How Smoking Affects Your Life and People Around You
I have watched a man try to convince me he's not a smoker, as he holds a cigarette in his
hand. People come up with many intricate and clever excuses to assure themselves, as well as
others, that they are not smokers. Whether you decide to call it "Social smoking", or try to label
yourself solely as a "Party smoker", you are a smoker. A few of my friends only have a cigarette
or two at a party, or with a drink. The rest of the smokers I know confess to their habit, but see it
as being far from harmful. People that decide to follow this habit, don't grasp the actuality that 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
only two, will dramatically affect your life in ways you'd never suspect.
Smoking has definitely affected my life, and now at the age of seventeen, I can recognize
all the changes. My older sister, the person whom I looked up to the most growing up, is a
smoker. At the age of twenty-one, my sister has been smoking for a steady six years, starting at
the age of sixteen. At that age, I was only 13 and was well informed that she had started
smoking. I began to notice that her clothes started to smell of smoke and that she would
constantly be spraying herself with perfume. I also noticed that her teeth were beginning to reveal
a pale yellow color. Having my own sister transform into a smoker came as a big shock to me,
and I vowed to myself that smoking would never become a part of my life. Not only was I
wrong, I had no idea what was in store for me.
As the years went by, my sister's smoking habit no longer came as a shock to me, but the
addiction was still crude. As I turned 15, I started to notice that one of my good friends had
started to smoke. I was in utter disappointment, and I spend countless hours trying to persuade
Growing up with a best friend who has been smoking since middle school, I have seen many of the negative effects it has on a person. Football was a passion and way of life for Andy; however, smoking caused him to struggle with breathing while running up and down the field. He would cut down on his daily amount of cigarettes before and during the season, but cutting down was little help for him. Not only was his breathing affected by smoking, but he also had yellow teeth, smoker’s cough, and would get “the shakes” when in need of a smoke.
Previously, there had been an intense social stigma associated with female smoking; in fact, a
I can understand why I found it cool, many people did, and still do. There’s some kind of dangerous and risky appeal to it. But, it’s place on my personal pedestals has definitely been replaced by other blooming trends and things I consider cool. There is no strong force still drawing me to smoking cigarettes and i’m thankful for that. Thankful that I listened to my parents and never smoked, and thankful that I wasn’t like some of those children from my hometown in India that actually got addicted. Before, I was drawn to smoking because it was strange and mysterious, yet it had some kind of elegance. Now that i’m more capable of understanding this thing and its side effects, therefore I feel no need to try it. More so, over the years it lost it’s power over me because as multitudes of facts and reports of its negative side effects were released and it became less idolized since more people realized how physically dangerous it
Smoking is terrible, or science has yet to discover any medical advantages connected with it. You'd have a hard time discovering somebody that would contend against this thought. While most normal individuals comprehend this idea, there is Surgeon General the United States, who has a message stamped on each tobacco item sold in the country. On the off chance that stopping is the point then we as a general public need to go for the proverbial jugular, and that is smoking tobacco is fatal. In promotion crusades and print ads we see numerous obstructions that would ideally keep individuals from smoking cigarettes. From "not being cool" to "yuck, you possess an aroma similar to cigarettes", what's being sugarcoated is the moderate demise that every drag from a cigarette brings on the human
When they come across a fellow smoker. they see a friend they can relate to. They do not treat fellow smokers differently. They are however treated differently, sometimes negatively, when nonsmokers find. out about their habits and habits.
Throughout the years many people have tried to put a ban on smoking all together. There has been millions of dollars wasted on campaigns and ads to try and stop this epidemic but it doesn’t seem to be working. After reading the information about smoking I honestly believe smoking is such a great issue, that even if we do try and create a tipping point, the issue is so big that we will only affect the smoking problem a little bit. Causing it to be a long time before smoking rates go down. One thing that interested me was how Malcolm Gladwell explains cigarette smoking as a social and biological contribution. In the chapter there were mini excerpts about how people began smoking. Many people said they smoked because of friends or family. In the mid 1970’s Robert Plomin did a case study in Denver about pregnant women who would give their baby up for adoption. Plomin discovered the adopted children had personalities linked closer to their biological parents. Even though in society we like to believe we act the way people raise us, the reality of it all is we act the way we do because of biological
Smoking cigarettes is a detrimental practice not only to the smoker, but also to everyone around the smoker. According to an article from the American Lung Association, “Health Effects” (n.d.), “Smoking is the leading cause of preventable death in the U.S., causing over 438,000 deaths per year”. The umbrella term for tobacco use includes the use of cigarettes, cigars, e-cigs and chewing tobacco. While tobacco causes adverse health consequences, it also has been a unifying factor for change in public health. While the tobacco industries targets specific populations, public health specifically targets smokers, possible smokers, and the public to influence cessation, policies and education.
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.
...was able to. Thus, what did start out as a simple little habit became an addiction to nicotine.
Smoking! Why do people do it? Do they want to be cool? Peer Pressure? What people don’t realize is that smoking is the number one cause of preventable deaths in the United States. (http://community.healthgate.com) Another thing people don’t realize is all the kinds of sickness the can get or even give to there children due to secondhand smoke. Some of the most popular ones are heart attacks and strokes, lung problems, and what happens to there children when around it.
causes many respiratory diseases (http://www.thetruth.com/issues/tbtc/behind.cfm).
cigarettes, if people know they’re deadly then why do they still smoke them, and finally why does the
At the age of fourteen, I had my first puff of a cigarette. After school, a couple friends and I were wandering in a small park next to my middle school. We still had our middle school uniform on, but we tried to hide it. My friend said, “Renee, try it. Try it! It feels good! We all did it except you. If you don 't do it, you are not part of us.” Under peer pressure, I grabbed the cigarette from her hand and inhaled deeply. I coughed so hard. However, I liked it. I really liked it. The minty taste lingered in my throat, the aftertaste was bittersweet, and the spike of adrenaline really woke me up, and made me feel alert. I ended up finishing the whole cigarette. Our uniforms and fingers were stained with the scent of the cigarette. My friend passed me a bottle of perfume and said, “Spray it! So your mom will not notice anything.” We went to the nearest restroom to wash our hands. I tried to get rid of the smell. It took forever to get rid of the smell in my hair and clothes and skin, but after lots of hand soap and walking around I was able to get rid of it. I loved the feeling the cigarette gave me at the time, however now I deeply regret the decision to try that first puff.
Smoking is a bad habit that is not only harmful to myself, but also to the people around me, namely my wife and children. They are the ones that receive the most harmful and the most concentrated amounts of smoke. I inhale through a filter, my wife and children do not.
Second main cause of smoking is psychological which seems to be a very important factor for people to get the habit. One of the psychological situations which drive people to smoke is low self esteem. Low self esteem is linked not only to smoking but also other behavioral problems such as drinking. It leads to feeling like a dependent individual who can not make decisions for himself or herself and just follow the crowd. So one conclusion to be drawn from this aspect is that people with low self esteem tend to smoke by imitating the people that they see around themselves especially in public place...