Smoking Cigarettes is Playing Russian Roulette with Your Life

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

In the mid-20th century smoking became wildly popular due to famous movie stars being portrayed as smoking. People who see their favorite actor or actress smoking a cigarette in their favorite movie and they tend to emulate that. This is a clear cut example of how our integrated entertainment industry can show more than one side to an

Many drugs are used, misused, and abused in American society today. Some of these carry stigma in the general population, forcing users into an underground drug subculture. Others are accepted and almost promoted under certain circumstances. Tobacco is one of those drugs. Tobacco will be discussed in the context of cigarette smoking. This is not to undermine the existence or danger of other forms of tobacco, but instead to have an exhaustive discussion of cigarette smoking and its societal impact. Cigarettes are a means of inhaling tobacco, where it enters the lungs and is absorbed through the blood vessels, traveling to the heart, from which it is finally pumped to the brain (Hogan, Gabrielsen, Luna, and Grothaus 2003:76). Cigarettes are detrimental to society because they not only affect the user who chooses to smoke; they impact people around them through second-hand and residual smoke. The damage done by cigarettes is not impossible to address. Successful prevention measures are already in place, but this paper intends to suggest other more direct measures, especially related to statutory regulations.

In the United States today, more than forty six million Americans are addicted to cigarettes. More people have died due to cigarette smoking than from narcotic drugs, World Wars I and II, and the Vietnam War combined (Bailey 1). The annual death toll for cigarette smoking is more than four-hundred thousand Americans a year, and is the number-one preventable cause of death in the United States. If Americans are aware of the lethal effects of smoking, why is it still so popular? Guy Smith, a Phillip Morris Tobacco Company executive, claims that their research shows that advertising is the top reason people start smoking (Bailey 34). Most people will argue that this is not true because the do not like to be “sold” and

Filmmaker Aaron Biebert has recently spoken out about this problem in an interview, explaining that the promotion of this kind of misinformation is contributing to millions of lives that have been lost due to cigarettes.

First of all, banning cigarettes will help to keep more people alive. Smoking just one cigarette a day can greatly increase the risk of dying early, according to new government research (Fox). There is also no safe amount of smoking for the body (Fox). The American Heart Association says that smoking raises cholesterol levels, raises blood pressure, increases the risk for blood clotting throughout the body, as well as making it harder for those who smoke to exercise (“How”). Smoke can become trapped in a person's lungs, leading to breathing problems, cancer, and more dangerous health problems that can lead to an early death (“Risks”). Those who smoke are also at a higher risk for a stroke due to the fact that smoking increases blood pressure and increases cholesterol build up (“How”). Although all of these things affect the body in a negative way, once someone quits smoking, all damaged organs immediately begin to repair themselves (“How”).

While it’s true that smoking cigarette is not good for the health, many people are still smoking cigarettes. Though some of them have tried to stop this habit, however, most of them have failed and have continued to smoke at the expense of their health.

My Personal Experience, and How I dealt with it I followed the D.A.R.E. Decision Making Model, when presented with a cigarette, I knew from D.A.R.E. that cigarettes are addicting and a poor choice for your health! The scent of cigarettes stick to clothing, furniture, and even your hair. Down the road if you continue to smoke you can get tumors in your mouth, a hairy tongue, bad breath and teeth, and Lung Cancer. Did you know that about 80% of Lung Cancer deaths are from smoking?

According to “The Action of Smoking and Health,” every six seconds someone loses their life as a result of a tobacco related disease. It’s hard to realize how damaging cigarette smoking’s effect can be until you experience it first hand. It is almost certain that every one knows someone who is currently a smoker or was a smoker at some point in their life. For years smoking was the seen as the “cool” thing to do, it was how to “fit in.” There was no real emphasis placed on the dangers of this particular habit, and as a result, it became a world wide trend. In the past, technology and medicine were not nearly advanced enough to be able to determine just how harmful tobacco usage is. However, as we have made medical and

In fact, for some reasons smoking is used as a shorthand in fiction to say that someone is “living on the edge”. It’s probably started in the time of the 40’s Film Noir (genre of crime dramas), but it can also be clearly seen in many movies and TV shows such as Mad Men, where the whole cast including the women, smoke to accurately depict the American culture of the 60s. Furthermore, in the TV series Friends, the so known “uncool” Chandler gained little respect by smoking when all others hated it and he was again “living on the edge”. Through out these series and movies, I have also found that characters portrayed as the non-smokers were seen as the “Stop Having fun

Smoking is the leading cause of death in the U.S. each year. Smoking is more dangerous than most people expect. Smoking can lead to health problems for the consumer, can cause health problems to nonsmokers, and it can lead to drug use.

It is estimated that “one out of four high school seniors and one out of three young adults under age 26 are smokers”, which adds up to 42.1 million Americans who legally smoke (Smoking). This high amount does not include minors, or people who use tobacco products other than cigarettes and cigars. This number has decreased greatly since its peak in 1964, but the health effects are still prevalent today (Health). Lung cancer is one of the most infamous results of smoking, with 82.4% of all lung cancer cases attributing to smoking (Facts). “Of former smokers in the U.S., 1,154,000 have a cancer other than lung cancer from smoking” (Facts). This includes oral cancer, diagnosed especially among users of smokeless tobacco, usually associated with teeth loss and gum recession (Health). Other common illnesses that correlate with tobacco use include bronchitis, emphysema, and pneumonia, which cause 113,100 American deaths annually (Facts). The Secretary of Health and Human Services states “This year alone, nearly one-half million adults will still die prematurely because of smoking…and if we continue on our current trajectory, 5.6 million children alive today who are younger than 18 years of age will die prematurely” (Health). Imagine how many lives would be spared had the nation not succumbed to the addiction of

When you breathe in cigarette smoke, which is full of cancer-causing substances the changes in the lung tissue begin almost instantly. Not only is smoking bad for you and people around you, but it also horrible for your future children. According to cancer.gov smoking makes it harder for a woman to get pregnant. A pregnant woman that smokes is at higher risk of miscarriage, and having her baby born too early and with an unusually low birth weight. A woman who smokes during or after pregnancy increases your child's risk of death from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. Also according to http://www.cancerresearchuk.org the main way that smoking causes cancer is by damaging our DNA, including important important genes that protect us against cancer. Many of the chemicals found in cigarettes have been shown to cause DNA damage. Smokers are also less able to handle poisonous chemicals than non-smokers that have healthy lungs and blood. Chemicals in cigarette smoke make it harder for smokers to remove poisonous chemicals, and can make their disease-fighting systems less effective too. It usually takes many years, or at least 20 years, for the DNA damage from smoking to cause

People that smoke are the people that get all the unhealthy stuff in a body like cancer and many diseases that can be caused.“If smoking persists at the current rate among young adults in this country, 5.6 million of today’s Americans younger than 18 years of age are projected to die prematurely from a smoking-related illness. Another 100,000 were babies who died of sudden infant death syndrome (often referred to as SIDS) or complications from prematurity, low birth weight, or other conditions caused by parental smoking, particularly smoking by the mother. “Smoking has been around for a long time. The problem with smoking became worse when “production climbed markedly when another cigarette-making machine was developed in the 1880s by James Albert Bonsack, which vastly increased the productivity of cigarette companies, which went from making about 40,000 hand-rolled cigarettes daily to around 4 million.” Smoking is a problem around the world because it causes lung cancer, many other cancers, and some horrible diseases. This problem should be solved because “More than 10 times as many U.S. citizens have died prematurely from cigarette smoking than have died in all the wars fought by the United States during its history.”

Attention all smokers. Here is some important information that you need to hear. With smoking, one can receive serious medical conditions or even death. Smoking is no laughing matter, it can lead to severe health complications. The smallest consequences for smoking are bad breath, yellow teeth, and smelling bad. In a few years, one may encounter more serious health problems. He or she may have a significantly greater chance of getting lung cancer, heart disease, and breathing difficulties such as emphysema. If one develops luge cancer, she or he has to go through painful treatment, which may or may not cure them. Lung cancer is a serious matter, people should attempt to avoid this horrible disease. While smoking, one can