Persuasive Essay On 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

You've all probably seen a cigarette before. You've probably even smelled cigarette smoke before. But do you know all the dangers that come with it? Some of you may know a few of the dangers, such as smoking being able to cause lung cancer, but is that all you know? About 400,000 people die every year because of the tobacco in a cigarette. Even though cigarettes are small and have a small amount of tobacco, it is still very deadly. About 65,000 of those 400,000 people die from obstructive lung cancer. About 45 people die every hour! Imagine how many people die every day. And if you do decide to smoke, just know that you typically lose 7 years of your life. You could live 7 years longer if you don't smoke. I know 7 years doesn't seem like a lot, but right now, 7 years is about half of mine and many other children's lives. So tell me, do you think smoking is a good idea?

The negative health effects of tobacco use have been well established. Tobacco use has been shown to cause acute and chronic respiratory disease, heart disease, many types of cancer, and is the leading cause of preventable morbidity and mortality in the United States, causing an estimated 443,000 deaths per year (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services 2004). As the dangers of smoking have become better understood, reducing the number of people who smoke has become a major focus for those interested in public health. Efforts to restrict the advertisement and sale of tobacco, implement public smoking bans, and educate citizens through public service announcements have all had a sizeable effect on smoking rates in the U.S. In Fact, over

Cigarette companies today are making copious amounts of money in sales, and with all that money it does not seem that they will stop even with the heavy opposition they have been facing in previous years. Cigarette prices have been steadily increasing over the years, and people are spending more money on them than ever before. Just recently the United States government has made another proposal to raise the prices of cigarettes by $2.10 a pack (Heinskien, Schleicher, Barker, Yawen, & Chaloupka, 2017, p.1860). Most cigarettes are up to around $7-10 a pack, which is slowly becoming less affordable for smokers. The problem with this is due to nicotine addiction it is going to take more than a price raise to deter smokers. To try to prevent younger kids from being swayed into tobacco products schools and parents across the U.S. need to inform their kids about the dangers of cigarette smoking (Small, Kushner, & Neufeld, 2012,

For years cigarettes have been known to cause cancer, emphysema, and other horrible illnesses. The deaths of over 420,000 Americans this year will be attributable to cigarettes. With some of the other causes of preventable deaths such as, alcohol, illegal drugs, AIDS, suicide, transportation accidents, fires, and guns, cigarettes still account for more preventable deaths than those do combined, as stated by Lonnie Bristow M.D. of the American Medical Association at her speech to Indiana University. Some researchers have also found that smoking by pregnant women causes the deaths of over 5,000 babies and 115,000 miscarriages. The best way to get rid of the suffering and loss of life by cigarettes is to ban them. We can no longer stand aside and watch fellow Americans die because they smoke cigarettes. Thousands of smokers try to rid

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.

The idea of tobacco shifting the way people socialize because of the diverse preference of smokers and non smoking is evident. Public health is the work and devotion of the public. There is an outstanding amount of evidence that smoking has been the leading cause of death in those who smoke and those who are the victim of second hand smoke. Smoking has become a public health issue because of the dangerous effects posed by smokers for non smoking bystanders. If smoking can kill over 400,000 people every year what are the chances that this booming industry can also take the lives of almost a half a million subjected to second hand smoke in the future. The article examines the uphill battle of nicotine in America verses public health. Examples presented in the articles states the concern of those who are not smokers and the public health’s right to protect the public. Such examples are fetuses, babies, women, and men in public settings breathing in the toxic fumes of cigarettes that may ultimately lead to death. The campaign article (2002) states the compelling debate that nonsmokers have as much right to clean air as smokers have

"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.

One of the major reasons for death and preventable diseases is tobacco use. Just in the United States of America, smoking has found to be the cause of “over 40,000 deaths due to heart disease and over 200,000 episodes of childhood asthma per year” (Naiman et al 1). Some of these cases could be specifically linked to secondhand smoke, “defined as an involuntary exposure to a combination of diluted cigarette side stream smoke and the exhaled smoke from smokers” (Naiman et al 1). Greenwald found that “by 2015, 36 states and 4,177 municipalities in the USA had enacted law that restricted where smoking was allowed” (101). Smoking in public places should not be allowed because

Anti-smoking campaigns have been around since the 1960s because the dangers of smoking became more relevant and was brought to the public. This ultimately created controversy among all Americans. Actions brought forth by the government were very beneficial, but has not come close to completely ending smoking. The visual image seen on the first page of this document conveys the argument that smoking cigarettes, or any type of tobacco, will have a declining effect on one’s future by limiting their life expectancy. Although there is no clear location of where and when the image was produced, one might believe that it was found in a magazine. The purpose of this visual is that smoking will eventually kill a consistent consumer. The image is made by an anti-smoking advertisement who used a very dramatic format which will be able to impact people on a more emotional level. The development of the image is to scare and intimidate not only people who are starting to smoke but also existing smokers. Also, nonsmokers want the smokers they know to quit because they care about their well-being. This advertisement was also created for the clear purpose that the leaders of the community don’t want these products, that have been proven to be detrimental to citizens’ health, to be used.

During one’s lifetime they will make over a thousand mistakes that they will regret. One of those thousand mistakes they will regret will be smoking tobacco and tobacco products. Many people are going to regret smoking for multiple and various reasons that I am going to discuss in this essay. The reason I chose smoking as my Rhetoric topic is because the addiction people have to it. Also, another reason is because of the effects it has on people around it. The last reason why I chose smoking is because of Second-hand smoke.

Smoking continues to be an unhealthy factor, yet in the past was accepted, even recommended by doctors. While this may be true, advertisements sell the idea that smoking is detrimental to one's health, even though the manufacturing of the electronic cigarette continues. The current problem for those who try and seek help, origins from the issue of finding the root of the problem. Smoking is a worldwide dilemma in which others find themselves looking for the foundation in order to pinpoint it and find a solution. Smokers need to understand the causes that make them want to continue smoking in order to prevent further addiction.

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.

A medical website stated that “within 48 hours of quitting smoking: nerve endings begin to regrow. Your senses of smell and taste begin to return to normal” (MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia). This implies that as soon as one begins to smoke there is instant damage to the body. And just the same when one quits; as soon as one quits the body starts to heal itself, now that it is rid of the many harmful ingredients that are found in cigarettes.