It can take just a few cigarettes that can have you addicted. With all the harmful elements in one cigarette just imagine what each puff does to you. My questions through my life is, what chemicals are actually in cigarettes, why are they so addicting, why keep purchasing cigarettes if they are very fatal, and lastly why do our country constantly let people buy cigarettes ? Did you know that every time you smoke a cigarette it is like working or babysitting a patient in the crazy house, you never know what each day will bring.
"Smoking is the most preventable cause of death in the United States. Almost one-third of deaths from coronary heart disease are attributable to smoking and secondhand smoke. Smoking is linked to about 90% of lung cancer
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Secondhand smoke is a severe health vulnerability for those who don't smoke, such as children. The people that do not smoke who have high blood pressure or high cholesterol have an even bigger threat of growing heart disease risk when they are wide-op Secondhand smoke is the combination of smoke from the burning end of a cigarette and the smoke breathed out by smokers.
The smoke that is released from the person that is smoking can cause frequent health situations in babies and children, plus more recurrent and undecorated asthma attacks, lung infections, ear infections, and sudden death. Smoking while being pregnant can cause over one thousand deaths of newborn babies yearly. Half of the health situations produced by secondhand smoking in adults contain coronary heart diseases, strokes, and even lung cancer.
If you have any pets than they could be at risk from the secondhand smoke as well. Pets spend more time than we do in the house. This is increasing their exposure to cancer-causing elements. The elements are very much as dangerous for pets as they are for
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Whether you know it or not, your heart attack risk will decrease within the first 24 hours after smoking your last cigarette. Even though you are not out of the water yet, you are just about halfway there. When you go 48 hours without smoking a cigarette, your nerves and senses will start back functioning properly, and your capability to scent and taste is boosted. You will be able to appreciate the finer things such as your grandmother's homemade peach cobbler that you once said didn't taste the same anymore.
In a three-day period, the nicotine that you have consumed will be absolutely out of your body. With that being said, that means that the indicators of nicotine extraction will mostly start around this time. You may experience some physical symptoms such as headaches, nausea, or cramps in addition to the emotional symptoms.
Your body is created by different structures that are important to your life existence. Caring for your body part is very important for upholding your health. Smoking cigarettes does not just harm you as being the smoker but it also harms the people around you. I believe that smoking should be forbidden from this country. Help lighten up the air for yourself and others by Stamping out Smoking. Think about the consequences for the future. As a child of a former smoker, cigarettes does more damage to your body than you can imagine, starting with your
Smoking can cause many lung and heart diseases as well as many forms of cancer.
...rough something known as a withdrawal; which can be very unpleasant and discouraging. A withdrawal is the event experienced when a person who has been regularly using a substance, suddenly stops. Withdrawing from nicotine has multiple symptoms that can be characterized as irritability, impatience, hostility, depression, and even a decreased heart rate. Within 3-4 hours a smoker can began to withdraw from lack of nicotine use. Almost all smokers ----want---- and probably try to stop smoking, but in most cases the craving for nicotine overcomes their will to quit. Truth is, it is so difficult for smokers to quit smoking, because they are addicted. If there was a ban on cigarettes or even a stricter regulation, it could discourage people from even trying a single cigarette. It could alleviate the inevitability of addiction and the dependence on cigarettes in general.
Smoking is not only had for the internal environment, it is also bad for the internal organs as well. Smoking can cause a number of diseases and reduce overall health in smokers (Center for Disease Control and Prevention). When an individual smokes, they increase their chances of getting cancer not only in the lungs, but other organs such as the bladder, mouth, stomach, liver, colon and rectum, to name a few (Center for Disease Control and Prevention). Smoking has also been known to cause leukemia. Every cigarette smoked affects breathing and causes scarring of the lungs (Be Tobacco Free). On the other hand, smoking increases a smoker’s chance of developing cardiovascular diseases due to smoking. They have a greater chance of developing hypertension (high blood pressure), strokes, heart attacks, aneurysms, etc. (American Heart Association). Chemicals in tobacco smoke harms blood cells and damages heart functions (Be Tobacco Free). On the contrary, a pregnant woman is at risk for harming not only herself, but her fetus before, during, and after birth (March of Dimes). When a woman smokes durin...
Smoking is the most preventable cause of death, but unfortunately it is responsible for nearly 1 in 5 deaths in the United States. The 1982 United States Surgeon General report states that “Cigarette smoking is the major single cause of cancer mortality [death]
As of 2002, more than 430,000 people every year die from use of tobacco- more than AIDS, alcohol, drugs, abuse, car accidents, murders, suicides, and fires COMBINED (“Cigarette Smoking” 2). Scary, isn't it? That even though cigarettes can cause that many deaths, people still smoke them? Cigarette smoking is a serious problem in the United States. Especially when it is done in public. Public smoking should be banned because it is a hazard to the people around.
Secondhand smoke is responsible for between 150,000 and 300,000 lower respiratory tract infections in infants and children under 18 months of age, resulting in between 7,500 and 15,000 hospitalizations each year. It also causes 430 sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) deaths in the U.S. annually.
Another thing that should be taken into consideration is secondhand smoke. Even though the smoking is not being done firsthand, there is still a big risk. Side effects of secondhand smoke are ear infections, colds, and damage to the lungs. And even though it is not definite that complications during pregnancy might not occur, the chance of putting a child at risk for the sake of smoking a cigarette should not be taken.
The EPA estimates that secondhand smoking is responsible for between 150,000 and 300,000 lower respitory infections in infants and children under 18 months of age yearly, which result in between 7,500 and 15,000 hospitalizations each year. Children exposed to secondhand smoke are also more likely to have reduced lung function and symptoms like coughing, excess phlegm, and wheezing. Secondhand smoking can lead to a buildup of fluid in the middle ear, the most common cause of hospitalized children for an operation.
One of the largest and most problematic health issues in our society is smoking. Smoking is currently the leading cause of death in our country, due to its harmful and addicting contents, such as nicotine and tobacco. Although millions die from it each year, smoking is the single most preventable cause of death as well. Without smoking, a tremendous amount of money and lives will be saved. I think that our country should ban smoking and the production of cigarettes in order to maintain a healthier nation, help save the environment, and prevent the almost 1000 deaths that they cause in fires each year.
Every year, there are over 400,000 smoking-related deaths in the United States. A large percentage of these are due to lung cancer, whose leading cause is smoking. However, not all deaths are smokers themselves. Anyone in the vicinity can fall victim to second hand smoke. These people, through no action of their own, can have their lives threatened.
Smoking can negatively affect your system in just a few days, and over time, smokers rarely think about the greater dangers, such as lung cancer, skin cancer, and birth defects. Although I don't smoke, I am still aware of these dangers and try to keep myself away from situations where I am surrounded by smoke. The majority of people don't know that breathing in second-hand smoke is actually worse than smoking a cigarette. People who are constantly surrounded by smokers in places such as bars and restaurants are affected by the smoke they breathe in. While people assume that inhaling smoke straight from the cigarette is worse than secondhand smoke, they forget that the smoker has a filter that holds back some of the toxins that people around them can easily breathe in.
has been found that second-hand smoke from cigarettes causes much harm. to non-smokers. Now after years of study, it is known that in America, Someone is more likely to die from second-hand smoke than from a car. gun or AID's. Cigarette smoke causes cancer, heart disease and it.
Smoking is not only bad for health it is also as bad for the people
The reason why tobacco companies use nicotine in their products is so they have reliable customers who literally need their product, this is a very interesting business strategy because there are not many industries where such a thing is legal. They also make their products cheap enough where lower class, less educated people can afford to buy a lot of cigarettes. And after 2 hours your blood pressure will decrease to almost normal levels. 3 weeks after you quit you will be able to exercise “without feeling winded and sick” (healthline.com).
It’s not that easy to quit smoking cigarettes, it can be very hard especially for many people who have been smoking for years. Many people are addicted to this drug because of the nicotine that’s in the tobacco, which is very addictive. Nicotine is the most common word that most smokers use and is there excuse why they can’t stop saying “it’s so addicting”. Like heroin or other addictive drugs, the body and mind quickly become so used to the nicotine in cigarettes that a person needs to have it just to feel normal (Smoking). Nicotine is the main addictive ingredient in a cigarette that activates synthesis of a chemical called dopamine in the brain (Naturstopp). This is just one of the chemicals that are in a cigarette, there are over 599 more chemicals that are in a cigarette. To name a few there is acetone, ammonia, tar, benzene, cadmium, hydrogen cyanide, carbon monoxide, and nitrogen oxides etc (Naturstopp). Some of these chemicals might not seem harmful, but it’s the burning of these chemicals that produce toxic and carcinogenic compounds more than 4000 of them (Naturstopp). Smoking cigarettes can be devastating; especially with each inhale you exhale.