Tobacco

Introduction: There is nothing-quite tobacco: it’s the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives with tobacco doesn’t deserve to live. By, Moliere. Every day, approximately 3,450 teens in the U.S. try their first cigarette. About 25% will become daily smokers. I picked this topic, because my older sister and brother chew tobacco and I want to know what it does to them. Body 1 Why are kids trying their first cigarette? Kids can get asthma from smoking cigarettes. Asthma is a chronic disease…

currently living people will someday be killed by tobacco products (Horsfield), and although many smokers know that they are giving themselves a death sentence, they still choose to smoke the next cigarette, the next…

Even though smoking is detrimental to the health of everyone, tobacco companies continue to target the lives of teens and adults. There is much history, habits, and risks that come…

A Miraculous Plant The tobacco cigarette in its modern form is so ubiquitous, so seemingly organic, that it is hard to imagine a world without it. However, throughout the course of human existence, the tobacco plant was relatively unknown and unused. In fact, the tobacco plant, Nicotiana tabacum, was only indigenous to central and south America, and was initially harvested for ceremonial or medicinal practices(1). The earliest evidence for the use of tobacco in the Americas dates back to around…

A Mouth Full Tobacco is culture. While used by Native Americans for medicinal and spiritual purposes in its earliest known history, tobacco is now one of the most addictive and dangerous substances on the open market. In the last century this cash crop has become one of the world’s leading causes of cancer, and come to kill hundreds of thousands of individuals every year. Tobacco culture has spread vastly and become a routine aspect in the lives of millions. Smokeless tobacco in particular has…

Smoking tobacco is one of the leading causes of lung cancer in our times. This was not always the case. More people used to chew tobacco. However, smoking a cigarette is very popular today. At the start of the 1900’s, “the cigarette became the major tobacco product made and sold... [selling] 3.5 billion cigarettes [in 1901]” (Randall, 1999). Smoking tobacco has turned into a big problem on a global scale. According to the World Health Organization, “[t]obacco kills around 6 million people each…

Smoking and other tobacco-like products have been a problem in the United States for many years. These products kill thousands of people every year and can cause respiratory problems, heart disease, and in some severe cases cause lung cancer. The question then becomes, what can be done to either reduce the amount of smokers in this country, or is it possible to stop smoking in the first place? While the latter is difficult to determine and in many cases impossible to stop people from smoking…

Introduction “Tobacco is the single greatest preventable cause of death in the world today” (WHO, 2009). This briefing paper proposes to control the use of smokeless tobacco (SLT) and its detrimental health outcomes in male Pakistani adolescent population. The suggested course of action with new initiatives and strategies previously proposed in action plan will be further explicated and better implementation of existing policies will be emphasized upon. These new initiatives includes,…

campuses have comprehensive tobacco policies and 1130 are 100% tobacco free. This growing number can be attributed to support from academic community and growing social norm supporting smoke free environment (Americans for Non Smoker’s Rights). In NYS Tobacco free initiative, smoke free policy is defined as no smoking anywhere on the campus where as tobacco-free policy prohibits all forms of tobacco anywhere on the campuses including e-cigarettes. Implementation of tobacco-free policy can be…

The Seriousness of Tobacco The use of tobacco has been a common practice among Americans and people all over the world. Smoking tobacco was extremely popular during the early parts of the 20th century. It was so common that soldiers would often receive cigarettes as part of their ration in World War II. People did not understand the negative effects of cigarettes until the 1980s. The use of tobacco products, smoking and non smoking, have slowly declined since that time, but doctors keep finding…