The Effects Of Smoking On Our Health

While cigarette smoking is the leading cause of preventable death in the United States, people still do it. The estimated amount of deaths every year is 438,000 because of the harmful effects of cigarette smoke. Tobacco smoke contains seven thousand chemical compounds. Smoking for as few as five years can have a permanent effect on many vital organs in the human body. Cigarette smoking is the cause of at least twenty-five diseases including, lung and other cancers, heart disease, stroke, chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder (COPD), acute respiratory illnesses, and adverse reproductive effects. Bad breath, coughing, wheezing, and respiratory infections are symptoms that come along with smoking. A person who smokes lives thirteen to fifteen

Smoking became popular in the late 1800s. People smoked dry tobacco leaves in cigars and pipes. Ojeda states in his article, "Even before science established definitively that tobacco can kill you, people knew it was trouble" (Opposing Viewpoints). They did

Smoking tobacco is one of the most common bad habits in the worldwide. A large amount of data has been collected on the issues of tobacco and overall health globally. The relationship between tobacco use and health initially comes from professional clinical observations about lung cancer, the first disease linked to tobacco use. Many people are not able to stop their addiction of smoking due to the fact that tobacco contains a common drug called nicotine that makes smokers feel as if they need to smoke all the time in order to function normally. Nicotine is a substance that is found in tobacco. It is also found in all tobacco products such as: cigarettes, chewing tobacco, and cigars. Cigarette smoking is regarded as a major health risk factor in the development of lung cancer, which it has been proven that is the main cause of cancer deaths in men and women in the United States and the world.

According to a study completed back in 1972, seventy-five percent of one hundred and six smoker had emphysema and nonsmokers lived an average of 5 years longer (NCBI, 2010). Also, the proportion of emphysema in the lungs increases with the length of time smoked (NCBI, 2010). Studies like these have proved that smoking causes emphysema and decreases the life span. Since then, detrimental effects of smoking have been made public and are now common knowledge; it is surprising that there is still an astounding amount of individuals that continue to partake in this dreadful habit. As nurses, it is our responsibility to educate patients, not only about the effects of smoking, but about ways to quit. Since it seems common knowledge

Would you risk your life for one of your addictions? Even though we know more about the dangers of smoking, it sill haunts society. Not only does smoking have many dangers, physical outcomes, and costs, but also there are also many positive steps to combat this tribal habit.

Tobacco has been around for centuries and consumed by people everywhere around the world. The products tobacco companies produce contain harmful chemicals and drugs to make the user stay hooked for as long as possible. Till death do us part, am I right? These companies use the ignorance of under developed countries to leech off of their wallets and create sickness without an explanation. Tobacco should not be able to advertise its products in a positive light.

After several experiments and tests scientists found the contents of cigarettes to be very alarming. From their testing and studies they found that smoking was very likely causing many other diseases(1). From their chemical analysis of the composition and contents of the cigarette they found it to contain many toxic poisonous chemicals in the cigarette and the smoke emitted. From their research they found

There are over 5.5 trillion cigarettes produced globally each year, and over 1.1 billion people worldwide use cigarettes each day, primarily as an activity to relax, which is over one-sixth of the world’s population. Due to the over four-thousand chemicals found in cigarette smoke, including 43 known carcinogenic compounds, smokers are much more likely than non-smokers to develop terminal illnesses such as lung cancer, COPD, heart disease, stroke, and is the cause of more than 480,000 deaths each year in the United States alone; nearly one in five deaths. Additionally, the inhalation of second-hand by non-smokers is equally as harmful as smoking a cigarette itself; and what is worse, non-smokers do not always get to decide to inhale or not. Cigarette smoking is a terrible habit which contributes to many negative health consequences, and eventually, an untimely death.

Tobacco smoke is immensely harmful to one’s health. Cigarettes contain about 600 ingredients, when this burned can generate 7,000 chemicals according to American Lung Association

The use of tobacco related products has over time become a global world epidemic. Day in and out, people die from tobacco related causes. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), currently 12% of all deaths among adults aged 30 years and over were attributed to tobacco. Again in 2004, about 5 million adults aged 30 years and over died from tobacco related to direct tobacco use (smoking and smokeless) around the globe, that is one death approximately every six seconds. Tobacco causes many diseases, many of which are respiratory diseases like tuberculosis, cancer and other cardiovascular diseases. The most common use of tobacco products comes in the form of smoking. Cigarette use has over time, become the most convenient and most common from of tobacco use. Whereas these other products have the likelihood of causing tobacco related diseases, more diseases captured in the top 10 killers of the world come from cigarettes and cigars. Worldwide attention on tobacco use has been focused mainly on cigarettes because people find it more convenient to use. Again, cigarettes come with an extra ingredient that facilitates addiction and leads to higher health risks. Without doubt, it has been proven and it is widely known that the addictive component of cigarettes and cigars is the nicotine content that the manufacturers have a control over. With these factors being at play, cigarette consumption, despite being a health issue, has been hard to tackle.

Cigarette smoking dates back to the early 19th century in Central America. The cigarettes were in the form of reeds and smoking tubes. People like the Mayas and the Aztecs could smoke during religious rituals. Among the

Smoking tobacco first appeared in Mexico and Central America in the 9th century. The Mayans and Aztecs smoked tobacco and other psychoactive drugs. The Mayans and Aztecs first started wrapping their tobacco in plant leaves. When tobacco rolled in plant leaves made its way to Spain in the 17th century, Spaniards started to use thin paper and they called them papelates. The papelate finally made its way to France, where the French renamed it the cigarette ("Cigarette").

The simple smoke from a cigarette is more complex then it really looks. "Each time a person breaths in smoke about a million particles of very tiny complex materials are breathed in and only 20% of that is breathed out."(Hyde 1990) From these little millions of particles is the reason it causes problems for the human body. The main material in the some is nicotine. "Nicotine is an alkaloid poison found in

Smoking is very dangerous, and it has many effects on the health of people. The correlation between smoking and numerous diseases is very high. Throughout the paper, numerous effects are discussed. The change that smoking causes in people’s moods can lead to addiction. Addiction leads to an increased intake of chemicals. The chemicals that are in cigarettes are linked to numerous diseases. The toxic chemicals, such as arsenic and cyanide, are not healthy to ingest. They can potentially lead to atherosclerosis, which can cause strokes and heart diseases. Also, smokers often develop a persistent cough because of the toxic chemicals. These chemicals are also thought to damage DNA, which can lead to different types of cancer. It is concluded

Smoking isn't good for one's body. Especially if you've been smoking a pack a day, and for a long period of time. But what is the full extent of the effects of smoking on your body?