Dangers of Smoking Essay

Everyone knows at least one person who smokes cigarettes. If not, then everyone has inhaled the foul odor of the toxic smoke leaving the addicts body. With nearly 42.1 million people in the United States smoking cigarettes, this addiction has become a problem to say the least. “For decades, the public health community in the United States has asserted that cigarette smoking is the most deadly epidemic of modern times” (Verheij 1). According to the National Institute of Drug Abuse, every one in five million Americans will die from a cigarette smoking-caused illness. Why is this problem never addressed? Simply because victims of this addictions refuse to give up what they believe is vital to their lifestyle. Considering the clear addiction,…

Tobacco is the main ingredient in the cigarettes. The main thing that makes up tobacco is nicotine. Nicotine is the addictive drug inside of tobacco. According to “The Dangers of Smoking” article written by The American Medical Association Family Medical Guide, “[n]icotine, the substance in tobacco that makes smoking highly addictive, raises your heart rate, irritates the lining of your blood vessels, and promotes blood clotting, increasing your risk of heart attack and stroke” (2004.) Within…

Smoking Smoking is a practice that results in the smoke being absorbed by the body into the bloodstream that eventually reaches the human tissue. Smoking is very harmful, and almost affects every organ of the body. Smoking is responsible for lung cancer, among other types of cancers and health problems. Smoking was originally created in the early 5000BC. The main type and material for smoking is the cigarette, which contains tobacco. After that people developed another types of equipment and…

Smoking About 8.6 million people in United States smoke. We all know that smoking causes lung disease, heart disease and cancer. It is written on cigarette packs that “smoking is injurious to health”. But millions of people in United States and around the world still smoke. Why do people still smoke? A lot of people smoke because their friends also smoke. Some people smoke to relieve stress, while others smoke just to fit in, but all they are fitting into is cancer. Almost seventy…

If you’re a student enrolled at midlands tech then you should have something to say about how certain things are dealt with. You may have a problem with smoking, parking, and the most common is with the professors/instructors. I know everyone has had a big issue with one of these problems such as a teacher not being the best in giving you instructions or you having a problem with her/his teaching methods. Smoking on campus and me being a non-smoker I don’t want to have to keep walking thru that…

Good Morning to all of our viewers. This is a very important public service announcement regarding the risks and dangers of smoking. Almost everyone knows that smoking is a very dangerous behavior and a hazard to many aspects of our health, but what most people do not know is that smoking has many more risk factors than what meets the eye. The dangers of smoking affect people of all ages, but it is especially popular among younger adults. Not only does smoking harm almost every organ in the…

The Blunt Truth In today’s world you can go outside for a walk and you are bound to run into people who are smoking cigarettes, worst part is all those chemicals are burning off into the air we breath in which effects everyone around us. On the off chance that people have the capability to smoke chemicals that are terrible for the individual smoking, it additionally influences the world with the cigarette poisons being discharged onto the planet. Marijuana as well has many chemicals which…

the littered cigarette butts outside many of the buildings. Starting this year, Plymouth State is a smoke free campus, so we no longer have cigarette disposal bins. We plan to install clear disposal bins for cigarette butts to physically show people how much they are smoking and to make our campus a cleaner place. The goal of this initiative is not to support smoking on campus, but instead aid in the existing problem of the non biodegradable cigarette filters that litter our campus, while still…

Smoking Cigarettes Should be Outlawed There will always be discussion on whether or not smoking cigarettes should be illegal. There are an estimated forty million people living in the United States over the age of eighteen, whom are frequent smokers, regulations of smoking have been changed continuously to prevent access of cigarettes to the youth. Smokers put themselves and nonsmokers at risk of tobacco related diseases, so therefore smoking cigarettes should be against the law. Many…

you see a cop reviewing a case on a long night. Coffee by the scattered files and a still smoking ashtray, full of mostly half smoked cigarettes. Old cartoons show our heroes, and the occasional villain, smoking or using tobacco products. Subliminally these images are telling you “this…