Tobacco

within every society. The most common plant used for smoking is tobacco. The multi-billion dollar industry we know and despise today was not one born with the intent of hurting anyone. Over the years, numerous studies have been shown that smoking any kind of tobacco is incredibly harmful to ones body and is even made with known potent carcinogens, and also nicotine. Nicotine is the addictive drug found within cigarettes and other tobacco products. The main question being asked…

Many consumers that use e-cigarettes are using them as a way to end their smoking habits of tobacco products (Franck et al. 1945). E-cigarettes seem to be a growing trend in use among people that are trying to quit smoking. Therefore, e-cigarette companies are trying to target these people to help boost sales. However, many others are using e-cigarettes as a gateway into smoking, which may lead to tobacco or illegal drugs (CDPH 3). With this huge upward trend in e-cigarettes, this product is a…

Proposition 56 is a California ballot proposition on the November 8, 2016 ballot that would increase the cigarette tax by $2.00 per pack, with equivalent increase on other tobacco products and electronic cigarettes containing nicotine. We are in favor of this proposition to pass so it can help people. In a way of to stop them from,smoking so they won't end with damages in their body. Also helping little kids walk around with smelling the smell of cigarettes.And as well they won't be influenced…

It’s time to regulate E-Cigarettes David A. Kessler and Matthew L. Myers wrote an article on why E-cigarettes need to be regulated. Kessler and Myers purpose is to raise awareness about E-Cigarettes so that the readers will realize that E-Cigarettes may not be the best alternative to smoking and that the companies making them are trying to take advantage of kids. Kessler and Myers explain that E-Cigarettes don’t have a warning label on them and that very few people know what’s in it. The authors…

In 1865, cigarettes were created by Washington Duke on his 300-acre tobacco farm. Since then over 36 million people in the U.S. smoke cigarettes. This is a very startling fact, knowing what lies within these “death sticks”. In the 2010 commercial, created by ANPHA, my group chose for the project, the author uses heavy imagery to capture the audience's attention. Visuals of a test tube filling with smoke and a tar like substance bubbling up within the tube is portrayed within the 30 second ad.…

As society changes, cultural artifacts rotate and change with the opinions of the populace. In the mid-20th century, society was grasped once again by the cigarette, and the tobacco industry came back into power. This market famously expanded through use of sleek and deceptive advertisements which utilized some of the most famed people in the world at the time. Other companies took a different approach hoping to seize the market through advertising to young adults, the most famed of this was the…

The tobacco company all started with John Rolfe in 1611. He was born in 1585, in the united kingdom. When John was much older, he married and set out on a journey with his wife to jamestown but things took a quick turn his wife suddenly died and then they ship wrecked off the coast of the bermuda islands. After that he began on another voyage and started collecting tobacco seeds from places like south america and trinidad, which have made a successful amount of profit from selling tobacco. After…

Sugar kills more people every year than all drugs combined and yet we live today in a society where the highly addictive substance is commonly accepted and eaten in large quantities. The pharmaceutical drug negatively affects our physical, mental, and emotional health, is an addictive stimulant similar to cocaine, and is the culprit behind over 38 million deaths linked to sugar related disorders and diseases. So, what is sugar? It's the highly refined, isolated, concentrated, chemically…

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…

however nonsmokers are exposed to secondhand smoke. Cigarettes secondhand smokers contains a lot then 7,000 chemicals. Some are toxic and 70 can have side effect of cancer. Cigars compromise a lot of same toxins and causing cancer agents as smokers. Tobacco with cigarettes gives amount of secondhand smoke. Smoking is way worse and it has similarities of cigarettes such as hookah, and shisha. We should ban smokers because smokers have been increasing bad pollution and disease around many people.…