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It is the most common addiction throughout the world with 1.1 trillion people smoking currently, consisting about a third of the population over 15 years old. While nicotine is the addictive substance in the tobacco that causes addiction, tobacco will increase health risks of heart attack and vascular diseases. Nicotine dependency is a complex brain disease, and we need to start thinking of it as such. New ways of ingesting this substance have been created, that try to lure and appeal to demographic, particularly younger, to consume nicotine. Regardless of how many years someone has smoked, stopping at any point will valuable and improve your quality of life. Changing the public’s view on addiction is a subject of importance, so many of others can view this as a brain disease more than a personal decision. To fight this addiction, you have to rewire your behaviors in your brain and have a drive to overcome this horrific addiction. The brain can luckily keep changing and be trained to stop cravings with a multitude of different strategies. Anyone can be affected by addiction, we need start treating addicts with evidence-based practices rather than jailing them. Through more education and laws enforced, we can only hope that the number of tobacco users can decrease more and everyone can learn to live a healthier, full life without addiction and the painful diseases that derive from

Smoking. A controversial, mindless activity to do in our health-conscious society today. We judge the loner and their values as we walk past them, sitting outside the restaurant to have a ‘quick fag’ whilst their friends continue to enjoy one another’s company inside the safety walls of the ‘smoke-free zone’. It’s known as an addiction. Or is it a disease? A deadly addiction, perhaps? A loss of self-respect, one’s values, responsibility. A disgusting and immature habit, only conducted by those who we think lesser of. Why can’t they control themselves? What is seriously so great about the taste, the smell, the feel, of the silent and patient killer that is tobacco?

Ethics is the knowledge of right or wrong based on our own values and beliefs but can also include a decision made based on the lesser of two or more less desirable choices (Carper, 1978). Gold recognizes that smoking is bad for one’s health. She also understands that adolescents are still finding their own ways’; they will experiment with such things as smoking and sex. When it comes to something such as smoking, just telling them to “stop” or “don’t do it” is not necessarily going to produce the desired results. Educating them with the effects on their health and having them set their own limits may provide more positive results in this age group (Picard, 2000).

Smoking is a particularly common and intractable addictive disorder and is the leading preventable cause of many preventable chronic illnesses and death, responsible for approximately six million annual mortalities Yet, despite the well documented consequences of smoking, despite the unequivocal benefits of quitting and despite facts such as that approximately 17,000 people die each day in the world from smoking prematurely, over a billion people around the world still continue to smoke people continue to engage in this health risk behaviour(www.who.int). This leads us to question what motivates an individual to smoke, and not to smoke.

First and foremost, “Robert G’ offers a personal testimony to prove smoking nicotine can be harmful . Robert is currently a young 30-year-old man who works two jobs, has a GED, on his way to marriage, and an ex-convict. Robert has left his drug abused life in the past and has been clean for 6 years. Additionally, he has also spent 11 years in prison because of drug related activities. When asked how Robert started his long track of drug abuse he said, “it all started with smoking a simple cigarette, then it grew into trying out new drugs” (Robert G). Smoking nicotine is bad enough to create an unhealthy life style, but may lead others into trying new, and more dangerous drugs which can lead to time in prison, all because of the start of that lifestyle, beginning with “smoking a simple cigarette”. When Robert was asked if he regretted ever smoking he responded; “I regret ever trying smoking, it caused me to make unwise decisions which resulted in my loss of friends, family, and my teenager life” (Robert G).

For years, smoking cigarette has been a trending topic in media. When I was growing up my mother smoke Newport short cigarettes, and the smell was not pleasant. The cigarette smoke would stay in my clothes and hair. One day my mother decided to quit to smoking. I was beyond excited because I no longer had to smell like a walking cigarette waiting to be lit. Chance (2014) talks about how we witness stimulus control and discrimination in smokers, but do not realized it (p.335). Referring to the example in the book, my mother tried to smoke again. After not smoking for fifteen years, she seen a friend smoking and decided to try a cigarette. She stated that it made her feel sick and light headed. Therefore, she never picked up another

It is well-known that people with mental illnesses are more likely to smoke than those who are healthy. This is because cigarettes tend to help those people with the symptoms of the disorders they have, such as anxiety, depression, and low energy levels. Nicotine acts as a stimulant and increases heartbeat, blood pressure, alertness, central nervous system, and decreases appetite. All these effects, that this particular stimulant has, serve as a relief aid for the individual from his illness. However, this relief is only temporary, and in fact, research shows that smoking can actually be the cause of those psychological disorders. To what extent can this claim be concluded as truth and what should tobacco companies do about it? These are the

Some people feel that our society is moving toward regarding cigarette smoking as deviant. Before determining whether it is true or not, there is a need to define what is deviant. According to the Oxford dictionary (2008), deviant means “different from what most people consider to be normal and acceptable” (p. 547). What does it mean? To tell what is deviant and how to determine if an act is deviant, different scholars would use different approaches, for example: biological, psychological, and sociological. In this paper, I would like to focus on the sociological theories.

Thank you for responding to my post, the issue with why people still purchase cigarette even with the health risk that compliment smoking comes from the ingredient in cigarette (nicotine). However, people also smoke due to peer pressure and the marketing strategy employed by the tobacco companies in wooing its customers. For instance, "in advertising copy, benefits–which often have a psychological component–generally outsell features". Most tobacco companies know this hence they try to appeal to that segment of the demographic that need some form of psychological boost. Furthermore, the continued patronage of cigarette is due to people's need for self-esteem, "like they’re part of an exclusive group. That’s why advertising copy

With health behaviors you have to understand that when your making a decision it will never be an an independent decision with health behaviors what we do is always reflected on the next person actions and how we take advantage of how they did things , no person alive will ever make a decision that is independently made by them. The way we go about our laws in the world period is based around health behaviors ; health behaviors is environmental related. It flows around the influence of friends , family , schools , workplaces , media , and laws . For example when people choose to stop smoking marijuana or cigarettes to adapt to a better lifestyle is because in certain places weed illegal and weed transforms your brain in a certain way which you cant function well enough in some workplaces , and cigarettes can simply kill you so some people want to stop ahead of time because of what they’ve seen so therefore this make them want to change their lifestyle and live healthier so maybe they could not risk themselves of shortening their lives.

Everyone knows that smoking cigarettes or very bad for you. Since cigarettes contain nicotine, it is perceived that this is why they are addictive. While many argue whether nicotine is truly addictive the definition of the word is open to interpretation. The American Society of Addiction Medicine defines it as “a primary, chronic disease of brain reward, motivation, memory and related circuitry. Dysfunction in these circuits leads to characteristic biological, psychological, social and spiritual manifestations. This is reflected in an individual pathologically pursuing reward and/or relief by substance use and other behaviors” (Definition of Addiction,

In the novel A Picture of Dorian Gray, for instance, Oscar Wilde writes that “a cigarette is the perfect type of pleasure; it is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want? This is a sentiment shared by many today, in that, an accurate portrait or not, smoking can carry the implication of luxury and excess. Sartre, when asked what was the most important thing his life, flippantly replied: “I don’t know. To live. To smoke.” Cigarette itself bears no existential bond to its object of signification, and the consequence of smoking shares no factual resemblance to those fictional

Throughout human history, smoking has transpired, becoming extremely relevant in our society; especially during the 16th century, which saw an enormous boom in smoking due to the expeditious spread of the tobacco crop in the Americas. In modern society, scientists have proved there to be an abundance of harmful effects associated with smoking tobacco, but many people disregard the evidence and continue their habitual lifestyle of consuming nicotine. The film, Thank You for Smoking (2005), analyzes the concept of smoking cigarettes in modern society by eloquently refuting the negative stigma associated with them, while expressing the societal interpretation of freedom. Through my analysis of the film, I will assess the ethical issues of promoting cigarettes, the ethics of journalism, and the ethical values of freedom in society. Furthermore, I will assess the film based on the societal values of which influenced the film at the time of its creation, while also providing my position on the dilemma using personal commentary with the assistance of 4 supporting essays. Therefore, the ethical issues within Thank You for Smoking represent a global phenomenon which dwells from socioeconomic and political controversies, being deeply tantamount of the ideals within applied ethics.

Smoking cigarettes and chewing tobacco has become a very popular trend among many Americans and individuals throughout our society. Tobacco, however, dates back many centuries, since the early 1600's. In fact, tobacco was believed to have been the cure for all illnesses. Tobacco was used in those times strictly for medicinal purposes only. Overall tobacco has been proven not as a medicinal remedy, but as an addicting and extremely harmful stimulant. As stated in a book by Darryl S. Inaba, " Tobacco is a prime example of the addiction process. In fact eighty percent of cigarette smokers know tobacco causes cancer, yet they still smoke." (137) Throughout history, smoking has been associated with negative traits and has been heavily

Even though smokers do ‘choose’ to smoke, the size to which these choices can validate the effects of their own wellness. An analysis of the empirical literature reveals a diversity of components—such as targeted advertising, unequal dissemination of information about the health hazards of smoking and inequalities in smoking norms—that make the disadvantaged more likely to become smokers and less potential to stop successfully. The paper then considers a range of common tobacco control policies from the perspective of social justice. The social justice perspective developed here poses a challenge for policy-makers: on the one hand, social justice concerns strengthen the case for tobacco control policies because such policies disproportionately benefit the wellness of the disadvantaged. At the same time, all the same, we must be especially tender to any harms associated with such policies because such burdens, too, will come down largely on the disadvantaged.