Let’s start off with the background of smoking. Tobacco has been used ever since 5000 BC in the Peruvian Andes. Moving on to more recent times, James Bonsack invented smoking in 1865. Commercials about smoking were made that year. In 1881, Bonsack invented the cigarette-making machine, popularizing smoking. Cigarettes were mostly sold to men in World War 1 & 2. By 1944, 300 billion cigarettes were being produced per year. In 1964, the Surgeon General of the U.S. said that cigarettes had nicotine in them and caused lung cancer, which made big-box companies put,"Cigarettes may be hazardous to your health." However, this didn’t stop everyone from smoking. Smoking has been declining the past 4 years minorly. Smoking among teens has …show more content…
15.4% of females and 15.6% of males have experimented smoking. 32.9% of females and 32.5% of males have tried smoking. Finally, 11.3% of females and 13.3% of males are regular smokers. The results for the females are a little bit better, but by a small margin.
Another study in this article compares the grades of teens related to their smoking status. The results are that 43% of teens who never smoked got A’s and 37% of teens who never smoked got B’s. Surprisingly, 18% of regular smokers got A’s, 10% got B’s, and 15% got C’s. This study could vary depending on the school, environment, and students, but is still evidence to consider.
Other studies in this article include, other drugs related to regular smoking teens, smoking among race, and other predictors of cigarette smoking.
Now that I’ve went into detail on all of the statistics, studies, and results that have been done on smoking; It’s time to tell the effects and diseases involved in this predicament.
The effects of smoking include loss of appetite, increased risk of blood cancer, poor vision, smelly hair, unhealthy teeth, mood stimulation, blood clotting, and anxiety and irritability emotions are more likely to happen. All of these effects alone, should keep everyone away from smoking, excluding the cost.
Before I go into the long-term effects, I’m going to explain what’s in cigarette. Cigarette smoke contains over 4,000 chemicals,
To start off with the first negative effect of smoking is that it is extremely bad for your health. In 2004, a Study by the CDC 's National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion found that cigarette smoke contains over 4,800 chemicals, 69 of which are known to cause cancer. Such as Acetaldehyde, Beryllium (a toxic metal), Butadiene (a hazardous gas), Cadmium (a toxic metal) these are just a few of
The smoking habit is the principal cause of illness, disability and death around the world. More than five million of people in the world die due to smoking habit every year. If we don’t take care of this in 2030 the amount will be ten million. Seven million of these deaths would be in poor countries.
The study written about in this article was from the University of Waterloo and Wake Forest School of Medicine in Canada. The data was collected from the Canadian Student Tobacco, Alcohol, and Drugs Survey. The students that took the survey were all from the 7th-12th grade. Almost 10 percent of those students admitted to using e-cigarettes at least once. It was found that the students that have tried an e-cigarette are 2.16 times more likely to start smoking tobacco.
In addition to the short term effects nicotine addiction also has severe long term effects. A person that is addicted to nicotine has an increased chance of getting cancer. Nicotine can cause a cell mutation in a user’s body that can lead to cancer. Smokers are more likely to develop lung cancer than non-smokers. People who are addicted to nicotine through the use of cigarettes are likely to cause damage to their lungs as a result from prolong use. The damage caused by nicotine to the lungs can result in pulmonary diseases such as
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.
Teens smoking has been a public concern for centuries. In a recent article published earlier this year by Fox News, highlighted the rate and risk of teens smoking and the rise of e-cigarettes. One of the main question posed was, why do teens smoke? There is no definite answer,however; a few intelligible explanation has been given. Biology and developmental vulnerability are the few partially reason given. Biology studies shows that, until in their 20s and adolescents Brain is not equate enough to measure and assess assess race and long-term consequences.one reason is that teen are very vulnerable,which makes them an ideal target for cigarrette companies. luckly the federal government has set strict rules that limit tobacco companies who sets
Young people may start to be curious about smoking at some point in time in their life. They might like the idea of doing something dangerous or something that makes them look like an adult. Young people do not know that smoking and tobacco use can cause cancer and heart disease. They do not look into the future to worry about the consequences. Tobacco use is the leading preventable cause of death in the United States (Persoskie, Donaldson, & King, 2016). In this cohort study, there was a research if there was an interest about or ever-utilization of tobacco items among the US middle and high school students changed from 2012 to 2014. The research data came from the 2012 and 2014 National Youth Tobacco Surveys of US students in grades 6 through 12 (Persoskie, Donaldson, & King, 2016). 2014 data of students who used cigarettes, cigars, smokeless tobacco, and e-cigarettes were classified as ever-users or never-users of each product. The never-users were questioned about their curiosity about each product if they had been definitely, probably, probably not, or definitely not been curious about using the products.
An Australian survey revealed that the age of which a person first smoked a cigarette has risen slightly from 14.2 years of age in 1995 to 15.9 years of age in 2013. (B) An American national survey showed that 9.3% of students had smoked one full cigarette before the age 13. A further study conducted in 2014 indicated that 34.4% of twelfth grades students and 22.6% of tenth grade students had tried smoking, (C) well below the legal age.
Hello everyone! I’m here today to talk to you about smoking and the affects it has on your body. Regularly smoking cigarettes is a cumulative risk. A cumulative risk is a risk that is repeated over time and builds upon itself. So, the longer you smoke, the greater your risks can be. Big risks can lead to terrible consequences later on in life! Smoking regularly has many consequences. These consequences may include but are not limited to: bad breath, the yellowing of the teeth and nails, prematurely wrinkled skin, the loss of teeth, dry and damaged hair, an increased risk of having a stroke, an increased risk of heart disease, damaged blood vessels, and the risk of getting many different types of cancer. Smoking doesn’t just affect you, it affects
Hi everyone. According to therealcost.com, smoking kills more than 480,000 people a year. That is equivalent to the population of New Orleans. That also means that smoking causes one in five deaths. In my 18 years, I have known a few life-long smokers so I have seen the negative effects first hand. Today I will be discussing why you should stop smoking cigarettes. First, I will explain the many health risks, then I will talk about how it alters your appearance, and finally I will explain how it affects those around you.
This article is Chris Woolston’s work entitled ‘Teen Smoking’. Woolston begins a brief reflection of Bubba Ash, a 15 years smoker who gives a short description of the painful repercussions which he has faced, having smoked for five years, from the time he was only 10. Bubba attributes smoking to his many problems including financial and health related problems. He was a good runner but today, smoking has killed his stamina. Apart from financial drains, Woolston cites other problems related to smoking as lung cancer, heart diseases, emphysema, complications with pregnancy and many other problems. Surprisingly, smoking habits amongst teens are on the rise. Woolston reports that 22% of high school student population in America is made up of regular smokers. A research by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention finds that
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).
x -0.76 from 22 studies of smoking behavior among young people between 18 and 24 years;
It can be seen that the effects of smoking on your body can be very drastic, for example smoke in tobacco contains many dangerous chemicals such as Tar; Carbon monoxide; Hydrogen cyanide; Oxidizing chemicals; Metals and finally radioactive compounds known to be carcinogenic.
Ranging from bad breath, teeth discoloration, gum diseases to lung cancer, the after effects of smoking are apparent, thanks to all the publicity through anti smoking campaigns and advertisements.