Essay on Smoking Cigarettes

Cigarettes are the leading cause of preventable disease or death in the United States resulting in 480,000 per year (CDC). In comparison, there has never been a reported death due solely

Because the legal age is so young, it seems as though teenagers find it acceptable to start using when one is ‘close’ to being 18. Dr. Oz recently shared on a doctor blog that majority of people will have tried their first cigarette before they are even 18 (On Average). When starting use this early, an adolescent is becoming very unhealthy and even addicted before one is truly considered an adult. At 18 years old, the range of years to destroy one's body is much greater than if the legal age was moved ahead seven years to 25. A medical review explained, “Studies have found that nearly all first use of tobacco takes place before high school graduation. According to the 2014 Surgeon General’s Report, very few people start smoking after age 25: 98% of adult smokers first smoked by age 26. Nearly 9 of 10 adult smokers had their first smoke by age 18” (Child and Teen). Users clearly start at a younger age. By increasing the age to 25, the spectrum of users will be abated. 18 is simply too premature to allow tobacco use. The perception of cultural ‘norm’ use will be shifted. By making the legal age 25, the frame of users will be fluctuated and lessen the amount of tobacco

For me growing up in central Illinois, tobacco was as much a part of life as were the cornfields we were trapped in by. My father for as long as I can remember chewed tobacco, so naturally I followed suit. Once I started drinking (and particularly in the Navy) everyone was smoking, so yet again naturally I followed along. Like a helpless little sheep I followed the crowd. It does not take much to persuade young adults that something is not only not bad for them, but they will look like a total and full fledged badass in the process. Tobacco for example, and more specifically cigarettes. Winston in their ad in an issue of “Field and Stream Magazine” published in September of 2017 is no exception. The tobacco giant is extremely persuasive in

Tobacco use is by far the leading cause of preventable disease, disability, and death in the United States (National Institute on Drug Abuse, 2011). More deaths can be attributed to tobacco use than to alcohol, drugs, firearms, motor vehicle crashes, and HIV/AIDS combined (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2011). In the United States, 90% of lung cancer cases were from smoking cigarettes and 38,000 deaths per year are from secondhand

Tobacco is the leading cause of death in the United States. Studies record that 480,000 deaths from smoking cigarettes including second hand smoke. Men has 278,544 deaths annually including second hand smoke, and women have 201,773 deaths accoriding to the CDC (Center for Disease Control and Prevention.) Although some smokers still live, they suffer from cancers, and circulatory and respiratory system disease, and many more harmful effects of smoking cigarettres and other tobacco related products.According to Dr. Robert N Procter “The cigarette is the deadliest artefact in the history of human civilisation.”Smokers are aware of the constent damages of smoking due to advertisements, warning labels, and much more, but are addicted to the nicotine. The (FDA) Food and Drug Administration declared nicotine, the main chemical in cigarettes,

Hello everyone! I’m here today to talk to you about smoking and the affects it has on your body. Regularly smoking cigarettes is a cumulative risk. A cumulative risk is a risk that is repeated over time and builds upon itself. So, the longer you smoke, the greater your risks can be. Big risks can lead to terrible consequences later on in life! Smoking regularly has many consequences. These consequences may include but are not limited to: bad breath, the yellowing of the teeth and nails, prematurely wrinkled skin, the loss of teeth, dry and damaged hair, an increased risk of having a stroke, an increased risk of heart disease, damaged blood vessels, and the risk of getting many different types of cancer. Smoking doesn’t just affect you, it affects

A child in the passenger seat of a car watches a person smoke a cigar, and saw the fume going into the air. Little does he know that the person is polluting the air. Yes, Cigarette smoke does causes pollution in air. Although a single cigarette is small in size, it’s amazing that it’s a major source that contributes pollution in the air. The gases emitted by the cigarette is made up of hazardous chemicals such as benzene and carbon monoxide some of which are carcinogens – cancer causing. The smoke of the cigar pollutes the air in vast way because there’s a large number of people smoking. When the smoke raises to air it later causes health issues among human because we breathe the polluted air.

The effects of cigarette smoking can be horrifying. Smoking is dangerous not only to those who smoke, but to non-smokers and unborn children as well. Cigarette smoking is also physically and socially harming.

Use of tobacco products can be called one of the deadliest legal drugs in the history of mankind. Smoking can cause many life-threatening diseases. “Smoking is a major health problem. Tobacco use is by far the most important risk factor for most respiratory symptoms and chronic bronchitis. Active smoking has been identified as the most important single factor leading to the development of COPD. Furthermore, smoking is a major cause of disability and death.” (Lindstrom, Kotaneimi, Jonsson, & Lundback, 2001).

Cigarettes have been around since the late 1800’s. Over that time, they have been perceived as this trend setting drug that will make you super cool. Their advertisements convince the buyers that they would make you more appealing to the other sex, more interesting, and a better person if you would start smoking, and that for the most part has kept up to this day. However, thankfully to awareness advertisements we have become more informed on how dangerous cigarettes really are.

These teens may think that smoking shows that they are old enough to make their own decisions.

The side of smoking that is rarely published will be explored in this paper. The side that only a smoker knows, not the side the governments and health agencies provide the news media with. This information is valuable because it is not very well exposed to the world. This essay will answer the question, “Why do you smoke cigarettes?”.

Deaths caused by smoking have reached epidemic proportions. In the United States alone, 430,000 people die annually from smoking-related illnesses such as cancers and lung disease. Stephen Jay, chair of the Department of Public Health at Indiana University School of Medicine, states that tobacco’s “human toll far exceeds the Black Death of the 14th century, the global influenza pandemic of 1918–19, and the modern tragedy of HIV-AIDS.”

150,000-300,000 children under 18 months get respiratory infections from second-hand smoke; 7,500-15,000 must be hospitalized (“Effects” 1). About 40% of all children who visit the emergency room for asthma attacks live with smokers, therefore are exposed to second-hand smoke (“Effects” 1). I do not have asthma, therefore I do not know what an asthma attack feels like. But if it's anything like a severe allergy attack, oh my gosh, those poor, poor children. Not being able to breathe is so scary. Constantly being around a smoker and having asthma can be life threatening. And very stressful. Always having to worry if the cigarette smoke will irritate the asthma. The stress isn't good for children.

Cigarette smoking is something people all over the world have been doing for about 2000 years. Back in 2003, the first electronic cigarette was successfully created by a gentleman named Hon Lik. Lik was a 52 year old pharmacist at the time, whom of which was also a smoker. The inspiration behind making the electronic cigarette came after Lik’s father passed away from lung cancer due to him also being a heavy smoker. “A Historical Timeline of Electronic Cigarettes.” cassia.org. Consumer Advocates for Smoke Free Alternatives Association, 15 June 2017. The idea behind creating this device was to give smokers a way to still ingest nicotine, the most addictive chemical in tobacco cigarettes, without the countless negative health effects that