The Effects Of Smoking On The Us, Britain And Russia

According to “The Action of Smoking and Health,” every six seconds someone loses their life as a result of a tobacco related disease. It’s hard to realize how damaging cigarette smoking’s effect can be until you experience it first hand. It is almost certain that every one knows someone who is currently a smoker or was a smoker at some point in their life. For years smoking was the seen as the “cool” thing to do, it was how to “fit in.” There was no real emphasis placed on the dangers of this particular habit, and as a result, it became a world wide trend. In the past, technology and medicine were not nearly advanced enough to be able to determine just how harmful tobacco usage is. However, as we have made medical and

Smoking is an activity that has been around for many years for people to use and adapt into their lifestyle. It is a tool that many people use to help reduce the stresses of life and put them in a comfortable position that enables them to cope with the hectic lifestyle they are living. However, smoking has been scientifically proven to cause many types of cancer, the most common being lung cancer resulting in numerous deaths across the United States. According to BBC, "Smoking is a greater cause of death and disability than any single disease" (BBC, 2). Evidently, the benefits and drawbacks of smoking have been debated for many years, and only recently have some countries have placed a ban in public places such as Britain and the United

Smoking was highly prevalent among the men and women in the manual group in Britain in 1946 with 82% which dropped to 55% in the 1970’s and has continued to fall rapidly in the middle 1990’s (ASH, 2007). Furthermore Health and Social Care Information Centre (2013) reported that there has been a drop in the manual groups from 33% in 1998 to 26% in 2010 but this group still smoke more than the social class, in 1998 for instance, non manual group smoked 22% compared to only 15% in 2010 which demonstrates a fall in the non-manual groups and shows there is a fall in their smoking but there is an urgent need to help, promote and support the

Tobacco use and the effects of second hand smoke have been an ongoing issue for many years. Looking at the attitude of the 1950’s and 1960’s when smoking was thought of as cool, suave, mature, etc., there has been a major turnaround in the way society looks at the use of tobacco. Now the issue is not just smoking and the damage to health that it causes, but now there is the additional awareness of what second hand smoke can do to individuals.

However, in the early 2000s, scientists and health specialists all over America began publishing research journals and propaganda stating how detrimental smoking was to one's life. Coincidentally, smoking rates and death also began to go down simultaneously. This propaganda paired with scientific facts provided by various laboratories, nicknamed anti-smoking propaganda, began to immediately change the atmosphere of smokers within America. Therefore, one must wonder how the changing trend in smoking-related propaganda and the newly introduced anti-smoking propaganda has affected its American populous. This research will analyze that exactly, and come to a conclusion on how the changes in smoking-related propaganda have affected the American populous.

Cigarettes come from a trend that turns into a habit; That is harmful to human health not only for direct smokers, but also more severely for passive smokers.

In the 1800's and early 1900's, everyone were smokers because nobody knew that it was harmful or dangerous. During World War I, soldiers would take cigarettes in their rations because they were so addicted to them. For them, cigarettes were a part of their life that they had to have. In early 1964, the US general proved that smoking was addictive and was cancerous. However, this statement was not released for a few weeks because the cigarette and tobacco companies did whatever they could to stop it. Later that year, the Surgeon General's

In the United States, when a disease is rapid, many steps are taken to reduce causes and find cures for the disease; walks, fundraisers, commercials and research are held by those that are committed to assist in the elimination of these diseases and the treatment of the sick. The leading causes of death in the United States are heart disease, cancer, stroke, and chronic respiratory disease. The most deadly origin of disease is cigarette smoking. A cigarette contains many harmful chemicals that damage the smokers’ body as well as the people that surround the smoker. Its negative impacts regarding health carry more burdens than what some may say is the “positive” social outcome of smoking. Tobacco was originally used as a heavy sedative

World-wide efforts have increased to alarm people of the danger in consuming tobacco products, both first hand and second hand. In recent years, reports have proven a decline in smoking. However, there are still millions of people that smoke in the United State of America. As a result, the effect of smoking has become a major health risk. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), tobacco use is the leading preventable cause of death, disease, and disability in the US.

Over the years we have seen a monumental change in the way society views cigarette smoking. At one time cigarette smoking was seen as a normal behavior and few regulations existed. However, as the associated health risks and anti-smoking campaigns have been introduced to the media, stigmatization of smokers has continuously risen over the years. Around the end of World War II, smoking was seen as a fashionable/trendy and effective stress reliever; today it is seen as socially unacceptable and often frowned upon. What most likely led to this radical change in opinion concerning cigarettes? The answer may lie in recent movements of anti-smoking legislation, decline in smoking prevalence, the increase in anti-smoking media such commercials and campaigns, as well as increased public health awareness as to the dangers of first and secondhand smoke (Pacheco, 2011). Groups even exist composed of anti-smoking activists that are dedicated to promoting an unfavorable image of smoking; one extreme example being the 1970’s group SMASH, the Society for Mortification and Smoker Humiliation, who suggested implanting explosives into cigarettes.(“Anti-smoking Hall of Fame,”

In the history of tobacco, people loved it, smoked it, and offered it to other people, especially their friends and relatives. For example, sales of cigarettes were very high during the WW II because “tobacco companies sent millions of cigarettes to the soldiers for free, and when these soldiers came home, the companies had a steady stream of loyal customers” (University of Dayton). But, later, scientists and doctors found out that it was very bad to human health, for example, “in 1953, Dr. Ernst L. Wynders finds that putting cigarette tar on the backs of mice causes tumors” (University of Dayton).

While by in large America has a decreasing rate of smoking the south has not reached the same rates of decline as other parts of the country. The problem can be seen through higher rates of lung cancers and other respiratory ailments; the health risk contributes to an increased cost burden on a group of Americans already considered to be poorer than the rest of the country. One possible solution to the problem of US smoking rates is combating it through stronger anti-smoking laws. The government has already reduced rates by limiting smoking in public spaces, and it has proposed to raise the smoking age which could play an important role in decreasing the percentage of smokers in the long term. It is also important to consider the tobacco industry’s

In the past century, Cigarettes could be found everywhere in American society. Yet, in the past five decades, they have been at an all time low. Although they are still common in the United States, they are not as common due to their dramatically declining consumption rates amongst adults. Several factors combined to provide one of the most successful and maybe even under-appreciated public health victories in our lifetimes. Some reasons of this dramatic decline include; increasing prices of tobacco products, implementing and enforcing comprehensive smoke-free laws, and sustaining hard-hitting media campaigns.

In the 1930’s cigarette smoking was looked upon as alluring. The well to do beautiful, who’s who, type of people flaunted their smoking habit. The first Surgeon General’s Report on smoking and health was released in 1964. In today’s society, smoking is not so attractive... It is strange to watch movies of years gone by when Hollywood stars would pose as smokers in a setting such as a hospital, restaurant, or airport. While the Marlboro man would ride horseback across the screen in commercials between movie segments. This has now become passé. Public facilities have now set rules against smoking in many establishments, and tobacco commercials have long been banned from public television. Over the past 50 years extensive research

Smoking is a risk factor for many diseases including lung cancer, chronic lung cancer and other cancers. 90% of cases of lung cancer are attributed to smoking (Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders, 2013). Additionally, smoking increases the risk of cardiovascular diseases in women and men aged between 35 and 69 (Owing, 2005). Smoking accounts for 25% and 30% of cases all cardiovascular diseases in young adults in the America and Britain respectively. This number is big when compared to Hong Kong which as 12%. 15% to 20% of all cases of cancer are caused by smoking in both the America and Britain (Gilman and & Zhou, 2004). Smoking causes 75% of cases of chronic cancer including emphysema and bronchitis. Smoking increases the risk of lung diseases as it damages the airway and alveoli. In other words, the rate of morbidity in both America and Britain as a result of smoking is very high and this is why the two countries have taken the habit very serious by treating all smokers as social pariahs (Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders, 2013).