The average cost for lung cancer surgery is around 15,000 dollars. If that option doesn 't work chemotherapy costs anywhere from 10,000 to 200,000 dollars. Now this is something only smokers have to fear right? Wrong, sadly from second hand smoke many non-smokers suffer from many of the same tobacco illnesses as every day smokers. In order to stop this the amount of smoke in the air needs to be reduced, there needs to be more alternatives, and people need to be better educated on the dangers they expose themselves and others to. All around, second hand smoking is an increasing problem that needs to be addressed.
Second hand smoking is a larger problem that most people overlook due to an arrogant perspective. Second hand smoking is
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So when people vape around kids thinking it 's ok it isn 't going to hurt them, that 's the opposite it actually is. Also just to prove that second hand smoking is a dangerous health concern, since the surgeon general in 1964 there has been whopping, “ 2.5 million” deaths due to tobacco illnesses, but these people never smoked as cigarette. Which is ridiculous not only from a health standpoint, but also an economical standpoint. Medicare and medicaid spend billions on tobacco illnesses. For a country constantly sinking in debt that doesn 't sound like the best investment, to spend billions on someone 's habit. Now second hand smoking has been mentioned a lot, but what exactly is second hand smoking? Well it is more than just what the smoker exhales, it also included the smoke from the burning end of the cigarette. These two sources combined contain more, “7,000 chemicals. Hundreds of toxins, and about 70 can cause cancer” (Health Effects of Secondhand Smoke). So how did this problem begin and get so out of hand? Believe it or not it all started with second hand smoking, well kind of. The native americans smoked it at religious ceremonies, but were not addicted and didn 't smoke it everyday. Though when the european settlers came over the got a scent of the smoke coming from natives pipe, they were intrigued. Then once they tried it and
There is a lot of debate whether vaping teens are becoming a major problem. The article “Warning: Vaping Teens Becoming a New Generation of Nicotine Addicts” by USAtoday.com address how vaping the becoming the new cigarettes for teens. E-cigarettes may seem like they aren’t harmful because they don’t have cancer producing tobacco. However, they still have nicotine and other harmful toxins according to the article. Vaping teens are becoming a big problem in our generation. Nowadays, teens vape to seem “cool” or simply because of peer pressure. Schools in bigger areas have a bigger problem with vaping teens because it is easier for them to get the e-cigarettes than here. Consequently, schools will find more students who are addicted even though
Vaping is the use of a small electronic device that is made to simulate tobacco smoke. Nicotine is bad for everyone but having children get addicted at such a young age multiplies the negative effects. Vaping leads to cigarette usage, preventable cancers, respiratory issues and addition. Tobacco is the cause of 5.4 million deaths annually; Can you imagine how that number will climb with all the teens that are getting addicted today?
Every year, there are over 400,000 smoking-related deaths in the United States. A large percentage of these are due to lung cancer, whose leading cause is smoking. However, not all deaths are smokers themselves. Anyone in the vicinity can fall victim to second hand smoke. These people, through no action of their own, can have their lives threatened.
The image of how many lives affected by smoking can be a difficult one to capture properly. The image of people who are living their lives slowly becoming the worthless smoke of just another cigarette can cause the viewer, perhaps for the first time, to see clearly that the effects of smoking can go further than they first thought. While lighting a cigarette, it is doubtful the average smoker thinks much about the damage done, not only to themselves, but to those around them as well. Your public service message implies that the second hand smoke the average smoker exhales so easily is just as damaging to those nearby as to the person smoking. This may be difficult to imagine, but the fact still stands that with every puff, with every breath out damage can be inadvertently done to a hapless bystander.
Some people believe that vaping may lead people into trying actual cigarettes in order to get a stronger effect. This is an especially worrisome possibility when it comes to children. The fact of the matter is that there is no strong evidence to support such a belief. If anything, the exact opposite is true. Most vapers chose to use e-cigarettes because they realized how harmful tobacco smoking was to them and they wanted to find a safe way to quit. In addition, many of these people spread the word of how harmful traditional cigarettes can be, which furthers support for anti-smoking campaigns.
Secondhand smoke is by far, worse than first hand smoke, and the effects of it are immediate on the cardiovascular system. Secondhand smoke causes numerous health problems, especially in infants and children, including more frequent and severe asthma attacks, respiratory infections, ear infections, and sudden infant death syndrome (SID). Not to say adults are safer, secondhand smoke is also linked to stroke, impaired lung function, Lung cancer, coronary heart disease, nasal irritation, lower respiratory illness, and reproductive effects in women. All these are prevalent in first hand smokers as well, and if we were to get into third hand smoking then the topic would no longer be banning smoking in all public places but rather, ban smoking in
Socioeconomic inequalities in regards to lung cancer treatment have been founded. Researchers have studies participants with a leading diagnosis of lung cancer, where the outcome was odd of treatment and where the outcome was reported by a measure of SEP (Socioeconomic Position). Further investigation is required to determine the patient, tumor, clinician, and system factors that may contribute to socioeconomic inequalities in receipt of lung cancer treatment. Although the incidence and outcome of lung cancer varies with socioeconomic position (SEP) (L.F., 2013)
Unfortunately, it seems that people not only risk their life with every cigarette they smoke, but also affect everybody else who is around. Everybody can be affected by second-hand smoke.
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.”
Did you know that many teens as low as the age of 12 to 13 have already started vaping. Its true many teens think that it is okay to start vaping because there is no “tobacco”. Well they are wrong many studies showing that vaping can cause serious damage to your health, including bronchitis, pneumonia, and can even cause gum disease and this is just what we know, since vaping hasn't been out long enough to know its true effects.In the article “Concerns explode over new health risks of vaping” it says that “Irfan Rahman talked to young vapers, some complained of bleeding mouths and throats. And these bloody sores seemed slow to heal.” This shows that even the people using these vapes have seen an impact on their health and still many are using
We often think that surviving is our number one top priority or instinct, but we can also observe many willingly killing themselves, albeit, slowly. In another sense each time one takes a drag of smoke or vapor and harms themselves we would expect them to realize this is not helpful but actually harmful to their survival, and throw down the habit. Instead we see them urged to use more and more until we call it an unhealthy addiction. Although it is frowned upon in American culture to smoke or use tobacco of any kind, vaping, which can as has also been seen to be harmful, is seen as perfectly socially acceptable. Even though we know both smoking and vaping are harmful, one is new, exciting, and claims to be less harmful. Americans often see these transitions and think very little of them, but they both have similar ill effects we just choose to ignore one and not the other. Our culture decides what is bad, fine, or even good not based on fact or research, but our understanding and feelings of the questioned problem. Americans do not care if something causes a problem unless it is immediate and noticeable. Americans are stubborn in some ways but very open in another, we are often very wishy-washy. The modern culture can’t seem to look down the line and see consequences of our present actions. The American population, resonating with this thought process, only want fast action and immediate results. When this does not occur we find any possible way of forcing it to happen
To begin with, kids should be allowed to vape because they would use it to entertain themselves by doing tricks. Many people use vaping to quit smoking, but many use vaping to do tricks. Then some people do the tricks
A study about vaping was done by the university of southern California in 2014 and 2016. The research came up to be that in 2014 “9% of high school students have used cigarettes or vaped.” In 2016 “13.7% of high school students have used cigarette or vaped.” The general increase shows that vaping is a more attractive gateway to nicotine than cigarettes. As crazy as it is to hear that this kind of smoking has grown that fast, it is good that if they are going to start a bad habit then it's better that they start the more healthier
As discussed on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website, “tobacco use costs the United States billions of dollars each year. The total economic cost of smoking is more than $300 billion a year, which include nearly $170 billion spent on tobacco-related
It is estimated that 36.5 million adults smoke in the United States of America (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention B). A cigarette contains 7,000 chemicals and 70 of those can cause cancer (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention B). When someone decides to smoke a cigarette, they are not only choosing to allow those toxins into their body but are imposing all those same toxins on anyone around them. Secondhand smoke is the combination of smoke from the burning end of a cigarette and the smoke breathed out by smokers and is considered more dangerous then smoking the cigarette (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention B). Every year 480,000 people in the United States of America die because of cigarette smoking, which is the leading cause of preventable disease and death. Why has this deadly habit become such a casual part of the American life? This habit is not only harmful to the person smoking, but is hurting everyone around them. It may be their decision to smoke and cause damage to their own bodies but when they decide to smoke in public they are infringing on the rights of everyone around them right to protect their health. Smoking should be made illegal because it is not only harmful to the smokers but also causes harm to fetuses in utero, developing children and any other adults who may breathe that smoke in.