Cigarette smoking kills nearly 430‚000 people every year‚ making it more lethal than car accidents and drug overdoses just to name a few. A smoker’s life expectancy is reduced by 15 to 25 years and is the single most preventable cause of death. With lung cancer being a primary result of cigarette smoking‚ there are also a wide array of other lung problems that occur as a result of smoking. Cigarettes contain 4000 chemicals‚ most of them are toxic. These ingredients affect everything from proper
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Effects of Smoking Cigarettes By Andrew Fowler 21% of American adults are current cigarette smokers‚ making the tobacco industry one of the largest industries in our country. With around 400‚000 smoking related deaths per year in the United States‚ it’s also incredibly deadly. Smoking can affect you negatively in many ways‚ both quickly and slowly. Causes of Smoking One of the biggest reasons people start smoking cigarettes is most likely peer pressure. Smokers typically start smoking around ages
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Cigarette Smoking and its Social Movement Tobacco is a product processed from the dried leaves of plants in the genus Nicotiana. Extracting from ingredients of some medicines and being used as a pesticide shows its strong hold on society. Its name is considered as any plant of the genus Nicotiana of the Solanaceae family‚ also known as the nightshade family. Tobacco is most commonly consumed as a drug. It is acknowledged as the product manufactured from the leaf used in cigars‚ cigarettes‚ snuff
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Smoking Cigarettes Smoking cigarettes is harmful for many reasons. It is not only harmful to the human body but also affects the environment. This is because of many chemicals and substances that produce this hazardous product. There are many causes of smoking cigarettes. First of all‚ teenagers smoke because they want to be fit‚ and avoid gaining weight as smoking sedate hunger. Them they see their friends smoke and think it makes them look cool‚ be independent‚ and feel no tension and worries
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Smoking is an expensive habit. People who smoke cigarettes can spend as much as $2‚500 a year on them. Smokers’ claim that it helps relax them and it releases stress but the negative aspects of smoking outweigh the positive. Smoking is a health hazard for smokers and non-smokers. Smokers should have the right to choose what to do with their own health but they should respect non-smokers. Many people believe that there are good and bad outcomes from smoking. I believe that smoking is bad and that
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‚ Speizer‚ F. E.‚ Ware‚ J. H.‚ & Dockery‚ D. W. (1996). Effects of Cigarette Smoking on Lung Function in Adolescent Boys and Girls. New England Journal of Medicine‚ 335(13)‚ 931-937. doi:10.1056/nejm199609263351304 A scholarly article named “Effects of Cigarette Smoking on Lung Function in Adolescent Boys and Girls” that is published by the “New England Journal of Medicine” investigates the relationship between cigarette smoking and lung function in both boys and girls between 10 to 18 years of age
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Angie Funes Prof. Cathy Cripps English 97 May 6‚ 2013 Smoking cigarettes should be illegal For a long time people have different concepts and point of view about smoking. Nowadays a lot of people think that smoking is good and helps them‚ but others think that should be banned. “The Believing we do something when we do nothing is the first illusion of tobacco.” (Ralph Waldo). The question is what is in a cigarette? A cigarette is made of a classic white paper‚ and when it burns it releases
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ENN103F Cigarette Smoking Should Be Banned Introduction It has become fashionable in the world today to condemn smoking. Smoking should be banned because it destroys people’s health‚ finances and families. Smoking has been shown to be dangerous to health of the people. Heart disease‚ bronchitis and lung cancer have all been linked. A further issue is that smoking costs governments millions of rands because of the large number of people who need treatment in hospitals for smoking related
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most parts of the world the media is filled with all kinds of smoking ads that persuade you to buy and try their product. By doing so‚ they try to make the ad look cool and appealing so that we don’t have to think about the bad side effects that smoking causes. Luckily‚ there are still ads that want to eliminate smoking. The rhetorical effects of this smoking advertisement is to stop people from smoking‚ mostly parents. Although smoking does affect your physical health‚ it can also harm your family
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Exploring the Relationship Between Cigarette Smoking Among Adolescents and Adults in the United States Cindy Tworek‚ MPH‚ MS Gary Giovino‚ PhD‚ MS Jun Yang‚ MD‚ PhD Melanie Wakefield‚ PhD K. Michael Cummings‚ PhD‚ MPH Frank Chaloupka‚ PhD April 2003 Research Paper Series‚ No. 26 ImpacTeen is part of the Bridging the Gap Initiative: Research Informing Practice for Healthy Youth Behavior‚ supported by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and administered by the University of Illinois
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