What would happen if someone smoked just one cigarette? In just a few seconds, the nicotine would go to their brain and they would be on a nicotine high. The 4,000 chemicals in the cigarette that they take in would be in their system for up to eight hours. Once their dopamine levels drop back to normal, they will begin to crave another smoke, which is how so many people get hooked and addicted. After smoking that one cigarette, a streak of brown, sticky tar will be forever stuck inside his or her lungs (“One”). About 650 million currently living people will someday be killed by tobacco products (Horsfield), and although many smokers know that they are giving themselves a death sentence, they still choose to smoke the next cigarette, the next
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People have found many ways to use tobacco, such as smoking cigarettes, cigars, pipes, and chewing tobacco. No healthy forms of tobacco exist, so the use of any of these are just as bad as smoking a cigarette. Experts have recently found that tobacco can also be soaked in through a person’s skin. The legal age for working with tobacco used to be twelve years of age and older, but the many twelve-year-olds who had been working in tobacco fields had been unknowingly absorbing the nicotine through their skin from the tobacco leaves they had been picking. These children caught something called Green Tobacco Sickness, which occurs when someone soaks the nicotine from tobacco leaves into their skin. Green Tobacco Sickness causes children to get nauseas, and they will often get migraines. Since experts found that this could cause problems for these children later on in life, the legal age to work with tobacco is now sixteen and up. Although this helped some people with the problem, many experts say that sixteen is still much too young to be working on a tobacco farm (Wurth). Even if a sixteen-year-old girl looks like a young woman, she legally would still be considered a child, and children have no business working on tobacco
People have found many ways to use tobacco, such as smoking cigarettes, cigars, pipes, and chewing tobacco. No healthy forms of tobacco exist, so the use of any of these are just as bad as smoking a cigarette. Experts have recently found that tobacco can also be soaked in through a person’s skin. The legal age for working with tobacco used to be twelve years of age and older, but the many twelve-year-olds who had been working in tobacco fields had been unknowingly absorbing the nicotine through their skin from the tobacco leaves they had been picking. These children caught something called Green Tobacco Sickness, which occurs when someone soaks the nicotine from tobacco leaves into their skin. Green Tobacco Sickness causes children to get nauseas, and they will often get migraines. Since experts found that this could cause problems for these children later on in life, the legal age to work with tobacco is now sixteen and up. Although this helped some people with the problem, many experts say that sixteen is still much too young to be working on a tobacco farm (Wurth). Even if a sixteen-year-old girl looks like a young woman, she legally would still be considered a child, and children have no business working on tobacco