Cause And Effect Of Smoking Essay

Sort By:
Page 4 of 50 - About 500 essays
  • Decent Essays

    Ever wonder what is Tobacco? What is it made of? How is it harmful? Smoking tobacco is the process of inhaling smoke, Smoking tobacco is inhaled through the mouth. Tobacco is a plant that grows in warm, tropical areas. Smoking tobacco originated around 5000 B.C. in the Peruvian Andes. On October 15, 1492, Christopher Columbus discovered tobacco. Christopher Columbus brought the tobacco leaves that were dried from the Indians, Indians gave Christopher Columbus the plant as a nice gesture and a thank

    • 1008 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Smoking Cigarettes Cigarettes are a lot like hamsters. Both are harmless until you put one in your month and light it on fire. Cigarette smoke contains more than 7,000 chemicals. 43 of those chemicals are known for causing cancer and 400 other toxins. In the United States, 20.8% of adults’ smoke cigarettes which is 45.3 million people. Smoking cigarettes is the leading cause of preventable disease and death. It is accountable for 1 of every 5 deaths in a year which is more than 480,000 deaths every

    • 1059 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    All around the world, cigarette smoking is becoming an important and serious issue as time goes on. According to the US Department of Health and Human Services, about 90% of adult smokers started smoking by the age of 18 in the United States which makes their health worse later in their lives (US Department of Health and Services). Some people who smoke a cigarette daily, smoking becomes their habit day by day which can be harmful for their lives. The World Health Organization stated that in the

    • 898 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    known to be very addictive and kills hundreds of people with diverse diseases each year. Whatever may draw a person to start smoking, there are numerous effects of those breathes. The use of tobacco, specifically smoking cigarettes, is found to have no benefits to human health or the environment. The unknown chemicals and ingredients will leave the consumer with lasting effects. When he kisses you, you blow in his mouth! According to Jack E. Henningfield, Ph.D. who studied at the Johns Hopkins University

    • 1726 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    existence. Even “doctors” suggested smoking cigarettes during the 1930s through 1950s. It was only after a long stretch of health concerns, bad habit forming, and proper public understanding did markets finally change to keep the problem only slightly more under control. Around 80% of quitters try cold turkey, suddenly stopping to use tobacco, without any help what so ever. Only a small 3-4% of them manage to pull off this feat. “Smoking stands as the number one cause of preventable death in the United

    • 847 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Smoking cigarettes is something that many people do all around the world and is a bad habit for many people who do it. Over “one thousand million” people all over the world smoke tobacco according to “Green facts”. Smoking is a habit that many companies and TV channels try to get people to stop doing since it is a dangerous habit. Cigarettes include many harmful substances such as acetone, arsenic which is found in rat poison, cadmium which is an “active component in battery acid” (information obtained

    • 998 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    stop smoking. I am against smoking, due to the health effects that come along with smoking. I am also against smoking to help the people who do not smoke keep away from second hand smoke, which can also cause smoke related health problems. Smoking effects your major organs, along with the people who are around smokers. When smokers quit there are immediate benefits, which is why there are alternatives to help smokers stop smoking, along with organizations that are helpful. Smoking effects the major

    • 977 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Good Essays

    Smoking in restaurants “One thousand Americans stop smoking everyday – by dying” said by anonymous. If smoking is killing people every day, why would we want someone to poison ourselves with deadly air? When we are in a restaurant and someone is smoking we are breathing the same air that they are. Even though their lips are on the cancer stick the same toxins they are breathing in is being released in the air around them. Without proper ventilation (open fresh air), the people around the light

    • 1108 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Cigarette smoking “There Is Nothing either Good or Bad, Hard or Easy, It’s How We Choose to Think That Makes It So.” ~ William Shakespeare~ Cigarettes are drugs that have a high risk of dangerous drugs that cause the disease to the body of smokers and people who live nearby. Currently, there are many more smokers are aware of the adverse effects of smoking. But the number of smokers is still increasing. Especially worrisome and continue to cause adverse effects in both polite society and the

    • 1282 Words
    • 6 Pages
    • 3 Works Cited
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    short and long term effects it has on their baby? The fact that this is becoming more accepted in today’s world to smoke while pregnant is completely unacceptable. The list of negative effects that smoking while pregnant have on the baby range from premature labor to brain defects. Clinical studies have proven the negative short and long term effects that smoking while pregnant can have on a baby. Smoking while pregnant should be illegal, due to the amount of negative effects it has on the baby.

    • 893 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Decent Essays