Persuasive Essay About Smoking

Is smoking a cigarette like aiming a smoking gun to your head? Absolutely, yes! The photo above, has a very powerful message to be shared with people all over the world. The creator of the picture above is, The American Cancer Society. This is an organization that is trying to heighten awareness of the dangers of smoking, the most threatening danger being, cancer. They also promote relays which help raise money for ads and research. The money raised helps to inform people of the dangers smoking and what the negative outcomes of such a habit. This society also helps with finding treatment options. They are helping people cope with the side effects of various cancers or to advise on health insurance. A certain population of people, particularly young people, see smoking as a cool or hip idea to fit in. The goal of this visual argument is to inform people who smoke cigarettes that they should just hold a gun to their heads. The American people should be against nonsmoking because of the feelings you get when smoking, the chemicals that are involved, and how the cigarette will kill like a loaded gun.

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

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.

Around 80,000 to 100,000 children worldwide start smoking every day, and almost half of those children live in Asia. It's estimated that nearly 4.5 million United States youth are smokers, and if this current pattern persists, about 6.4 tobacco-using children will die prematurely from a smoking-related disease. From those 80,000 to 100,000 children about 50% of them will continue smoking for another decade or two. These kids help make up the 90% of smokers that started before age 21. The youth that has and will start smoking will have a harder time quitting, just as long-time smokers.

In many cases, there are smokers who decide to stop smoking and change their lives for the better. An example is David Sturges, who is an attorney and lung cancer survivor. In 2002 David had been diagnosed with a small, malignant tumor in the lower lobe of his right lung-lung cancer. David was fortunate enough to undergo surgery and through his hard journey of recovery survived. Throughout his journey, David recognized that lung cancer is a branch of cancer research and is now traveling the world informing schools, organizations about the suffering f of lung cancer. He travels to schools, conferences, and workshops talking about how smoking challenged his life and raises funds for development in lung cancer research. This is just how one life changing surgery can help one man influence many. (Lung Cancer Foundation of America, 2016)

"Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I have done it thousands of times," said Samuel Clemens, better known by his pen name Mark Twain. Mark Twain spoke these words nearly 150 years ago. Unfortunately for Mark Twain, there weren't very many options available back then when it came to quitting tobacco. This quote, humorous in some sense, unfortunately, describes the lives of many smokers today. Luckily for smokers today, there are many options available to help smokers quit smoking with the most popular option becoming the use of vaporizers. Vaporizers and e-cigarettes are devices containing a nicotine-based liquid that is vaporized and inhaled. They are used to simulate the experience of smoking tobacco. Vaporizers and e-cigarettes are a better alternative to smoking tobacco because vaping is healthier than smoking tobacco, cleaner for the environment, and helps people quit using tobacco despite many people who argue that vaping is a public health concern, doesn't end nicotine addiction, and is a danger to minors because more kids and teenagers are becoming addicted to nicotine via vapor products due to vapor companies targeting them.

Cigarettes have been around since the late 1800’s. Over that time, they have been perceived as this trend setting drug that will make you super cool. Their advertisements convince the buyers that they would make you more appealing to the other sex, more interesting, and a better person if you would start smoking, and that for the most part has kept up to this day. However, thankfully to awareness advertisements we have become more informed on how dangerous cigarettes really are.

Among the many reasons why cigarette smoking should be banned, health concerns, mortality rates, and high cost are of the utmost importance. Cigarettes are an extremely addictive and dangerous phenomenon that occurred suddenly. Cigarettes are known to decrease the lifespan in people who smoke them. In recent years, researchers have found that cigarette smoking is one of the leading causes of death in the United States and all over the world. Cigarettes include toxic materials such as ammonia, formaldehyde, and much more ingredients that most people should be educated on. Most people, including teens, start smoking so they will feel socially accepted. This bad habit often leads to years of addiction where people will feel lost without them. Cigarettes have made a negative impact on society and continue to do so over the years.

Her lungs blackened. Her body still. Her chest that once rose with each steady breath lay leveled motionless. Her heart stopped. The fate of the inevitable thing called death was determined by that single cigarette she decided to slip in between her lips which became an unrelenting need. Cigarette smoking has become the number one cause of preventable diseases and deaths in the United States. While many are aware of that fact, more than 45 million Americans still participate in the activity of smoking. Approximately 480,000 deaths occur annually as an aftermath from smoking—meaning 1 in every 5 deaths (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention). Furthermore, a heavy smoker, smoking an average of 20 cigarettes to a pack each day, dies 13

Smoking tobacco is known for being detrimental to a person's health. When you smoke a cigarette you are inhaling a toxic mix of chemicals including formaldehyde, ammonia, arsenic and cyanide. Along with the inhaling of carcinogenic chemicals smokers also deal with nicotine addiction. Nicotine is highly addictive and makes quitting very difficult for those who smoke. Many smokers continue to smoke knowing the harmful effects but, even worse, some people willingly smoke while they are pregnant. Women who smoke during pregnancy create a very unhealthy environment for themselves and their unborn child. Pregnant women who smoke should stop immediately to ensure the health of their child. Smoking while pregnant can lead to serious health effects such as premature birth, birth defects and death.

Did you know that 20% of adult’s smoke cigarettes in the United States and every year more than 480,000 people die from tobacco use and exposure to secondhand smoke, making it the leading cause of preventable death in this country? (CDC, 2017) How many of those people do you think have children? Second-hand smoke is just as dangerous as lighting up according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. It causes numerous health problems in infants and children, including more frequent and severe asthma attacks, respiratory infections, ear infections, and sudden infant death syndrome. (CDC, 2017) Anti-smoking advertisements began in 1998 as part of a 206-billion-dollar settlement. Major tobacco companies, including Philip Morris USA, R. J. Reynolds, Brown & Williamson, and Lorillard, were to pay for anti-smoking ads due to a lawsuit from 46 states. The states filed a lawsuit against the major tobacco companies for Medicaid and costs incurred while treating the sick and dying cigarette smokers. (Public Health Law Center, 2015) In 2012, the federal government took on an effort to attack the nation’s tobacco addiction with a series of advertisements highlighting the grisly toll of smoking. (Harris, 2017) You have probably noticed one of these ads. In one TV ad, a woman who has a hole in her neck and barely any hair on her head after suffering head and neck cancer. (Harris, 2017)

Although smoking is seen as a right of freedom, it has numerous consequences that not only damage smokers. According to David M. Ludington, “Cigarette smoke is the most dangerous of the toxic elements in our environment. Smoking is responsible for almost 500 000 deaths each year in the United States” (1). For the reason that many citizens are not well informed with the effects of smoking, the United States has a high death rate per year. The act of smoking in public should be banned, for it can influence any uninformed individuals to acquire the habit of smoking, which leads to future health risks. Smoking imposes hazardous health problems to anyone nearby, and inclusively contributes to various environmental and social problems.

Smoking has many risk factors that can affect individuals lives forever even if they have never put a cigarette in their mouth. Banning cigarettes would be a positive move for society to keep people safe. Firstly, cigarette smoking leads to serious health problems that can impact one’s life forever. Secondly, second-hand smoke can affect children and the rest of the population and can harm their health. Lastly, cigarettes are expensive and are a financial burden on families that are in poverty. Smoking has many life-threatening and financial consequences that are impacting millions of individuals, which can be eliminated if smoking cigarettes became banned.

We all know smoking is bad for our health, but how bad is bad? Smoking can negatively transform people's lives. Did you know, tobacco use remains the single largest preventable cause of death and disease in the United States? Cigarette smoking kills more than 480,000 Americans each year, with more than 41,000 of those deaths from exposure to secondhand smoke. (citation) In 2008, Nicotinell took action and created an ad then had it published on Havas Worldwide to address the problem that smoking takes the lives of many addicts each year. Nicotinell is known for selling products to help relieve smokers nicotine craving while they are trying to quit. Particularly this ad is speaking to people who smoke in order to try and persuade them to stop. It can also be directed toward young adults to warn them of what may happen to them if they light a cigarette. The overall message Nicotinell is trying to indicate in this ad is smoking causes premature ageing hence the lady in the advertisement looks as if she’s in her seventies but in reality shes only forty-two along with the other details and symbols used in the ad. (Description?) This anti-smoking ad designed by Nicotinell uses fear and empathy to show how smoking is harmful and can cause people to age sooner.

During the past few decades it has come to light that smoking kills. The federal government mandates that every pack of cigarettes carry a warning on it that smoking can lead to health problems including death. But the messages are rather clinical, for example: “Smoking Causes Lung Cancer, Heart Disease, Emphysema, and May Complicate Pregnancy.” Smoking is a danger to one’s own health but there is now evidence that smoking can affect others as well. Second hand smoke has been shown to cause cancer. Second hand smoke has been shown to produce the same negative health effects that smoking first hand does. Cities across the nation are taking it upon themselves to address the issue of smoking in public place because of the evidence about the