Smokers in Great Britain and the United States

Active smoking and disease relationship was first studied as case-control studies in Germany during 1939 and 1943which revealed a strong association between active smoking and lung cancer [1]. After that large number of studies were conducted which established relationship of tobacco smoke with

Do you know the Opium War China? This was very terrible events for China. The opium make people crazy and they cannot control themselves brand. Of course, the cigarette is not this bad, but the cigarette still harm people’s life. Smoking is a leading cause of cancer and death from cancer. It’s cause cancers of the lung, bones, teeth, throat, mouth, stomach and cervix, as well as acute myeloid leukemia. The smoke people never care about the people who live with them, because the second - hand smoke also harm their life and more than people who were smoke.

Over decades, lung cancer globally continues to be the leading killer in both genders. In the United States, smoking is responsible for 90% lung cancer deaths in men and about 80% in women. About 15 decades ago, lung cancer was not considered as the leading killer because it was an extremely rare disease about 1% in total of cancer cases. However, by the year 1927, the percentage increased into 14%. During World War I, many soldiers and civilians started smoking to release stress. Eventually, that made the lung cancer rate and smoking addiction in the population started to increase. In a research that published in 2001, lung cancer annually kills over one million people worldwide (Witschi, 2001). The death rate, which caused by lung cancer,

As the cultural climate toward smoking changes, restrictive workplace smoking policies are becoming widely accepted by both employers and employees. There is, however, a crucial difference between those policies which accommodate reserved areas for smoking and those which do not. Smokers at work tend to prefer the former especially when the alternative is a total ban. An evaluation of a smoking ban implemented at a Scottish University in October 1997 suggests that the total ban is not only unpopular with smokers but also among non-smokers who experience unintended consequences of the new policy. The greatest complaint from non-smokers stems from the relocation of smoking to outside and particularly around the entrances to University buildings.

Just like alcohol, smoking is harmful to the body and is another attribute to the ever-growing cancer rates around the world. In Arthur I. Holleb’s book The American Cancer Society Cancer Book: Prevention, Detection, Diagnosis, Treatment, Rehabilitation, Cure, he claims that cancer rates increase when a person smokes. He supports this claim by first emphasizing how cancer rates are double in those that smoke opposed to those who do not. Then he further supports the argument by recognizing how the risk depends on certain factors in the patient’s life such as: population, commonness of smoking, how long and how much you have been smoking, and tar amount a person has taken in. Holleb’s purpose is to inform people of dangerous smoking is in order to prevent people from taking up the habit and increasing their risk of obtaining cancer.

Cigarette smoking has been well documented to cause a wide range of health conditions such as heart diseases and respiratory problems and it is a major risk factor for getting various kind of cancers (Simpson & Nonnemaker, 2013). Besides illness and death, there are several research evidences presenting that cigarette smoking results in less productive life years and accountable for mounting unwanted medical costs. Globally, the preventable deaths caused by tobacco smoking accounts for over 6 million deaths yearly (Wilson et al., 2012). Currently, there are over 1 billion smokers in the world and over 80% of these smokers are living in low and middle income countries (Wilson et al., 2012). This figure is likely to increase to more than 8 million deaths a year by 2030. Sadly, this numbers only communicates that more than 80% of the deaths will be occurring in the developing world.

Smoking is responsible for an increasing number of deaths worldwide. OECD (2013) indicates that tobacco is a major risk factor for a leading cause of the premature mortality, as it increases the risk of heart attack, stroke, lung cancer, mouth cancer, and pancreatic cancer. Compared to other OECD countries Canada’s smoking rate is low. In 2013, 16.30% of Canada’s total population was found to partake in smoking, where the average of OECD countries smoking rate was 21.13%. However, many Canadians are unaware of the significant link between second-hand smoke and the increased risk in death. In the study of “Second-hand smoke and cancer” by Canadian Partnership against Cancer (2012), more than 1,100 deaths among non-smokers are

The most prevalent and visible behavior in many western nations today is smoking. While there are many, many studies completed showing the harmful effects of smoking on the body and also the effects of second-hand smoke on innocent bystanders, millions of people still feel the need to smoke

It is practically evident that most young individuals in the society like exploring. Their curiosity predisposes them to addiction to this deadly habit. Peer pressures influence most people in the community to the practice thus increasing the incidence of both passive and first-hand smoking. The society lacks rules that regulate the practice, first of all, it benefits from it as the companies that manufacture the cigarettes creates both direct and indirect employment. It is difficult for the society to discriminate or even disband the practice since most individuals make a living out of smoking (Hyyppä, 2010). For instance, those employed in the industry as well as shopkeepers who sell the cigarettes and other tobacco ingredients, earn their daily living. The society fails to play its role in educating the youth on the dangers of smoking .the failure by the society to conduct massive education programs on the issues leads to the continuity of the practice. As people continue smoking, the public health problem associated with passive smokers’ increases.

Smoking does not have effect only on the person smoking but on the society at large. Furthermore, people perception towards health has caused a main impasse. Most individuals and countries are ostensibly careless about their health. In the developed world today, it is said that health is about physical appearance. Kaplan (2010) states that “an individual’s health links to a person’s well being and poor health turns it negative”. When a person is not concerned about his or her health, it leads to low healthy life expectancy and carrying out activities becomes very difficult. A possible solution to these problems is to raise the awareness of the government. The government should make a way for people to have regular check-up, keeping them aware of their health status. In addition the government should formulate bye-laws restricting smoking in public places.

Firstly, people who smoke usually notice that there is a prevention sign that’s mandated by the government on every packet of cigarettes that smoking is injurious to health. Smoking causes a lot of health issues, which are very costly to treat. Many people lost their lives because they smoked. According to the article “Where there’s smoke, there’s diseases “, nearly 400,000 Americans die from smoking related diseases (p-3, Gloeckner). Smoking is a main cause of serious diseases such as chronic obstructive preliminary disease (COPD) and lung cancers. It also affects the heart. The article provides that about 136,000 American die of cancer and ninety percent of lung cancer is caused by smoking (p-1, Gloecknmer). The author provides that 115,000 Americans die from heart diseases

The problems that associate with cigarette smoking, is how it increases health risks. Smoking is by far the leading cause of lung cancer deaths in Americans, “Cigarette smoking increases the risks of cancers of the oral cavity and pharynx, larynx, lung, esophagus, pancreas, uterine cervix, kidney, bladder, stomach, colon and rectum, and liver, as well as acute myeloid leukemia” (n.p). Knowing these important health risks that associates with smoking cigarettes, should be enough to make people want to stop smoking for their own health, but worldwide men and women continue this

Many ad campaigns and literatures have been published on the detriments of smoking. Medical reports further shows that half of all long-term smokers will die from a smoking-related disease. This unhealthy practice must be addressed by the government to lessen the medical cost to treat the ill effects of smoking. Despite all available data available on smoking’s ill effects government has little success in reducing incidence of smoking.

Wherever we go, we can see people smoking. It has become a daily necessity for smokers and is difficult to control. People who are smoking are at a higher risk to develop respiratory diseases, cardiovascular diseases and diseases related to mental condition. It is true that people become relaxed after smoking, but it has long lasting major health problems and leads to

Many people in the entire world have the awareness of what they should expect if they smoke or keep smoking or stay with smokers starting from respiratory system diseases to end up with death, However , the 20th century had a huge rise of cigarette production and with it the quantity of smokers raised.