Essay On Cigarette Smoking

Cigarette smoking is the number one cause of preventable disease and death worldwide. Smoking-related diseases claim more than 480,000 American lives each year. Smoking cost the U.S. at least $289 billion each year, including at least $150 billion in lost productivity and $130 billion in direct healthcare expenditures. Cigarette smoke contains more than 7,000 chemicals, at least 69 of which are known to cause cancer.
Smoking can lead to nicotine addiction. It changes your brain and it develops extra nicotine receptors to accommodate the large doses of nicotine from tobacco. When the brain stops getting the nicotine it’s used to, the result is withdrawal. It can cause you to be anxious, irritable, and have strong cravings for nicotine. It also effects your health by weakening your immune system, chronic cough, shortness of breath, taste and smell are also effected.
Smoking poses
The tobacco can cause gingivitis or periodontitis, these problems can lead to tooth decay, tooth loss, and bad breath. It also increases the risk of mouth. Throat, larynx, and esophagus cancer. Smoking also has an effect on insulin, making your more likely to develop type 2 diabetes. Your sexual and reproductive system also is affected. Men and women who smoke are at higher risk of infertility. It also makes women more likely to experience menopause and increases the risk of cervical cancer.
Smoking is also an expensive habit. In 2014 a packet of 20 cigarettes costs around $18.70. That means if you smoke a pack a day you will spend more than $5,000 a year just on cigarettes. After one week of not smoking, you will have around $147 extra in your pocket. Annually it costs the nation $333 billion per year in health-care expenses and lost productivity also.
In conclusion smoking is bad for your health and an expensive habit. Many health risks are associated with smoking. Including diabetes, mouth cancer, lung cancer, infertility, and