Smoking Persuasive Research Paper

Would you rather commit a murder or save a life? Seems like an easy question, but let's see if you would have the same answer if I rephrase it: Would you rather smoke a cigarette or not? First of all, You might think “Tobacco is legal, so it’s okay to smoke, right?” The quick and easy, one-word answer is no! It is a form of destruction for your body. It ultimately disables you and kills you, all the while stripping you away of your hard-earned money and forcing you to live with the struggles of fighting nicotine for life.

Has someone ever asked you to smoke a cigarette? As a senior in high school, I can honestly say that I've been asked quite a few times. Surrounding yourself with people who smoke or use tobacco products, can lead to peer pressure when asked to try one. The legal age to buy any tobacco product is at the age of 18. Most people are attending their last year in high school at that age. This makes it easier for people to sell tobacco products to a minor. Although smoking is very common nowadays, many people believe that there are a few benefits towards smoking tobacco. Some of these benefits include, decrease in metabolism which will help you achieve weight loss and smoking is shown to help handle your emotions in a stronger way. Once the persons

Listen, can you hear that? Your heart is begging you to stop smoking. Well, not exactly. Think about this, 480,000 people in the U.S and 100,000 people in the UK die from smoking each year. It's the largest preventable death in the world! If you knew how bad it is for you, would you stop smoking? That's quite something to think about, isn't it?

Did you know that the smoking industry makes millions of dollars each year? The tobacco industry makes $6000 dollars for every death caused by it. It’s unsafe to use either, and they both lead you down a long, hard path. One that’s hard to escape from. Don’t start by not using. People might peer pressure you into it. Saying that it makes you cool. Staying healthy is cool too. Stick to your life decisions and don’t let people try and talk you into it. It does nothing but harm you.

It is a lot of fun to go out with your friends, but it is not safe when you are around a smoker. Smoking is bad for you and the people who are around you. Since 1964 about 2.5 million people died from secondhand smoking. Restaurants and bars should either be smoke-free or have a room for smoking. You should not be able to smoke in public.

Does anyone in your family smoke tobacco? If so, you should know that it’s the leading cause of preventable death, also pollutes the environment and contributes to deforestation and it slowly is killing our youth and our future. I have many friends and family members that smoke the age ranging from 14-80 years old. Most of them are either quitting or trying to quit, the statistics in the united states for people that are trying to quit smoking is every 7/10 smokers, in 2015 55.4% of adult smokers had tried to quit smoking in the past year. Although it might be hard to quit smoking it is worth it!

In the article What Are the Risk Factors for Lung Cancer? published by the CDC, it was stated that “smoking is linked to about 80% to 90% of lung cancers”; there are more than 7,000 chemicals in tobacco smoke making it toxic. Many of those chemicals are poisons, and at least 70 are known to cause cancer in people or animals. Smoking can also increase the risk of developing cancer in the mouth and throat, esophagus, stomach, colon, rectum, liver, pancreas, voice box (larynx), trachea, bronchus, kidney, urinary bladder, cervix, and causes acute myeloid leukemia.

Smoking is one of the leading causes of preventable deaths in the United States, and doing it in public is even worse because smokers not only harm themselves, but also those around them. I remember how my great aunty would always smoke in her house regardless of her surroundings. When her daughter visited him for a vacation, she brought her three year old daughter with her. The baby was healthy before coming to her grandma's house, but in less than two weeks, she had developed ear infections and started to cough. When they went to the doctors' office to find out how she had gotten it, the doctor linked it back to the second hand smoke that she was breathing in. When my great aunty found out about it, she finally started to care about where she was smoking and who she was with, and decided that she would smoke in a secluded place where no one but her may be affected. Like my great aunty in the past, many smokers think they could do whatever they want because it is their body, but to me, their right ends where my health begins. I believe that smoking in public places should be banned at a federal level because even the smallest wisp of smoke can do a lot of damage to the people around them and the environment.

Smoking in public has been an issue for many years. Organizations, and lawmakers together have waged a war against smoking in public. Tempe, Arizona has been a recent battle ground for this war, and many laws and regulations have been passed to deter smokers from smoking in public places like restaurants, bars, stores, ASU, and even their own cars if children are present. Just as social drinkers of legal age are permitted to consume alcohol, smokers also have the right to smoke. Smoking could lead to lung cancer, according to a study conducted by the US National Library Medicine. However, according to Centers for Disease and Control Prevention (CDC), tobacco companies are required to warn their costumers that there product might lead to cancer under 1965 act. Therefore, after reaching the legal age of smoking, it a person’s choice to decide whether to ignore the facts written by the company or not. Anti-smokers are arguing that it’s not too much to ask smokers to smoke at a designated area, or at their homes. Yet smokers in most times are asking for these designated areas where they do not have to be isolated from everyone just to smoke a cigarette. Although strict smoking laws have been enforced in Tempe, these regulations are unlikely to raise awareness about effects of smoking among its population.

Smoking kills more than seven million people each year, six million of those deaths are results of direct smoking and the remainder are induced by secondhand smoke. If every state had total smoking bans more than half of those deaths could be prevented. Smoking bans help to protect public health, including reducing the risk of damaging health-related consequences as well as the affliction that comes from second-hand smoke. Limits on advertising directed at children and teens would reduce the possibility that they become smokers in the future and shield them from the risk of developing smoking-related health complications in time to come. Smoking bans, when enforced in public areas, promote good health and reduce the uncertainty of smoking-related illnesses.

Smoking cigarettes could affect your life drastically but, imagine what would happen to the other people around you. There are many types of ways to ingest this lethal smoke. Some people personally inhale it, others may be prone to inhaling it second handedly, which could be even more dangerous. Although smoking could be hard for others to quit, it’s best to put an end to inhaling this smoke because cigarettes cause underlying diseases. Smoking is the number one preventable cause of death. Many groups, and communities are battling this global issue by reaching out to people to get them to stop smoking.

“why!! I don’t have the money to pay this, why!!!. Why can’t my problems go away, I can’t deal with this, where are you, I need you, just a little taste to take this stress away, just one”

Imagine feeling a pain thrust down your shoulder. Searing with pain you go to see a doctor and you realize that you have been prescribed a medication that will relieve that pain. You inner self explodes with joy and for a couple weeks you feel great that your shoulder no longer hurts. You feel a small urge to take more of it. Slowly over a period of time you start to feel like you need it and you go to the doctor and he tells you that he isn't changing the dose and says that to take it only when you need it. This is an example of how an addiction starts and how it grows into a problem. It isn't only pain killers that can be addicting, but there are other substances in the world that are addictive, such as tobacco, heroine, and crack. This not only is a contributing factor to the health of our citizens, but it also contributes to the costs of healthcare in the United States. This accounts for 10 trillion dollars of our government spending each year. What I want to know is how does smoking and other illicit drugs impact the cost of our health care?

Cigarette smoking is known to cause several harmful diseases such as cancer, heart disease, oral cancer, high blood pressure, and birth defects among women during pregnancy. Smoking is the leading cause of lung cancer, but it can cause cancer in every part of your body. Cigarette smoking is known to kill half of smokers. And reduce their life span by at least 10 years. Smoking kills 6 million people a year and 400,000 daily. Not only are smokers dying, there are 53,800 nonsmokers that die from second hand

Some people believe that smoking is not good for your long term health while others think that it’s fine if you decide to smoke. People think smoking cigarettes can help cope with many of problems such as feeling depressed, having trouble sleeping, feeling irritable, having trouble focusing, and poverty. Many adults are aware of the long term affects to your health if you smoke any kind of cigarettes. While, teenagers are uneducated to what can happen, their mentality is that “it will never happen to me.” In 1949, dentists suggested smoking Viceroys over anything else because Viceroys filtered the smoke. In 2014 however, it’s believed that smoking can cost more than just money. In the last advertisement, facts are provided as to why you shouldn’t smoke and that smoking affects everyone. It is evident that one favors smoking while the other two are against smoking.