Essay 3
Moore Brooke
Professor Sharp
Composition I
5 November 2014
Essay #3
Approximately 443,000 people die prematurely from smoking or exposure to secondhand smoke each year. Smoking Harms nearly every organ of the body and causes many diseases and reduces the health of smokers in general. Smoking during pregnancy would be an example of the harmful risk factors, and not only harms the mother but also the child. Even though many people think that menthol and e-cigs are less harmful, they have the same harmful side effects. Secondhand smoke is also a major problem caused by cigarettes that many people don’t think about. Some of the many harmful effects of smoking include diseases such as, mouth cancer, lung disease, respiratory disease, cardiovascular disease, and secondhand smoke.
Smoking during pregnancy is not only harmful to the mother, but can also negatively affect the child. One of the most common effects the child can have from the mother smoking during her pregnancy is low birth weight, which causes the brain to under develop. When smoking during pregnancy, the toxic chemicals get into the bloodstream, the baby's only source of oxygen and nutrients. The nicotine and carbon monoxide work together to reduce the baby's supply of oxygen, making it feel like the baby is being forced to breathe out of a straw, the nicotine chokes off oxygen by narrowing blood vessels throughout the body, including the ones in the umbilical cord.
34,000 Americans are diagnosed with oral or pharyngeal cancer each year, and about 8,000 die annually. Most oral cancer cases occur when the patient is at least 40 years old and it affects more men than women. There is no detectable symptoms during the early stages of Oral cancer. Studies have indicated that a 40-per-day smoker has a risk five times great than a lifetime non-smoker of developing oral cancer. Oral cancer can cause non-healing soars in the mouth, bleeding, and lose of teeth. The treatments to get rid of this cancer all depend
Professor Sharp
Composition I
5 November 2014
Essay #3
Approximately 443,000 people die prematurely from smoking or exposure to secondhand smoke each year. Smoking Harms nearly every organ of the body and causes many diseases and reduces the health of smokers in general. Smoking during pregnancy would be an example of the harmful risk factors, and not only harms the mother but also the child. Even though many people think that menthol and e-cigs are less harmful, they have the same harmful side effects. Secondhand smoke is also a major problem caused by cigarettes that many people don’t think about. Some of the many harmful effects of smoking include diseases such as, mouth cancer, lung disease, respiratory disease, cardiovascular disease, and secondhand smoke.
Smoking during pregnancy is not only harmful to the mother, but can also negatively affect the child. One of the most common effects the child can have from the mother smoking during her pregnancy is low birth weight, which causes the brain to under develop. When smoking during pregnancy, the toxic chemicals get into the bloodstream, the baby's only source of oxygen and nutrients. The nicotine and carbon monoxide work together to reduce the baby's supply of oxygen, making it feel like the baby is being forced to breathe out of a straw, the nicotine chokes off oxygen by narrowing blood vessels throughout the body, including the ones in the umbilical cord.
34,000 Americans are diagnosed with oral or pharyngeal cancer each year, and about 8,000 die annually. Most oral cancer cases occur when the patient is at least 40 years old and it affects more men than women. There is no detectable symptoms during the early stages of Oral cancer. Studies have indicated that a 40-per-day smoker has a risk five times great than a lifetime non-smoker of developing oral cancer. Oral cancer can cause non-healing soars in the mouth, bleeding, and lose of teeth. The treatments to get rid of this cancer all depend