Persuasive Essay On Smoking

Smoking is a huge problem in today's society. Many people don’t understand the consequences that come with smoking. Cigarettes and marijuana are very common uses of smoking. As a college student I am able to the effects these two drugs have on students mental and physical abilities. People shouldn't smoke because not only does smoking affect your everyday way of live but they may also kill you. People who become addicted to these certain substances know the risks but don’t care because they are mentally attached to the drugs that destroy their body.

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

People shouldn’t smoke because of your health, nature, and pets and animals around the world.

What is smoking? Smoking is an unhealthy act in which a substance is burned and the resulting smoke to be breathed in and absorbed into the bloodstream. Smoking is an addiction that can be extremely difficult to break. It can cause many major negative effects on a persons life in a short amount of time. Smoking is a harmful and financially reckless addiction that should be prevented at all costs, especially in young teenagers.

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.

Their just kids being kids, right? That’s what everyone says when you make a mistake as a kid. You’re told that experimenting is okay and you shouldn’t worry it’s just a phase, but what happens when it’s no longer a phase? What happens when it becomes an addiction? That is what has happened to 23% of high schoolers with tobacco products (“Smoking & Tobacco Use”). We all hear about the dangers of drunk driving, or smoking marijuana, but what about the dangers of smoking cigarettes. Cigarettes lead to addiction, pneumonia, stroke, and death. Tobacco overall, is an addictive substance with horrible consequences that should be banned for its health effects and the influence it has over teens. So, what are the health effects of tobacco? First we should know the dangers in a tobacco. There are over 7,000 chemical and 250 of those are known to be harmful (“Harms of Cigarette Smoking and Health Benefits of Quitting”). Out of those 250 there at least 69 that cause cancer (“Health Effects of Tobacco”). The types of cancer you can get from cigarettes include: lung, throat, liver, pancreas, and at least 10 other types. It can also cause other problems such as, the impairment of immune function and heart disease (“Health Effects of Tobacco”). In the United States alone, just cigarettes cause more than 480,000 deaths per year (“Smoking & Tobacco Use”). Smoking causes more deaths than HIV, illegal drug use, alcohol use,

What your eyes see is an individual lighting money (US currency) as if it was a cigarette. To be exact on what bill is being used, the person is using a one-dollar bill that has George Washington face printed on it. The picture symbolize that we are spending money to purchase these horrid items that is causing major damage to our body and society. The pitch-black background conveys a sense of fear and mystery. There is a green lighter being used to burn the money. The fire from the lighter is a beaming yellow mix with light orange.

Have you ever been sitting at the bar or walking down the street and there is some wanker failing to blow vapour rings in your face? You start to wonder, why did this never happen when everyone smoked cigarettes.

While baby boomers and a few generations before are hooked on cigarettes millennials and generation Z have a whole new addiction. While tobacco cigarettes used to be something that was ‘cool’ to do, the new age version of this is vaping. Over time our technology has increased and scientists came up with an alternate solution to cigarette smokers addictions. Scientists have found a way to infuse nicotine into flavored oil (AKA e-juice) and use an atomizer to heat that to its boiling point which creates a flavored vapor with nicotine in it. Although this is a much healthier alternative to smoking cigarettes, there are definitelty some health risks that this new product presents.Scientists created an alternative, and with a lack of research or attention to research in media, many teens have turned to vaping. Vaping and using e-cigarettes is harmful to your body in many ways. Vaping includes risk of other lung issues, exploding atomizers can risk lives, and faulty vapes are extremely dangerous. THey also include risks of addiction to nicotine, and extremely harmful chemicals you are taking into your body.

Millions of people die each year because of secondhand smoke and smoking. There is nothing good to say about cigarettes and drugs. It has become a really big problem and it needs to stop it. But here’s the question can we stop it? Cigarettes are just plain out horrible, they contain nicotine which is a very addictive stimulant that makes you want to keep smoking. Smoking can also lead to lung cancer and many more consequences, there is more than 650,000 people who die each year because of the consequences of smoking. Therefore smoking is bad for your health and should be banned.

In the United States, 480,000 people die each year from the most preventable cause of death in the nation; cigarette use (CDC par. 1). Most people who read this piece of information ask themselves the same question. Why are people still smoking today knowing that it could ultimately lead to death? Smoking is a habit that develops are easily as any other habit, but many factors make it one of the most difficult habits or addictions to break. People smoke because they become biologically addicted to it, they are peer pressured into doing so, and/or it helps them cope emotionally.

Smoking. Smoking has been a major thing that has been going on for years. Smoking was a huge icon in the past, it showed wealth and glamour. However, even though it was super popular back in the day, in the 20th century, it has died down a little because people now know the causes and harm of smoking. Smoking advertisements have had to step up their game to keep their companies in business. Like any other ad, the author has to use many different strategies to persuade their audience into buying their product. Blu E-Cigarettes use rhetorical situation/aim, Aristotle three categories of persuading-character, logic, and emotion, and lastly, fallacies to persuade smokers into using their product.

Tobacco use is the largest preventable cause of death and disease in the United States. No matter what the degree of smoking, it will increase the risk of lung cancer, heart disease, and stroke, etc. In 2015, the smoking rate in the United States is 15.1%, which means 36.5 million Americans smoking currently. Cigarette smoking causes more than 480,000 deaths each year in the United States. And of these deaths, more than 41,000 were due to exposure to secondhand smoke. Secondhand smoke can cause the same health issue as smoking. Every year, the healthcare cost related to the smoking illness is more than $300 billion in the United States.

A person who determines to quit smoking has only a six percent chance of success. The majority of people will either return to their smoking habit, pick up another form of tobacco use such as chewing tobacco, or use something such as a nicotine infused water vapor pen to give into their nicotine addiction. To completely give up tobacco use is a hard, but very important task to accomplish, I know this first hand. I was an on/off smoker since I was sixteen years old. I was more of a social smoker, I could go without a cigarette all day and never even think about it. I just liked the habit of smoking. If I could go back, I would have never started. I found out I was pregnant in May of 2016, and have not picked up a cigarette since. My husband John also decided to quit smoking after we found out we were having a baby. John smoked his last cigarette in September of 2016. John did not abruptly stop smoking like I did, he used nicotine replacement therapy to overcome his habit. John was a pack a day smoker, so it was much harder for him to quit than me. There are still days where temptation tries to make us give in, but we stay strong. We both quit for our health and our baby’s health and it was the best thing we ever did. Quitting smoking, whether by abruptly quitting or by nicotine replacement therapy, is difficult but important.