The Effects of Tobacco Consumption

Although it remains a large portion of the U.S’ economy, tobacco smoking can lead to a variety of diseases and disorders that affect the user. The effects of smoking tobacco not only affect the user but surrounding people as well: permanently destroying their lungs and children, increasing the chances of diseases and of cancer.

understanding, most tobacco companies are targeting young people as replacement smokers. They use different strategies that encourage teenagers and young adults to start or continue consuming their products (NIDA, 2012).

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.

Yes indeed tobacco has consequences. In fact tobacco is one of the most leading causes of death in the world today. Smoking has begun to take over our everyday life. It is the number one most leading cause of death in the world today, and also the number one substance smoked or chewed today. But what people do not realize is that there are consequences to smoking tobacco, or eating it. Tobacco is hazardous to the human body system, therefore it should be banned due to the fact that it causes serious problems to those who do smoke, causes second hand smoking, and causes gum diseases.

Tobacco; one of the most profitable products in history, an addictive substance, and a deadly killer. Smoking tobacco used to be a thing that was endorsed in American society. Now, with the new medical advances and knowledge, society has seen the side effects of smoking and how fatal it actually is. Teenagers have been one of the largest age groups that have been affected by smoking. After analyzing all possible reasons as to why teenagers would smoke while knowing it can affect their health, three possible reasons stuck out the most. Teenagers smoke despite knowing the health problems that originate from smoking because of peer pressure, an “invincibility” mentality, and seeing a role model or family member smoke.

The public’s view of cigarettes has changed drastically over the years. Cigarettes have been used as a stress reliever or as a status symbol since they were first created. Those who have enough money to purchase cigarettes as a luxury are looked at as higher class citizens. People began striving to be wealthier and more attractive in order to achieve the American dream. The growing popularity of cigarettes for all genders was a massive boom for the tobacco industry. Prior to the age of 20’s, women smoking in public were seen as a taboo and inappropriate. This view of women changed when cigarette companies started using women as their main advertisers. During the roaring 1920s, women were fighting for equality, and many women turned to cigarette smoking to make themselves look sophisticated. One advertisement capitalizes on the urge women have to be skinny and uses it to sell their cigarettes, while the other urges those to stop smoking in order to save their health. These two advertisements promote opposite arguments of a commonly used product, cigarettes. Though from different eras, they both use similar strategies to convince the audience to be for or against cigarette smoking.

Tobacco usage and cigarette smoking are major risk factors for death by cardiovascular disease and cancer and for respiratory tract infections and reproductive disorders. According to Dr. Neal Benowitz, M.D. (2010), approximately 435,000 Americans die prematurely from diseases related to smoking each year. Now, you would think this very frightening finding – along with the multitude of research on the harmful effects of tobacco – would cause people to think twice before using tobacco. Yet, an estimated 45 million Americans currently smoke tobacco (Benowitz, 2010). So, what is the cause of this continued use of tobacco? The answer is addiction to nicotine. Nicotine is the main chemically active component in tobacco that leads to tolerance and dependence, which is a common characteristic of other addictive drugs and alcohol. Of course, the nervous system, especially the brain, plays a huge role in how nicotine is processed in the body. Nicotine affects receptors in the brain and brain activity which in turn affects neuronal network functioning. There are short- and long-term effects on adults and adolescents, and these effects are mostly very harmful.

According to the Center for Disease and Health Prevention, smoking tobacco is the leading cause of preventable diseases and deaths throughout the entire world. Smoking can take control over any person's life; It doesn’t matter what sex, race, age, or even education level someone has. Smoking tobacco does not just affect the smoker, but the people who may be around at that time. Even though smoking is major health risk, people all over the world have multiple reasons for smoking; stress, addiction, peer pressure, lack of education, mental illness. But do smokers know all the effects of what their inhaling? The effects of tobacco include long term health problems for smokers and others, environmental pollution, and excessive financial spending.

The numbers of people who smoke have increase over the years. Although they are equipped with the knowledge of how unhealthy smoking can be, people still choose to smoke. It is a personal choice and a highly addictive habit. Smokers choose to subject themselves to the

Since the establishment of the linkage between smoking and numerous serious side effects, including lung cancer, lung disease, and tooth decay, in the mid-1900s, public health officials and lawmakers have attempted to decrease the prevalence of smoking in the general public through a myriad of methods. One such method would be the “Tobacco Tax” otherwise known as price increases on cigarettes and other tobacco products. Ideally, such tobacco taxes would act as disincentives on smoking, causing adults to quit smoking or at least to decrease their consumption of cigarettes. Overall, this is a highly debated topic in the fields of both public policy and economics.

Although free of nicotine, marijuana smoke certainly pollutes the lungs. And since tobacco smoking has been linked to respiratory injury, cancer, emphysema, heart disease, complications of pregnancy, low birth weight, and other ills, it makes sense to worry whether smoking marijuana might prove equally harmful (Mack and Joy). Marijuana joints have been shown to deliver at least four times as much tar to the lungs as tobacco cigarettes of equivalent weight. This difference is due to the lack of filters on joints and because marijuana smokers typically inhale a larger volume of smoke and take it more deeply into the lungs than tobacco smokers do. Marijuana smokers also tend to hold smoke in for a time before exhaling, exposing the lungs to even greater levels of cancer-causing agents. Clinical studies suggest that people who smoke marijuana are more likely to develop respiratory illnesses than are nonsmokers. A survey of outpatient medical visits at a large health maintenance organization (HMO) found that marijuana users were more likely to seek help for respiratory illnesses than people who smoked tobacco (Mack and Joy). While cannabis is harmful to the brain and lungs of the user, it is also harmful to the ones around the user. It has been shown that the effects of using cannabis are similar to those of alcohol and benzodiazepines and include slowing of reaction time, motor incoordination, specific defects in short-term memory, difficulty in concentration and particular

Ever wonder what is Tobacco? What is it made of? How is it harmful? Smoking tobacco is the process of inhaling smoke, Smoking tobacco is inhaled through the mouth. Tobacco is a plant that grows in warm, tropical areas. Smoking tobacco originated around 5000 B.C. in the Peruvian Andes. On October 15, 1492, Christopher Columbus discovered tobacco. Christopher Columbus brought the tobacco leaves that were dried from the Indians, Indians gave Christopher Columbus the plant as a nice gesture and a thank you. Soon after Columbus brought the plant back to Europe, the plant was popular and started to be planted in Europe. When tobacco first came around many people believed that it could cure-all, it was used to dress wounds and as a painkiller! A doctor from Spain, Nicolas Monardes, wrote a book claiming that tobacco could cure thirty-six health problems. Tobacco is most commonly used to make cigarettes. Nicotine is the main chemical in tobacco, this makes tobacco so addictive, one cigarette contains 4,000 chemicals. Tobacco raises one’s heart rate and blood pressure to unhealthy levels. Tobacco is the leading cause of illness and death in America. Smoking tobacco pollutes the air, affects your appearance/causes death and it cost a smoker a large amount of money in one lifetime.

It has been estimated that more than 36.5 million adults in the United States are currently smoke cigarettes (smoking). As humans, we have addictions, whether it is healthy or not is questionable. Some are addicted to drugs, gambling, sex, and many other potentially harmful or illegal things. In this paper, I argue that tobacco use is harmful to an individual’s health and such individuals should stop smoking.

Cigarette consumption is a worldwide growing business that concerns about the health problems issue publicly by providing all the maternal element that used to make health strategy weak and down. The impact of the anti-smoking campaign on the consumption of cigarettes is measured by fitting cigarette demand functions to pre-campaign dat, projecting "ahead" as if the campaign had not occurred, and then comparing these predictions with realized consumption. However, the cumulative effect of persistent publicity supported by other public policies, has been substantial: in the absence of the campaign, per capita consumption likely would have exceeded its actual 1975 value by 20 to 30 per cent. This is a conservative indication of the effectiveness of the campaign, for it ignores other potentially important and desirable behavior changes, such as the shift to low "tar" and nicotine cigarettes.

From the 1920’s to 1960’s smoking was known to be sexy, glamorus and refreshing. Smoking was part of the norm in society and continued to grow tremendously during the 20th century, up until the 70’s when the idea of smoking turned into a method for weight loss. More and more people wanted to smoke because of all the benefits they thought it would bring to them. With the increase knowledge of health effects in the late 20th century, many people learned that smoking wasn’t safe for our bodies. Smoking turned into the opposite of what it once was, now it is known to be very deadly and it is not promoted by. Now we all know smoking is bad for our health, but how bad is bad? Smoking can negatively transform people's lives. Did you know, tobacco use remains the single largest preventable cause of death and disease in the United States? Cigarette smoking kills more than 480,000 Americans each year, with more than 41,000 of those deaths from exposure to secondhand smoke. (citation)