Argumentative Essay On Smoking

Smoking cessation has major and immediate health benefits, including decreasing the risk of lung and other cancers, heart attack, stroke, and chronic lung disease. It is known that cigarette smoking causes 87 percent of lung cancer deaths and is responsible for most cancers of the larynx, oral cavity and pharynx, esophagus, and bladder. The risk of developing smoking-related cancers, as well as noncancerous diseases, increases with total lifetime exposure to cigarette smoke. Tobacco smoke contains thousands of chemical agents, including over 60 substances that are known to cause cancer. Smoking is the largest leading cause of death in the U.S.

Cigarette smoking increases risk for death from all causes in men and women. Smoking damages blood vessels and can make them thicken and grow narrower. This makes your heart beat faster and your blood pressure go up. A stroke occurs when a clot blocks the blood flow to part of your brain or when a blood vessel in or around your brain bursts Clots can also form. Blockages caused by smoking can also reduce blood flow to your legs and skin. Tobacco smoke contains more than 4,000 chemicals. Many are known to be harmful substances, including tar, nicotine, carbon monoxide, benzene, formaldehyde and hydrogen cyanide. These chemicals are harmful to the body; it’s not healthy for living. Many smokers want to quit, but find it very difficult. Nicotine is the drug in tobacco that makes smoking a powerful addiction. Smoking remains one of the leading causes of preventable illness, disability and premature death in the U.S.

Tobacco contains many harmful chemicals that are harmful for the body such as methanol (rocket fluid), arsenic (poison), and carbon monoxide (car exhaust). Methanol is the ma...

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...thing is more than likely to happen just very slow and painfully. So to sit and relax on smoking cigarettes, weed, black & mild’s, cigars and all the other drugs people smoke is not well but can be helpful to get doctors more money to try and help you when someone is on their death bed. It’s a crazy sight no one wants to go through pain, go through getting their toes cut off, fingers cut off, or have to talk with a hole in their neck. And people will soon to figure smoking is not cool at all, it’s just getting people to spend more and more money. People are stuck on what seems to be a bad addiction to spending money on irrelevant products. Simply on a pack of cigarettes it is a quote that says cigarettes are bad for your health. The meaning to it all is that the makers of this company want people to die. It can’t be that well of a satisfaction if people are dying.