Tobacco

How much life do you lose from smoking? You lose about 14.5 years of the average 78.8 which comes out to about 18.4% of the average life span. they have ingredients like Cadmium Benzene which are linked to some cancers. Even though it can be used as a medication, cigarettes should be illegal because there are many side effects to using the product and many toxic chemicals go into the product. Medicine would be the last thing you think when it comes to cigarettes ,but it is true that they have a…

Electronic Cigarettes have stormed the market flooding, smoke shops with all different types of e-cigarette devices and refilling liquids; subsequently, it has grown into a $3.5 billion industry. Unlike tobacco products containing nicotine, e-cigarettes are not regulated by the FDA. Due to the lack of suitable guidelines, this industry has been allowed free reign to sell, package, and manufacture these products as the companies see fit. These insufficient standards have become apparent in the…

Oral Cancer On average, 43,000 Americans are diagnosed with oral cancer per year. Of those 43,000, it will cause over 8,000 deaths. That is one person every hour of every day. This number is rising higher and higher not because it’s hard to discover or diagnose but the early stages of oral cancer are going unnoticed (“Oral Cancer Facts” 2014). More often than not, treatment is being sought out after it is too late. Understanding the causing factors of this disease and taking the proper…

electronic cigarettes. The first three months of this new law involved educating the public of the new law, and handing out warning instead of fines (Bussewitz). Another example includes two bills in California called SB 140 and SB 151. These anti-tobacco laws deem that anyone under the age of 21 cannot…

Cigarettes started to appear in America around 1865, but they didn’t become a big thing until 1885 when the first machine was made to mass produce cigarettes. (Meyer) Around WWI, production became a bigger demand in America. (Meyer) People didn’t see cigarette smoking as a bad thing. They actually thought it was beneficial until men who had smoked for a long time would start developing lung cancer. (Meyer) When people decided to quit smoking they would use nicotine patches or nicotine gum, these…

Throughout the years, public consciousness regarding smoking affects has escalated enormously. Currently the public acknowledges that smoking, in addition to, secondhand smoke is detrimental to society 's health. Thus directing us to the vulnerability of these consequences in workplaces, a developing concern for countless individuals who are demanding a healthy working environment. (Schmidt, H., 2013) Twenty-one states, have a policy of not hiring smokers, a practice opposed by 65% of Americans,…

But, for the most part, sin taxes on tobacco have had the desired effect. And tying revenue to a popular project is often the only way to gain political acceptance of proposals many see as unwelcome coddling from a nanny state. Philadelphia’s soda tax — or any tax levied only on sweetened drinks…

is an addiction and is difficult to stop, but it is also another well known fact that smoking has been the leading cause of many birth defects during and after pregnancy. This is why it is important to try and stop smoking all together. Smoking tobacco is often a habit that is very difficult to stop. In the past it has been the leading cause of many well known diseases and cancers. Smoking was first documented back in the 15th century, when the New World introduced it to Europe. (English…

Marcus Lee Cigarettes & the Environment As we all know cigarettes are a great danger to our health, what many people probably didn’t know is that it has a great effect on the environment also. Cigarettes are the number one item that turns up in waste and littered trash. They keep it pushed under the rug with the bad effects it causes on the environment due to the large gross of money the companies receive from people purchasing them. In this essay I will try and persuade my readers to put a…

high school there was always something out of the norm. One day I go into my health class thinking that it was going to be like any other day. Little did I know that our health teacher was going to go on a rant of the high school’s bad reputation of tobacco abuse? I’m not going to lie; it wasn’t a huge eye opener. If anything, the students took pride in it. At the time I was neutral, until my younger brother got caught smoking. My parents where devastated and I started to develop a repugnance…