Community Strategic Plan: Part B, Strategic Plan
Lindsay M. Quiazon
Dr. Crudeline Gray
NURS 561 Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
July 30, 2017
West Coast University
In the community assessment of San Fernando valley part, A, it was mentioned that there are many chronic illnesses such as heart disease, asthma, diabetes and obesity that are caused by poor health management, high cost of healthcare and inadequate knowledge of the disease. One factor that could cause these chronic diseases is the Tobacco usage among adults. According to Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention (CDC) (2017), Smoking may cause cancer, heart disease, stroke, lung disease, diabetes and COPD which includes emphysema and chronic bronchitis.
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We know this statement and we see this in advertisements, in slogans, in posters and televisions everywhere and yet smoking still the leading cause of death in America. According to Centers for Communicable diseases, 2017, smoking is still the No. 1 cause of preventable death in the United States. It kills more people than infectious disease, abuse, firearms, obesity and traffic accidents. Some people do not believe that smoking is harmful to them. Some people do not notice the harm at first and by the time they notice the effects, they are addicted to it already. That is why the Word Health Organization calls it as “gradual killer”. Lastly, according to Sherry McKee, the director of Yale Behavioral Pharmacology Lab, “Most of the smokers think that they can just quit easily at any time and nearly all believe that they won’t be long-term smokers”. These are some of the knowledge gaps in tobacco use.
Prevalence of Tobacco Use Inside and Outside United States
An estimated 36.5 million or 15.1 % of adults aged 18 years old and older currently smoke cigarettes and more than 16,000,000 have smoking or live with diseases that are related to smoking. According to US department of health and human services, over the past five decades, there is a significant decline in cigarette smoking in the U.S. The progress has slowed in recent years and the prevalence of use of other tobacco products such as vapes, e-cigars and smokeless tobacco
Smoking is injurious to health and a preventable cause of premature death. In the U.S.; it is estimated that one in each five adults smoke currently and about 480,000 people die prematurely from diseases caused by smoking or secondhand smoke exposure. (CDC tobacco use). The economic burden of tobacco use is also significant. About $100 billion per year is spent in medical expenses and another $100 billion per year in lost productivity. There is no safe level of smoking
Tobacco use is the largest preventable cause of death and disease in the United States. No matter what the degree of smoking, it will increase the risk of lung cancer, heart disease, and stroke, etc. In 2015, the smoking rate in the United States is 15.1%, which means 36.5 million Americans smoking currently. Cigarette smoking causes more than 480,000 deaths each year in the United States. And of these deaths, more than 41,000 were due to exposure to secondhand smoke. Secondhand smoke can cause the same health issue as smoking. Every year, the healthcare cost related to the smoking illness is more than $300 billion in the United States.
Smoking is the number one cause of preventable death in the United States. Nicotine addiction is a serious and expensive problem. Smokers have decreased productivity and on average make less than non-smokers. Smoking is lethal to the human body through heart disease, respiratory illness, and increased likelihood and mortality of cancer.
According to the Healthy People 2020, each year, approximately 480,000 Americans die from tobacco-related illnesses. Further, more than 16 million Americans suffer from at least one disease caused by smoking. (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2012). The effect of cigarette smoking is alarming. Use of tobacco in the form of smoking is not only dangerous to the one who is smoking but also to a non-smoker. Tobacco harms a human physically and mentally. Major cause of lung cancer is smoking. It is important to prevent the use of tobacco because it is the largest preventable cause of diseases and death in the United States. According to Chin, Hong, Gillen, Bates and Okechukwu (2012) Blue-collar workers smoke at higher rates than white-collar workers and
Smoking is one of the leading causes of mortality and morbidity. The exposure to tobacco smoking negatively impacts the health of an individual over time by increasing the risks of developing diseases of the respiratory and circulatory systems (Ministry of Health, 2005). In particular, smoking is the leading cause of lung cancer. With repeated exposure, inhalation of tobacco into the lungs causes a build up of tar, altering lung tissue (Cockerham, 2007; Marmot and Wilkinson, 2006). This direct use of tobacco accounts for the death of 5 million people around the world. In the United States, 444,000 deaths per year are attributed to smoking, were 13 years of life lost for a male smoker and 14.5 years lost for a female (Cockerham, 2007; WHO, 2012). In New Zealand, tobacco use is the main cause of preventable death, contributing to around 4600 deaths
Millions of people are smokers in the United States. “In 2011, an estimated 19.0% (43.8) million United States adults were current cigarette smokers” (“Cigarette Smoking in the”). This number does not include all the underage smokers that are unaccounted. Cigarette smoking has very serious and fatal side effects. Some of these side effects include asthma, cancer, diabetes, heart disease and stroke, COPD, and Buerger’s disease. Tobacco use is a preventable death sentence. Smokers are not only harming themselves but the people around them breathing the second-hand smoke. “Each year, about 46,000 nonsmokers in the United States die from heart disease caused by second-hand smoke” (“Cigarette Smoking in the”). This number is
Cigarettes are the most important substance to address in the United States because they are not only extremely addictive, but they have the potential to cause a variety of serious health conditions and affect individuals who are close to and care for the user. Tobacco use poses a serious health threat especially among the young population of America and has significant implications for the nation’s public and economic health in the future. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the impact of cigarette smoking on the economy is huge. Seventy-five percent of American health care money spent is due to the effects of tobacco causing various chronic diseases. Such diseases include, diabetes, heart disease, cancers, congenital defects, asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), stroke, birth defects, etc. “Cigarette smoking harms nearly every organ of the body, causes many diseases, and reduced the health of smokers in general” (CDC, 2015).
Tobacco addiction contributes to approximately 438,000 deaths in the United States each year2, with smoking cigarettes constituting one of the most common preventable causes of death, on report asserts3. Tobacco use kills five million people a year worldwide, another source stresses4. Quitting smoking, or at least reduction, for instance, could greatly reduce the occurrence of coronary heart disease and other forms of cardiovascular disease.1,5 These diseases that can be prevented or reduced include heart attack, stroke, high blood pressure, atherosclerosis, thrombosis, coronary artery spasm, and cardiac arrhythmia.1
First, to understand the issue of adult cigarette smoking in the U.S, we must investigate the causes and prevalence.
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.
Smoking cigarettes is the leading cause of death in the United States. Smoking causes cancer in so many people. Over 90% of all lung cancer in men and women are caused by smoking tobacco. Smoking causes more deaths each year than the following combined: Illegal drug use, alcohol use, HIV, motor vehicles, and many more. More than ten times as many US citizens have died from smoking than have died in wars fought by US in history. So, the real question is, “Why do people still smoke cigarettes, knowing that it can kill them?” Smoking cigarettes is the most devastating thing to damage people’s health. However, people still smoke cigarettes, knowing it can kill them for several reasons.
It is estimated that “one out of four high school seniors and one out of three young adults under age 26 are smokers”, which adds up to 42.1 million Americans who legally smoke (Smoking). This high amount does not include minors, or people who use tobacco products other than cigarettes and cigars. This number has decreased greatly since its peak in 1964, but the health effects are still prevalent today (Health). Lung cancer is one of the most infamous results of smoking, with 82.4% of all lung cancer cases attributing to smoking (Facts). “Of former smokers in the U.S., 1,154,000 have a cancer other than lung cancer from smoking” (Facts). This includes oral cancer, diagnosed especially among users of smokeless tobacco, usually associated with teeth loss and gum recession (Health). Other common illnesses that correlate with tobacco use include bronchitis, emphysema, and pneumonia, which cause 113,100 American deaths annually (Facts). The Secretary of Health and Human Services states “This year alone, nearly one-half million adults will still die prematurely because of smoking…and if we continue on our current trajectory, 5.6 million children alive today who are younger than 18 years of age will die prematurely” (Health). Imagine how many lives would be spared had the nation not succumbed to the addiction of
“Tobacco use remains the single largest preventable cause of death and disease in the United States (cdc.gov).” We cannot push this topic to the side and think it will change soon. This topic needs to be addressed now. People need to know the magnitude of tobacco and the effects it has on individuals and the influential effect it has on adolescents. “Tobacco use remains the single largest preventable cause of death and disease in the United States (cdc.gov).” Since there are two types of tobacco use, Smoking tobacco and non-smoking tobacco, smoking tobacco is the most commonly used substance of the two. “Cigarette smoking kills more than 480,000 Americans each year, with more than 41,000 of these deaths from exposure to secondhand smoke (cdc.gov).” A recent study in 2015 estimated that 36.5 million adults of the United States population were current cigarette smokers (cdc.gov).
Tobacco can cause nearly 6 millions deaths per year. If the current trends stay the same there will be nearly 8 million deaths per year by 2030. If smoking continues in Americans younger than 18, around 5.6 million of America’s youth are expected to die prematurely from smoking. Life expectancy for smokers is at 10 years shorter than for nonsmokers. Quitting smoking before the age of 40 reduces the risk of dying from smoking related disease by about 90 percent. The younger a person is when they start smoking, the more likely they are to smoke for longer and to die earlier than people who do not smoke. The difference between morality and rates for both current smokers or former smokers and never smokers measures the avoidable increase related to cigarette smoking exposure. The number of premature deaths is the product of this difference and corresponding number of current or former
Tobacco use is the leading cause of preventable illness and death in the United States. It causes many different diseases like cancer and lung disease etc. Each day more than 3,200 people under 18 smoke there first cigarette, and 2,100 youth and young adults become daily smokers. 9 to 10 smokers start before 18, and 98% start by the age of 26. From 1964 to 2014 the proportion of adults smokers declined from 42.0% to 18.0%. More than 20 million Americans have died because of smoking since 1964, including approximately 2.5 million deaths due to exposure to secondhand smoke. 5.6 million children alive today will die early from smoking. That is equal to 1 child out of every 13 alive in the US today. 18 million males over the age of 20 suffer from erectile dysfunction (ED). Smoking