Persuasive Essay On Smoking

Smoking is a plague to a plethora of individuals. Despite the numerous anti-smoking campaigns held all over the country, we have seen the number of smokers decline in a prolong rate. Even though, millions of ex-smokers surrendered to the temptation and continued with their atrocious habit—feeling depressed since they're not mentally stable. Naturally, the query ascends: how plausible is it to quit with a horrible addiction like smoking? The simple answer to this question is “Yes” only if the person has a strong will and courage.

Though CVD might seem like a death sentence for many Americans, it does not have to be. Though there is no cure for CVD, there are plenty of ways for one to prevent or manage CVD. The biggest factor in everyone’s life that causes CVD is poor lifestyle. There are also a few medications and surgical procedures that can be administered or performed to keep one’s CVD in check.

Some people believe that smoking is not good for your long term health while others think that it’s fine if you decide to smoke. People think smoking cigarettes can help cope with many of problems such as feeling depressed, having trouble sleeping, feeling irritable, having trouble focusing, and poverty. Many adults are aware of the long term affects to your health if you smoke any kind of cigarettes. While, teenagers are uneducated to what can happen, their mentality is that “it will never happen to me.” In 1949, dentists suggested smoking Viceroys over anything else because Viceroys filtered the smoke. In 2014 however, it’s believed that smoking can cost more than just money. In the last advertisement, facts are provided as to why you shouldn’t smoke and that smoking affects everyone. It is evident that one favors smoking while the other two are against smoking.

In the 1950's, the ultimate expression of glamour was smoking cigarettes. Think about any of the old movies, or tv shows you might have watched from this decade. Back then, a cigarette dangling from someone's lips was seen as alluring and sophisticated. Never mind the fact that they were cheap, but smoking was also so widely accepted that you could smoke anywhere and everywhere. You could walk into just about any building and see a thick, blue cloud of smoke swirling above you. Imagine going on vacation and travelling by airplane. "Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking," would come from a speaker. You're sitting in a cabin that’s been slowly filling with smoke, and the captain most likely was putting his cigarette out moments before your descent. Today, we all know how harmful smoking is, so we slowly started cleaning the air around us by only allowing smoking in designated areas. Smoking is no longer seen as glamorous and cool, instead smokers are portrayed as smelly people with yellow teeth. Nobody is even allowed to smoke inside the airports anymore let alone inside of an airplane that's flying miles high in the sky, with no windows to open. Regardless of stereotypes and isolation smokers experience today, some people continue to light up, myself included. My question is, do you think a ban should be placed on smoking in order to save my life, along with all of the other smoker's out there? Absolutely not.

Should there be laws in place prohibiting the use of smoking cigarettes in public? Smoking is dangerous and life threatening but wasn’t always thought of it in this way. Smoking tobacco has been around for centuries and it wasn’t discovered until as late as the 1950’s, “Certain scientists and medical authorities have claimed for many years that the use of tobacco contributes to cancer development in susceptible people” (Proctor). It took many years of research to link cigarette smoking to the development of lung cancer and other harmful diseases. Many children, teens, and adults didn’t know any of the adverse effects that smoking caused at the time. A study was conducted by Mike Vuolo, a sociology professor at Purdue University, IN. It was a study on smoking influences older siblings and parents had on the younger children. An article on teen smoking influences, written by Amy Patterson Neubert, Neubert quotes Vuolo and states, “young teens are more likely to smoke if an older sibling does, or if they live with a parent who is a heavy smoker” (Neubert). This shows cigarettes have a major influence to nonsmokers in families that have smokers, this could be avoided if there were a smoke-free law. Cigarettes are smoked on a daily basis by millions of people nationwide and should be banned for several reasons. Smoke-free laws in enclosed public places have already been established in multiple states such as Arizona, California, Connecticut, and Delaware. Cigarette smoking should

People with smoking, alcohol and drug problems usually go through a lot of stress because quitting is very hard. Quitting has many, many stages in it. First and foremost, you have to look at the pros and cons of your decisions. Well, try to think about what are you missing? The foul smell? The yellow teeth? The feeling of suffocating next morning? What have they done to affect my friendships, my relationship with my family, my schoolwork, my extracurricular activities, sports, and my insurance? What will happen to my kids if my addiction continues? First I'll be talking about smoking addictions. Did you know that kids are twice as susceptible to smoking with parents that smoke around them (Joel Schwarz)? That’s not a very good thing to know if you're a smoker. That means that your kids will suffer the same as you have and a parent always want what’s best for their children. Smoking attacks your heart and circulatory system in many areas. It raises blood pressure and stresses your heart, which over time can weaken it and make your heart less effective. Your blood becomes viscous and sticky, which in turn makes it harder to pump (What Happens To Your Body When You SMOKE & When You QUIT). After I had explored why I had started smoking in the first place and saw that it was for the best that I quit, and then I would find ways to not smoke. Triggers are things that make people want to do something. Many triggers for smoking involve partying, drinking, stressful situations and

Smoking in public has been an issue for many years. Organizations, and lawmakers together have waged a war against smoking in public. Tempe, Arizona has been a recent battle ground for this war, and many laws and regulations have been passed to deter smokers from smoking in public places like restaurants, bars, stores, ASU, and even their own cars if children are present. Just as social drinkers of legal age are permitted to consume alcohol, smokers also have the right to smoke. Smoking could lead to lung cancer, according to a study conducted by the US National Library Medicine. However, according to Centers for Disease and Control Prevention (CDC), tobacco companies are required to warn their costumers that there product might lead to cancer under 1965 act. Therefore, after reaching the legal age of smoking, it a person’s choice to decide whether to ignore the facts written by the company or not. Anti-smokers are arguing that it’s not too much to ask smokers to smoke at a designated area, or at their homes. Yet smokers in most times are asking for these designated areas where they do not have to be isolated from everyone just to smoke a cigarette. Although strict smoking laws have been enforced in Tempe, these regulations are unlikely to raise awareness about effects of smoking among its population.

It was December 19th, 2017 when my life changed forever. When I took that first breath of nicotine-infused smoke into my lungs. I watched it swirl out of my mouth, dancing on the frosty December air. I loved it. So I took another drag from it, and another, and another, until all that was left were the glowing embers at the end of the cigarette. I dropped it, smashed it into the black and cracked asphalt, lit another cigarette, and repeated the whole process.

Around the age of sixteen is when I began smoking cigarettes on a daily basis. For me, smoking a cigarette is a quick fix to the stress I experience throughout the day. All my friends were doing it and my parents were doing it, so why should not I do it? Most of growing up my parents would always say something along the lines of, “I need a cigarette before I can deal with this”. Noticeably, this is not a healthy coping mechanism with life’s stressors so now the addiction part plays a huge part when why I am still using this unhealthy ‘coping mechanism’. I am not blind to the damage I am doing to my body with every puff of toxins I breathe into my lungs, however; it is a very convenient way to forget about the world for a brief seven minutes. With all of that said, I would love to change my unhealthy life choices.

What is second-hand smoke? Secondhand smoke is a mixture of mainstream smoke (the smoke exhaled by the smoker) and sidestream smoke (the smoke given off by a burning tobacco product). According to Centers of Disease Control, “at least 69 of the toxic chemicals in secondhand tobacco smoke cause cancer.” The problem with secondhand smoke is the effect that it has on others. SHS can cause a variety of cancers and health issues. Mainstream smoke contains smaller chemicals that enter the lungs and blood faster. Imagine what it would be like to have cancer or a major health problem, due to someone else's stupidity. “Secondhand smoke causes 41,000 deaths per year” as claimed by the Centers of Disease Control. Secondhand smoke is just as bad as smoking an actual cigarette itself; smokers do not realize that secondhand smokers so not get the chance to decide whether to inhale or not.

Imagine an item that is responsible for more deaths each year than deaths from HIV, illegal drug use, alcohol use, car accidents, suicides, and murders combined.

Cigarettes are all around us. They’re being sold in our gas stations, small quick markets, displayed in TV shows and movies, and by walking down a busy street, you’ll probably pass a few people with a cigarette between their fingers. However, what you don’t see splashed across the media and television shows, is the horrifying downsides of inhaling the deadly smoke. Everyone knows that “smoking is bad for you,” and few smokers probably read the warning labels on their packs of cigarettes, but what if it was mandatory to display graphic images of what could actually happen to a smoker later down the line? Like diseased lungs, or a tracheotomy tube coming out of somebody’s neck?

Imagine lying in a hospital bed dying of lung cancer caused by cigarettes yet have not smoked a single cigarette. The effects of cigarettes do not only hurt those who smoke, but hurt those around the person that smokes. “In 2005, it was estimated that exposure to secondhand smoke kills more than 3,000 adult nonsmokers from lung cancer, approximately 46,000 from coronary heart disease, and an estimated 430 newborns from sudden infant death syndrome.” (HHS 2006). Smoking in public should not be allowed to be done whenever the person smoking wishes.

Smoking has been a popular topic lately. From my perceptive, I have never heard anything positive about smoking health wise. I recall watching vintage commercials about cigarettes when they first came into light, one major statement each commercial presented was the exquisite taste of the cigarettes and how cool it makes you look. And I understand how individuals are lured by the commercials. The companies paint a perfect life image with the alpha male smoking on the cigarettes with his leading lady and people craved that. The commercials feature many celebrities which I believe many folks looked up to and those commercials glorified the cigarettes without mentioning the reciprocations.

To understand the purpose of this print advertisement, you must understand why Baker created these. He states, “I created still life scenes that represented certain facts about smoking, these facts were chosen as they would be off-putting to new smokers and people that smoke already.” (baker)I feel the ad appeals more towards women than men but also relates a little to everyone because it talks about the effects that smoking has during a pregnancy and how smoking can cause your skin to wrinkle and age faster. This is important because pregnancy is wanted for most women and smoking can cause serious affect to fertility. Also, men do not care as much about wrinkles like women. All four of the photos are items, but what makes the message so powerful is Baker creates them with cardboard. He says he did this to make it eye catching and to replicate the color of the addictiveness, which is nicotine.