Every year, 430,000 people (that’s 1200 people a day!) die in the United States die from tobacco related diseases. That is more than drugs, alcohol, automobile crashes, firearms, homicide, and suicide combined! Despite all the gain in knowledge that has been made over the last couple of decades about the harmful effects of tobacco, there are still thousands of people who start using tobacco products everyday! Obviously, the most damaging effect of tobacco products is the health risk. But that is not the only downfall of them; there is also all the money you pour into purchasing them after you are addicted; the money that Big Tobacco uses to hook more and more people everyday! Not to mention the image that it gives you in the public eye. News flash: It’s NOT cool!
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Along with health care problems go the thousands of dollars that must be paid for medical bills. Getting a cancerous tumor removed and being treated with radiation for cancers that have grown beyond the extent of being able to be removed is not cheap. Not to mention the numerous payments for trips to the doctor’s office that smokers often make because their immune systems aren’t up to par. Doctor bills aren’t the only way that a person that uses tobacco products gets drained of money, though. Due to the nicotine in cigarettes, they are more addictive than alcohol, cocaine, and heroin. Once a person is hooked, it’s very hard to quit. The average smoker in America spends $1,500 a year on cigarettes. And with this money, Big Tobacco is developing more and more ways to target youth, the most impressionable age group, and keep their business growing by hundreds of
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