Essay on Smoking

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This essay will consider how each of the 5 psychological perspectives explain smoking. I will cover the psychodynamic, the behaviouristic, the biological, the cognitive and the humanistic approach.

When you are a smoker you are making the decision to damage your own body, but little do you know you are also damaging everyone else's body that you are in the room with. John

As stated by Brimelow, “Lost in this lynching frenzy: the fact that smoking might be, in some small ways, good for you” (141). This is a great example of a qualifier because the use of the words “might” and “some small sense.” Brimelow’s use of these words in his major claim, however, shows he is not truly confident in his views.

Nicotine addiction is a most common addiction faced by adults and teens in today’s society, which could gradually lead to death eventually. A tobacco product such as a cigarettes, cigars, and pipes contains nicotine and 4,000 more different chemicals that are toxic to the body and brain physically and psychologically (CDC). Teen are pressured by their peers into start using nicotine products at early age in order to fit into a society or a group where it is symbolized as “Cool kids actions” to use this product, while adult use tobacco products because they are addicted. According to CDC more than 480,000 deaths annually are tobacco related death in which person was addicted to tobacco or victim of second hand smoke.

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

Nicotine is most commonly known for being the key ingredient and major psychoactive component of tobacco smoke, however, the attention it has gotten recently can be attributed to the effects on cognition being observed amongst smokers and non-smokers alike. Much research has been done to identify what role, if any, nicotine has on learning, memory, and attention through an analysis of the behavioral, pharmacological, and anatomical specifications of the drug. Overwhelming evidence now exists pointing to a direct linkage between nicotine and enhanced cognition, leading to new and promising interventions for cognitive related deficiencies and disorders.

My uncle Willis smoked cigarettes for most of his life that was until he got emphysema. This disease makes it difficult or impossible to breathe on your own. He had to have an oxygen tank with him everywhere he went. He could not do things like normal people could do, there is only so much you can do with an oxygen tank by your side constantly. He died two years back due to this disease, he did not have a long life like he should have because he smoked cigarettes and that was the outcome of making that choice. This paper will discuss what is in a cigarette, being affected by cigarettes, and the side effects from quitting.

“More than 80 percent of smokers and ex-smokers regret they ever started smoking in the first place.” (IBTimes). Lung cancer, brain defects, heart problems, losing teeth, ruining family relationships, wasting money, and early deaths are all resulting factors that revolve around smoking nicotine. The effects of nicotine have impacted the lives of many people more negatively than positively based off personal testimonies. Smoking nicotine at an early age has resulted in the educational lives of young teenagers to be ruined because of their faulty decisions. Children also suffer from second hand smoking nicotine because of a decision their parents make by smoking around them in small households. Nicotine has been sold as early as 1828 and is currently legal to sell in the United States, but should be outlawed do to the negative effects and impacts it has on people who smoke it such as; leading to smoke other substances, physical defects, and ruining social relationships.

Cigarettes and tobacco contain an addictive chemical agent called nicotine, which can make you feel more alert and active. The nicotine that is in cigarettes can also curb your appetite, and help you lose weight. What more of a way to start smoking, everyone is doing it, right? Smoking cigarettes has made majority of

Brimelow states in his article that people could quit smoking and still die of a

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.

(Internal Summary/Transition: Moreover, smoking is not only bad for your health, but also the health of the people around you.)

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

Smoking accounts for more than 440,000 deaths in the U.S. every year. There are many dangers when you smoke. In fact, when burned, cigarettes create more than 7,000 chemicals, and around 70 of these are known to cause cancer. The majority of smokers today started before they were 18, and still today, 4,000 kids try their first cigarette. These kids start because of peer pressure or because their parents are smokers. Second-hand smoke is also a problem. It accounts for 50,000 deaths per year and many other health effects. Preventing this may seem easy, but it is not so. Fifty percent of high school students have attempted to quit and around 70% of adults say they want to quit. What’s keeping them from quitting? The addictive chemicals in the