I. Introduction
A. Personal connection
1. Do you smoke? Uncomfortable marking “yes” at doctors or on school forms.
2. Nicotine
B. Dangers of smoking, fatalities
1. “Tobacco use is the leading preventable cause of death in the United States” (Tobacco-Related Mortality n.p.).
2. More than 440,000 deaths annually, 49,400 deaths per year from secondhand smoke exposure (Tobacco-Related Mortality n.p.).
C. Cancer & other illnesses
1. “Smoking causes cancer, heart disease, stroke, and lung diseases (including emphysema, bronchitis, and chronic airway obstruction)” (Fast Facts n.p.).
2. "People smoke to get the addictive drug, nicotine, but the drug alone does not cause cancer. The delivery system, a cigarette full of hundreds of toxic chemicals that
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E cigs have 9-450 times less cancer causing toxins than those found in cigarettes (Goniewicz n.p.).
2. Not exhaling smoke so there’s no secondhand smoke, secondhand vapor is not toxic
a. Study done using an electrostatic impactor measured the size of e cigarette vapor particles and compared it to those of cigarettes and hookah. E cigarettes were found to be .60 microns while others were .27 microns. E cigarette molecules cannot be absorbed through your lungs as easily. Also, the same chemicals are not in e cigarettes. (Bertholon n.p.).
b. Vapor tends to linger for about 11 seconds while cigarette smoke stays for 19 minutes (Bertholon n.p.).
3. E cigarettes reduce some adverse health effects caused by
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University of Alberta study- “The majority of respondents reported that their general health (91%), smoker’s cough (97%), ability to exercise (84%), and sense of smell (80%) and taste (73%) were better since using e cigarettes…” (Heavner n.p.).
B. Effectiveness
1. Studies show that e cigs are more efficient at helping people quit than other cessation methods
a. 75% of the study group of 304 people who were all smokers ages 18 and up had all tried different methods of quitting smoking that had failed. After the study 81% of the subjects found e cigs to be a permanent solution to smoking. (Heavner n.p.)
b. Another study conducted by the University of Catania found that after 6 months half of the participants were able to reduce cigarette smoking by at least half their normal use and 25% of participants were able to quit smoking completely. (Polosa n.p.)
2. E cigarettes are cheaper if done right
a. Simple math
i. Cigarettes in New York are ~$12 a pack, a pack a day smoker can spend up to $84 a week on cigarettes ii. Decent starter kit for $40 online with $15 worth of juice for a week (with heavy vaping). In a year a person can spend around $4,400 a year on cigarettes and only spend $850 on e
E-cigs are less harmful than regular cigarettes. They mimic the sensations of traditional cigarettes but do not burn or create tobacco smoke or ashes. Nor do they contain tar, the main cause of cancer in smokers”. e cigs bring lots of health advantages to smokers they are less harmful for smokers. For example, E-cigs can help regular smokers cut down on smoking cigarettes. Regular smokers can smoke spend less on cigarettes and incest in having an E-cig. Some might say they are cheaper than spending more than 20 dollars or more on three boxes of cigarettes. They think that is is beneficial for smoker who are having hard time trying to quit smoking and this could be an alternative for them instead having to quit. E-cigs have a tremendous untapped potential to positively change the lives of adult smokers of traditional cigarettes. They are more accessible to kids under 18 and they can be very dangerous if you don’t know how
Plus, cigarette smoke can stain clothes, make your eyes sting and even aggravate allergies, which is hazardous to the health of bystanders. Simply put, many people do not like it. On the other hand, e-cigarette vapor is very different from cigarette smoke in the sense that it only a very subtle scent that most bystanders cannot even detect. Also, the scent lasts for only a few seconds.
E-cigarettes are tubes with or without nicotine but no tobacco in them. They are used in 55% of cases to cut down on smoking and give up smoking entirely in 51% of cases 3
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.
Reuters, . (2014). Secondhand vapor from e-cigarettes contains nicotine but not other toxins: study. Retrieved from http://www.nydailynews.com
There is a new trend hitting the market known as e-cigarettes, or “vaping.” Many people believe that e-cigarettes are better than traditional cigarettes, but research shows just how unhealthy and harmful e-cigarettes are for everyone. The FDA has not yet decided if e-cigarettes should be regulated as tobacco products. E-cigarettes are marketed to help people quit smoking and live a healthier, nonsmoking life. E-cigarettes are meant to help break the habit of smoking, but why are there so many “toxic chemicals” (gilger) in the vapor?
Smoking is the most preventable cause of death in our society. During 1995, approximately 2.1 million people in developed countries died as a result of smoking. One tobacco use is responsible for nearly one in five deaths in the United States. Lung Cancer mortality are about 23 times higher for current male smokers and 13 times higher for current female smokers compared to a lifelong never-smoker.
Almost everyone knows the health risks involved with smoking tobacco. Electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) give habitual smokers the most promising results of tobacco reduction or cessation. There are some that disagree with the use of e-cigarettes however; the benefits are exceptional for those looking to quit this habit. It significantly lowers their health risks related with smoking tobacco and, unlike cigarettes, it does not release any harmful toxic chemical substances. E-cigarettes are also more cost efficient than buying a pack of cigarettes. Although there are some that oppose the use of the economical e-cigarettes, the advantages are greater because
People often turn to cigarettes to suppress hunger or relieve stress (Dichter). After a short period of time, a person can become addicted to the satisfaction they get from smoking a cigarette. Certain tobacco products contain toxins, carcinogens, and poisons that are all extremely harmful to the human body. 60 chemicals that are contained in a tobacco cigarette are cancer-causing agents (Wexner). It is these chemicals that make cigarettes, as well as other tobacco products, so addictive to their users.
There are over 7,000 chemicals present in tobacco smoke. Of those over 250 are deemed harmful, and of those 69 are cancer causing. Those cancer causing substances are called carcinogens (Nugel). It is clear that cancer and smoking can be linked. Smoking causes cancer of the lung esophagus, larynx, mouth,...
Smoking causes many other types of cancer, including cancers of the throat, mouth, nasal cavity, esophagus, stomach, pancreas, kidney, bladder, and cervix, and even leukemia has been found linked to smoking. Also, people who smoke are up to six times more likely to suffer a heart attack than nonsmokers, and the risk increases with the number of cigarettes smoked. Smoking also causes most cases of chronic obstructive lung disease. Also, approximately 49,400 deaths have been due to exposure to secondhand smoke. 3,000 nonsmoking adults die of diseases caused by exposure to second-hand smoke every year.
Tobacco use causes a number of diseases. Smoking causes cancer, heart disease, stroke, and causes lung diseases. Tobacco can lead to someone losing limbs and...
Everyone knows that cigarettes are horrible for your health and increase your risks of cancer. Not too long ago there was a big advertisement for e-cigarettes also known as vaping. It was advertised to be a healthier alternative and comparable to a nicotine patch to help you quit smoking. Many people began to question this new form of smoking and if it was really a safer alternative. Even though vaping is a safer alternative than smoking, vaping is not harmless because you are still getting nicotine, inhaling poison and risking a weaker immune system.
Lung cancer, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Heart Disease, Stroke, Asthma Reproductive Effects in Women, Premature, Low Birth-Weight Babies, Diabetes, Blindness, Cataracts and Age- Related Macular Degeneration, do any of those sound appealing? Well, that’s the cause of smoking. When you smoke you cut your life short by 10 years or even more then that, so that’s a question why are they so easy to access? Why is their substitutes but are as just a dangerous? Anywhere you look you will probably see someone you don't know or even someone you know smoking a cigarette, and most the time it’s because they are addicted to them. So what’s in cigarettes? Why are people not worried about the outcomes of smoking, because it’s just lighting up, right? It’s just let me smoke this one then that’s it, I will quit? Right?
In conclusion if you want to live long and not have to deal with the health risk that is involved, do not even think to start smoking a cigarette. I am on the wrong track and not healthy and after all of this research I just might quit smoking cigarettes. Staying smoke-free will give you a whole lot more of everything, more energy, better performance, better looks, more money in your pocket, and in the long run more life to live (Smoking).