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    Informative Speech Title: Effects of Smoking Speaker: Kevon Jones, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University student Specific Purpose: To persuade the audience to avoid smoking Thesis Statement: Smoking has many dangerous effects on a smoker 's health and the health of those around them; it harms every organ in the body and leads to premature death. Introduction I. Attention getter: According to Tobacco-Free Kids, “about 400,000 people die from their own smoking each year, and about 50,000

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    The Effects of Smoking Smoking is a silent killer. Smoking is the process of breathing in smoke from burning cigarette, tobacco and weed, which goes into the lungs, bloodstream, and brain thereby causing serious damages to our health. Smoking does many dangerous things to the body of both smokers and nonsmokers that people are not aware of due to lack of education and social influence. Nonsmokers can also be affected just by inhaling the air filled with smoke from smokers. So even if I don’t smoke

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    Smoking is a habit of inhaling and exhaling the smoke of tobacco or a drug. Smoking cigarettes is the inhalation of the smoke of burned tobacco that may occur occasionally or habitually because of a physical addiction to some chemicals, primarily nicotine. It causes many different diseases such as acute myeloid leukemia, cataract, cervical cancer, kidney cancer, pancreatic cancer, pneumonia, periodontitis, stomach cancer etc. Tabaco like many other drugs contains over 60 known cancer-causing chemicals

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    The Effects of Smoking Tobacco Essay

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    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. Diseases caused by the effects of smoking or second hand smoke may lead to emphysema. To start, even after only a few years of smoking, one’s lungs could be affected for the rest of his/her

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    tobacco use is the number one cause of preventable death. Chronic cigarette smoking is associated with many adverse health effects and 70% of adult smokers started smoking when they were adolescents. The World Health Organization’s definition of adolescence is a period of development that corresponds to the period between the ages of 10 and 19 years. This age group is vulnerable to initiate risky behaviors such as cigarette smoking. According to the Surgeon General’s report in 2015 for preventing tobacco

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    the killing. Smoking is one of the greatest causes of disease and death worldwide due to the infinite amount of harsh, and injurious chemicals inhaled. There are more than 4000 chemicals in tobacco smoke, many of which are poisonous and a minimum of 60 of those chemicals are cancerous. When the tobacco smoke is exhaled, there is some tar that is placed in the lungs and the tiny hair

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    Bearing in mind the potentially devastating impact of tobacco smoking on the health of the population and the epidemic levels seen in Europe, this is a public health challenge and should be addressed as such. Evaluation of current evidences Ill health doesn’t happen by chance or through bad luck, but it is highly

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    Smoking We all know smoking is bad for us. But do you know exactly why? Smoking can lead to cancer and cancer can lead to death. That can put a big effect on a loved one. For the people that don’t smoke, smoking affects them as well. Smoking is killing society. Smoking is killing people slowly the ones who quick to light up a cigarette. Second-hand smoke affect society more than the person that’s puffing the cigarette. Smoking has people that don’t smoke kick out money for the ones who smoke. It

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    World-wide efforts have increased to alarm people of the danger in consuming tobacco products, both first hand and second hand. In recent years, reports have proven a decline in smoking. However, there are still millions of people that smoke in the United State of America. As a result, the effect of smoking has become a major health risk. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), tobacco use is the leading preventable cause of death, disease, and disability in the US

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    the nation’s less-educated people with a high school diploma equivalency diploma – the smoking statistic remains more than forty percent. People in rural areas are diagnosed with lung cancer at rates eighteen to twenty percent above those in the city. Lower class individuals smoke more and die more from cigarettes than other Americans (Wan, 2017). After many lawsuits and campaigns, many Americans have quit smoking saving millions of lives and leading to massive reduction in cancer. That statement does

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