the community to give speeches and do workshops and in whatever way possible to raise awareness of the dangers of smoking. 

Community is a corporation.