Smoking is one of the most preventable causes of death in our society. About one in five deaths in the US are results from using tobacco. About half all of smokers between of 35 and 69 die ahead of time and new smokers like teenagers replace them. Smokers could be losing an average of 20 to 25 years of their life. Sometimes, while I am around an adult that smokes, the smoking makes the house smell awful and affects my breathing and respiratory system. I have many reasons to why I think this. Smoking gives you cancer, shortens your life, and affects others around you and yourself just from one cigarette. Every time you smoke, it's like cutting 5 minutes of your life and never gives you your original looks back. About 430,000 people in the US die every year from smoking related problems. .
Smoking is an expensive habit. The average cost of a pack is $4.00 and the average smoker smokes a pack a day. In one year that's wasting about $1,460or more a year! The tobacco industry makes billions of dollars each year and they don't even care about your existence. All they want is your money and for to keep buying they"re product. The company adds nicotine, which is highly addictive. You can't stop buying the product and if you buy more cigarettes, the company earns more. The nicotine can raise your blood pressure, heart rate, and the oxygen demand for muscles, mainly in the heart. Second-hand smoke affects others as well as you.
Secondhand smoke comes from two places: smoke breathed out by the person who smokes, and smokes from the end of a burning cigarette. Secondhand smoke causes health effects, including cancer, breathing problems, and asthma. Secondhand smoke contains thousands of chemicals and 95 percent are poisons. Secondhand smoke is responsible for between 150,000 and 300,000 respiratory infections in infants and children under 18 months. About 37,000 non-smokers die each year because of it. A person who doesn't smoke and is married to a smoker has a 30% greater chance of getting lung cancer than the wife/husband of a nonsmoker.
In my opinion, I believe that smoking should be completely banned. ... Most people start smoking around the age of twelve to fourteen. ... To balance the number of people who start though; about 1,200 people die from smoking each day, which leads up to about 1,438,000 deaths from smoking a year. ... (Internet) Why is Smoking so bad for you? ... (Boughton) What are the risks of smoking? ...
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WELLNESS I - PRESENTATION Smoking is Hazardous to your Health 1.Statistics a.Cigarette smoking is the single most important preventable cause of illness and early death. ... ii.1/3, or 125,000, of all cancer deaths are attributable to smoking... (1)Several types of cancer are directly caused by smoking. ... While non-smoking 30 year olds can expect to reach the age of 82.7 years old. ... c.Some of the damage done by smoking, can be reversed once you've stopped, however, some can't. ...
SMOKING AND HEALTH Smoking is an addictive menace posing not only a health hazard for the smoker but also to people surrounding the smoker. ... Even if they quit smoking during pregnancy, about 40000 new babies would not die each year. ... This simple rule should be the basis of all policy on smoking in public area. ... Media Quit smoking training sessions be conducted for smokers. ... Quit smoking before it kills you and your near and dear ones....
How smoking affects women "We are losing too many of our mothers and daughters prematurely as a result of smoking." ... (Why quit smoking?) ... Because a lot of women believe that smoking can help them lose weight, they keep on smoking. ... I have asthma because of smoking. ... (Women and Smoking) Smoking during pregnancy is the most dangerous thing that women can do. ...
In parts of Europe, drinking and smoking are open to parental discretion, and these countries have less problems with drinking and smoking than here in America. Indeed, smoking can cause serious risks to one's health. ... With the legal smoking age set at any age, more negatives than positives are the result. A second age requirement law that has to do with cigarette smoking is the use of coupons. ... This shows how inconsistent laws on smoking are in this country. ...
SMOKING Smoking, is it a social issue or a health problem? Smoking has been almost a required social behavior through out the ages, but today the major issue is the health problem smoking causes to smokers and non-smokers. ... Another major social issue is second hand smoking. ... Flores 3 Smoking causes a great health risk to smokers and non-smokers. ... About 420,000 people die of smoking related cause per year. ...
My goal today is to not only inform you of the risks of smoking, but to persuade you to quit or to never try smoking. ... But its not just dropouts that are smoking, 10.9% of people with 16yrs or more of education are smoking. ... These kids will die from smoking because smoking is very unhealthy and each cigarette takes 7 minutes off your life. Smoking is one of the most leading causes of death. ... And although smoking is very very addictive, there are methods used to quit smoking for good. ...
Abstract Smoking strikes many college campuses around the country. ... Smoking Strikes College Students Smoking is a serious problem that affects millions of students in the United States. ... The horrible effects smoking has on one's body were soon discovered. ... Smoking also increases the risk of having a stroke by fifty percent. ... Cancer is the principal disease associated with smoking. ...
Recent studies on the number of deaths as a result of smoking confirmed that eight out of ten people affected with diseases affiliated with smoking were a cause of second hand smoke. Laws are in the process of being passed to make certain places completely non-smoking. ... Wont someone be unhappy no matter what the decision about banning smoking is? ... Also, bars must limit their smoking section to only 20% of the whole bar (OCAT). ... The majority seems to have a neutral attitude towards the new smoking laws. ...
