Around 43.8 million people smoke cigarettes, but that is just estimated in the United States. Just consider how many people smoke worldwide! Smoking cigarettes is an addictive problem people have all around the world. In my opinion, I think smoking cigarettes is a bad addictive habit. Probably many people that smoke do not know what it does to their bodies when they inhale the poisonous gases.
Smoking cigarettes is a dangerous, addictive habit so many people have. You may be thinking, “Why are cigarette so bad?” Smoking harms both heart and blood vessels. Cigarette smoke makes it easier to have activity of blood platelets, which cause your blood to clot. It also weakens the ability of blood vessels to contract and dilate to fix the blood flow. These adjustments help artery blockages, which can cause a serious stroke or heart attack. As smokers inhale, hot gases burn the inside of the airways and large particles get into the airways of the lungs. After a while the smoke disfigures the lungs and harms the cilia, which are many micro hairs that go along the lungs and keep it clean. This increases the smoker’s chance of getting bronchitis, influenza, and any other lung infection. The smoke damages little air sacs in the lungs, which can cause the smoker to develop emphysema; this is a serious lung disease.
The contents of these cigarettes are a big factor why smoking is such a dangerous habit. Tobacco smoke has more than 4,000 chemicals that include many carcinogens, substances that are known to help cause cancer. There are other chemicals in tobacco smoke that coat and dissolve the air ways of the lungs and mess with the blood and blood vessels regular function. Cigarette smoke also has carbon monoxide, a colorless and odorless ga...
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...turned 80. It really didn't hit me as much as it was happening because I was about 13 when this happened. It affected me more after the fact that it happened. Now that I’m older I wish I had spent more time with her since she was the grandparent I was most close to. I cried for about 3 months after she died because it hit me that she would never see me graduate, get married, or anything of that kind. I couldn’t get over that she was gone and I still think of her from time to time and how much I miss her. Smoking not only kills a person but it emotionally kills their families.
Not only does smoking kill a person, it also kills relationships, families, friends, and bonds. Smoking is not only a problem for the person doing it but for the people around them and their families. Smoking cigarettes isn't worth it. Life is a precious gift we have, don’t waste it by smoking
Before D.A.R.E., I was not mindful of the extensive damage cigarettes and other tobacco products cause. Cigarette smoke contains over 200 harmful chemicals, including rat poison. Because of nicotine, cigarettes are highly addictive. As a result, smoking is the leading preventable cause of death in the U.S. It causes over 400,000 deaths annually.
Cigarettes are a thin cylinder of finely cut tobacco that is rolled in paper for smoking. There are also many manufactured cigarettes that also have filters on one end that are intended to trap some of the toxic chemicals contained in cigarette smoke. Tobacco and ammonia are contained inside cigarettes. Tobacco is a green, leafy plant that is grown in warm climates. Ammonia is a compound of nitrogen and hydrogen with the formula NH3. With these conditions, cigarettes are hazardous to health. They also have a complex of 7,000 chemicals. Another important factor of what cigarettes contain is nicotine. Nicotine is a toxic colorless or yellowish oily liquid that is the chief active constituent of tobacco. Smoking cigarettes is a process where the inhalation of the gases and hydrocarbon vapors generated by slowly burning tobacco. With this technique, it becomes highly addictive
Cigarettes are a type of tobacco product which contain several hundred ingredients. Although the majority of these ingredients have not been proved to be harmful, the cigarette smoke which results from these ingredients burning have over four hundred toxins, about forty of which are carcinogenic. Three of the best known ingredients that cause negative side effects are nicotine, tar, and carbon monoxide. Nicotine is an addictive substance, which is lethal in large quantities. Tar causes a sticky buildup to form on the lungs, which reduce the elasticity that is necessary for the alveoli in the lungs to be able to be an effective respiratory surface. Carbon monoxide competes with oxygen to bind on hemoglobin in red blood cells, which makes it difficult for cellular respiration to occur. These are onl...
Cigarette is mainly made out of tobacco. Tobacco contains a massive amount of harmful substances such as carbon monoxide, acrolein, nicotine and much more. When people smoke, the chemicals enter their body. Also, the tobacco smoke releases so other people could receive chemicals if close the to the smoker. These harmful chemicals can cause many types of illnesses and diseases, and some of the diseases could often lead to death. Also, cigarette smoking is very addictive because the tobacco contains nicotine which makes the user addicted to smoking. Cigarette smoking is a currently worldwide problem and should be reduced everywhere because it is the number one killer in the world.
The prevalent use of tobacco products among Americans is an important issue that should be brought to the surface. This issue should be raised because many of the diseases and illnesses associated with tobacco use are preventable. Most individuals are aware of the health threats associated with tobacco use, but are unable to quit. As future healthcare professionals, part of our duty is to educate the public about these health threats as well as help tobacco users quit. Throughout this paper we will inform about the various tobacco products, the effects they pose on the body, cessation options and strategies available for users, and learning outcomes.
Smoking is a lifestyle, a habit, and a trend. Smoking has become a social activity among teens, connecting them through the craving of a smoke. Smoking is seen as seductive and cool in the media and movies which influences teenagers to smoke even more. The World Health Organization has stated that “Tobacco kills around 6 million people each year. More than 5 million of those deaths are the result of direct tobacco use while more than 600,000 are the result of non-smokers being exposed to second-hand smoke.” As of April 2016, only 7% of teenagers in the U.S. smoke, but it is said that tobacco use will kill 8 million people annually by 2030. 99% of adult smokers start in their years as teenagers. Smoking is an epidemic that has taken control of people’s lives since 1881 and the media since the early 1900s. Smoking currently kills about 440,000 people a year in the U.S. I feel that it is an issue because it is the #1 most preventable way to die, but people still continue to smoke because of how it looks and how they are perceived as a person if they do. The fact that people become addicted to a trend that will attribute to their death for the sake of being thought of as cooler, is a problem that needs to be addressed.
There are over 7,000 chemicals present in tobacco smoke. Of those over 250 are deemed harmful, and of those 69 are cancer causing. Those cancer causing substances are called carcinogens (Nugel). It is clear that cancer and smoking can be linked. Smoking causes cancer of the lung esophagus, larynx, mouth,...
Cigarette smoking is very harmful for both smoker, non- smokers and the environment. People who smoke in just show how inconsiderate they are towards others. Even the people who do not smoke in public places are selfish. They do not consider the affect smoking might have on them and how that will affect their family and the environment. Cigarettes cause hundreds of thousands of unnecessary deaths each year and that is why cigarettes need to be made illegal.
The small particles in cigarette smoke, including carcinogens, irritants, and corrosive chemicals, collect in the small air sacks in the lungs and damage them. When the small parts of the cigarette smoke are absorbed into the blood stream and carried to the other parts of the body, they include different diseases. There are many effects of cigarette smoking if you are actually a smoker.
as being far from harmful. People that decide to follow this habit, don't grasp the actuality of it. is very dangerous to their health. As well, they have no idea that it is also threatening to the people around them, such as friends and family. Cigarettes, whether you smoke twenty a day or.
can cause cancer ( http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/tutorials/smokingthefacts/hp099201.html). Many of the ingredients in cigarettes are not substances that humans usually consume, but smokers (and the non-smokers around them) do. Some of the ingredients contained in cigarettes are a type of rat. poison, a type of paint stripper, a type of toilet cleaner, lighter. fuel, the chemical found in mothballs, poison that was once used in gas chambers and there is even a type of rocket fuel found in cigarettes (http://ash.org/additives.html).
The American Lung Association states “There are approximately 600 ingredients in cigarettes” (What's in a Cigarette? American Lung Association). Also when burned, cigarette smoke creates chemicals that affect our planet. “At least 50 of these chemicals are known to cause cancer, and many are poisonous” (What's in a Cigarette? American Lung Association). The American Lung Association goes on and lists a few of the chemicals and gives a brief example for what they are used for.
Smoking does not only serve their own lungs of more than 4,000 hazardous substances including nicotine , tar, arsenic, ammonia , lead, acetone , ethanol , mercury and nickel list
Smoking cigarettes is a very deadly addiction that, unfortunately, 42.1 million adults in the United States and 6.4 million children have. The reason why so many people get addicted to cigarettes because of nicotine. Medicinenet.com says that nicotine is “Made by the tobacco plant or produced synthetically. Nicotine has powerful pharmacologic effects (including increased heart rate, heart stroke volume, and oxygen consumption by the heart muscle), as well as powerful psychodynamic effects (such as euphoria, increased alertness, and a sense of relaxation). Nicotine is also powerfully addictive.”
Smoking is not only bad for health it is also as bad for the people