Harmful effects of firecrackers

Firecrackers and Diwali has the close relation.

As diwali is festival of lights, people consider it as festival of Firecrackers. Firecrackers come in different varieties from the delightfully visual ones to the ear deafening noisy ones.

Our tradition use firecrackers in diwali cause of reasons, possible reason and a more scientific one for lighting firecrackers is that the fumes produced by them kill insects and mosquitoes found after the rains.

But now people use firecrackers in an amount that it harming the mankind, environment, increasing the pollution.

Harmful effects of firecrackers

1) Health hazards: Burns, deafness, Nausea and mental impairment. Many people die in explosions in factories manufacturing fire-crackers.

Firecrackers can cause hearing loss, high blood pressure, sleeping disturbances and sudden exposure to loud noise can cause temporary or permanent deafness or even result in heart attack.

2) Sometimes, rocket-crackers set fire to huts, heap of dry grass etc. this happen mostly to country side

3) Noise pollution: firecrackers make noise more than the allowed decibel limit for human being.

4) Smog caused by firecrackers may be harmful to inhale can cause difficulty for rivers because of reduced visibility.

5) It increases the Pollution in environment.

 

The Supreme Court of India observing that “the right to peaceful sleep is a fundamental right of the citizens”, has banned firecrackers between the hours of 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. during the Dashra and Diwali festivals.

The Central Pollution Control Board of India has banned firecrackers with a decibel level of more than 125 at a distance of 4 meters from the bursting point.

Precautions need to be taken:

1) Try to avoid use of firecrackers.

2) Use firecrackers that are less bursting and less noisy.

3) Do not explode a firecracker in your hand.

4) Educate children before Diwali and discourage them from bursting firecrackers.

Enjoy the Deepawali with care. Take care of you and your family.

Sources:

http://www.merinews.com/catFull.jsp?articleID=127558

http://www.diwalifestival.org/crackers.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmful_effects_of_firecrackers