A Brief Note On Tobacco Products Are Made Up Of Over Four Thousand Dangerous Chemicals

Now, more than ever, more and more people are beginning to look at tobacco use as a major public health concern. It is nineteen ninety nine, and the number of smokers is rising while the average age of smoking initiation decreases. There are those that believe using tobacco of any type should be illegal, or at least restricted. Others believe it is up to the person to choose whether to use tobacco products or not, however most of these people believe tobacco companies should warn their customers of their products harmful affects.

The table that was chosen from Health United States, 2014 report, was on the following determinant of health: “Current cigarette smoking among adults age 18 and over, by sex (female), race and age; United States, selected years 1965-2013”; this table (below) was listed as table 52 on the report, found on page 182. Using the data from the selected table, a specific health problem that should be the focus of one research subject in public health is cigarette smoking. Cigarette smoking is a specific health problem because the table, shows the trend of cigarette smoking (with some variation), on the decline for all categories for females (race and age) as years progress. The problem of cigarette smoking still needs to be addressed

According to statistics in the 20th century the world over 100 million people died of tobacco-related diseases. However, the proportion of smokers has not decreased, or even increased due to the limited understanding of the harmful effects of tobacco smoke, knowledge is limited.

According to the Healthy People 2020, each year, approximately 480,000 Americans die from tobacco-related illnesses. Further, more than 16 million Americans suffer from at least one disease caused by smoking. (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2012). The effect of cigarette smoking is alarming. Use of tobacco in the form of smoking is not only dangerous to the one who is smoking but also to a non-smoker. Tobacco harms a human physically and mentally. Major cause of lung cancer is smoking. It is important to prevent the use of tobacco because it is the largest preventable cause of diseases and death in the United States. According to Chin, Hong, Gillen, Bates and Okechukwu (2012) Blue-collar workers smoke at higher rates than white-collar workers and

Nicotine addiction is a most common addiction faced by adults and teens in today’s society, which could gradually lead to death eventually. A tobacco product such as a cigarettes, cigars, and pipes contains nicotine and 4,000 more different chemicals that are toxic to the body and brain physically and psychologically (CDC). Teen are pressured by their peers into start using nicotine products at early age in order to fit into a society or a group where it is symbolized as “Cool kids actions” to use this product, while adult use tobacco products because they are addicted. According to CDC more than 480,000 deaths annually are tobacco related death in which person was addicted to tobacco or victim of second hand smoke.

The negative health effects of tobacco use have been well established. Tobacco use has been shown to cause acute and chronic respiratory disease, heart disease, many types of cancer, and is the leading cause of preventable morbidity and mortality in the United States, causing an estimated 443,000 deaths per year (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services 2004). As the dangers of smoking have become better understood, reducing the number of people who smoke has become a major focus for those interested in public health. Efforts to restrict the advertisement and sale of tobacco, implement public smoking bans, and educate citizens through public service announcements have all had a sizeable effect on smoking rates in the U.S. In Fact, over

Tobacco is thought to be one of the most widely abused addictive substances worldwide and while tobacco usage in the United States has appeared to have lessened in recent years, “it is still [noted as] one of the most common addictions” to cause a myriad of known health risks (Tyler, 2014). According to reports from the United States Census Bureau over the last 50 years, since the year 1964, smoking has led to the estimated deaths of over 19 million people, apprised to be around the size equivalent to that of the population of Florida, the third largest state (United States Census Bureau, 2004). The nicotine in tobacco products contains chemical agents that cause people to get hooked on smoking, creating an addiction that can negatively affect

The century-long epidemic of cigarette smoking has caused a public health concern of epic proportions. As health concerns about tobacco developed during the 1960s, the federal government moved in and initiated Tobacco Control laws. Smoking among adults in the mid-1960’s was prevalent with 42% of the population smoking compared to 18% in 2012. In 1964, the first report of the Surgeon General’s Advisory Committee on Smoking and Health identified smoking as a cause of increased mortality.

An estimated 36.5 million or 15.1 % of adults aged 18 years old and older currently smoke cigarettes and more than 16,000,000 have smoking or live with diseases that are related to smoking. According to US department of health and human services, over the past five decades, there is a significant decline in cigarette smoking in the U.S. The progress has slowed in recent years and the prevalence of use of other tobacco products such as vapes, e-cigars and smokeless tobacco

World-wide efforts have increased to alarm people of the danger in consuming tobacco products, both first hand and second hand. In recent years, reports have proven a decline in smoking. However, there are still millions of people that smoke in the United State of America. As a result, the effect of smoking has become a major health risk. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), tobacco use is the leading preventable cause of death, disease, and disability in the US.

Tobacco consumption is one of the modifiable risk factors that causes or worsens numerous diseases and conditions. Tobacco used is the leading cause for cancer and cancer death in the world. Smoking increases the incidence of cancer of the lung, esophagus, kidney, bladder, stomach, colon etc. but also that of chronic diseases in particular cardiovascular disease, pulmonary disease like pneumonia, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease( COPD) while weakening the body’s immune system. Furthermore, smoking is responsible for the death of 480,000 people every year in the United States of America from which many are secondhand smoking.(Center for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], 2016) Among other effects,

Tobacco is the leading cause of death in the United States. Studies record that 480,000 deaths from smoking cigarettes including second hand smoke. Men has 278,544 deaths annually including second hand smoke, and women have 201,773 deaths accoriding to the CDC (Center for Disease Control and Prevention.) Although some smokers still live, they suffer from cancers, and circulatory and respiratory system disease, and many more harmful effects of smoking cigarettres and other tobacco related products.According to Dr. Robert N Procter “The cigarette is the deadliest artefact in the history of human civilisation.”Smokers are aware of the constent damages of smoking due to advertisements, warning labels, and much more, but are addicted to the nicotine. The (FDA) Food and Drug Administration declared nicotine, the main chemical in cigarettes,

Tobacco use is a global epidemic among young people. As with adults, it poses a serious health threat to youth and young adults in the United States and has significant implications for this nation’s public and economic health in the future (Perry et al. 1994; Kessler 1995). According to Healthy people 2020, tobacco use is the largest preventable cause of death and disease in the United States.

“Tobacco use remains the single largest preventable cause of death and disease in the United States (cdc.gov).” We cannot push this topic to the side and think it will change soon. This topic needs to be addressed now. People need to know the magnitude of tobacco and the effects it has on individuals and the influential effect it has on adolescents. “Tobacco use remains the single largest preventable cause of death and disease in the United States (cdc.gov).” Since there are two types of tobacco use, Smoking tobacco and non-smoking tobacco, smoking tobacco is the most commonly used substance of the two. “Cigarette smoking kills more than 480,000 Americans each year, with more than 41,000 of these deaths from exposure to secondhand smoke (cdc.gov).” A recent study in 2015 estimated that 36.5 million adults of the United States population were current cigarette smokers (cdc.gov).

Tobacco smoking is a major global public health epidemic (World Health Organisation [WHO], 2015). In addition to the negative effects of second-hand smoke, tobacco smoking is also associated with a multitude of prolonged health diseases like cancer, respiratory problems and even stroke, and accounts for over 5 million deaths annually (WHO, 2015). Of the 1 billion smokers worldwide (defined as those at least 15 years of age who have smoked over 100 cigarettes in their lifetime; Diaz et al., 2009), one in five come from developed countries (WHO, 2015), such as Australia. The reasons for this uphill trend may potentially be a result of lack of education during the 1920’s and also following the wars (International Agency for Research on Cancer [IRAC], 2012, p. 57). Tobacco has been linked with