Tobacco And Its Effect On The Nervous System

     In the world today, Nicotine is one of the most frequently used addictive drugs. The impact it has on society is like no other. It is one of more than 4,000 chemicals found in the smoke of tobacco products such as cigarettes, cigars, and pipes. This addictive drug is the primary component in tobacco that acts on the brain.

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CVS Health announced in 2014 that it wanted to stop selling all tobacco related products. This will affect every CVS location in the United States of America. The problem that arises in the U.S. is the usage of tobacco products. As a successful pharmacy chain and a lucrative company, CVS health wants to do its best to strengthen the health of American citizens. In order to solve the tobacco problem, the health professionals are taking it upon themselves to make a difference. If the distribution of tobacco products come to a halt at CVS pharmacies, consumers will either stop buying the products all together or looking for the products elsewhere.

Tobacco has been around since the 17th century and was the first crop grown for money in North America. In 1612, the settlers of the first American colony in Jamestown, Virginia grew tobacco as a cash crop. Tobacco helped pay for the American Revolution against England. By the 1800’s, many people had begun using tobacco in different ways. Some chewed it, others smoked it in a fancy pipe, and some even hand rolled a cigarette or cigar. Most people only smoked about 40 cigarettes a year. It wasn’t until 1865 that the first commercial cigarettes were made by Washington Duke on his 300 acre farm in Raleigh, North Carolina. He made hand rolled cigarettes and sold them to the soldiers at the end of the Civil war. In 1881 cigarette smoking became wide spread due to James Bonsack’s invention of the cigarette making machine. Bonsack’s machine could make 120,000 cigarettes a day. Because of this machine, he created a business with Washington dukes son, James Duke. They built a factory and made about 10 million cigarettes the first year and around one billion cigarettes only five years later. They packed the cigarettes in a box with baseball cards and called them Duke of Durham. They were known as the first brand of cigarettes. Buck Duke and his dad started the first tobacco company in the U.S. and names it the American Tobacco Company. The American Tobacco Company became the largest and most powerful company until the early 1900’s. By then, several companies had started making

They believe the tobacco products have no place in a drugstore company that is trying to become more of a health-care provider. This reflects a major push and change by retail pharmacies away from simply dispensing drugs toward a more integrated role of providing basic health services to Americans. The drugstore chain estimates it will lose $2 billion in annual revenue from tobacco and other products as a result (Martin). But CVS is counting on this strategy to give them a competitive edge over other rival pharmacies. "Cigarettes have no place in an environment where health care is being delivered," said Mr. Merlo, a 58-year-old former pharmacist who became CEO of CVS Caremark in 2011. "This is the right decision at the right time as we evolve from a drugstore into a health-care company"

Over two thousand years ago, when Christopher Columbus discovered tobacco, it began to be smoked and chewed (Cancer Council). Tobacco use was not known all over the world until the 1600s (Cancer Council). In the 1700s, many tobacco industries had been developed all over the world (Cancer Council). Great factors that helped the mass production of tobacco products and the growth of markets, were advertisements and promotions. After tobacco products started to become popular, machine made cigarettes were introduced (Cancer Council). In the 1900s, scientists began to discover that tobacco products have nicotine, an addictive drug, in them (Kessler). The nicotine caused tobacco sales to be extremely high, because it was causing addiction. The high

Nicotine is one of more than 4.000 chemicals found in the smoke from tobacco products, it is the main factor that works on the mind. Smokeless tobacco products, for example snuff and chewing tobacco also contain many toxins as easily as high levels of nicotine. Nicotine is naturally occurring colourless liquid that becomes brown when fired and needs on the aroma of tobacco when exposed to aviation. Thither are many species of tobacco plants, the tobacco species serving as the major source of today’s tobacco products. Extensive study shows it to induce a number of complexes and sometimes unpredictable effects on the mind and physical structure. Lung cancer, emphysema and bronchitis are three of the most common disease directly associated with

Cigarettes contain over 4,000 deadly chemicals. Nicotine also being the most addictive ingredient. But what is nicotine? It is one of the most dangerous ingredients consumed while smoking and its lethal abilities are not taken serious. More than 400,000 people in this country die from smoking-related causes. Why is nicotine so addicting? Well when taking that first drag of cigarette smoke in less than 20 seconds nicotine enters the blood stream giving you a sense of relaxation or buzz and the smoking entering the lungs lacking the body of oxygen causing a light free feeling in the body but is really the lungs starving of oxygen and nerve toxin entering the body and that is what causes the addiction. many smokers enjoy the relaxation that smoking gives you causing the addiction and craving the next smoke. Research shows that an average of 80 – 90% of smokers is addicted to nicotine but nicotine not only is addicting it also causes withdrawal symptoms of anger frustration anxiety and weight gain. Nicotine is dangerous causing many health related issues; cancer being one of them which was discovered for causing lung cancer in the early 1920’s and still a current

Tobacco is an argument that touches my feeling profoundly as my father used to smoke a lot and passed away because of it. When I read the article I can only see a rhetorical fight between parties where we basically know the truth but we pretend convincing ourselves that there must be a solution to meet everybody’ needs. Obviously the problem here is not just the tobacco; we could mention a lot of other products (specifically drugs) in commerce that are dangerous for our health. In the article, the tobacco companies argue the fact that they do not sell the concept of smoking but that the only role of the marketing is to help adults in making their choices relating the brand of the cigarettes. This concept to me could be translated as:” which brand would you like to get sick with?” (excuse my sarcasm). I definitively agree with the Supreme Court of Canada which states that “The State seeks to control the thought, beliefs and behavior of its citizens along the line it considers acceptable. This form of paternalism is unacceptable in a free and democratic society.” It refers to what tobacco companies argue against a ban where the state is telling smokers that they were not responsible of their own health, therefore comparing the state intervention as a role of a nanny. Well, I say: “Welcome to the nanny!” People need to be shaken. I know smokers that do not even remember why they started this habit. My former boss used to smoke in the office and sometimes he would light a

Tobacco is a plant that grows in North and South America. It is in the same family as the poisonous night shade, a very deadly plant. It began growing in America around 6000 B.C and started to be chewed and smoked about 2000 years ago as cultural or religious ceremony and events. They also believed it had medicinal effect that can cure and relives pain. Tobacco was introduced to Europe by Cristopher Columbus. When he discovered America, he encountered American Indians and they give him dried tobacco as a gift which he took it with him to Europe. They also believed it had medicinal value and could cure everything from bad breath to cancer. In the 20th century scientists found out tobacco contains many dangerous chemicals and nicotine which is highly addictive and health hazardous. The main reason for this writing to inform the teens and preteens how harmful is tobacco smoking not only to themselves also to the people around them. Disease and death caused from tobacco smoking is highly preventable.

In recent years the health risks among smokers has become more apparent and more of an issue amongst Americans. In response to these concerns many actions have taken place to help prevent issues caused by tobacco such as lung cancer and secondhand smoke. CVS was the first pharmacy to take tobacco off their shelves, they did this in hopes to fight this battle against the harmful effects of tobacco.

Tobacco was first brought around 6,000 B.C. and was used by Indians in different ways. It was a type of “religious and medicinal practice” for pain and healing. It’s effects on the body weren’t being discovered until the early 1600s where people began getting sick and it became hard to quit using the substance. About 16.8% of the population smoke tobacco as of 2014 which means that 40 million people smoke in America. Tobacco has been proven to help in medical ways, however, most of the people that consume the herb use it for a different purpose. It is said that 9 out of 10 people begin smoking before the age of 18 without knowing the consequences in the near future. For the reason of this epidemic, it is important to know that tobacco use affects the body in many different ways that include difficulty in vision, poor health, different cancers and problems with pregnancy.

The high content of nicotine makes it very addictive, once a person gets addicted to smoking, chewing or sniffing it becomes difficult to leave it. At times efforts fail and

b. Background: Tobacco were around 6,000 B.C. and was only grown in America. It was not used until Christopher Columbus had discovered it.

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.