Cigarette Research Paper

Cigarette companies use trends, age, culture, and other things to hook a person to their product. The companies mainly target teens because of their ignorance and teens who get addicted that young will likely be customers for life. Tobacco is promoted on almost every television network and 1/3 of adolescent experimentation with smoking results from the advertising. (Tobacco Free Broome and Tioga) Not only are cigarettes promoted on TV, but their promoted throughout everyone’s lifestyle. Maybe a role model you have, maybe one of your parents, or maybe a celebrity you enjoy following... any one of these people could smoke and the mindset of many is, “if they’re doing it, so can I”. Mike Magee smoked his first L&M cigarette when he nine years old, his parents smoked and kept cigarettes in the house and therefore they were accessible. He and his siblings said that learning how to smoke was

5 million people die from smoking annually, along with 600,000 affected by second-hand smoke. Smoking leads to more deaths than guns and texting while driving. Cigarettes main ingredient, tobacco, has over 4,000 chemicals, 51 of them known to cause cancer. When someone begins to smoke most of the time there’s no turning back, as quitting is very difficult. The nicotine in cigarettes forces you to become addicted to smoking and the more you consume, the more you you feel uncomfortable when quitting. This is what makes cigarettes so dangerous. I think cigarettes are the most harmful invention because it slowly kills the user, but most importantly hurts innocent bypassers.

Usually, on television shows or on magazine articles there has to be an advertisement promoting cigarettes. Not only does the tobacco industry encourage teenagers to start smoking, but it enforces smoking to continue well on into their adulthood.

According to the surgeon general, young people who see smoking portrayed in movies are 2-3 times more likely to start smoking themselves. One of the goals of the Healthy People 2020 program is to reduce onscreen smoking in movies and TV shows, especially in youth-rated material, which is rated as G, PG, and PG-13. From 2005 to 2010, there was a steady decrease in the number of onscreen smoking incidents in these films, but this decline stopped after 2010. If the decline had continued, all youth-rated films would have contained no smoking incidents by 2015. That would have meant a huge reduction in teen smoking.

Winning the war against cigarettes. (n.d.). Retrieved October 1, 2015, from American Cancer Society: http:www.cancer.org

In the 1600’s when Native Americans smoked tobacco from pipes they never thought of later using an electronic pipe. Native Americans never though that 363 years later that someone would invent a device that allows you smoke a tobacco free product until 1963 when the first electronic vapor was invented, but were not actually released until 2003 when a Chinese pharmacists name Han Lik made the very first portable electronic vapor.

Nicotine is terrible for everyone, because it causes all kinds of sicknesses, it is inconsiderate and selfish to use nicotine, and it gives your body, clothes, breath, and anything else you own a smoky smell.

Cigarette have been around since before I have been born, and the abuse cigarettes get is very high. Most people do not realize what abusing a cigarette can do to you, then again most people do not care. There has been advertisements about why its bad for you. There has been rallies trying to shut down company's, and there has been people going beyond there own risk to inform people. In my CTC campus, they have even band cigarette smoking around the campus. So it says a lot about cigarette, if there are so many things against it. Would you smoke a cigarette, after knowing everything it can do to you?

The authors point out how anti-smoking advertisements do not send a clear message to the students to understand how smoking can impact their health. It seems that the advertisements trick people by sending the wrong message, such as demonstrating that smoking is not as bad as it seems that the more the students see those advertisements, the more propense for the students to smoke. The source is relevant to my hypothesis because it demonstrates that teenagers are unaware of the health consequences that they can get. The author’s goal is for teenagers to understand anti-smoking messages are not explicit and are not demonstrating a clear understanding of the risks that smoking cause. The authors conclude that new advertisements need to be more carefully evaluated for teenagers to recognize that their intentions reflect undesirable outcome in the antismoking advertainments for teenagers to understand smoking and the inevitable result that can be provoked due to smoking.

Advertising for tobacco is another source that cause teenagers smoke and adults smoke. Recently, tobacco companies have found new ways to promote their products to youth. They support their sporting events, concerts and movie. Many people favor idols or stars smoke in the movies and they seems very cool. And Teenagers are curious about imitation. Smoke containing nicotine acts as a stimulant to the brain. Nicotine in the bloodstream acts to make the smoker feel calm. In fact, nicotine is a lethal poison, affecting the heart, blood vessels, and hormones. Tobacco smoke contains over 4,000 chemical compounds. More than 60 of these are known or suspected to cause cancer. What is more, secondhand smoke can be harmful in many ways and it ruins thousands of non-smoking people, children's health. The US Surgeon General and the US Food and Drug Administration are among those who have examined the evidence and concluded that tobacco advertising does increase overall consumption. If we ban adverts on tobacco products, they will gradually lose their appeal, because they won't symbolize anything "cool", "smart" or "amazing". Tobacco products will become ordinary consumption goods and thus the number of young people who take up smoking in order to "be somebody" will decrease.

Year after year, Unites States citizens are suffering a great deal due to cigarette smoke. Smoking leads the way in preventable deaths killing up to 440,000 people annually and it costs this country an estimated $157 billion dollars in annual economic medical expenses (CDC, 2014). Up to 500 million people are estimated to be killed from just this habit alone which will also cut 5 billion years of life because of tobacco smoke (Glanz, 2008). Cigarette smoke does not kill you in a hurry. It is a slow, but progressively harmful type of suffering one has to endure until their last days. Symptoms caused by cigarette smoke include and are not limited to shallow breathing, feeling fatigued and a heavy cough. 45 million individuals above the age of 18 smoke cigarettes. Smokers that are at the age of 18 to 24 which is the age range of university students account for 20% of those 45 million smokers (CDC, 2014).

Teenage smoking can be a result of the influence of other teens, or maybe the amount of peer pressure. This can cause a teen to want to smoke or even think about smoking (Alcid, Arthur, page 1). Statistics show that 794 student and 22.4 percent of teens claimed to be tobacco users. (Alcid, Arthur, page 1). Teens tend to be more abrasive when smoking, and seem to act different while smoking and once they have gotten into the habit of smoking make it a constant thing. In 2003, 21.9 percent of high school students currently smoke cigarettes (Alcid, Arthur, page 1).

One of the largest issues today is adolescent smoking. According to a heath based website, nearly 90% of adult smokers start while they are still teens and they never intend to get hooked. They may start by bumming a cigarette or two from a friend at a party, and then go on to buying an occasional pack. Soon they realize that they can't go without that pack. They've gotten used to reaching for a cigarette first thing in the morning, after meals, or during any stressful time. They become addicted, both physically and psychologically. According to the American Lung Association, each day 6,000 children under the age of 18 smoke their first cigarette. Almost 2,000 of them will become regular smokers – that’s 757, 000 new smokers annually!

Nicotine use is a leading preventable cause of death in the world, directly and indirectly responsible for 440,000 deaths per year. The health problems that result in tobacco use tally an annual of $75 billion in direct medical costs (Slovic 36). That money spent on medical problems for smokers should be used to pay for more important things in our society such as schools, libraries, childcare, etc.

The author Rachel Kranz in “Straight Talk About Smoking,’ states, “Smoking more means that Lynette has less to spend on pizza and after-school snacks, because she’s got to make sure she can afford three or four packs of cigarettes each week.” (Kranz). Peer pressure to smoke can also be a way of teenagers proving that they are mature. Maturity is something that all teenagers have been told to obtain; especially by adults. The legal smoking age in most states is twenty-one, and most adults do smoke. Teenagers think that they can feel more grown up when they smoke and fit in society. Kaz Vorpal in the book of “Teen Smoking,’” states, “Adults do certain things, and therefore children who do those things feel they are more like grownups.” (Vorpal 66). Movies also contributes to teen smoking by portraying smoking as a cool, pleasurable, and harmless thing. All these factors give the teen a pressure to start smoking and never realize that the Nicotine that is found in the cigarette is addictive and causes major health problems like cancer.