Effects of Smoking
Have you ever been in a car with your parents or anyone else who smokes cigarettes? I find myself in this situation often enough between my mother, Debbie, and my girlfriend’s mother, Cathie. Every time one of the smokers and I get in the car together there is a conflict that many persistent non-smokers have with smokers. The fight usually starts when a smoker lights a cigarette in the car, or any other enclosed area for that matter. The non-smoker tells the smoker that the cigarette is bothersome and the smoker replies, “but all the smoke goes out the window, look… I have it cracked.” This is very irritating to a non-smoker because we, I as a non-smoker, know that not all the smoke goes out the window, and what doesn’t go out the window goes in the our mouths and gives us problems. “A survey in South Australia found that nearly two thirds of smokers with children under 15 allowed smoking in their car” (www.quit.org). This is something that children of a younger age cannot address, so it is left up to the parent to decide whether or not to continue smoking with children in the car. Have you ever wondered exactly what this smoking is doing to both the smokers and the non-smokers? This is a query that has disturbed m
The two most frequent and fatal causes of death among smokers are cancer and heart disease, which are directly linked to smoking. Cancer may occur in people aged in there thirties, especially if they have smoked for about 15-20 years. Smoking has causes 73% of fatalities from coronary heart disease in smokers between the ages of 35-44 years. Before ages 75-84 years, the proportion of coronary heart disease deaths caused by smoking in current smokers falls to 14% (www.quit.org). In younger people the influence of smoking on heart disease and cancer is much greater. One would think that with such risk of these toxic effects smokers would quit immediately and potential smokers would give up the thought. On the contrary, smokers dismiss these effects, as they haven’t enough information, or sense, to conclude that this may happen to them. When I was in 5th grade I volunteered to help out at a nursing home mentoring people with Alzheimer’s disease. People with Alzheimer’s disease are still human and can’t help what they have contracted. They wear the same clothes, perform the same activities, and eat the same foods. Passing them on the street, one would probably not be able to tell that the person has Alzheimer’s. The only characteristic that separates them from living a normal life is helpless and forgetful. They depended on the nursing home for all the basic needs. They had to entrust their prescription to the nurses for fear that they would forget to take them. From one day to the next these patients would forget who I am, even though the day before I had played a game with them. If Alzheimer’s disease could be even remotely linked to smoking I would never risk it, for I have seen first-hand what Alzheimer’s can do and its not something I want for my future. There are two main factors that allow smoking to remain popular amongst the people. The fact that smokers don’t know enough about the effects and the fact that even when they do hear a small portion of the toxic effects, they dismiss them because its not enough of the pie to cause a change.
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Syndrome SIDS,
People Alzheimer’s,
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Journal Epidemiology,
Bubonic Plague,
heart disease,
alzheimer’s disease,
deaths children,
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children 18,
coronary heart disease,
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people alzheimer’s disease,
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