Smoking is an activity that has been around for many years for people to use and adapt into their lifestyle. It is a tool that many people use to help reduce the stresses of life and put them in a comfortable position that enables them to cope with the hectic lifestyle they are living. However, smoking has been scientifically proven to cause many types of cancer, the most common being lung cancer resulting in numerous deaths across the United States. According to BBC, "Smoking is a greater cause of death and disability than any single disease" (BBC, 2). Evidently, the benefits and drawbacks of smoking have been debated for many years, and only recently have some countries have placed a ban in public places such as Britain and the United …show more content…
It can stain your teeth and gums, resulting in yellow teeth and bad breath which can affect your social life. It can cause sexual problems for men by reducing the amount of sperm they can produce. It has also been proven that 'smoking causes aging of skin' (Buzzle 36), because the skin is deprived of blood. Pregnant women should not even try to smoke cigarettes during their 9 months because of the harm it could do to the baby and themselves. The affects of smoking on women and the child during pregnancy are as follows: high possibility of miscarriage, pregnancy complications and possible death of the baby. These are just a small variety of facts on smoking and how dangerous it can be, yet millions of people across the U.S choose to smoke anyways, without realizing the harm it can doing to their bodies. For secondhand smokers, the same principle applies. Don’t smoke and you will live a healthy lifestyle. I have personally seen many of my friends who hang around with their other friends that happen to smoke. When I confront them about the harm it is doing to them, they tend to ignore the advice I offer, so I let them be, hoping that one day they will realize that smoking harms more people than just the smoker themselves. It causes harm to the people around them and to the environment, increasing the pollution in our world. Former U.S vice-president Al Gore, believes that smoking is
Every time you smoke it is awful for your health and causes cancer, heart disease, and respiratory diseases. Cigarettes have at least 28 chemicals in these products that have been found to also cause cancer such as esophageal cancer, mouth cancer, and pancreatic cancer. Smoking also harms your appearance; it yellows your teeth and damages your skin. It makes people short of breath,
Not only does smoking affect the smokers but also the people besides them who are inhaling the secondhand smoke into their lungs. It can also affect the health of an unborn child if the mother is a nonsmoker who is exposed to second hand smoke has a high chance of having a baby with a low birth weight. Smoking during a pregnancy causes more risks to the mother and baby. There are a few potential health problems a baby can encounter if the mother is a smoker, which are low birth weight, birth defects, and sudden infant death syndrome (Pietrangelo). According to the American Lung Association, a cigarette contains about 600 ingredients and when it burns there are more than 7,000 chemicals being generated from the time of being ignited. The chemicals that are being generated are poisonous and at least 69 of them can cause some type of cancer. Nicotine is one of the ingredients in cigarettes and has the ability to reach your brain in seconds. It being a central nervous system stimulant, which will make a person feel more energized for some time but as the effect slowly decreases, the human body feels tired and wants more. Nicotine is addictive which is why it makes quitting very hard for some
yet it is one of the most dangerous things you can do to yourself. Many people
Some short-term effects when you’re smoking are the addiction (because of nicotine), bad breath, yellow teeth (because of tar), decreased lung capacity and increase the chance of getting asthma. The short-term effects of smoking aren’t deadly compared to the long-term effects that can lead to death. Heart disease/stroke, cancer(lung, throat, bladder), reproductive damage (odd sperm cells) and birth defects (miscarriages, premature births) are some long-term effects of smoking. Most people would think that more smokers die from cancer, but more smokers died from heart diseases than from cancer. Smoking is something that will make the user more possible for
Smoking affects your whole cardiovascular system, which is related to heart disease or greater risk of stroke. “When you inhale the nicotine, it causes your blood vessels to grow thicker and narrower. This makes your heart beat faster and blood pressure go up” (Pietrangelo). Smoking can make it harder for a woman to get pregnant and can affect her baby’s health before and after birth. Pietrangelo also states, “Both men and women who smoke may have difficulty achieving orgasm and are at greater risk of infertility. Smoking also has an effect on insulin, making it more likely that you’ll develop insulin resistance. That puts you at an increased risk of type two
When you breathe in cigarette smoke, which is full of cancer-causing substances the changes in the lung tissue begin almost instantly. Not only is smoking bad for you and people around you, but it also horrible for your future children. According to cancer.gov smoking makes it harder for a woman to get pregnant. A pregnant woman that smokes is at higher risk of miscarriage, and having her baby born too early and with an unusually low birth weight. A woman who smokes during or after pregnancy increases your child's risk of death from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. Also according to http://www.cancerresearchuk.org the main way that smoking causes cancer is by damaging our DNA, including important important genes that protect us against cancer. Many of the chemicals found in cigarettes have been shown to cause DNA damage. Smokers are also less able to handle poisonous chemicals than non-smokers that have healthy lungs and blood. Chemicals in cigarette smoke make it harder for smokers to remove poisonous chemicals, and can make their disease-fighting systems less effective too. It usually takes many years, or at least 20 years, for the DNA damage from smoking to cause
Smoking affects the population. People die everyday from smoking. One out of five deaths is caused by smoking. The U.S. is full of addicts. When you start smoking, it is nearly impossible to stop. Thousand of people start smoking in their teen years. People say they will stop. Most people never stop smoking and they smoke for the rest of their life. They eventually die of a smoke disease caused by smoking. There are only a few people from each generation that start smoking, say they will stop, and do stop. Those people are lucky they didn't get addicted. “Also, second hand smoke affects others, and pollutes the environment.” according to http://www.livestrong.com/article/207919-three-reasons-why-smoking-should-be-banned/. This smoking habit
Although smoking may seem cool and produce pleasure, terrible health problems may come from it. Smoking weakens the immune system and increases the chance of getting respiratory infections. The substances in a cigarette are detrimental to the immune system and the smoker is just asking for health problems. 90% of lung cancer cases in the world come from smoking because 69 chemicals in a cigarette cause lung cancer. Smoking causes many life or death complications and someone's health should never be put at risk. Another health from smoking that is just as serious as lung cancer is Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease which is a disease that causes wheezing, breath shortage, and chest tightness and the symptoms get worse and worse over time.
Smoking tobacco has been in existence for thousands of years. For most of its existence smoking has been acceptable, tolerable, and permitted in our mainstream society. In recent years, smoking tobacco has been under scrutiny. Smoking bans have been introduced to restrict smokers from smoking in public and private places. For example, restaurants, bars, hotels, parks, and beaches throughout the United States have established the bans against public smoking. I discovered this has significance as it affects society because smoking has been a staple for thousands of years and is now being questioned whether or not smoking should be permissible. As a non-smoker this affects me personally because of the health issues and death of my family
These days it seems like almost everyone smokes. Many people start smoking because they are stressed, or they conform to the people around them.(Healthliteracy) Teens start smoking often to look older or cool to their friends.(Healthliteracy) Even though most people know smoking is bad for you, they continue to smoke anyways. Smoking can increase your risk of multiple cancers, cause chronic coughing, bad breath, and stain your teeth. All of these risks are well known and wildly expressed by doctors and commercials on TV and on the radio.
It has become common knowledge that smoking is bad for people’s health, nonetheless people continue to smoke. To be honest, that is fine. If people want to endanger themselves by smoking then I wish them a swift and peaceful end (though most smokers die a slow and agonizing death). What is not acceptable is the effect that smoke has on non-smokers who have almost no way of getting away from smoke unless they want to stay in their house. Smokers affect everyone around them for the worse. Smoking should be restricted or banned from all public places because the health of non-smokers should not be jeopardized by secondhand smoke.
@In America there are few topics which the general public has both fought against and supported for an elongated period of time such as the one of smoking laws. Back in 1964 the first surgeon general’s report on the adverse effects of smoking was published (1). Only a year had passed since the reports was published when the first law was set in place, the (cigarette labeling and advertising act of 1965) was the first of many laws that would be passed over the last 60 years (1). By 1971 the surgeon general had proposed a federal ban in public places followed by a report in 1972 that talked about the effects of secondhand smoke (1). Arizona was the first state to restrict smoking in public places but was soon followed by Connecticut and Minnesota. A few years later in 1986 the surgeon general released a report which focused on the consequences of secondhand smoke the report claimed that secondhand smoke was the cause of lung cancer in healthy nonsmokers. That same year the national research council issued a report on health consequences of involuntary smoking, as a result the American’s for nonsmokers rights became a national group. By January of 2014, 28 states had enacted statewide bans on smoking in all public places, with a few exceptions such as bars or other such places but there are laws that prohibit smoking in all 50 states in one form or another. Currently the limitations of where one may smoke are not the only laws that have been set in place. Currently tobacco is
The effects of cigarette smoking can be horrifying. Smoking is dangerous not only to those who smoke, but to non-smokers and unborn children as well. Cigarette smoking is also physically and socially harming.
There are many arguments to advance a public smoking ban, most of which are centered around the health effects it has on the people around the smokers. The arguments presented from my research will more accurately reflect the impact smoking bans will have
Do you smell that? That foul scent mixed into the air. It’s killing you slowly inside, each time you take a breath of this putrid, polluted, dirty scent. You smell it too, the trillions of chemicals racing into your lungs. Now look around yourself, and you’ll see someone smoking on the bench beside you. Smoking is the number one avoidable causes of death. Therefore, smoking should be banned from all public areas. The ban from smoking in public will help to reduce the smokers intake of cigarettes/chemicals, cigarettes themselves are a danger to the earth, some may argue that this ban may damage the economy, and that smoking does not only effect the smoker himself/herself, it effects everyone around them, in many various