Smoking Can Be Dangerous

Effect of Smoking

Done By : Jelaine Pak Chen Yee
Premanan Sasu Antony
Tauseef

Smoking can be considered as one of the most dangerous habits in an

individual. Statistics shows every year hundreds of thousands of people around

the world die cause by cigarettes. Besides that, statistics also shows that about 9

out of 10 tobacco users start before they’re 18 years old. Most of the smokers

died at middle age due to their smoking habit. They are effects on smoking such

as health diseases, addiction , and financial problems.

The chemicals in the cigarettes will effects the human body such as nicotine,

tar, and tobacco. These will effect the lungs, bronchi, and the heart in our human

body. Furthermore, smoking can cause lung cancer and also many other diseases

illness. Smoking causes death every year and about 42,800 people died from

smoking-related cancers. In addiction, smoking causes the fat deposits to narrow

in your body which results in blocking your blood vessels and which causes

heart attack. Therefore, smoking is very dangerous in every aspect of life. In

younger people, three out of four deaths from heart diseases are just due to

smoking. Therefore, smoking cigarettes will cause negative effects to our health

such as cancers and illness.

Next ,a smoker will get addictive to smoking. A smoking addiction means a

person has formed an uncontrollable dependence on cigarettes to the point

where stopping smoking would cause several emotional, mental, or physical

reactions. Nicotine that contain in the cigarettes will cause the person addicted

to smoking. Besides that, nicotine is also a psychoactive drug with stimulant

effects on the electrical activity of the brain. It also has calming effects, especially

at times of stress, as well as effects on hormonal and other system throughout

the body. By chances, there are about one in three smokers who don’t stop smoking eventually die. While also eventually quit smoking usually tries to two

or three times before they’re successful. But based on statistics, there are only

2.5 percent o smokers successfully quit each year. Therefore, the smokers will

easily get addicted to smoking cigarettes and its difficult for them to give up

smoking.

Finally, a smokers creates financial problems when he or she chooses to

buy cigarettes instead of necessities. Smokers do not keep track of how many

packs of cigarettes they buy. Therefore, they di not realize how much they spend

a year. According to, Tobaccocontrol.com, the average smoker spends $118 a

month on cigarettes. The total spent is $1416 a year or more. It also cost

Americans $50 billion dollars in medical care each year. Non-smokers don’t have

a chance of being hospitalized due to smoking-related illness, which saves them

more money. Smoking can also cause the average person to go bankrupt.

Smoker many times deal with psychological problems when dealing with

addiction to nicotine. Therefore, smoking will cause financial aid.

In a nutshell, smoking is a serious problem which faced by every country.

Tobacco-related diseases are some of the biggest killer in the world today and

Are cited as one of the biggest causes of premature death in industrialized

Countries. Governments should deter people from smoking with anti-smoking

campaigns in mass media stressing the harmful long-term effects of smoking.

Furthermore, citizens should support the anti smoking campaigns and students

should get further education on the negative effects of smoking.