Cigarettes

INTRODUCTION 1.1 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…

find your five year old holding a cigarette to her mouth, inhaling, zipping and puffing. Strange? Can we blame the little child for aspiring to be like the grown-ups in her life? After all, children are expected to learn from us. Our children can hardly wait to be young adults to start smoking, risking their health to smoke. When our society allows smoking in homes and private smoking areas, what picture are we creating in the mind of our future generation? Cigarettes/tobacco smoking is…

Did you know that an estimate of 1.7 billion pounds of cigarette butts wind up as toxic trash each year? That’s only one of the many consequences caused by smoking in public. If people would quit smoking in public it would reduce litter, secondhand smoke, and thirdhand smoke. First of all, litter is a big problem already but cigarette butts just add to it. Cigarette butts are not biodegradable, which means they aren’t capable of being decomposed. According to www.no-smoke.org, smoke free beach…

(The Health Consequences, 1982). Review of Literature Cigarette smoking harms nearly every organ of the body, cause many diseases, and increases the health risks of smokers in general. Cigarette smoking is the leading preventable cause of death in the United States. People with a…

Electronic cigarettes are increasing in popularity, in particular with people who already smoke traditional cigarettes, some of whom are trying to use electronic cigarettes as a gateway to quitting smoking. Electronic cigarettes produce a water-based vapor instead of the combustible smoke produced by the tobacco in regular cigarettes. They contain a battery that heats a liquid containing nicotine, a variety of other chemicals, and sometimes propellants or flavorings, and changes this liquid into…

are tuning out traditional tobacco cigarettes and turning on to e-cigarettes. The product is also known by the name electronic cigarettes and vaporizer cigarettes. Here is a description. They are basically a device that looks quite similar to a traditional cigarette. However, the device is operated with a battery and works by vaporizing a non-nicotine solution. Studies show that the e-cigarette is an alternative for those that are hooked on regular tobacco cigarettes. In addition, there are a…

Americans smoked cigarettes in 1965 versus the 19 percent of adults who smoke tobacco cigarettes today. In the article “Smoke Signals” by Alessandra Potenza, the issue of electronic cigarettes is discussed. Electronic cigarettes, known as e-cigs, are becoming popular among youth and because they are unregulated, U.S. officials are worried. E-cigs are a new invention that are marketed towards today’s youth and currently are unregulated. First off, what are they? Electronic cigarettes are battery…

Logan stated “E-cigarettes are battery-operated devices that are designed to resemble traditional cigarettes.” E-cigarettes are so popular now in this generation. Teenagers at the young age get addicted to the nicotine not for the right reasons. These products such as Juuls and vapes are supposed to displace cigarettes and help smokers who want to quit but, they are doing just the opposite. This is relevant to the US/VA Government because the problem with E-cigarettes is they’re all around the…

electric cigarettes or “E-cigs” are more dangerous than traditional cigarettes, due to the little information known of the device, the safety concerns, and the fact that they are generally used by underage teens. Most believe that vaporizers were created and became popularized around 2003 but “Irfan Shiekh of the Mogul’s” invented the first true vaporizer. Around 1400 A.D. was when the Moguls of India introduced the hookah to the world. But, the recent boom in popularity for the electric…

he first Cochrane Review on this subject, published 17 December in the Cochrane Library, gives some early insights into electronic cigarettes as an aid to stopping smoking and reducing consumption. The review draws on two randomised trials and found that while nicotine containing electronic cigarettes were more effective than electronic cigarettes without nicotine (placebo) in helping smokers kick the habit, the results need to be confirmed by more studies. Smoking is a major global health…