Around 43.8 million people smoke cigarettes, but that is just estimated in the United States. Just consider how many people smoke worldwide! Smoking cigarettes is an addictive problem people have all around the world. In my opinion, I think smoking cigarettes is a bad addictive habit. Probably many people that smoke do not know what it does to their bodies when they inhale the poisonous gases.
Smoking cigarettes is a dangerous, addictive habit so many people have. You may be thinking, “Why are cigarette so bad?” Smoking harms both heart and blood vessels. Cigarette smoke makes it easier to have activity of blood platelets, which cause your blood to clot. It also weakens the ability of blood vessels to contract and dilate to fix the blood flow. These adjustments help artery blockages, which can cause a serious stroke or heart attack. As smokers inhale, hot gases burn the inside of the airways and large particles get into the airways of the lungs. After a while the smoke disfigures the lungs and harms the cilia, which are many micro hairs that go along the lungs and keep it clean. This increases the smoker’s chance of getting bronchitis, influenza, and any other lung infection. The smoke damages little air sacs in the lungs, which can cause the smoker to develop emphysema; this is a serious lung disease.
The contents of these cigarettes are a big factor why smoking is such a dangerous habit. Tobacco smoke has more than 4,000 chemicals that include many carcinogens, substances that are known to help cause cancer. There are other chemicals in tobacco smoke that coat and dissolve the air ways of the lungs and mess with the blood and blood vessels regular function. Cigarette smoke also has carbon monoxide, a colorless and odorless ga...
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...turned 80. It really didn't hit me as much as it was happening because I was about 13 when this happened. It affected me more after the fact that it happened. Now that I’m older I wish I had spent more time with her since she was the grandparent I was most close to. I cried for about 3 months after she died because it hit me that she would never see me graduate, get married, or anything of that kind. I couldn’t get over that she was gone and I still think of her from time to time and how much I miss her. Smoking not only kills a person but it emotionally kills their families.
Not only does smoking kill a person, it also kills relationships, families, friends, and bonds. Smoking is not only a problem for the person doing it but for the people around them and their families. Smoking cigarettes isn't worth it. Life is a precious gift we have, don’t waste it by smoking
Before D.A.R.E., I was not mindful of the extensive damage cigarettes and other tobacco products cause. Cigarette smoke contains over 200 harmful chemicals, including rat poison. Because of nicotine, cigarettes are highly addictive. As a result, smoking is the leading preventable cause of death in the U.S. It causes over 400,000 deaths annually.
With smoking cigarettes, cancer can be developed through the lungs, mouth, nose, throat, larynx, trachea, esophagus, stomach, pancreas, kidneys, bladder, cervix, bone marrow, and blood. The most recent causes are lung cancer and cardiovascular disease/ respiratory disease which causes a stroke. These chemicals damage DNA which causes the cells to grow abnormally. It starts to affect the immune system which begins to kill the cells. The cells don’t function properly to maintain proper blood flow which in the end causes cancer. With higher heart rate and blood pressure, the platelets in the blood begin to stick together and form clots which causes amputation. Smoking cigarettes also causes diabetes and teeth/ gum disease. Smoking cigarettes causes eye problems and it affects vision. Smoking cigarettes affects infertility and impotence which causes pregnancy and newborn complications. It begins to affect the baby by becoming premature or having some sort of disease. Smoking cigarettes can change your entire physical
Cigarettes are a type of tobacco product which contain several hundred ingredients. Although the majority of these ingredients have not been proved to be harmful, the cigarette smoke which results from these ingredients burning have over four hundred toxins, about forty of which are carcinogenic. Three of the best known ingredients that cause negative side effects are nicotine, tar, and carbon monoxide. Nicotine is an addictive substance, which is lethal in large quantities. Tar causes a sticky buildup to form on the lungs, which reduce the elasticity that is necessary for the alveoli in the lungs to be able to be an effective respiratory surface. Carbon monoxide competes with oxygen to bind on hemoglobin in red blood cells, which makes it difficult for cellular respiration to occur. These are onl...
Cigarette is mainly made out of tobacco. Tobacco contains a massive amount of harmful substances such as carbon monoxide, acrolein, nicotine and much more. When people smoke, the chemicals enter their body. Also, the tobacco smoke releases so other people could receive chemicals if close the to the smoker. These harmful chemicals can cause many types of illnesses and diseases, and some of the diseases could often lead to death. Also, cigarette smoking is very addictive because the tobacco contains nicotine which makes the user addicted to smoking. Cigarette smoking is a currently worldwide problem and should be reduced everywhere because it is the number one killer in the world.
Smoking is a lifestyle, a habit, and a trend. Smoking has become a social activity among teens, connecting them through the craving of a smoke. Smoking is seen as seductive and cool in the media and movies which influences teenagers to smoke even more. The World Health Organization has stated that “Tobacco kills around 6 million people each year. More than 5 million of those deaths are the result of direct tobacco use while more than 600,000 are the result of non-smokers being exposed to second-hand smoke.” As of April 2016, only 7% of teenagers in the U.S. smoke, but it is said that tobacco use will kill 8 million people annually by 2030. 99% of adult smokers start in their years as teenagers. Smoking is an epidemic that has taken control of people’s lives since 1881 and the media since the early 1900s. Smoking currently kills about 440,000 people a year in the U.S. I feel that it is an issue because it is the #1 most preventable way to die, but people still continue to smoke because of how it looks and how they are perceived as a person if they do. The fact that people become addicted to a trend that will attribute to their death for the sake of being thought of as cooler, is a problem that needs to be addressed.
Every year cigarette smoking is responsible for 500,000 premature deaths (Nugel), you do not want to be just another statistic, do you? America’s first cash crop was tobacco. That means that tobacco has been around for a really long time. It was not until 1865, though, that cigarettes were sold commercially. They were sold to soldiers at the end of the Civil War (Dowshen). From then, cigarettes spread like wildfire, and it was not until 1964 that anyone made a stand about the negative effects of tobacco and cigarettes. People start smoking for all different reasons, some to fit in and some to “escape”. Regardless, it is a horrible habit. 3900 children will try their first cigarette today. Amongst adults who currently smoke, 68% of them began at age 18 or younger, and 85% at 21 or younger (American Lung Association). And of all those people, 70% say if they were given another chance they would never have picked up that first cigarette (Tobacco Free Maine). Smoking is responsible for 1 and 5 deaths in the united states, and is the number one preventable cause of death (NLH). Smoking burns and there is no doubt about that, but before one picks up that cigarette, understand the negative effects on not only oneself, but others affected by ones poor choices, like second-hand smoke. Because of smoking cigarettes, many types of cancer, decrease of life quality, and negative health effects have become all too common in the world today.
The small particles in cigarette smoke, including carcinogens, irritants, and corrosive chemicals, collect in the small air sacks in the lungs and damage them. When the small parts of the cigarette smoke are absorbed into the blood stream and carried to the other parts of the body, they include different diseases. There are many effects of cigarette smoking if you are actually a smoker.
Cigarette smoking is very harmful for both smoker, non- smokers and the environment. People who smoke in just show how inconsiderate they are towards others. Even the people who do not smoke in public places are selfish. They do not consider the affect smoking might have on them and how that will affect their family and the environment. Cigarettes cause hundreds of thousands of unnecessary deaths each year and that is why cigarettes need to be made illegal.
as being far from harmful. People that decide to follow this habit, don't grasp the actuality of it. is very dangerous to their health. As well, they have no idea that it is also threatening to the people around them, such as friends and family. Cigarettes, whether you smoke twenty a day or.
If people do not want to be those 400,000 people who die from lung cancer, pancreatic cancer, heart attack, and others, then they should stop smoking cigarettes or never smoke. Moreover, if people do not want their family members or friends die because of smoking air, they should stop smoking. Not only because of those reasons, if people refer to the expensive price of cigarettes and medicine, they should quit smoking because it is not worth it. It is never too late to improve smokers’ health by quitting cigarettes. Stop smoking can help people live longer and healthier. When smokers quit smoking, the rate of decline in lung function will
Cigarettes not only contain harmful substances, but they also can cause erectile damage. dysfunction in men and illnesses such as cancer and lung disease (http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=3009767). Cigarettes are full of substances that are harmful not only to the smoker, but also to those around him or her. Smoking not only harms the smoker, but also those around them. For years it had been thought that smoking only affected smokers and non-smokers were not at risk at all, but after years of research it.
“The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones” (Somerset Maugham). Almost everyone has good and bad habits, but the bad ones can lead to addictions. When it comes to tobacco addiction, it is a habit that leads to different diseases and causes death. Tobacco should be illegal. The American Lung Association states “There are approximately 600 ingredients in cigarettes” (What's in a Cigarette?
Smoking is not only bad for health it is also as bad for the people
The smoker also helps 500-1000 non smokers die each year from lung cancer and cardiovascular disease . Moreover, the person to the children developing asthma and allergies.
Smoking cigarettes is a very deadly addiction that, unfortunately, 42.1 million adults in the United States and 6.4 million children have. The reason why so many people get addicted to cigarettes because of nicotine. Medicinenet.com says that nicotine is “Made by the tobacco plant or produced synthetically. Nicotine has powerful pharmacologic effects (including increased heart rate, heart stroke volume, and oxygen consumption by the heart muscle), as well as powerful psychodynamic effects (such as euphoria, increased alertness, and a sense of relaxation). Nicotine is also powerfully addictive.”