Society of all ages are drowning in tar like substances many call cigarettes. According to the U.S. national library of medicine the cigarette is the deadliest artefact in the history of human civilization. Cigarettes have been affecting all of society since the early 1500’s. (Proctor, 2013) Even though cigarettes take the edge off from reality; cigarettes are destructive to the smoker and peers surrounding because cigarettes are filled with harmful chemicals, expensive and are highly addictive. Cigarettes are not only destructive to the smoker, but everyone around. Second hand smoke is the non-filtered smoke from the end of people’s cigarettes. Smoke may carry more than over 7,000 different chemicals all different from one of another, hundreds of those chemicals are toxic and as much as 70 (Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 2013) are known to cause cancer. Since second hand smoke is an epidemic across the world there are many ways it can affect a person’s wellbeing. Second hand smoke can and may cause heart disease, lung cancer, SIDS and many others. Second hand smoke is committed when the adult or child is near the smoker; smoke then travels from the end of the cigarette or the breath of the person in a space of 20 feet and enters the victim. Heart disease is not only caused by smoking the cigarette but is also caused by second hand smoke. Smoke causes an estimated 46,000 premature deaths from heart disease each year in the United States among nonsmokers. (Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 2013) Knowing smoking will cause heart disease many people believe heart disease will not adversely affect society’s wellbeing but what many do not know is nonsmokers who are in 20 feet from a smoker will have instant a... ... middle of paper ... ... for weight m. Gale, 176. F J Chaloupka, K. M. (2002). Tax, price and cigarette smoking: evidence from the tobacco documents and implications for tobacco company marketing strategies. Tobacco Control, 62-72. Jampel, S. (2013, July 13). What A Pack Of Cigarettes Costs Now, State By State. Retrieved from The AWL: http://www.theawl.com/2013/07/what-a-pack-of-cigarettes-costs-now-state-by-state Marcelo O. Ortells, G. E. (2010). Tobacco Adiction. A biochemical model of nicotine dependence, 884-895. Proctor, R. N. (2013, May 22). Why ban the sale of cigarettes? The case for abolition. Retrieved from US National Library of Medicine: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3632991/ Science News. (1994). What's in a cigarette? Tobacco companies blend hundreds of additives into their products. Science News, 10-13. UWIRE. (2013). Electronic Cigarettes. UWIRE text, 1.
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The first main point in the article discusses the health issues associated with smoking to non-smokers and smokers. According to the U.S Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), smoking causes cancer and heart disease, and other illnesses among smokers. Furthermore, a non-smoker is affected by smoking with the same conditions. Secondhand smoke enhances asthma, bronchitis, or allergic disorders among individuals.
There is clearly no way tobacco will never be outlawed but I believe there should be tighter restrictions on age limits throughout the world, and restrictions on the materials that are used in cigarette processing. Who is just letting cigarette companies continue to poison people and cause cancer risk? Throughout my essay I will analyze the affects of cigarette use on the society of the world and the elaborate corruption that keeps cigarette companies in business.
Ever since earlier years, when cigarettes came into market, people have had the right to make the decision of whether or not they want to smoke. But for some people, this is not a choice. This creates the problem of second-hand smoke, which is more harmful than people think. Second hand smoke has been liable to increase the risk of lung cancer by three times. Cigarette smoke contains a deadly mixture of carbon monoxide, nicotine, and more than 4,000 other chemicals, many of which cause cancer and heart disease. The smoke that appears off the end of an idle burning cigarette is even more toxic than inhaled smoke because the tobacco is smouldering at a lower temperature and is therefore burning less efficiently. When you sit in a smoky room, office, restaurant or bar, you can't help breathing in some of these toxic gases, particles, and chemicals. Some of the tar stays in your lungs. Small amounts of nicotine and carbon monoxide pass into your bloodstream. After half an hour, your blood pressure and heartbeat rise measurably. This means that extra stress is being placed on your heart. ...
Have you ever had a friend or family member die of lung cancer or of a smoking related death. In America over 160,000 men and women die each year from lung cancer. That is a less than then breast and colon cancer combined. The leading cause of lung cancer in the United States is smoking tobacco. When you smoke a cigarette you are inhaling the nicotine at a very high rate in which allows it to go through your blood stream faster. Some might say that smoking just affects themselves, although they are highly incorrect. Second hand smoking is when a person inhales the excess smoke; in some occasions it can be worse than actually smoking. You might think you are cool at the time for smoking, but have you ever thought
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.
Every year, there are over 400,000 smoking-related deaths in the United States. A large percentage of these are due to lung cancer, whose leading cause is smoking. However, not all deaths are smokers themselves. Anyone in the vicinity can fall victim to second hand smoke. These people, through no action of their own, can have their lives threatened.
The author uses logos appeal [to logic and reasoning] the article gives the reader hard facts about the effects of second hand smoking on people who do not smoke. According to the article every year in the U.S, secondhand smoke causes about 34,000 deaths from heart disease and 7,300 deaths from lung cancer. Beside that statistic, there are many more to support the thesis that secondhand smoke is
Second Hand Smoke In the 1950's and 60's scientists gave the people a lot of evidence on the deadly effects of smoking where the tobacco companies on the other hand tried to put the doubt in people’s minds through the campaigns to show that it is not all true. By the time people actually decided to take care of their health and finally saw how life-threatening smoking could be by real life examples, the tobacco companies already got rich from its sales. Nowadays, nobody doubts that “firsthand” smoke is deadly to your health and it causes lung cancer and heart disease in adults and asthma and bronchitis in children. Now the industry is onto the secondhand smoke. Scientists and researchers are representing a lot of evidence and research that has been done throughout the years showing that the secondhand smoke can also cause a lung cancer in nonsmokers. The study has been done of people who have been long exposed to secondhand smoke and it shows that 26 out of 33 published studies indicate a link between secondhand smoke and lung cancer. The study estimates that the people that were breathing secondhand smoke were 8 to 150 percent more likely to get lung cancer. The tobacco companies are trying to argue the facts and are still in serious debate about the health hazards of breathing a secondhand smoke. A lot of anti-smoking organizations are trying to turn smoking in public into a private activity that does not have to involve nonsmokers breathing secondhand smoke. What is even more important is that many of these organizations convinced a lot of smokers to cut back or quit completely. The problem of secondhand smoke is increasing because it is so common in our society. It makes secondhand smoke the third-ranking cause of lung cancer among nonsmokers. Mothers who live with a smoking spouse have to realize the ill effects of secondhand smoke on children even before they are born. The smoking components reach the developing fetus through the mother. Infants that are born in a smoking environment weigh less and have a weaker chance of becoming a fully developed child. Secondhand smoke leads to blood clots and damages arterial linings which are the two most leading factors in the development of heart disease. The tobacco companies got scared of the effect that the secondhand smoke research can do to the cigarette makers.
The cigarette is the deadliest artifact in the history of human civilization. I propose that we abolish the use of tobacco and treat it as an illegal drug. Companies invest in billions of advertisements to make this drug appealing for everyday use, they are marketing new and trendy ways to make smoking tobacco appeal to a younger crowd. There have been different methods to reduce the use tobacco like increased taxation, bans on advertising, and expansion of smoke-free spaces. Prohibiting the sale of cigarettes would result in the savings of healthcare costs and increased labour productivity. Tobacco is a lethal drug that has contributed to the death of millions, I believe the use of tobacco should be considered an illegal drug.
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One of the biggest problems that people are faced with on a day-to-day basis is cigarette smoke. The sole cause for 480,000 deaths each year just in the United States is accredit to cigarettes(CDC). For a lot of the smokers the habit of smoking happens to assist them when under stress and dealing with issues that are unmanageable. Some smoke to appeal to their peers or simply because it “feels good.” Smoking one cigarette can lead to a major addiction. The effects of smoking hurt oneself and those amongst us. Smoking Kills as the ad portrays this revolver and cigarettes as the bullets, and also lists the side effects of smoking. Cigarettes causes cancer, increases the risk of you getting a stroke, highly addictive and causes a lot of health problems. Nearly 16
Smoking is a simple process of inhaling and exhaling the fumes of burning tobacco, but it has deadly consequences. According to the American Cancer Society, smoking is the most preventable cause of death in America today (Encarta, 2002). Until the 1940?s, smoking was considered harmless. It was at this time that epidemiologists noticed a dramatic increase in the cases of lung cancer. A study was then conducted between smokers and nonsmokers to determine if cigarettes were the cause of this increase. This study, conducted by the American Cancer Society, found increased mortality among smokers. Yet it was not until 1964 that the Surgeon General put out a report acknowledging the danger of cigarettes. The first action to curb smoking was the mandate of a warning on cigarette packages by the Federal Trade Commission (Encarta, 2002). In 1971, all cigarette advertising was banned from radio and television, and cities and states passed laws requiring nonsmoking sections in public places and workplaces (Encarta, 2002). Now in some cities smoking is being completely banned from public places and workplaces and various people are striving for more of these laws against smoking.
In today’s generations most people know somebody that smokes cigarettes. Some of these smokers are coworkers, friends, family, or even themselves. Regardless of when they started smoking, it’s common knowledge that smoking is extremely harmful for the human body. According to the 2014 Surgeon General’s Report, “cigarette smoking has been linked to diseases of nearly all organs of the body.” Ironically most smokers fail to realize the gravity of the long term dangers they are exposing themselves to by smoking. Regardless of their choice, the long term uses of smoking cigarettes have been medically documented to cause lung damages, breathing issues, and heart complications.