As a smoker I know the dangers of smoking. From the harmful effects on the human body, to the resulting pollution and waste; smoking is a nasty and lethal habit. We need a smoke-free world because smoking harms smokers, nonsmokers, and the environment. Smoking is a significant problem for smokers. The problem is that tobacco products are the leading cause of preventable deaths. Did you know that 67% of smokers perish from smoking-related illnesses? Tobacco smoke boosts the risk for 13 different types of cancer: lungs, esophagus, larynx, mouth, throat, kidneys, bladder, liver, stomach, cervix, colon, rectum, and blood. Almost 70% of smokers want to quit, and around 43% try each year. However, many smokers don’t have the know-how or the willpower to kick the habit for good. Over two-thirds of smokers who quit for a short period of time will relapse and take up smoking again. Smokers could involve themselves in behavioral therapy. Behavioral therapy involves working with a counselor to find ways not to smoke. Together you'll find your triggers, emotions or situations that make you want to smoke, and explore options to get through the cravings. But the danger isn't only for smokers, secondhand smoke can affect anyone.
Smoking pollution harms the environment. Many smokers believe smoking only damages their health. They are ignoring the fact that their smoking is indirectly affecting others health. Smoking causes air pollution and to some extent also pollutes the ground; even
Smoking is harmful to your health, your wallet, as well as the environment. Seventy out of seven thousand chemicals in cigarettes are proven to cause cancer. Smoking is in fact the number one cause of lung cancer. Lung cancer is not the only effect of smoking; cancer in the trachea, bronchus, esophagus, oral cavity,
Smoking tobacco is probably one of the worst habits humankind has developed. Originating as a tradition of the Native Americans, practiced mostly on special occasions, smoking has gradually become a kind of mass addiction. Due to the efforts of tobacco companies seeking to increase their sales, people started smoking more and more often; the evolution of a more traditional pipe to a cigarette took some time, but eventually tobacco became more affordable and easier to use (you now simply need to light it up, instead of having to always carry a tobacco pouch, stuff a pipe, puff it, and so on). As a result, deaths and health issues connected to tobacco consumption became a worldwide
Unfortunately, it seems that people not only risk their life with every cigarette they smoke, but also affect everybody else who is around. Everybody can be affected by second-hand smoke.
People that smoke are the people that get all the unhealthy stuff in a body like cancer and many diseases that can be caused.“If smoking persists at the current rate among young adults in this country, 5.6 million of today’s Americans younger than 18 years of age are projected to die prematurely from a smoking-related illness. Another 100,000 were babies who died of sudden infant death syndrome (often referred to as SIDS) or complications from prematurity, low birth weight, or other conditions caused by parental smoking, particularly smoking by the mother. “Smoking has been around for a long time. The problem with smoking became worse when “production climbed markedly when another cigarette-making machine was developed in the 1880s by James Albert Bonsack, which vastly increased the productivity of cigarette companies, which went from making about 40,000 hand-rolled cigarettes daily to around 4 million.” Smoking is a problem around the world because it causes lung cancer, many other cancers, and some horrible diseases. This problem should be solved because “More than 10 times as many U.S. citizens have died prematurely from cigarette smoking than have died in all the wars fought by the United States during its history.”
A health watchdog is to take legal action in California against the manufacturers of some of the best-known brands of e-cigarettes, following tests to establish the levels of toxic chemicals they contain.
“In the year of 2013, 17.8% of the people in the United States smoked cigarettes” (Gholipour). That is the lowest number we have ever seen, but there are still several people at risk of getting cancer, internal damage dealing with the heart, and physical damage that is visible to others. “Smoking causes more than 480,000 deaths each year in the U.S. This is nearly one in five deaths” (Health Effects of). If a smoker quits, his or her risks for these diseases and damages immediately decrease.
Drifting tobacco smoke can trigger asthma attacks, bronchial infections, and other serious health problems in nonsmokers. For the 100 million Americans who have asthma, chronic bronchitis, chronic sinusitis, emphysema, or other breathing related conditions, it makes them especially susceptible to secondhand tobacco smoke.
Smoking is causing deforestation. 600 million trees are chopped down every year because of the tobacco industry. For every 15 packs a smoker smokes one tree dies. Smoking is also causing major pollution. United states tobacco industries produce 16 million metric tons of carbon dioxide every year, and worldwide is four times as much. Shutting down the tobacco industry would be equivalent to taking 16 million cars off the roads every year! The smoke is not the only component of a cigarette that is bad for the environment, the cigarette buts also do. Cigarettes make up over 1/3 (38%) of all collected litter! The cost for cigarette clean up is allot, cities spend between 3-16 million dollars, just because u where to lazy to walk to the nearest garbage can and dispose of your cigarette correctly. You might think that cigarettes would just decompose due to weathering, but studies show that even after 10 years it still leaves a little residue. This is because a cigarette but is made mostly from plastic. The earth is not a trash can and we only have one, so we must keep it
First, smoking cigarettes can cause health problems. In some severe cases, people sometimes have to get their teeth removed, and smoking can cause lung cancer and premature death. Studies show the death rate for smoking cigarettes has gone up throughout the years and people aren’t doing anything about it or given it the attention it needs. Not only can smoking be harmful to the smoker, but to the people around that are still breathing in the harmful chemicals.If cigarettes
Smoking has many major horrible effects on lives that you can’t take back. For example 16 million americans are living with diseased caused by smoking. Every person who dies because of smoking, 30 people are living with a smoking illness. Smoking can also lead to lung cancer, cancer, eye disease, problems with the immune system, and much more. Smoking is the leading cause for preventable death. Tobacco users cause a average of 6 million deaths a year, and by 2030 will cause 8 million. Cigarette smoking is responsible for more than 480,000 deaths in the United States, and 41,000 deaths resulting secondhand smoke. 1,300 deaths everyday are caused by smoking. Each day more than 3,200 18 year olds or younger are trying their first cigarette. (Smoking and tobacco)
One main reason for this argument is that smoking should be banned because of it harmful effects on the smokers health. Smoking leads to many series health issues. One of the most common diseases that smokers get because of smoking is lung cancer and sometime it can cause stomach cancer and cervical and breast cancer for women. It also affects the heart, blood pressure, weight. And this affects leads to heart attack and stumbled circulatory. Another common outcome of smoking is stroke.
In addition to the smokers and the people around them, the Environment is being affected by smoking on a large-scale. Millions of cigarette butts are discarded on the ground daily. Some of these are picked up and many are never picked up. They end up in rivers and lakes where fishes and other animals eat them by mistake and quite often die. Rest that are left on ground takes an average of 25 years to decompose, while all the chemicals leach into the ground and pollute soil and plants in turn. It is also a major fire hazard in dry weather. Many trees are being wasted for rolling and packaging cigarette. It’s high time we save our self and our planet.
Now days we can see a lot issue of global warming. Air pollution is one of the causes that would definitely affect the environment. Sky would be unclean and polluted from the cigarette smokes. We gets problems like acid rain, temperature changes and humanity. People have to cover their faces when they walked by the person who is smoking. Person who smokes has to give a lot of money on buying a pack of cigarette. Smoking can lead to skin, bad breath and bad smelling clothes and hair. The smell of stale smoke tends to linger, not just on people’s clothing, furniture and cars. And it is hard to get the smell of smoke out.
Smoking cigarettes should be illegal due to the vast amount of annual deaths it causes. Smoking produces 10 times the amount of pollution that a diesel car exhaust would. This shows that not only are humans and animals affected by smoking, our environment is greatly damaged by the amount of pollution smoking creates. Smoking is something that people usually get addicted to, like a drug.This drug can cause many diseases such as lung cancer. Not only can it kill you, but it can kill those you love. It affects people you smoke around. A poll conducted in Gallup says nearly one-fourth of smokers said secondhand smoke is not too harmful or not harmful at all. This poll shows that smokers aren't even
Smoking is the leading cause of preventable death in the United States. Smoking cigarettes can do very fatal damages human health (Bender 17). There are over fifty ways of making life miserable through smoking due to illnesses, and more than twenty ways of killing a person (“Action on Smoking and Health” 1). The probability that someone who smokes will develop a major complication in their health is one hundred percent; no matter what, it will happen (Bender 33). Smoking cigarettes or any other drug is the major cause of lung cancer and cardiovascular diseases. These contributions can lead to other types of cancers, birth defects, and childhood respiratory illnesses (Bender 17-19). Along with these major health