Dear Parents I am writing to inform you about the negative effects of passive smoking on a child’s health. Passive smoking also known as second hand smoking is when you inhale smoke from other people’s cigarettes, cigars or pipes. This action is very bad in concern to health overall. In children especially, the negative effects include; respiratory illness, asthma attacks and symptoms, lung airway disease, brain cancer, lymphomas and meningococcal disease. All these disease are injurious to health
What’s your real age? On October 1, 2016 I took the real age test on https://www.sharecare.com/group/realage a website that asks various health and lifestyle questions in order to identify the true age of an individual. I tried my best to answer each question as honestly as possible and was informed that my real age was 33.7, which is 4.4 years younger than my chronological age. I must stay this made me feel good, but I was eager to know why I was not rated younger or older. As I reviewed my recommendations
There is radon gas it occurs outdoors naturally. Then there is second hand smoke that comes from other people smoking. People are even getting lung cancer from cancer causing agents, this happens from carcinogens. You can also get it from air pollution indoors and outdoors. Also there are gene-mutations that form cancer causing cells. Then there is the one everyone blamed lung cancer is smoking. Lung cancer dates back to 1761 when it was called disease. In 1878 only 1% of the populations were thought
I remember when in class in Kindergarden our teacher had to tell us about our little classmate that would not be coming back to school anymore. She had died from a very bad virus and her parents did not take her to the doctor nor did they give her the medicine the doctor had prescribed to her so she got very sick and died. We later found out it was menengitis but at that time all we knew as that she died because her parents did not do what the doctor told them to do. I have always trusted my doctor
Experiencing the death of a loved one is never easy, especially when the cause is something self-inflicted, such as cigarettes. Imagine if that loved one was your parent or even worse, your own child. Now, imagine watching the demise and physical incapacities that transpire while you see them deteriorate right in front of you. Feel the anger that would coarse through your veins if you were to see an add that glamorized such deadly instruments, particularly once you realize that the areas being marketed
Smoking is an age-old art that many partake in regularly. Smoking is a very expensive habit that can cause long-term problems for only a short-term gain of comfort. The surrounding non-smoking socialites must witness, experience, and live with the smoke day in and day out. According to the American Heart Foundation, 43.3 percent of American men and women indulge in tobacco consumption through smoke. The negative effects of the habit-forming substance crush the positive effects. This is on the
sitting behind you lights a fire and starts smoking. You can't breathe comfortably anymore because of the smell, and the smoke makes your eyes smart. The perfect evening you are having is turning into a living hell. The above example describes how a non-smoker could suffer from smoking. There are many other disadvantages that a non-smoker gets from this nasty habit. Many had even died because of what we call 'passive smoking', or 'second-hand smoking'. A non-smoker faces the risk of losing his
Smoking has been around as early as six-hundred A.D. Now it is very popular and common in society. We all know that smoking can cause a large variety of diseases, such as lung cancer, yet people still do it. Cigarette smoking is responsible for about one in five deaths annually. Smoking causes health issues not only on the smoker but also on the smoker's family both physically and mentally. So the question is, if it hurts you and your loved ones, why don't you stop? By smoking you're harming yourself
It is shocking to report, that after 50 years of awareness of the dangers of smoking and use of other tobacco products, tobacco industries are still on the incline. Cigarettes and the diseases they cause, are still commonplace in our communities, nation, and the world. It's puzzling that this public health problem is still so persistent. What is it that makes the use of tobacco products so appealing in today's society? Better yet, why does it seem that our political, economic and legal environment
Tobacco Control Policies: Political awareness of the scale of the public health problem of tobacco is rising because of the huge health and social costs of smoking. The Chinese government has joined the rest of the world in tobacco control. However, policy makers in China are facing a conflict between the economic interest and the health concerns. In 2005, China has signed the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), which requires China to adopt tax and non-tax methods to control tobacco
Cigarettes are so addictive, so why are they still legal today? The effects of smoking on a person and around that person are so extreme and harmful that smoking should not be legal for anyone. It really amazes me why anybody would smoke and harm their body if they knew how bad it can harm their health, and potentially cause death. Not only is smoking just unhealthy, the bigger problem is that smoking can lead to death. Smoking should be made illegal since there are many negative and dangerous consequences
Answer: Smoking should be banned at the Central Texas College due to the harmful components it may bring to students and staff on campus. It can not only harm the smoker, but it can harm the ones around them. The effects of smoking can give CTC a negative environment. Smoking is unhealthy, toxic, and can be addictive for the smoker and the non-smoker. First, smoking can harm your body in many different ways. It can lead to diseases, skin infections, decayed teeth, and etc. Your heart and blood
Smoking kills every year, more than the number of deaths from car accidents, drugs, alcohol, AIDS and fire accidents combined together. The dangers of smoking are that damaging does not occur immediately, but after a long time. Moreover, not limited to the smoker, it affects others who are around him! There is no doubt that smoking is a slow-motion suicide, and murder of the soul and all legislative acts to prevent the killing self and expose it to the reasons for the loss, whether indirectly or
The Effects of Secondhand Smoke I went on the Internet and started surfing around until I found this web-site called www.no-smoker.org. This site is About Americans for Nonsmoker's Rights. The article I read was called "Things are changing". The issue is secondhand smoke is bad for your health. The argument here is that tobacco companies are saying that secondhand smoke is not bad for your health. In this essay I will talk about this controversial issue. There are many explicit premises in
With smoking having obvious proven consequences, what does everyone think about smoking and health care??? Smoking and Health and Health care have been a controversial topic for many years. Smoking is one of the major obstacles in health care insurance, health care management and health care in itself. Should smokers pay a higher premium on their health insurance policies? Health insurance premiums have been on the rise for years. I was self-employed for over 20 years and the price I paid
Smoking no more Death is one of the things in life you simply cannot avoid and there are ways, through the advancement of technology that can make people live longer. But there are also things that can cause human lives to become shorter and one of the biggest cause is cigarettes. Cigarettes contributes to over 500,000 deaths in the United States from smoking related illnesses. Considering the harmful effects of cigarettes, they should be made illegal in the United States due to the addiction of
What is health psychology? Health psychology is a field of psychology that was introduced in the late 1970’s to examine the causes of illnesses and to study ways to promote and maintain health, Also to prevent and treat illness and improve the health care system. Health is define as a positive state of physical, mental, and social well-being that changes in degree over time it’s not simply the absence of injury or disease. There are contributing factors that affect a person health weather its stress
article that watching television is worse than smoking cigarettes. The article poses an overall unsuccessful argument, as it expresses the views thoroughly with certain support and tries to use various appeals but fails to suggest essential evidence and realistic views. This article is trying to show how smoking cigarettes is better than watching television, as it goes into numerous points of how television can destroy many more years off of lives than smoking, making it less preferable than cigarettes
Smoking is the most preventable cause of death in our society. During 1995, approximately 2.1 million people in developed countries died as a result of smoking. One tobacco use is responsible for nearly one in five deaths in the United States. Lung Cancer mortality are about 23 times higher for current male smokers and 13 times higher for current female smokers compared to a lifelong never-smoker. In addition to being responsible for 87% of lung cancers, smoking is also associated with cancers of
issues that may affect them, or family members, from smoking. Overall, cigarettes are a terrible thing that should not be accessible to anyone. The smoking of cigarettes leads to many serious and fatal health problems and because of those health problems caused by smoking in the United States smoking is the most preventable cause of death. Due to the four thousand plus chemicals in a cigarette the amount of illnesses that can come from smoking are endless. From lung cancer to heart diseases people