The Effects Of Tobacco On The American Society On One Hand, And The Saudi Arabian Society

It is estimated that half of all smokers die from diseases related to the consumption of tobacco and live an average of ten to fifteen years less than non-smokers.

Consumption of Tobacco is a worldwide phenomenon. Nearly every country is planning to raise more restrictions around the consumption of Tobacco. The awareness about its ill effects is rising through the corridors of Parliaments of many countries with the help of governmental and non-governmental organizations. There are some internationally recognized organizations like the “World Lung Foundations” that are striving hard to reduce the consumption of tobacco to a bare minimum. There are numerous reasons that support the argument that tobacco should be completely banned from the United Sates.

With such an expansive history in Connecticut, the subject of tobacco is just as encompassing. With roots in Windsor colonial history through its height in the 1950s, sources try to capture it all at a surface level. Scholars have studied tobacco over time evaluating its role in the community at that moment in time. Over a variety of sources, overall the response to tobacco in Windsor has been positive as it serves as both an economic influence and a cultural one as well. Starting at one of the most recent sources, Brianna Dunlap looks at the entire Connecticut River valley as the backdrop as Connecticut’s tobacco industry in Connecticut Valley Tobacco. Published in 2016, Dunlap captures tobacco’s history starting at its roots in the 1600s through Cuba’s reopening trade ports in 2015. This book serves to establish Windsor’s connection with tobacco and how it changed over time to match the changing landscape around the tobacco sheds.

2. 45 million adults in the US are Tobacco smokers and 126 million are non-smokers but are being exposed to second-hand smoke.

Tobacco use also correlates with the amount of milk a mother is able to produce. According to Lisa Amir and Susan Donath “nicotine levels in breastmilk of women who smoke are almost three times higher than the level in the mother’s blood”. That quotes shows how tobacco use will affect the mother as well as the child when its born. A mother’s milk is a major component for the child to continue to receive nutrients after they are birthed. Therefore for a mother to use tobacco use while pregnant will cause issue. Likewise, tobacco use affects the placenta for example, “ Smoking can cause problems with the placenta—the source of the baby 's food and oxygen during pregnancy. For example, the placenta can separate from the womb too early, causing bleeding, which is dangerous to the mother and baby” (Tobacco use and pregnancy. Web). That quotes proves

Young people may start to be curious about smoking at some point in time in their life. They might like the idea of doing something dangerous or something that makes them look like an adult. Young people do not know that smoking and tobacco use can cause cancer and heart disease. They do not look into the future to worry about the consequences. Tobacco use is the leading preventable cause of death in the United States (Persoskie, Donaldson, & King, 2016). In this cohort study, there was a research if there was an interest about or ever-utilization of tobacco items among the US middle and high school students changed from 2012 to 2014. The research data came from the 2012 and 2014 National Youth Tobacco Surveys of US students in grades 6 through 12 (Persoskie, Donaldson, & King, 2016). 2014 data of students who used cigarettes, cigars, smokeless tobacco, and e-cigarettes were classified as ever-users or never-users of each product. The never-users were questioned about their curiosity about each product if they had been definitely, probably, probably not, or definitely not been curious about using the products.

When pregnant its very important to be good to your body and make sure you don't drink alcohol, get bad foods, take certain medicines, eating certain foods, or a number of things that can hurt the development and growth of a baby. When pregnant its important to not have bad habits like drinking or smoking, its important to eat healthy foods or exercise. One thing that is really bad to do when pregnant is smoke. Smoking can have many different effects on a baby. In this paper I will be talking about the effects it can cause on the baby.

While pregnant women who smoke cigarettes on a daily basis can greatly harm their fetus. There are many effects that cigarettes smoking by pregnant women have on their fetus. As researches show that smoking can induce spontaneous abortion too. The Tabaco smoke in cigarettes greatly reduces fetal growth through the presence of nicotine, carbon monoxide, and hydrogen cyanide. Through this research, “if women smoke during pregnancy, their baby is exposed to harmful chemicals such as tar, nicotine, and carbon monoxide. Nicotine causes blood vessels to constrict, so less oxygen and nutrients reach the fetus. Carbon monoxide decreases the amount of oxygen the baby receives” (Medline plus). A good mother should protect their unborn babies because when a pregnant mother smokes, their babies smoke too. Also Smoking while pregnant reduces an unborn baby’s oxygen, this place at risk for poor lung function, and low birth weight. According to this research of pregnant women who smoke cigarettes “the risk of preterm birth and problems with the way the placenta attaches to the uterus are increases in women who smoke during pregnancy. Also, infants born to women who smoke during pregnancy tend to be smaller than those born to nonsmokers. They are more likely to have asthma, colic, and childhood obesity. They also have an increased risk of dying from sudden infant

The authors view to smoking during pregnancy or smoking at any stage as exposing yourself and some one else to toxic chemicals and unmerciful disease. The author out lined that the carbon monoxide and nicotine and other more than 4000 chemical that exist in cigarette as the main cause to health problems

The objective of this study is to assess the risk factors such as socio-economic factors, demographic factors, maternal characteristics, negative effects on babies, and bring awareness of how tobacco use can affect low birth weight, respiratory complications, preterm birth , the development, the control over their emotions/behaviors and learning abilities, and overall health of the pregnancy and child in question.

In Australia, tobacco accounts for 9.6% of the total disease burden, 20.1% of total cancer disease burden every year, and estimated social and economic costs of smoking is $31.5 billion, putting a heavy financial burden on the Australian community.4 Smoking tobacco causes 16 types of cancers and only for lung cancer; in 2008-09 Australia’s health expenditure was $210 million.4 Furthermore, according to World Health Organisation (WHO), 10% of total deaths globally caused in 2015 would due to smoking.4 However, rates of smoking in Australian adults have declined from 2001(22.3%) to 2011-12 (16.3%).5 This could be attributed to different government policies implemented to curb this epidemic, such as plain packaging, smoke-free environment legislation, ban on smoking advertisements, heavy taxes on tobacco and public education programs through mass media.6

Saudi Arabia occupies fourth place globally in smoking tobacco because, people there in Saudi Arabia not allow to drinks alcohol, so smoking is become there intermittent for them. Not focusing only in Saudi student but in general international student they are the highest percentage at Texas Wesleyan University. In this year 2014 most of the companies of tobacco has increased their price for selling tobacco product for making people stop smoking and start thinking to be healthier and save their money. “Some countries giving money or profit for tobacco companies to make them increase their price to help people to quit smoking” (Sloan, Frank A).

Cigarette smoke contains around 4,800 chemicals, 69 of those can cause cancer. The effects of using tobacco are wide and varied but all of them are dangerous to every user's health. A study done by the American Lung Association states that smokers die significantly earlier than non-smokers. Smoking men and women have an average of 14 years of less life than a person who doesn't use tobacco. Human beings are supposed to do all they can to extend their lives. Yet people still make the choice to use tobacco and other abusive substances. A few dangerous diseases one could get by using tobacco include: coronary heart disease, lung, oral, throat, kidney, and pancreatic cancer, and even COPD. The list goes on and on and most of them can leave a person scared for life. Smoking is unacceptable in general, but doing it while pregnant is even worse. Just under eleven percent of all pregnant women smoke. Using tobacco while pregnant accounts for ten percent of all infant

The purpose of this research report is to highlight on the importance of having public areas free from smoking in all over Lebanon. The report will reveal the highly disastrous outcome of not applying the law of smoking on every single individual in the society causing extremely bad diseases. Also, this report aims to provide some solutions that the government should take in consideration like amending the smoking law with adequate and reasonable items then subsequently enact such a law. Smoking is so detrimental to health and its impacts are really so destructive more than we really imagine.

Despite the arguments declared, there are many citizens in today's society who feels that the production and sale of cigarettes can help boost up a country's economy. Due to high taxes paid for cigarettes, more cash from sales of the product would go to the importing country instead of the producing country. Sequentially, the purchase of cigarettes can be controlled and reduced at the same time. However, only a minority of individuals would quit smoking and enjoy a healthy life. On the contrary, the majority of smokers would continue to linger in the pleasures of smoking without taking into consideration of the price as they are addicts of cigarettes. In addition, the issue of high economy would contradict to the various methods to prevent smoking as shown by commercials and advertisements in the media. With cigarettes