The Silent Killer Amador Medina Do you want to live longer? Smoking is responsible for a large number of deaths every year across the world. Cigarette smoking has been identified as the number one preventable death in the world. Smoking kills slowly. One cigarette contains about 4000 chemicals‚ 51 of which are carcinogenic‚ meaning the chemicals cause cancer. Smoking has many negative effects; it becomes addictive‚ it harms the body‚ and causes personal problems. Cigarettes contain many toxic chemicals
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Smoking- Good or Bad? Smoking is a very serious issue in today’s culture and life. Tobacco related diseases are some of the biggest killers in the world today and are cited as one of the biggest causes to premature death in industrial countries. Yet‚ it is a source of income for developing countries. So here the question arises “Smoking- Good or Bad?” Smoking may be seen as a negative thing to some but it does have some benefits. The sales of cigarettes are extremely profitable‚ at an average
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Why People Should Stop Smoking You’ve all heard of the dangerous effects of smoking‚ but have you heard all the facts? 8.6 million People in the U.S. have at least one serious illness caused by smoking. That means that for every person who dies of a smoking-related disease‚ there are 20 more people who suffer from at least one serious illness associated with smoking (General Smoking Facts). Smoking is one of the greatest causes of disease and chronic illnesses in the world‚ yet people continue
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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
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SMOKING ON CAMPUS Today‚ as in every other day of the year‚ more than 3‚000 adolescents in the United States will smoke their first cigarette on their way to becoming regular smokers as adults (NCI 1994). A number of students on campus are habitual smokers because smoking is addictive; furthermore‚ unless repressed‚ it leads to many health complications. The report by the National Cancer Institute on smoking declares that cigarette smoking in the United States clearly outweighs any other factor
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Effects Of Smoking On The Mammalian Gas Exchange During the First World War‚ a lot of men started smoking and more women started smoking too during the 1940s and 1950s. Years later‚ it became apparent that certain diseases‚ such as chronic bronchitis‚ emphysema and lung cancer became a lot more common. Cigarette smoke contains over 4000 different chemicals. Many of these are harmful‚ including tar (a mixture of chemicals including carcinogens‚ which cause cancer)‚ carbon monoxide and nicotine
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his crew members were introduced to smoking by the indigenous people who gave them the dried leaves as a present. “Tobacco [can] be chewed‚ drunk as tea‚ inhaled as powder (snuff)‚ inserted as a liquid enema and consumed as jelly‚ but it was smoking‚ the burning of the herb to produce smoke‚ that quickly became part of a priestly healing ritual‚ both to diagnose and cure illness‚ as well as to drive out the evil spirits that had supposedly caused it…smoking was a cure‚ but it soon became a passion”
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Did you know smoking is the leading cause of death in America? Has anyone you’ve known or loved been effected by smoking. Such as my grandpa dying when I was nine‚ mine has and I do not support it at all and here’s why. Health 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
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“Smoking kills. If you’re killed‚ you’ve lost a very important part of your life”. –Brooke Shields. Many people are already aware of the fact that smoking harms their body. Why do people continue to smoke then? Sometimes people have an addiction‚ or are not aware of the things that it can do to their body. Other times‚ they do not believe what people say about smoking‚ or do not think that these effects will happen to them. There are a lot of reasons why someone should not smoke. Some of them are
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a teenage girl with a cell phone. They both never leave anywhere without it. Smoking related diseases cause approximately 440‚ 000 American deaths each year. Each day‚ three thousand children smoke their first cigarette. It is killing people and polluting the earth which doesn’t serve a positive purpose in any way. It is something that millions around the world have taken up and are unable to stop. Smoking is such a bad habit and does not benefit anyone but tobacco companies. It is a
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