British American Tobacco

All my life I’ve heard of the effects and problems that come from smoking, yet the government still allows people to do it. Smoking causes about 480,000 deaths in just the U.S each year. Smoking is a major problem in the world and it should be made illegal. There are countless reasons to make smoking illegal. Cigarettes greatly affect the people using them, effect more than just the people smoking them, and create lots of litter and pollution. Smoking greatly affects people and our environment…

Nick Naylor, from the movie “Thank You for Smoking”, written by Jason Reitman and Christopher Buckley is a lobbyist whose means of ‘mortgage’ is to promote the usage of cigarettes. The Yuppie-Nuremberg defence of saying he knows what he is doing is wrong but does it anyways to make money. The entire movie is dedicated to Nick talking on shows and giving interviews about how cigarettes are not destructive. Is Nick Naylor a bullshitter, or is he a brainstormer? The answer is obvious; Naylor is a…

electronic smokes come in a variety of flavors, you can bet that people have their own favorites, especially now that some big tobacco companies have decided to add electronic smokes to their line up. In fact, a Reuters article claims that in Japan, they are so popular that Philip Morris had to hold back its roll-out of e-cigarettes. If you'd like to try an alternative to smoking tobacco, here are three e-cigars that may just convince you to switch! First Some Facts Vaping is seen as a viable…

Cigarettes consist of many harmful chemicals. One of those chemicals is Nicotine which is a highly toxic substance that causes many respiratory diseases like respiratory muscle paralysis, it also negatively affects the central nervous system. Nevertheless, scientific researches proved that the concentration of Nicotine in cigarettes increased by 16% in the time period between 1998 and 2004 according to the Massachusetts department of public health. Since Nicotine is an addictive substance, this…

may not be known. Common causes include: • Viral, bacterial, or fungal infection. • Emotional stress. • Foods or chemicals that irritate the mouth. • Injury or physical irritation of the mouth. • Medicines. • Allergies. • Tobacco use. Less common causes include: • Skin disease. • A type of herpes virus infection (herpes simplex or herpes zoster).…

The Air We Breathe: Second-Hand Killer How many times have you walked down a street, sat in a park, or waited outside a restaurant and have been engulfed by a cloud of smoke? This is something non-smokers must endure in their daily lives. It is unreasonable for someone to just be subjected or to not give consent to breathing in the toxic fumes that are released when another person is smoking. This is known as passive smoking, which is the involuntary inhaling of smoke from someone else’s…

HOW DID I QUIT SMOKING? Quitting smoking is one of the most difficult and tough tasks I had assumed before when I was a chain smoker. Now that being done, it seems as there is nothing hard now to quit smoking. I had started the smoking for the pleasure and enjoyment with my friends and later realized that it would damage my personality. It gave me really tough time to quit smoking and my body was not fully prepared for it. However, today I strongly believe everything is possible in the world if…

Electronic Cigarettes Are Not a Safe Alternative to Tobacco Products The emergence of liquid nicotine and E-Cigarettes has piqued the interest of many. At first glance E-Cigarettes seem like a safe alternative to traditional tobacco products because there is no smoke, which has been linked to cancer and heart disease. However, most people are not aware of what exactly an electronic cigarette is and the effect of these products on the body. E-Cigarettes and liquid nicotine are not as safe as they…

problem is that most people do not know these facts. This is mainly because these products have only been around for about ten years. Everyone just assumes that the use of a vape pen basically has the same effects on the human body as traditional tobacco cigarettes;when the fact is that they have many benefits as opposed to traditional cigarettes. In the past few…

If smokers are having to leave the safety of the campus to smoke they are put at a higher risk to be assaulted, raped, or robbed. Most smokers who live in dorms are going to leave their room for a smoke before going to bed. Putting a student on the street in a rough neighborhood late at night, sets themselves up to be a victim of a crime. A student should not have to choose between their right to smoke and their safety. Banning smoking on a college campus is asking them to do this. Safety…