Do you know that this innocent piece of tobacco lit between your index and middle finger is responsible for 1 in every 5 deaths? (Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention, 2012) While this cigarette might give you a sense of satisfaction at the moment, it is actually doing you more damage to your body’s future, lifestyle and those around you. Since your smoking habits are considered heavy and your health is of major concern, I have taken the time to explain the destructive effects of smoking on your body’s future, along with a possible treatment plan I wish you pursue to save yourself.
To start off with, the use of Tobacco possesses a huge threat to the cardiovascular system, giving rise to the numbers that make cardiovascular disease …show more content…
Unlike the effects of alcohol that are contained within the body of the drinker, tobacco smoking releases harmful chemicals into the surrounding atmosphere as a result of the continuous burning products at the tip of cigars along with the exhaled smoke by smokers. This seemingly innocent smoke has no risk-free level of exposure and also contains more than 7,000 chemicals, including hundreds that are toxic and 70 that can possibly cause cancer (American Cancer Society, 2010). As such, when surrounding non-smokers inhale this secondhand smoke, they become a target to the very same negative effects as smokers do, including malignant diseases such as lung cancer. In fact, according to a recent statistic published by the US Department of Health and Human Services, Secondhand smoke causes nearly “34,000 premature deaths from heart disease and 7,300 deaths from lung cancer each year in the U.S. among nonsmokers” (Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention, 2012). Thus, it can be seen that it is very advisable to quit smoking since you are not only destroying your body’s future but also that of
To start off with, the use of Tobacco possesses a huge threat to the cardiovascular system, giving rise to the numbers that make cardiovascular disease …show more content…
Unlike the effects of alcohol that are contained within the body of the drinker, tobacco smoking releases harmful chemicals into the surrounding atmosphere as a result of the continuous burning products at the tip of cigars along with the exhaled smoke by smokers. This seemingly innocent smoke has no risk-free level of exposure and also contains more than 7,000 chemicals, including hundreds that are toxic and 70 that can possibly cause cancer (American Cancer Society, 2010). As such, when surrounding non-smokers inhale this secondhand smoke, they become a target to the very same negative effects as smokers do, including malignant diseases such as lung cancer. In fact, according to a recent statistic published by the US Department of Health and Human Services, Secondhand smoke causes nearly “34,000 premature deaths from heart disease and 7,300 deaths from lung cancer each year in the U.S. among nonsmokers” (Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention, 2012). Thus, it can be seen that it is very advisable to quit smoking since you are not only destroying your body’s future but also that of