Smoking

Smoking, AKA Deaths' Candy
Smoking is the leading cause of preventable death in the United States. Smoking cigarettes can do very fatal damages human health (Bender 17). There are over fifty ways of making life miserable through smoking due to illnesses, and more than twenty ways of killing a person ("Action on Smoking and Health" 1). The probability that someone who smokes will develop a major complication in their health is one hundred percent; no matter what, it will happen (Bender 33). Smoking cigarettes or any other drug is the major cause of lung cancer and cardiovascular diseases. These contributions can lead to other types of cancers, birth defects, and childhood respiratory illnesses (Bender 17-19). Along with these major health risks, smokers will loose an estimated twenty-one years of their life ("Action on Smoking and Health" 1). Anybody can be politically correct when they say that nothing but diseases come from smoking; there has been plenty of studies, experiments and test to prove that smoking leads not only to the diseases but the road to death. Making that statement, what good deed could smoking do in our society today?
Studies have shown that people who smoke are at greater risk of developing myocardial infection, recurring heart attacks, and sudden death from heart diseases than people who don't smoke. Smokers also put themselves in a very good position to have a stroke. Chances can be some what detected by the number of cigarettes smoked per day, but it is more likely in younger smokers because their hearts and other body organs are not fully developed yet (Bender 19-20).
All cases of lung cancer reported are almost always linked to people who smoke. This disease does equally affect both men and women. Still the same, lung cancer in women is steadily rising, while in men, it remains steadier. People who start smoking by the age of fifteen are four times more likely to develop lung cancer then a person who does not start smoking till the age... [continues]

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