Do you know someone that smokes? Do you wish you could make them stop? The smell of cigarettes and even the site of them make me nauseous. I have no ill feeling towards anyone who smokes, but what if I could encourage you to stop? Today I am here to persuade you not to smoke cigarettes due to health risk and death, the hazardous chemicals contained in cigarettes and the effects of secondhand smoke. I am hoping the facts I present you will help you quit.
Studies done by the CDC show that cigarette smoke takes 480,000 lives a year? They cause more death than HIV, alcohol use, motor vehicle related deaths, firearm related deaths and illegal drug use death combined. The effects of smoking can cause cancer to appear in any part of the human body including your lungs, bladder and liver. Cigarette smoke affects heart by forming clots due to your blood vessels thickening and growing narrow. This effect causes individuals to have high blood pressure and faster heartbeats. Also, did you know that cigarettes affect pregnancy in women and compromise baby health. Preterm delivery, stillbirth and orofacial cleft are some of the problems that are presented with smoking. So, the next time you want to pick up a cigarette, you should think about your health and the severe effects
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Children are severely affected by secondhand smoke. The chances of developing SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome) in healthy babies is increased due to the chemicals in cigarettes that affects the brain and the interference of breathing. Children who suffer from secondhand smoke are more prone to pneumonia, bronchitis and weaker immune systems overall. Adults who suffer from secondhand smoke are more likely to suffer from strokes than people who aren’t exposed. I would recommend that if you smoke and have children, don’t do it around them and if you are around someone who smokes, you make need to take a few steps
It can stain your teeth and gums, resulting in yellow teeth and bad breath which can affect your social life. It can cause sexual problems for men by reducing the amount of sperm they can produce. It has also been proven that 'smoking causes aging of skin' (Buzzle 36), because the skin is deprived of blood. Pregnant women should not even try to smoke cigarettes during their 9 months because of the harm it could do to the baby and themselves. The affects of smoking on women and the child during pregnancy are as follows: high possibility of miscarriage, pregnancy complications and possible death of the baby. These are just a small variety of facts on smoking and how dangerous it can be, yet millions of people across the U.S choose to smoke anyways, without realizing the harm it can doing to their bodies. For secondhand smokers, the same principle applies. Don’t smoke and you will live a healthy lifestyle. I have personally seen many of my friends who hang around with their other friends that happen to smoke. When I confront them about the harm it is doing to them, they tend to ignore the advice I offer, so I let them be, hoping that one day they will realize that smoking harms more people than just the smoker themselves. It causes harm to the people around them and to the environment, increasing the pollution in our world. Former U.S vice-president Al Gore, believes that smoking is
It is perhaps though in children that we see the most alarming effects of the exposure to second hand smoke. Children's lungs are still developing at their young age. Exposure to second hand smoke means they will have a decreased lung function. A child's airways are also smaller. This means a child will have to breath faster. The result is a child will breath in comparatively more of the poisonous chemicals than an adult in the same room.
Children’s immune systems are weaker which makes them easy targets of the second hand smoke. Also, it can decrease a child’s lung efficiency and impair the lung functions. Second hand smoke has also been known to cause children to have severe asthma as well.
While smoking causes many diseases in the heart it also affects the lungs. Every time someone lights up a cigarette they’re increasing their probability of procuring pneumonia, emphysema, lungs cancer, or chronic bronchitis pulmonary disease (COPD). Sadly Eighty-four percent of lung cancer deaths are smokers and eighty-three percent of COPD
The most harm in secondhand smoke is done to kids in their developmental years. As you would expect, a kid's bronchial tubes are littler and their are still growing, making them more helpless to the hurtful chemicals of passive smoking. Since their tubes are littler, kids inhale faster than grown-ups and, they really take in a greater amount of the destructive chemicals in the smoke. Few people who smoke would keep on doing it even when they knew the potential damage that they were doing to their kids. Kids invest a great deal of energy at home and maternal smoking is one of the real downfalls of detached smoking. as a result, the child suffers.
The effects of secondhand smoke on children, more frequent ear infections, more frequent and severe asthma attacks, respiratory symptoms, respiratory infections, and they are at a greater risk for sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). The effects
Half of all American children live with a person who smokes and nine million children breathe cigarette smoke frequently. Secondhand smoke is a widely known issue, but little to nothing is being done about it. By the home is one of the most primary places children are exposed to smoke, it means their own family members and loved ones are shortening their lives. Some of the effects secondhand smoke causes on children include: ear infections; more frequent and severe asthma attacks; respiratory symptoms (for example, coughing, sneezing, and shortness of breath); respiratory infections (bronchitis
Cigarettes are harmful to you as it can cause many health problems in your body. Even though you’re not a smoker, you can still be exposed to the same chemicals as a smoker can. One cigarette provides you with many chemicals that will damage your body, slowly and will cause addiction. The chemicals can cause lung cancer, strokes, heart diseases and many more long-term effects of cigarettes. Although you may not be a smoker, you can still be exposed to the same chemicals as a smoker will. There are many facts that many people don’t know about cigarettes.
Secondhand smoke is unhealthy for everyone, especially for young children. Children are more susceptible to suffer the detrimental health effects of secondhand smoke because they breathe in more air than adults due to their size and weight. In addition, children are constantly growing and developing. During their development stage, children are more sensitive to the consequences of secondhand smoke, which is ultimately dangerous to their immune and respiratory systems. Furthermore, secondhand smoke is significantly harmful to children with asthma, which is a chronic health condition whose symptoms include coughing, wheezing, and shortness of breath. Children, both with and without asthma, are powerless to protect themselves from the dangers of secondhand smoke, so we the adults have to protect them.
When you breathe in cigarette smoke, which is full of cancer-causing substances the changes in the lung tissue begin almost instantly. Not only is smoking bad for you and people around you, but it also horrible for your future children. According to cancer.gov smoking makes it harder for a woman to get pregnant. A pregnant woman that smokes is at higher risk of miscarriage, and having her baby born too early and with an unusually low birth weight. A woman who smokes during or after pregnancy increases your child's risk of death from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. Also according to http://www.cancerresearchuk.org the main way that smoking causes cancer is by damaging our DNA, including important important genes that protect us against cancer. Many of the chemicals found in cigarettes have been shown to cause DNA damage. Smokers are also less able to handle poisonous chemicals than non-smokers that have healthy lungs and blood. Chemicals in cigarette smoke make it harder for smokers to remove poisonous chemicals, and can make their disease-fighting systems less effective too. It usually takes many years, or at least 20 years, for the DNA damage from smoking to cause
First of all, cigarettes cause harmful diseases that may cause death. Cigarettes are as dangerous as getting attacked by a lion. According to “Should Cigarettes Be Illegal,” “Tobacco clearly takes a significant toll on the lives of Americans, causing 450,000 premature deaths each year, and drastic measures should be taken to eliminate the habit from our lives, including, some say, banning cigarettes.” This means that each year several people die from smoking cigarettes. These deaths can be caused from kidney failure, lung cancer, and other harmful diseases. “Health Effects of Cigarette Smoking,” says that “Cigarette smoking harms nearly every organ of the body,
Cigarettes. They harm nearly every organ in your body, and increases the risk of many diseases (such as coronary heart disease and lung cancer). This isn’t uncommon knowledge, yet people still smoke. To understand why, we have to look into Nicotine. Nicotine is addictive and can cause nasty withdrawals that vary from person to person. Nicotine begins by traveling through the body via the bloodstream, to the brain, taking about 7 to 15 seconds. It can produce a “happy” feeling by releasing adrenaline and increasing your heart rate and blood pressure. It affects the neurotransmitters in the brain, as well, getting you addicted rather instantly. This addiction, over time, increases your risk of cardiovascular diseases by 2 to 4 times, and respiratory
Your actions and decisions today can harm your child’s well being later to come. Young children are being affected around the world more and more every day. Second-hand smoke causes major problems in these children. Exposure to second-hand smoke affects 4 out of 10 children around the world. Secondhand smoke puts children at risk for heart disease, breathing difficulties, and possible cavities. Children that are exposed to secondhand smoke have a higher chance to become sick and have these symptoms:
I am writing to persuade you to quit smoking. The are two main overall issues that you should consider when smoking are health and financial. After you read this you will have all the reasons to quit smoking and no reason to not.
To begin with, cigarettes are detrimental to the body and health because they contain more than 4,800 harmful ingredients (The Facts - Tobacco, Lung Cancer, and Secondhand Smoke. (n.d.). Every time a cigarette is lit, a smoker inhales nicotine which is highly addictive, tar that