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Smoking In The United States

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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.

Smoking can lead to health problems that can destroy the consumers future. Smoking is one of the leading causes of death in the U.S. each year. For example, "Smoking has killed more people in the U.S. alone than the number of Americans killed in battle or who died of war related diseases in all wars ever fought by this nation. The total number of U.S. deaths in the Vietnam War was 58,151,¨(¨Other Health Dangers¨). Smoking has many different chemicals that are harmful to the body. Some of the problems that are caused by smoking are lung cancer, cancers of the mouth, larynx (throat), esophagus, bladder, kidney, cervix, and blood (leukemia). These can all be caused by smoking and then there will be a greater risk of getting these …show more content…

This is called secondhand smoking. Secondhand smoking is when the consumer breathes the smoke in and then exhales the smoke and is then consumed by a nonsmoker. (¨Other Health Dangers¨)Most people who smoke do not worry about their health, and then they don’t realize that they can be harming other nonsmokers. For example, “Because of smoking, 40% of men and 28% of women die prematurely, before their time. ¨(¨Other Health Dangers¨) Smoking is more dangerous than most people think. There are about 7,000 harmful chemicals in secondhand smoke that can lead to many health issues to even the healthy nonsmokers. There are more than 70 chemicals that are toxic in a cigarette.(¨Other Health Dangers¨) Having these harmful chemicals being exhaled into the air affects so many more people than most consumers would think. Secondhand smoke can cause about as many issues with health as direct consumption. (¨Other Health

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