Persuasive Essay: Why People Shouldn T Smoke

Unfortunately, it seems that people not only risk their life with every cigarette they smoke, but also affect everybody else who is around. Everybody can be affected by second-hand smoke.

Italy is one of the most beautiful countries in the world but unfortunately it is the nation that has the most number of “baby” smokers in Europe. Many teens in Italy start to smoke because they want to feel like adults or they want to show off infront of their friends. We must also say that in Italy smoking is more of a social thing too; for example when you want to hang out with a friend, sometimes you ask if he or she wants to smoke a cigaret in company. I tried my first cigarette when I was only 15 years old and looking back at it now I regret it so much. My best friend at that time, offered me a cigaret and the ignorant and immature me did not want to refuse it and appear a loser in front of all my other friends. That, unfortunately, become the first of many and many other cigarettes. It was not until 17 that I got addicted and dependent from smoking, after having heard a false myth about how cigarettes make you lose weight in a blink of an eye. At first smoking was like a game, trying to feel adults and going against what my parents were telling me and then I became so addicted to cigarettes that I am still here those days struggling to get out of this bad habit, that was just harming my health.

According to the CDC, smoking can lead to lung and mouth cancers, as well as increased possibility of strokes and heart problems. Presently, smoking-related illnesses top the charts in cause of death in the United States.

While smoking causes many diseases in the heart it also affects the lungs. Every time someone lights up a cigarette they’re increasing their probability of procuring pneumonia, emphysema, lungs cancer, or chronic bronchitis pulmonary disease (COPD). Sadly Eighty-four percent of lung cancer deaths are smokers and eighty-three percent of COPD

Smoking is a leading cause of cancer throughout the body including: the lungs, esophagus, larynx, mouth, throat, kidney, bladder, liver, pancreas, stomach, cervix, colon, and rectum, as well as acute myeloid leukemia. Smoking causes a number of diseases within your body including heart disease, stroke, aortic aneurysm, COPD, chronic bronchitis, emphysema, diabetes, osteoporosis, rheumatoid arthritis, age-related macular degeneration, cataracts, and also worsens asthma symptoms in adults. Smoking not only

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.

Why do people smoke when it can create bad health issues for themselves? One in every five deaths in the U.S. is related to smoking (Chew, 2013). Don’t people know what could happen to them if they start smoking? According to Livestrong (2013), smoking can cause pneumonia, bronchitis,

One reason why I think smoking should be banned completely; it is because of second hand smoke not only pollutes the environment,

Studies done by the CDC show that cigarette smoke takes 480,000 lives a year? They cause more death than HIV, alcohol use, motor vehicle related deaths, firearm related deaths and illegal drug use death combined. The effects of smoking can cause cancer to appear in any part of the human body including your lungs, bladder and liver. Cigarette smoke affects heart by forming clots due to your blood vessels thickening and growing narrow. This effect causes individuals to have high blood pressure and faster heartbeats. Also, did you know that cigarettes affect pregnancy in women and compromise baby health. Preterm delivery, stillbirth and orofacial cleft are some of the problems that are presented with smoking. So, the next time you want to pick up a cigarette, you should think about your health and the severe effects

Smoking should not be allowed. 40 million adults smoke in the United States currently! 480,000 people die each year in the United States from smoking and 42,000 die from secondhand smoking. (Smoking should be banned because it gives you many cancers, affects four of your five senses, and affects your heart, brain, and stomach.)

Cigar and pipe smoke, like that of a cigarette, contains toxic and cancer causing chemical that are harmful to both smokers and non-smokers.(betobaccofree) Overall smoking causes cancer in many places throughout the body including the bladder, blood, cervix, colon and rectum, esophagus, kidney, ureter, larynx, liver, oropharynx, pancreas, stomach, and the trachea. (betobaccofree) Every cigarette you smoke damages your breathing and scars your lungs which may lead to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, emphysema, chronic bronchitis, pneumonia, asthma, or tuberculosis.(cdc) Smoking causes about ninety percent of all lung cancer deaths. More women die from lung cancer than from breast cancer.

These days it seems like almost everyone smokes. Many people start smoking because they are stressed, or they conform to the people around them.(Healthliteracy) Teens start smoking often to look older or cool to their friends.(Healthliteracy) Even though most people know smoking is bad for you, they continue to smoke anyways. Smoking can increase your risk of multiple cancers, cause chronic coughing, bad breath, and stain your teeth. All of these risks are well known and wildly expressed by doctors and commercials on TV and on the radio.

    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.

There is many reasons why you shouldn’t smoke and why it should be outlawed. Now I am going to explain to you the mental aspect of smoking and the damage that smoking can make a person endor if or while they smoke. One way smoking can affect someone's mental health is by making you always have urges to go out and smoke or to leave whatever event you're at to go smoke and if you can't smoke you start to have withdraws which ties into physical health of smoking.”If you have a mental health problem, you probably smoke more than other people so your smoking is even more likely to harm you. You are more likely to be one of the 100,000 people in the UK each year who are killed by smoking. You are more likely to die early. You will, on average, die about 10 years earlier than you would have done if you had not smoked. But - half of smokers die 15 years earlier than they should while a quarter die 23 years earlier.”(Dr Ken Checinski and Dr Jonathan Campion)” . Smoking is the second largest killer of people with mental health issues. Some of the chemicals in cigarettes have been known to help trigger mental illnesses such as schizophrenia. According to Dr. James MacCabe “They found that 57% of people treated for a first episode of psychosis were smokers. Psychotic patients were three times more likely to consume tobacco than individuals without severe mental illness.” (Dr. James MacCabe). Professor Sir Robin Murray, from the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King’s College, said: “Excess dopamine is the best biological explanation we have for psychotic illnesses such as schizophrenia. It is possible that nicotine exposure, by increasing the release of dopamine, causes psychosis to develop.” (Sir Robin Murray). Excessive smoking can lead to the drug dopamine not being produced in certain parts of the brain due to the chemicals in the cigarettes. Those are some ways smoking can

Smoking is causing deforestation. 600 million trees are chopped down every year because of the tobacco industry. For every 15 packs a smoker smokes one tree dies. Smoking is also causing major pollution. United states tobacco industries produce 16 million metric tons of carbon dioxide every year, and worldwide is four times as much. Shutting down the tobacco industry would be equivalent to taking 16 million cars off the roads every year! The smoke is not the only component of a cigarette that is bad for the environment, the cigarette buts also do. Cigarettes make up over 1/3 (38%) of all collected litter! The cost for cigarette clean up is allot, cities spend between 3-16 million dollars, just because u where to lazy to walk to the nearest garbage can and dispose of your cigarette correctly. You might think that cigarettes would just decompose due to weathering, but studies show that even after 10 years it still leaves a little residue. This is because a cigarette but is made mostly from plastic. The earth is not a trash can and we only have one, so we must keep it