Essay on Tobacco

paper, I argue that tobacco use is harmful to an individual’s health and such individuals should stop smoking. Tobacco has been around for hundreds of years and humans have been smoking it since it had been discovered. Tobacco is a plant and the leaves are harvested and fermented creating what we know as tobacco. Tobacco can be used in many ways. It can be smoked, such as, through cigarettes, or pipes, chewed such as snuff dip, or snus, or it can be sniffed (Abuse). Tobacco use has many effects

on the shelves. People know the damage tobacco does to the body, and yet they still continue to smoke, chew, and sniff it. Cigarettes and tobacco products needs to be criminalized. Smoking is the number one cause of cancer in the United States. About 50 million people smoke cigarettes in the United States. Cigarettes are made up of dried tobacco leaves and other things to make up for the flavor. Scientists have found up to 3,000 compounds in tobacco and cigarette smoke. With the total 3,000

found fossilized tobacco that dated back to 2.5 million years ago to the Pleistocene era. Even though there has been nicotine found in some old world plants, in the remains of people, and as residue in pipes, there is no evidence of habitual use in ancient times. Chemical Composition Indigenous to North and South America, Australia, Southwest Africa, and the South Pacific, Nicotiana one of many species of the tobacco plant and is part of the nightshade family or Solanaceae. Tobacco is produced from

are involved in the tobacco. Various life-threaten disease, such as Cancer come from smoking. The government has implemented a wide range of ways to stop people from smoking these senseless chemicals to live a smoke-free life. Literature Review Tobacco crops are the most important grown crops by American farmers. (Tobacco, 2013) These crops are the most valuable to American society because they are sold as cigarettes, chewing tobacco and snuff (sniffed through the nose). Tobacco started in the middle

Preventable Death-Tobacco Use There are many forms of tobacco that are addictive such as cigarettes, cigars, and smokeless tobacco. If someone tried one of these forms of tobacco for the first time they could become addicted because of the high amounts of nicotine in each one. According to the Electronic Cigarette Consumer Reviews-2017 (2016), cigarettes contain anywhere from 8 to 20 mg of nicotine, and the amount of nicotine that is absorbed is less than 1 mg. According to the Mayo Clinic

A Critique of “A National Survey of Tobacco Cessation Programs for Youths” Introduction In “A National Survey of Tobacco Cessation Programs for Youths,” Curry et al¹ aimed to identify the prevalence and characteristics of youth tobacco cessation programs across the United States. The study design was cross-sectional and used a two-stage sampling technique: first selecting key informants in all United States counties with populations greater than 10,000, and then using snowball sampling to identify

A Brief History of Global Tobacco Use 19th Century Tobacco Roller - Cigar Maker 19th Century Tobacco Roller Tobacco is native to the Americas. The methods and purposes for use of the plant were as varied as the aboriginal cultures that used it. As Europeans began their exploration and expansion in the 16th and 17th centuries, tobacco use was rapidly adopted and integrated into their own cultures. Predominantly, the method that Europeans first encountered was how its use was popularized in their

Surgeon General Luther L. Terry endorsed the research findings of American pathologists that tobacco is an addictive substance ("50 Years of Tobacco Control"). Subsequently, Terry confirmed that nicotine contains addictive and harmful chemicals, and that continuous usage may lead to lung cancer, coronary heart disease, emphysema and bronchitis in users of the delivery devices, like cigarettes ("50 Years of Tobacco Control"). Moreover, this endorsement dominated newspaper headlines and television newscasts

packaging of new mass produced cigarettes. The tobacco industries salesmen worked hard to convert the japanese to American brands. Undeterred by the language barrier, the cigarettes packaging and products spoke for themselves. Thibodeau and Martin (2000) stated that even though the Meiji government stopped the importing of cigarettes to protect from the British American Tobacco industry, they still continued to distribute a copycat version of BAT’s tobacco brand ‘John Player’. The Japanese version looked

cigarette contains over 70 thousand chemicals and seventy of them can cause cancer. I started off with a fact like this one because I believe it is an eye catching statement to attract the audience to keep on reading to figure out more the dangers of tobacco. After that I took my argument another direction stating how in today society, people are being peer pressured into doing things they don’t want to do such as drinking and