China And The Toll Of Smoking

According to “The Action of Smoking and Health,” every six seconds someone loses their life as a result of a tobacco related disease. It’s hard to realize how damaging cigarette smoking’s effect can be until you experience it first hand. It is almost certain that every one knows someone who is currently a smoker or was a smoker at some point in their life. For years smoking was the seen as the “cool” thing to do, it was how to “fit in.” There was no real emphasis placed on the dangers of this particular habit, and as a result, it became a world wide trend. In the past, technology and medicine were not nearly advanced enough to be able to determine just how harmful tobacco usage is. However, as we have made medical and

Do you know the Opium War China? This was very terrible events for China. The opium make people crazy and they cannot control themselves brand. Of course, the cigarette is not this bad, but the cigarette still harm people’s life. Smoking is a leading cause of cancer and death from cancer. It’s cause cancers of the lung, bones, teeth, throat, mouth, stomach and cervix, as well as acute myeloid leukemia. The smoke people never care about the people who live with them, because the second - hand smoke also harm their life and more than people who were smoke.

Just over a billion people worldwide indulge themselves with a legal substance that has proven too insidiously cause disease or death. Approximately six million people die each year from this legal drug and it is one of the worst threats to humanity worldwide (WHO, 2016). This drug is sold legally over the counter throughout many countries including the United States. The Surgeon General’s Warning, “smoking causes lung cancer, heart disease, emphysema and may complicate pregnancy” was labeled on the packaging of cigarette boxes in the 1980’s. Eventually, launching a national campaign for smoking cessation. Despite the many laws that inhibit the use of tobacco smoke, these products continue to be a legally obtainable substance in the US with devastating damage as a result of their use.

It is estimated that “one out of four high school seniors and one out of three young adults under age 26 are smokers”, which adds up to 42.1 million Americans who legally smoke (Smoking). This high amount does not include minors, or people who use tobacco products other than cigarettes and cigars. This number has decreased greatly since its peak in 1964, but the health effects are still prevalent today (Health). Lung cancer is one of the most infamous results of smoking, with 82.4% of all lung cancer cases attributing to smoking (Facts). “Of former smokers in the U.S., 1,154,000 have a cancer other than lung cancer from smoking” (Facts). This includes oral cancer, diagnosed especially among users of smokeless tobacco, usually associated with teeth loss and gum recession (Health). Other common illnesses that correlate with tobacco use include bronchitis, emphysema, and pneumonia, which cause 113,100 American deaths annually (Facts). The Secretary of Health and Human Services states “This year alone, nearly one-half million adults will still die prematurely because of smoking…and if we continue on our current trajectory, 5.6 million children alive today who are younger than 18 years of age will die prematurely” (Health). Imagine how many lives would be spared had the nation not succumbed to the addiction of

According to world health organization (2014) More than 80% of smokers billion people's globally live in low-income and middle-income countries, where the burden of illness caused by tobacco peak, tobacco caused 100 million deaths in the twentieth century. If they are not combat tobacco-related deaths will increase to more than eight million deaths by 2030 and will happen more than 80% of those deaths are in low- and middle-income countries. The largest country that consumes and produces cigarette in the world is China. According to tobacco Atlas (Michael Eriksen, 2002) Smoking is harmful to a large extent as long as tobacco deaths of nearly 100 million people worldwide in the 20th century, and that the number is higher than the number who

It is shocking to know that there are about ten people who die from smoking every single minute, and nobody seems to have any idea about it. Indeed, there is “a growing gap between the real world and the academy” since people are more intellectual about things that are irrelevant to the real life and are ignorant of things that are imperative to live in the real world (Orr 310). Did you know that there are over four hundred thousand deaths caused by cigarettes and tobacco each year in the U.S. alone? That makes it about five million deaths worldwide each year, according to “Statistics about Smoking.” Smoking is notorious for causing avoidable diseases and deaths, and yet not many institutions have develop an appropriate system to

Plague and cholera caused thousands of millions of people dead. Thanks to the medical advances, those diseases were eradicated. Now, when the whole world is worrying about AIDS, which has not found the solution yet; the appearance of tobacco is causing the great harms to human life. Many people think that they have the right to smoke; smoking helps them deal with stress and work more effectively, and they are contributing to their country’s economy when they smoke. On the other hand, people will get addicted to cigarette. Moreovers, smoking has many negative effects on the smokers, the non-smokers, and the environment. Smoking cigarette extremely affects human health. Smoking can cause diseases of the lungs, liver, and heart. Smoker’s life

There are over 1.1 billion smokers in the world-- fifteen percent of the entire population. It is said that one in every three adults is a chronic smoker. Even in America, one of the most progressive countries in the world, forty-two million (about 12.5%) people smoke chronically. Given this astonishing number, it is no surprise that smoking is the leading cause of preventable death in the United States, responsible for one in every five deaths. Only to add to that, more than 16 million Americans live with a smoking related disease. Since the 1960’s the United States government has attempted to curb these numbers as much as possible; from settling cases in the supreme court to passing new laws and regulations to counter the use of tobacco,

This is where tobacco companies play a huge role in all this. “Each year, the tobacco industry produces six trillion cigarettes, enough to create a continuous chain from Earth to Mars and back multiple times” (World Lung Foundation 2015). With the companies investing heavily in so much tobacco and mass producing cigarettes and cigars, there is a huge influence that it plays on the world, and its economies. Tobacco companies use decisive advertising to get people’s attention, and try to use persuasion and appeal to get them to purchase the products they sell. When it comes to people’s health and lifestyles, tobacco companies should be required to contribute at least half of their lucrative profits and earnings in order to help support more research and the well-being of everyone, especially more so to the people that do not necessarily purchase or use their products, but rather the ones that are in dire need to support. With that being said, “In 2006, a federal court found that the cigarette industry engaged in willful racketeering and conspiracy to conceal the dangers of smoking from the American public by improperly suppressing and terminating scientific research and destroying research documents (National Institute of Drug Abuse 2016). It’s the tobacco companies that make most of the money, so they should really be sharing the profits

Tobacco usage and America have a long history with cultivation going far back as 1000 BC. Although, smoking only became popularized in American culture in the past centuries. According to the center for disease control and prevention (CDC) the rise in smoking caused an increase in diseases affecting the lungs, livers, and heart. Smoking is the single most preventable cause of death in the United States (Smoking & Tobacco Use). Three effective ways as a society and a culture we can reduce the overall number of smokers are by getting the government more involved, making e-cigarettes a safer alternative, limiting the public’s exposure to tobacco products by the media, and determine what is making people use tobacco and tailor treatment and prevention

There are many cities who have implemented bans on cigarettes, but China overall is still the leading consumer of cigarettes in the world. A countrywide tax on cigarettes has been proposed to their Ministry of Finance, and Ministry of Economics and Trade, but a decision has yet to be made. Tobacco production provides substantial revenue to the government and a tax increase will have a significant effect on the central government and reduction of consumption of cigarettes. According to a study done by the group proposing the tax, “a 25% tax increase will have an overall monetary benefit that far exceeds the negative impact on the cigarette industry and tobacco farmers. In financial terms alone, not counting the number of lives saved and medical care cost savings, the gain of the central government tax revenue (24.58 billion Yuan) twice exceeds the loss of tobacco farmers’ earnings, tobacco industry workers’ earning and loss of industry and local government revenue (11.74 billion Yuan)” (Hu TW 107). There many components to this calculation, but some factors included the reduction of cigarette consumption, the number of lives saved, savings in medical care costs, gains in productivity due to avoidance of premature death, industry revenue lost, lost jobs in cigarette industry, loss of tobacco income, and loss of local government

There exist a lot of smokers in all the word whether they are in North America, South America, Europe, or any other continents. Asia, for example, has one of the largest markets for tobacco use in the world. Smokers in Chinese use approximately fifty thousand cigarettes per second (Goldschein and Johnson,

Due to the changes made with regards to marketing and packaging, among other factors, there has been a decline in smoking in the United States and other high-income countries. In lower and middle-income countries. Bloomberg asserts “every day, more than 14,000 people die from tobacco use. Most tobacco-related deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries, areas that are targets of intensive tobacco industry marketing (2017). Bloomberg Philanthropies are addressing this worldwide to control tobacco use by educating populations about the dangers, education on quitting, banning marketing, and raising taxes on tobacco products. Their approach is designed to protect their stakeholders, the public, and aggressively change tobacco use in other countries. Mostly, efforts have been effective and are

It is widely claimed that tobacco consumption is the biggest culprit of preventable death, which is responsible for more than 6 million of mortality worldwide per year, reported by the Centers of Diseases Control and Prevention (CDC). Recent research of CDC in 2015 also predicted that smoking in particular will be the cause of 8 million deaths annually by 2030. Such current trends prompt many nations to enact laws restricting the harvesting, distributing and selling tobacco products. One striking example is that in 2010, Bhutan became the first non-smoking country by imposing a nationwide tobacco products ban. According to that, all the acts of tobacco production, distribution and consumption were forbidden, otherwise the violators would

Saudi Arabia occupies fourth place globally in smoking tobacco because, people there in Saudi Arabia not allow to drinks alcohol, so smoking is become there intermittent for them. Not focusing only in Saudi student but in general international student they are the highest percentage at Texas Wesleyan University. In this year 2014 most of the companies of tobacco has increased their price for selling tobacco product for making people stop smoking and start thinking to be healthier and save their money. “Some countries giving money or profit for tobacco companies to make them increase their price to help people to quit smoking” (Sloan, Frank A).