Causes and Effects of Smoking Essay

No Smoking in chain fast-food restaurant KFC and Pizza Hut enacted a no-smoking policy for all company-owned restaurants, parent company Yum Brands incorporated said on August 15th, 2005. Besides this, the company encouraged their other 4,200 KFC and 4,600 Pizza Hut franchised restaurant in the US to follow. (Louisville, KY and Dallas, TX, August 11, 2005) This announcement arouses people’s controversy. The harmful effects of active cigarette smoking on health have been long established. And the…

BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY Cigarette smoking is one of the growing concerns in public health worldwide, and in fact, it is considered one of the most preventable causes of death. On a global scale, the use and sale of substances such as alcohol and tobacco among youths is causing substantial levels of health-related problems and deaths. According to data released by the World Health Organization (WHO), more than 4 million deaths which are attributed to cigarette smoking and tobacco usage occur…

Which drug is better to use? Alcohol is legal but marijuana is not, how is that possible? Previous research states that marijuana causes more danger to one’s health. However, many people are starting to realize that the disadvantages of alcohol surpass the so called dangers of marijuana. In fact, according to Pew Research Center, about seven-in-ten (69%) of Americans believe alcohol is more harmful to a person’s health than marijuana (6 facts about Marijuana). Over twenty states around the…

tobacco. When I was younger the only thing I ever noticed was the smell of the smoke or the look of my granddad’s spit, but I never thought anything of it. Later on, my school would start the D.A.R.E. program, and I started to learn more about what smoking and chewing tobacco does to harm our bodies and those around us. Ever since then I have hated the idea of using tobacco. Even though it may seem like a big challenge, tobacco should be made illegal in the United States because it is addictive…

release, or just for pleasure, both teenagers and adults start using marijuana. While some people consider marijuana to be a destructive drug that can cause serious health problems or even death, others think it is an alternative way of curing diseases. Other people may just smoke it for satisfaction. Marijuana can have both positive and negative effects on a person. Marijuana is a product derived from a hemp plant named Cannabis…

lungs by smoking, but more slowly through the blood stream by nicotine patches or buccal and nasal routes (Kee, 2015). Furthermore, nicotine will increase heart rate, cardiac output, and blood pressure causing possible further complications to patients with heart problems. When comparing the different routes of nicotine administration for example, through lungs or absorption of the skin, nicotine does not cause many of the same hemodynamic effects when used in the form of NRT. Unlike smoking,…

products do more harm than good. Nowadays there are many people, of all ages use the vast amount of tobacco products. There are many different ways to use tobacco; chew, dip, snuff, cigarette and cigar smoking, and pipe smoking. Chew is in the form of a plug, usually flavored, for chewing instead of smoking. Dipping tobacco or referred to as moist snuff is finely ground or shredded smokeless tobacco that you put between the lip and the gum. Snuff is pulverized tobacco that is to be inhaled…

first began to be smoked in the 1860’s, no-one knew of the harmful effects that the constant daily smoking of them causes; that it is harmful to all and fatal to some. The earliest cigarette ads reveal this blissful ignorance in their simplicity and claims. In fact, the first large-scale cigarette ads concentrated largely on ease of use, flavor, and smoothness and even healthiness of use (Proctor 87). However, by the 1940’s smoking cigarettes had been linked to cancer and cigarette manufacturers…

Breastfeeding While Smoking Cannabis Each day it is spoken of, that marijuana (Cannabis) should be (made something permitted by law) in the United States. Many always talks about how it is very wrong and confusing to not have the drug (made something authorized by law) in the U.S.. However, after many have read about the effects of using marijuana for recreational use while breastfeeding, (making something permitted by law) such drug is no longer an option. Many effects of participating in such…

In the United States one of five deaths are caused by cigarette smoking each year. Smoking brings many health issues to your body because it is causing you to damage the airways you use to breathe. In just one cigarette, there is many chemicals in it that affect you. For example, nicotine is a chemical found in the cigarette. What Nicotine does to you is it causes you to be addicted to cigarettes. You will always have a constant desire to smoke a Cigarette because the nicotine is in your system.…