Your Lungs or Mines There are many reasons why individuals choose to smoke. Most smokers start from a young age trying to fit in with the crowd, trying to look older, or probably just experimenting.
As these individuals get older they try and deal with stress of every day life by smoking. It makes them feel more relaxed and at ease. Whatever the reason is, it is a hard habit to break once one starts. For many smokers today it is getting hard to find a place to smoke. I hear many comedians joke about going to another planet to smoke a cigarette. I really do not care where they go to smoke as long as it is not around me. Smoking is just as bad for nonsmokers as it is for smokers. The effects of second hand smoke or environmental …show more content…
On any tobacco product the surgeon general posts warnings of smoking and the effects that it has on women who smoke while pregnant. Pregnant women that smoke increase the risk of having pregnancy complications, premature births, low birth weights, still births, and infant deaths. They are also likely to have placental abruption. Taken from the 2004 Surgeon General report, Terry Martin, says is estimated that the risk for placental abruption among smokers range from 1.4 to 2.4 times that of nonsmokers (Martin). Even with the comprehension of the adverse health effects many women still continue to smoke while pregnant. Women who smoke are at a greater risk of getting ovarian cancer. On a study done over a decade, on over 100,000 Scandinavian women that were smokers and women that never smoked proved that the smokers were at a greater risk of getting ovarian cancer (Martin). Men smokers have the risk of impotence and infertility. Smoking cause the blood vessels to constrict causing less blood flow through the penis causing male …show more content…
The most dangerous are carbon monoxide, tar, nicotine, ammonia, and formaldehyde just to name a few. These compounds affect a nonsmoker in two ways. First, the side stream smoke enters the air. This comes from the burning end of the cigarette. Then, the smoker inhales or pulls from the non burning end of the cigarette. The mainstream smoke that is exhaled is what the nonsmoker is also exposed to. The smoker inhales and exhales approximately seven to nine times and the cigarette usually burns for eight to ten minutes. The smoker is killing themselves and everyone else around them with all these
As these individuals get older they try and deal with stress of every day life by smoking. It makes them feel more relaxed and at ease. Whatever the reason is, it is a hard habit to break once one starts. For many smokers today it is getting hard to find a place to smoke. I hear many comedians joke about going to another planet to smoke a cigarette. I really do not care where they go to smoke as long as it is not around me. Smoking is just as bad for nonsmokers as it is for smokers. The effects of second hand smoke or environmental …show more content…
On any tobacco product the surgeon general posts warnings of smoking and the effects that it has on women who smoke while pregnant. Pregnant women that smoke increase the risk of having pregnancy complications, premature births, low birth weights, still births, and infant deaths. They are also likely to have placental abruption. Taken from the 2004 Surgeon General report, Terry Martin, says is estimated that the risk for placental abruption among smokers range from 1.4 to 2.4 times that of nonsmokers (Martin). Even with the comprehension of the adverse health effects many women still continue to smoke while pregnant. Women who smoke are at a greater risk of getting ovarian cancer. On a study done over a decade, on over 100,000 Scandinavian women that were smokers and women that never smoked proved that the smokers were at a greater risk of getting ovarian cancer (Martin). Men smokers have the risk of impotence and infertility. Smoking cause the blood vessels to constrict causing less blood flow through the penis causing male …show more content…
The most dangerous are carbon monoxide, tar, nicotine, ammonia, and formaldehyde just to name a few. These compounds affect a nonsmoker in two ways. First, the side stream smoke enters the air. This comes from the burning end of the cigarette. Then, the smoker inhales or pulls from the non burning end of the cigarette. The mainstream smoke that is exhaled is what the nonsmoker is also exposed to. The smoker inhales and exhales approximately seven to nine times and the cigarette usually burns for eight to ten minutes. The smoker is killing themselves and everyone else around them with all these