Vanessa Campas
Professor Kraft
English 102
3 May 2013
Deadly Pleasure Anxiety, mood swings, depression, and fatigue are a few of the inevitable side effects that smokers who are attempting to quit, will have during their nicotine withdrawal. My father who was a smoker by the age of 14, went through this process when he was at the age of 27 because he did not want his smoking to affect him or his children. Despite him smoking for 13 years, it still has a minor affect on him to this day, for he at times has slight chest pains due to heavy coughing. One may not realize the huge consequences smoking has on their body at first, but in due time, it will begin showing in any possible way such as in teeth decay, lung problems, weight loss, etc. Several …show more content…
Not only that, according to the CDC's fact sheets, they state that, there are 443,000 deaths annually due to tobacco use, including deaths from secondhand smoke. For many years, tobacco use has been constantly killing thousands of people and its production continues to expand. Cigarettes are not only affecting those who smoke, but even those who do not, due to secondhand smoke. Despite someone not wanting to be near the toxins of a cigarette, they can rarely avoid them because they are in the air. This drug has taken the lives of many people, even innocent ones who did not wish to endure the …show more content…
Because the chemicals that have been put in cigarettes are so highly addictive, tobacco consumption has accelerated. More people have been wanting to buy cigarettes because they are addicted to them. According to Lowell Kleinman, M.D., and Deborah Messina-Kleinman, M.P.H., "There are more than 4,000 ingredients in a cigarette other than tobacco. Common additives include yeast, wine, caffeine, beeswax and chocolate." They also mention some ingredients that have been added to cigarettes as well such as, ammonia, a household cleaner, arsenic, used in rat poisons, butane which is gas used in liter fluid, carbon monoxide, a poisonous gas, and many more. Based on the article, Cigarettes: a complex cocktail of chemicals, it states that tobacco companies use techniques additive the, "Addition of ammonia compounds, which speed the delivery of nicotine to smokers by raising the alkalinity of tobacco smoke. These compounds also distort the measurement of tar in cigarettes, giving lower readings than would actually be inhaled by the smoker," and " Addition of chemicals, such as acetaldehyde and pyridine, that act to strengthen nicotine's impact on the brain and central nervous system”. Doing this, made tobacco users far more addicted than ever due to the help of ammonia to help spread the nicotine throughout a person's body, which made them want to smoke more. In the same article, it is
Professor Kraft
English 102
3 May 2013
Deadly Pleasure Anxiety, mood swings, depression, and fatigue are a few of the inevitable side effects that smokers who are attempting to quit, will have during their nicotine withdrawal. My father who was a smoker by the age of 14, went through this process when he was at the age of 27 because he did not want his smoking to affect him or his children. Despite him smoking for 13 years, it still has a minor affect on him to this day, for he at times has slight chest pains due to heavy coughing. One may not realize the huge consequences smoking has on their body at first, but in due time, it will begin showing in any possible way such as in teeth decay, lung problems, weight loss, etc. Several …show more content…
Not only that, according to the CDC's fact sheets, they state that, there are 443,000 deaths annually due to tobacco use, including deaths from secondhand smoke. For many years, tobacco use has been constantly killing thousands of people and its production continues to expand. Cigarettes are not only affecting those who smoke, but even those who do not, due to secondhand smoke. Despite someone not wanting to be near the toxins of a cigarette, they can rarely avoid them because they are in the air. This drug has taken the lives of many people, even innocent ones who did not wish to endure the …show more content…
Because the chemicals that have been put in cigarettes are so highly addictive, tobacco consumption has accelerated. More people have been wanting to buy cigarettes because they are addicted to them. According to Lowell Kleinman, M.D., and Deborah Messina-Kleinman, M.P.H., "There are more than 4,000 ingredients in a cigarette other than tobacco. Common additives include yeast, wine, caffeine, beeswax and chocolate." They also mention some ingredients that have been added to cigarettes as well such as, ammonia, a household cleaner, arsenic, used in rat poisons, butane which is gas used in liter fluid, carbon monoxide, a poisonous gas, and many more. Based on the article, Cigarettes: a complex cocktail of chemicals, it states that tobacco companies use techniques additive the, "Addition of ammonia compounds, which speed the delivery of nicotine to smokers by raising the alkalinity of tobacco smoke. These compounds also distort the measurement of tar in cigarettes, giving lower readings than would actually be inhaled by the smoker," and " Addition of chemicals, such as acetaldehyde and pyridine, that act to strengthen nicotine's impact on the brain and central nervous system”. Doing this, made tobacco users far more addicted than ever due to the help of ammonia to help spread the nicotine throughout a person's body, which made them want to smoke more. In the same article, it is