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Did you know three cigarettes could get one addicted? Every time one takes a puff of a cigarette they’re playing a dangerous game with life. I always wondered, Why are cigarettes so deadly, what is in cigarettes, if people know they’re deadly then why do they still smoke them, and finally why does the government allow people to buy these when they can kill you? Every time one smokes a cigarette it’s like putting a gun to your head and pulling the trigger with out knowing if the gun is loaded or not. I’ll do what’s within my ability to answer these questions in this essay. I browsed the internet (isn’t it a wonderful tool?) and used other references and my knowledge to determine why cigarettes are addictive, unhealthy, and unappealing. If we could vote to make cigarettes illegal then I’d vote yes. If your vote is no then after you read this essay I hope you will vote yes and save millions of adult and CHILDREN lives.
Cigarettes are very unappealing. Do you like the smell of an old used ashtray? I don’t and most other people don’t either. Well how would you like for smoking area to smell like that and wouldn’t be able to do anything about it. You know how some smokers’ teeth are yellow. This is one result of the tar staining their teeth. All white items in your smoking area could turn yellow as a result in the tar you exhale along with many other chemicals. Premature wrinkles are another result in smoking.
Cigarettes are very unhealthy. If you knew what is in cigarettes you would think twice about even touching them. The basic substances are nicotine, tobacco, and TAR. Yes TAR that black smelly stuff that you have on your roof, in the streets, and if you smoke in your lungs. These are some other substances used to make cigarettes: Uranium, water, Carbon Dioxide. These chemicals are also used to make nuclear bombs. I guess smokers enjoy smoking nuclear bombs. Some side effects of smoking are many forms of cancer, thickening of the blood, making the arteries thinner and smaller, cancer of the vocal cords You’ll have to talk out of a microphone in you’re neck, and could cause constant Bronchitis.
Addiction is probably the worst part. Before I explain what addiction is like I’m going to tell you
Cigarettes cause heart disease, lung disease, cancer, and death. Made with a higher nicotine level, cigarettes create addiction and targets to attract a younger audience with flavors and sugar additives; in addition, to cut the harshness of smoke inhalation chemicals are added, enhancing the nicotine’s addiction. Cigarettes create a financial burden due to their rising costs once addicted, due to their recurring daily and yearly costs to
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 (and its tobacco-related counterparts) have remained to this day, the most readily available and highly addictive substance that’s in legal America and “continues to be the leading cause of preventable death around the world” (Wascher). The production and sale of cigarettes should be made illegal in America because it manipulates people into adopting unhealthy lifestyles, encourages children to try smoking, and it subsequently shortens the lifespan of the smoker and those who surround them (second-hand smokers), by increasing the risk of adverse health effects.
cigarettes cause health risks, but it also pose a physical risk. Some individuals reported while
The most common form of tobacco used is the cigarette. Smoking for most people gives satisfaction and pleasure. The tobacco chemicals that are released into the brain when inhaled cause a happy or joyous feeling to the person. People often turn to cigarettes to suppress hunger or relieve stress (Dichter). After a short period of time, a person can become addicted to the satisfaction they get from smoking a cigarette. Certain tobacco products contain toxins, carcinogens, and poisons that are all extremely harmful to the human body. 60 chemicals that are contained in a tobacco cigarette are cancer-causing agents (Wexner). It is these chemicals that make cigarettes as well as other tobacco products so addicting to their users. Over time the need for a cigarette increases and the harder it becomes to quit smoking. Some users turn to smoking alternatives in order to quit. The first thing a smoker will reach for is something that looks and feels similar to a normal cigarette.
Smoking is the cause of numerous citizens of the United States dying prematurely. The CDC (2014) explains, “smoking causes more deaths each year than: human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), illegal drug use, alcohol use, motor vehicle injuries, and firearm-related incidents”. Some deaths are unavoidable such as a vehicular accident, but a death by a cigarette is because the results of the decision the user made. Cassidy and Tramarchi (2011) describe, “Ci...
From the american lung association they says “that in a cigarette has methanol which is used for rocket fuel and it could be very poisonous to the human body and mainly the lungs” But they still make these things to kill us off? Anyways, Nicotine from the cigarette is the main killer. Isn’t that ironic how it’s used to help stop us from smoking, but it can still potentially kill us? Well, they still make it. Carbon Monoxide. A very dangerous chemical to the human body. Yet people have made cigarettes with this chemical and can’t find an alternative to stop this. (Milov)
Through public education, most elementary school kids can understand that smoking is bad for them and that cigarettes are additive. Cigarettes are addictive due to nicotine, a drug found in tobacco (“Quitting Smoking”, 2015). According to Schneider (2016), some of the greatest health problems associated with smoking include: lung cancer, other cancers, coronary heart disease, other heart disease, cerebrovascular disease, other vascular disease, diabetes mellitus, pneumonia, influenza, tuberculosis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), prenatal conditions, and sudden infant death syndrome. As stated by the Authority of the American Lung Association in an article titled “Health
Tobacco use is a debate worldwide and everyone has their own opinions about the issue. This is such a controversial issue because of the many different health risks, weather it is beneficial or not, the harmful aspect, and its importance of an individual’s freedom. Tobacco has no general advantages towards someone’s health, as it destroys the lungs and can cause cancer anywhere in the body from all the carcinogens. In my opinion the production and sale of tobacco should be banned in the United States.
Some of the chemicals found in cigarettes are Acetone, which is found in nail polish remover and Acetic Acid, an ingredient in hair dye. A common household cleaner called ammonia is found in tobacco cigarettes. Arsenic used in rat poison, is used in tobacco products also. Benzene which is found in rubber cement and Butane which is used in lighter fluid is found in cigarettes as well. An active component in battery acid called Cadmium and carbon monoxide are also chemicals found in cigarettes. Formaldehyde, hexamine and lead are chemicals present in cigarettes. A main ingredient in rocket fuel called methanol and tar which is a material for paving roads, are also a few of the deadly chemicals that tobacco cigarettes contain. (What's in a Cigarette? American Lung Association)
should be banned is the cost to society and the financial burden on the families
Although it is beneficial for the economy for the production of tobacco products it is extremely risky to use the product. According to researchers second-hand smoke is terrible for everyone in the world who walk by someone who is exhaling. In the article by Robert Proctor “Why ban the sale of cigarettes? The case for abolition” he states that cigarettes are the “most deadl...
Like I stated before, cigarettes are made up of more than 4,000 toxic chemicals that enter your body considered as poisons. Cigarettes mostly have a tobacco blend, paper, PVA glue to bond the outer layer of paper together, and producers often also a cellulose acetate–based filter in the cigarettes. They contain over 100 ingredients, and to mention just a few of them, one is called Cadmium which is used in batteries; That has to be healthy right? Cigarettes also contain Arsenic which is a lethal poison that is used to kill mammals, and Naphthalene which is a moth repellent. Led is the last ingredient I will tell you about because it can lead to many health problems like memory loss, and abdominal pain.
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
Cigarettes have over 4,000 chemicals in a 3- 3 ¼ inch length roll up, it does not seem as bad when they just tell you is just a cigarette, it's what's