The Effects of Tobacco on the Human Body

Smoking tobacco is well known to assist the body with creating cancer cells. Also loss of blood circulation leading to gangrene, hair loss, yellowing of fingernails and bad breath are only some of the health risks associated with first person smoking. These health risks can also apply to second hand smokers which

Second hand smoke is harmful to all people around those who smoke. Second hand smoke affects children the most. Second hand smoke kills 53,800 thousand people a year. Second hand smoke kills more people a year than lung cancer a year, lung cancer only kills 48,500 people a year. There are more people who die from secondhand smoke than people who get in car crashes. Tobacco products such as dip give many people mouth cancer. E cigarettes say on the label that they don't¨get people addicted or that they don't have nicotine but they do.

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.

Smoking also causes some serious respiratory diseases. Emphysema is a disease that robs a person of their ability to breathe. This disease is terminal and it kills you. It destroys a little bit of your lungs at a time so you don’t even realize there is problem. Patients who have emphysema can survive for many years with the help of oxygen tanks and special breathing exercises. Everyday activities, like shopping, cleaning, or exercising are some things that you can’t do in the later stages of emphysema. Elaine Landau says in her book “Cigarettes” that one cigarette lessens a smokers life by 7 minutes. Overall smoking is very dangerous a deadly it causes over 300,000 deaths a year in the United States. So if you’re ever offered one just remember how dangerous it is even if it only lessens your life by 7 minutes. However you don’t have to smoke to be harmed by cigarette. This leads us to the effects of secondhand smoke. Inhaling smoke from others is called passive smoking.

Tobacco is the third caused death in the United States. Four hundred eighty thousand children have died from tobacco intake and over two million adults have this past year. When using any form of tobacco, you are not only risking your own life, but you are also risking others. Second hand smoke kills people too, it affects anyone, but mainly it affects infants and small children. Imagaine growing old with someone you love and finding out you have lung cancer. If you were to pass away, you would leave your loved ones behind and that is always devastating. Eventually ones tobacco intake increases or decreases, however eighty seven out of one hundred smokers said it increased over time.

Tobacco products can harm your body, mind, and harm others around. Smoking can harm you in multiple ways, it can cause cancer in the throat, lungs, etc. As seen here by tobacco

Many people start this habit because of peer pressure, family issues, anxiety and depression. Everyone knows that smoking causes cancer and it can shorten your life by 15 years or more. Smoking is a hard habit to break because tobacco contains nicotine which is a highly addictive stimulant. Teenagers smoke because they want to be cool. Many people who start smoking have a family member or close friend who smokes. Smoking leads to lung cancer, heart disease, strokes and wide variety of other diseases. Smokers experience more coughs and colds compared to non- smokers. Besides affecting oneself, it also has a negative impact on others around smokers which is known as second hand smoking. Also pregnant women who are exposed to cigarette smoke will have an increased risk of having a miscarriage or stillborn baby. There are over 4000 toxic substances in a cigarette. There are over 4000 toxic substances in a cigarette. They are arsenic, acetic acid, ammonia, butane, carbon monoxide and tar.

In D.A.R.E. I learned not to use Tobacco because there is 200 known harmful chemicals in 1 cigarette. More than 400,000 Americans die because of the toxins in cigarettes. Almost 50,000 deaths per year can be attributed to second-hand smoke.The effects on your body are: tobacco interferes with the way the brain works, smoking causes heart disease, smokers have more colds and upper respiratory problems, smoking causes lung cancer, chewing tobacco causes tooth loss and yellow teeth.

With tobacco smoke containing nearly 10,000 compounds and chemicals, hundreds of which are toxic, smoking puts an individual at risk for numerous illnesses and conditions. Smoking causes one out of three cancer deaths in the U.S. and according to Mayo Clinic, every year, lung cancer kills more Americans than breast, colon, ovarian and prostate cancers do combined. Smoking causes 87 percent of lung cancer deaths in the U.S.

There are more than 480,000 Americans killed each year as a result of cigarette smoking, it is the largest preventable cause of disease and death. The cost of smoke related illness in the United States is more than $300 billion annually, which includes $170 billion in cost for medical care and $156 billion lost in productivity (CDC, 2016). The World Health Organization (WHO) suggests smoking causes demise in half of its users and estimates that 600,000 people are killed each year as a result of second-hand smoke (WHO, 2016).

Smoking can cause premature death. Smoking can cause various types of cancer, heart disease, COPD, diabetes, and can increase the chances of having a stroke. Every time you smoke a cigarette, you shorten your life by five minutes. Around 443,000 people die each year from the deadly habit in the U.S. alone. Worldwide, tobacco use causes nearly 6 million deaths per

Smoking is responsible for several diseases like cancer, long-term respiratory diseases, and heart disease. It can also result in premature death. Approximately 443,000 people die in the United States each year because of smoking. On average smokers die at least ten years sooner than non-smokers. Smoking causes all types of cancer with lung cancer being the most popular. 90% of lung cancer patients got their disease because of smoking. Lung cancer is the most common causes of cancer deaths in the world. As well

The diseases that tobacco can cause are very dangerous. Raising the prices of tobacco can prevent many types of diseases such as emphysema, lung cancer. ¨Tobacco can cause too many diseases that are fatal, many are life ruining diseases¨ (10 of the Worst). Using tobacco products harms nearly every organ in your body. Tobacco products cause too many diseases to risk using said tobacco products.

Tobacco causes many problems for many people today I would like to discuss them with you. How dose tobacco use contribute to cardiovascular disease, cancer, and chronic obstructive lung disease. What is tobacco, “a preparation of the nicotine-rich leaves of an American plant, which are cured by a process of drying and fermentation for smoking or chewing.” Tobacco can be smoked, chewed, and a few more things. Tobacco effects every one differently depending on: size, weight, health, if you’ve used it before, what you take with it, how much you take, and how strong the tobacco is, and how much is in the product you are taking.

Another huge tobacco-related health problem is secondhand smoke. It is known to cause approximately 3,000 lung cancer deaths and 35,000 heart disease deaths in nonsmokers each year. By definition it is a mixture of smoke given off by the burning end of tobacco products and the smoke exhaled by smokers. Secondhand smoke contains over 4,000