Tobacco

The end of World War II brought rise to the tobacco industry and essentially introduced Americans to tobacco use. More predominately, Americans’ cigarette consumption was on a rapid incline. A significant amount of Americans were smoking, yet only about 40% knew the health risks of smoking cigarettes (Graham, 2012). Americans remained ill-informed until the 1960’s when healthcare professionals began shining a negative light on the health consequences of smoking. On January 11, 1964, the Surgeon…

Future: National Survey Results on Drug Use). It is obvious that tobacco and alcohol companies hire outstanding, top of the tier, marketing…

3.11 Quit Smoking Giving up smoking is easy. I’ve done it hundreds of times. – Mark Twain (1835 – 1910), the American humorist author, portrays how hard ‘quit smoking’ is. Tobacco kills prematurely half of its users. For any age group, smokers are likely to die twice the rate as to people who never smoked. You burn alive with your own fire. Researchers – studying over 220,000 adult Americans – found that cigarettes took an average of 10 years off the lives of smokers who never quit. Smoking…

people 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…

Introduction Smoking tobacco is very likely to harm your health. Tobacco contains a poisonous (toxic), colorless chemical called nicotine. Nicotine affects the brain and makes tobacco addictive. This change in the brain can make it hard to stop smoking. Tobacco also has other toxic chemicals that can hurt your body and raise your risk of many cancers. Almost everyone who uses tobacco starts in their teens. Teens who try tobacco even once are at risk for addiction. Most teens who use tobacco…

diploma (90%) and have access to health care (88%) (tpcdh.org, 2016). Unfortunately, there is an increase in percent of residents living below the Federal Poverty Level and a reported tobacco use that is higher than National and Washington State levels (tpcdh.org, 2016). How big is the problem? Nationally, tobacco use is the leading preventable cause of death, with more than 480,000 deaths…

Smoking Act of 1969 regulations on tobacco products were implemented. These regulations required a health warning to be put on cigarette packages and banned advertisement on broadcast media, and an annual report on the effects of smoking became a requirement (CDC [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention], 2012a). However, with all of the warnings of chronic…

For the genre revision I decided to make my MWA2 into a brochure. The reason I chose to remake the MWA2 is because it was clear to me that there are a lot of individuals who did not know that using an electronic cigarette and liquid nicotine can be poisonous. I saw this on the faces of my peers when I gave my presentation. Most of them looked intrigued because they had no clue it was possible to be poisoned through these devices. A few of my other peers were looking at me in disbelief. Not…

Cigarettes Should Be Illegal The drugs in cigarettes kill numerous people in the United States yearly. People know the dangers of a cigarette, but they continually smoke it. It can cause multiple cancers and smoking should not be taking lightly. There is no way you are getting healthful benefits from smoking. Smoking harms three things in the world with the drugs a cigarette contains, which are; the smoker harms themselves, they harm people around them due to second-hand smoke, and they hurt the…

Commit to Quit My poor habit started the second week of college when I bought my first pack of Marlboro Lights. Since then I have bought about 5 more packs. By April 29th, I wish to quit smoking. When most people preach about the dangers of smoking, they list facts such as “on average, smokers die 13 to 14 years earlier than nonsmokers” [3] and that smoking causes 480,000 deaths every year in America, [5] but they never tell you how much it affects your motivation. Before going to college, I…