Persuasive Essay On Smoking

Smoking is harmful to your health, your wallet, as well as the environment. Seventy out of seven thousand chemicals in cigarettes are proven to cause cancer. Smoking is in fact the number one cause of lung cancer. Lung cancer is not the only effect of smoking; cancer in the trachea, bronchus, esophagus, oral cavity,

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.

    Tobacco consumption is known for the numerous diseases and cancer it brings. “It is scientifically proven for being six out of eight leading causes of death around the globe” (“Smoking and Heart Disease”).  People who ingest the product on a regular basis are said to run the risk of developing oral cancer, lung cancer, heart disease, high blood pressure, and birth defects to children from women smoking during pregnancy. People seem to think that cigarette smoke and tobacco consumption only affects those who personally consume it, but little do they know it can give those closest around them the same dangers and risks just by secondhand consumption. It can cause a huge range of serious health effects. “Secondhand smoke causes approximately 7,330 deaths from lung cancer and 33,950 deaths from heart disease each year and between 1964 and 2014, 2.5 million people died from exposure to secondhand smoke” ( Health Effects of Secondhand Smoke”). Not only does smoking tobacco from cigarettes cause personal danger, but also danger to the surrounding community. The burning of the cigarette or the lit bud fallen off the cigarette can cause fires around the house, or any surrounding areas. Cigarettes are known for causing more house fires, and forest fires than anything else. People seem to be ignorant when thinking cigarettes are only affecting themselves, when in reality it is doing just as much harm to those loved ones closest to them, or just people around them at the time, and even their community and own home.

"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.

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.

We all know what we want, we want a society that disapproves of smoking, a society that says no to smoking, a non-smoking society where people live a full life and don’t die from the brutality of smoking.

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.

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.

Cigarette smoking has been a favorite past time for many Americans. Since the early 1960s, movie stars, models, and our favorite television shows like the Flintstones presented its main characters smoking cigarettes. Then, people began to get sick; lung cancer, throat cancer, heart diseases, and many other diseases were linked to cigarette smoking. The signs and warnings were everywhere. In 1965, 52 years ago, cigarette cartons began to display warning messages to let smokers know of the danger of smoking. Despite this, the tobacco industry, the first known advertiser in the United States, continues to aggressively find ways to target, intellectually and emotionally with their advertisements, consumers. In 1965, Marlboro ran an ad with Paul Hornung (Green Bay halfback), promoting cigarette smoking, making it seem like the cool thing to do. The ad with Hornung uses the window effect, showing the picture of Hornung looking lay back and relax to make people aspire to become like him. Today, cigarettes have received a facelift, in a recent electronic cigarette ad (Ad two) it shows a woman in an appealing bikini, promoting “blu,” a rechargeable electronic cigarette. The ad makes the cigarette seem edgy, “safer,” and sexy. The “blu” ad uses a sexualized image of a woman which uses the window effect also because the ad makes it seem that if you align yourself with” blu” you can get a girl like her. Throughout the years, the tobacco industry has gone through a significant declined.

For those of you who use tobacco products, you will not use tobacco products while on shift unless you have been properly relieved and have gone to a designated smoking area. If you don’t know what a DSA is, here are a couple of examples of DSAs: behind the dumpster at the squadron, the picnic tables behind Kisling Hall at the dorms.

Too many Americans die every year due directly because of cigarettes. Cigarette use and other tobacco related products are a very complex and controversial topic to discuss. The statistics prove that tobacco does not only direct harm to the user but potential harm to others around the user. With government data displaying the affects cigarettes have on a person’s life from most significantly health problems to financial troubles, anti-cigarette groups are astonished as why cigarettes, and tobacco as a whole, are not banned in modern day America. Every year more than 480,000 deaths occur because of cigarettes (CDC). While being one of the highest causes of death each year in the United States, it may shock the nation that cigarette related deaths are also the leading preventable cause of death.

When did smoking become so normal that almost everyone in society smokes. Smoking is a practice that is common in every society in the world. One of the most commonly smoked products that comes to mine when talking about smoking would be tobacco, which used to produce cigarettes. Marijuana and meth are examples of products that people will smoke today. The reason cigarettes are so abundant is because the tobacco in cigarettes can be cultivated in large amounts. Thus, different industries are involved in the production and distribution of tobacco. Furthermore, some people continue to claim that there are no dangers of smoking. Sometimes people smoke while drinking, because of this most bars also sell cigarettes. According the article “Bars fear Smoking ban will hurt business,” from The Washington Times, “Restaurants and bar owners say their customers will likely take dining dollars outside the District if a smoking ban up for a vote in the D.C. council today is enacted” (1). Thus, bar owners feel that they would lose customers if smoking were to be banned. On the other hand, most people start smoking at a young age because they find it pleasurable but, it eventually becomes an addiction after a longer period of smoking. The article “Tobacco Use is a Serious Problem,” states that, “Nearly all tobacco use begins in childhood and adolescence. In all, 88% of adult cigarette smokers who smoke daily,