Research Question What are the health risks of smoking habit really do to your body? Previous studies suggest that smokers minimize the personal health risk of smoking; smokers may not be aware of the various smoking-related disease risks or believe that they are susceptible to them. Smoking is a major health hazard. There is now an exhaustive body of evidence: including hundreds of epidemiological, experimental, pathological and clinical studies to demonstrate that smoking increases the smoker 's risk of death and illness from a wide variety of diseases. When the user inhales the smoke from the burning tobacco, nicotine immediately enters the lungs and quickly reaches the brain (The Health Consequences, 1982).
Review of Literature Cigarette smoking harms nearly every organ of the body, cause many diseases, and increases the health risks of smokers in general. Cigarette smoking is the leading preventable cause of death in the United States. People with a …show more content…
Furthermore, another important feature of the tobacco story is the remarkably successful marketing of the product to young adult consumers. Many cigarette advertisements focus on creating favorable images of smoking. The TV commercials about tobacco products did a great job using popular culture to attract everyone that follows mainstream society. Over many years, an array of skillful advertising and promotional tactics: the clever use of doctors, glamorous models, and humorous cartoon figures illustrates the ideal culture, or what society would like us to be. Although this product is part of a material culture, it is best illustrated as culturally universal which was smoking is common and accepted to all societies. Its legal status and an effective marketing strategy have served tobacco well and, until very recently, helped overshadow the negative health consequences of tobacco use (McMillan,
Review of Literature Cigarette smoking harms nearly every organ of the body, cause many diseases, and increases the health risks of smokers in general. Cigarette smoking is the leading preventable cause of death in the United States. People with a …show more content…
Furthermore, another important feature of the tobacco story is the remarkably successful marketing of the product to young adult consumers. Many cigarette advertisements focus on creating favorable images of smoking. The TV commercials about tobacco products did a great job using popular culture to attract everyone that follows mainstream society. Over many years, an array of skillful advertising and promotional tactics: the clever use of doctors, glamorous models, and humorous cartoon figures illustrates the ideal culture, or what society would like us to be. Although this product is part of a material culture, it is best illustrated as culturally universal which was smoking is common and accepted to all societies. Its legal status and an effective marketing strategy have served tobacco well and, until very recently, helped overshadow the negative health consequences of tobacco use (McMillan,