Smoking occasionally can cause serious health issues too: study

Many believe that smoking lightly or on an occasion isn’t hazardous to one’s health. Many also think, that just a cigarette for a day is not causing any harm. However, that is hardly true. Truth is even, a tiny bit of smoking, or smoke you ingest during Diwali can cause some serious health risks. A study in Bristol concluded that if a person smokes just one cigarette a day, that cigarette reduces 11 minutes from their life.

Scientists at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, reported in their study that people who smoke one to four cigarettes per day have a significantly higher risk of dying from ischaemic heart disease (narrowing arteries of the heart) and lung cancer than non-smokers.
Various studies have reported that smoking affects nearly every organ of the body. Other than premature death, smoking leads to many life-threatening diseases like coronary heart disease (narrowing of arteries of the heart), stroke (blood clot in the brain), asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder (COPD: a lung disease caused by obstructed airflow from the lungs) which includes emphysema and chronic bronchitis.

Smoking may lead to cancer of the lungs, bladder, cervix, oropharynx (includes parts of the throat, tongue, soft palate, and the tonsils), stomach, and trachea.

Cases of miscarriage, infertility, and cataract have also been reported in men and women who smoke.
The benefits of quitting smoking are plenty and can be felt in the body within minutes of quitting.

The government of India in partnership with WHO and the International Telecommunications Union has started the "Be Healthy Be Mobile" initiative which aims to reach out to all kinds of tobacco users who want to quit tobacco use and support them towards successful quitting through constant text messaging on mobile phones.