...Smoking has been very popular throughout the years all over the world. It’s quite common to see people smoke cigarettes on the street and other nonpublic areas. Smoking has been seen in the movies, TV shows and so forth, from which we could see how commonly it is applied in human behavior and life habit. I wouldn’t be surprised if my dad or uncle smokes, and from what I’ve noticed, the population of women that smoke increases nowadays. So here comes the question, why do people smoke cigarettes? Don’t they know the consequences? What are the good reasons people choose to smoke or what are the disadvantages? Smoking as we have heard of, is judged as an unhealthy behavior that could lead to a lot of diseases and impairment of the health. There are a lot of associations and offices that actually help people quit cigarettes because they are bad for our health. It would harm our lungs, heart and immune system by using cigarettes too frequently. Smoking cigarettes could cause cancer, chronic respiratory diseases, aging, lung, heart, stomach, kidney, nose, bladder, mouth and so forth of the diseases that could be deadly and dangerous. As we learned before, tobacco is the largest cause of preventable death now and for the past in world. Even second-hand smoke could be detrimental. For the health part, smoke is definitely the most dangerous. Due to the nicotine and carbon monoxide it has in it that could actually kill a person if using too much of the amount accumulatively. Smoking usually...
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...Smoking is one of the habits that people don’t want to give up because of its addicted elements. A normal cigarette contains over 1000’s of chemicals which includes Tar, nicotine, carbon monoxide e.t.c. There are also other toxic elements in a cigarette which harms the people around a smoker. Different governments try to introduce new schemes every second year which sometimes affect a smoker in a positive and sometimes in a negative way. For example; putting a higher tax on cigarettes or introducing electric cigarettes. Some countries have also banned smoking inside buildings such as offices, shops, schools, bars and restaurants. In my opinion, this is a very good method to reduce the amount of smokers. Smoking ban will help many people to stop or cut down the amount of cigarettes they used to smoke. It will possibly help people stop smoking at work and will trim down the rate of smoking each year. It will also prevent young people from smoking in schools, at restaurants and perhaps will stop them from becoming a regular smoker. It will also keep the air clean and will not harm the non smokers and it also might stop people from buying cigarettes from corner shops which will affect their income and hopefully the shop owner will stop buying cigarettes from different companies. However, it doesn’t necessarily mean that it will immediately stop people from smoking. There’s also a possibility that bans on smoking in public places may lead to more smoking at home. This will also mean...
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...Smoking isn't good for someone's body. Especially, if that person has been smoking a pack of cigarette a day, and for a long period of time; but what are the physical effects of smoking on your body? The effects of smoking varies, and it will depend on a person's vulnerability to the chemical(be specific about these chemicals) in the cigarette or tobacco. It will also depend on the number of cigarette sticks a person smokes per day, the age when the person first started to smoke, and the number of years that the person has been smoking for. According to recent studies, every year hundreds of thousands of people around the globe die from medical complications caused by smoking. Aside from the stench it leaves on someone's clothes, breath, and hair,(I think this is a not a good argument) it also has other complications. Here are some of the different effects of smoking, it: * Raises a person's blood pressure and heart rate. * Decreases a person's blood flow to body extremities-like the fingers and toes. * It stimulates the brain and the nervous system for a short time and then reduce the stimulation. * Causes dizziness, nausea, watery eyes, and hyper acidity. * Weakens the sense of taste and smell. * Causes the loss of appetite. Other effects: * Shortness of breath. * Chronic coughing. * Reduced overall fitness(be specific). * Yellowish stain on the smoker's fingers and teeth. * Smokers experience more coughs and colds as compared to non-smokers...
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...Smoking Advertisements and Commercials For this assignment, I will be writing about anti-smoking advertisements and commercials that I see a lot on television while I am trying to watch the Big Bang Theory and sometimes banners on an Internet page. Lately, I have been noticing a lot of anti-smoking commercials from the CDC interviewing people whom have been smoking for a long time. People, whom are being interviewed, have serious health problems due to the effects of smoking. These ads will explain how the ex-smokers live their life’s differently because of the damage from smoking. Terrie Hall was the most well known person in these CDC commercials. Terrie started smoking when she was in high school, and now she is facing the consequences for doing it for so long. Terrie was working with the CDC to show not only to teens but also to adults what smoking did to her. Terrie’s condition with cancer was getting worst and she requested the CDC to interview her while on her deathbed to show that smoking took her life away. Terrie Hall died in September of last year. It has been said that the last commercial of Terrie made a big impact to society because the emotion appeal it delivered to the audience. The emotional appeal was evoking negative emotions like fear, guilt, sadness, and anger towards smoking. The audience might develop the fear of smoking, knowing what kind of damage it can do to someone’s body. Audiences might build up the emotion guilt for the current smokers. Audience...
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...Cigarette Smoking Be Banned In All Public Places Angie Leventis Lourgos and Jackie Bange discuss smoking being banned in bars in their article “Illinois smoking ban: Some bars give smokers a sanctuary.” Lourgos states that given the recent ban on cigarette smoking in bars that some of the bars are still letting the patrons smoke. The ban for smoking in bars and restaurants in Illinois has been in place since January 1, 2008. Lourgos and Bange went and talked to one bar owner Pat Carroll of the Crowbar Inc. Since the ban has taken place some bar owners like Carroll have ignored the law and continue to let the patrons smoke in their establishment for a small fee. The fee is not mandatory, but the patrons are willing to spend a little extra to light up. There is a jar called “the smoking fund,” that sits on the bar where smokers can donate money for fines the establishment ends up having to pay for letting them continue to smoke. “The public can lodge complaints against establishments that skirt the law triggering a site inspection. Violators face fines that can grow steeper with each infraction, starting at $250 for a business and $100 for an individual smoker” (Leventis Lourgas and Bange). The Crowbar has already received two fines totally $680.00. The main reason the Crowbar continues to let the patrons smoke inside is that he is afraid that they will end up going to other bars. Indiana which is only a few miles away from him does not have the smoking ban. One patron...
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...psychological habit. The nicotine from cigarettes provides a temporary, and addictive, high. Eliminating that regular fix of nicotine will cause your body to experience physical withdrawal symptoms and cravings. Because of nicotine’s “feel good” effect on the brain, you may also have become accustomed to smoking as a way of coping with stress, depression, anxiety, or even boredom. At the same time, the act of smoking is ingrained as a daily ritual. It may be an automatic response for you to smoke a cigarette with your morning coffee, while taking a break from work or school, or during your commute home at the end of a long day. Perhaps friends, family members, and colleagues smoke, and it has become part of the way you relate with them. To successfully quit smoking, you’ll need to address both the addiction and the habits and routines that go along with it. Your Personal Stop Smoking Plan While some smokers successfully quit by going cold turkey, most people do better with a plan to keep themselves on track. A good plan addresses both the short–term challenge of quitting smoking and the long–term challenge of preventing relapse. It should also be tailored to your specific needs and smoking habits. Questions to ask yourself Take the time to think of what kind of smoker you are, which moments of your life call for a cigarette, and why. This will help you to identify which tips, techniques or therapies may be most beneficial for you. Do you feel the need to smoke at every...
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...Neh-Bih Sangbong Professor Kronstadt English 102 4 April 2015 Ban On Smoking in Public Places Ban On Smoking In Public Places Smoking has been a very controversial topic in recent years. A lot of people smoke everywhere, including in public places. Smoking in public places is frowned upon because of the increasing health risks that come with inhaling the smoke. It is argued that smoking is bad for the health and it can affect a person who inhales and exhales the cigarette, as well as affect other people who are around a smoker in public places. Smoking is so unhealthy, that it can lead to life threatening diseases which can also lead to death. Because of these life threatening risks, smoking should be banned in public places. However, there are some people who believe otherwise, that smoking should not be banned in public places, and that it should be allowed in any public place that does not prohibit smoking. There are many pros and cons on why banning smoking in public places is an issue. Proponents on banning smoking in public places, view the pros on why smoking should be banned, while opponents on banning smoking in public places, view the cons on banning smoking in public places. The most common, accurate, factual and claimed pro for proponents on why smoking should be banned in public places is that, it is scientifically and medically proven that smoking in public places not only affects the person who smokes, but the people around that person will also be affected...
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...Problem-Solution Speech General Purpose: To Persuade and provide a solution Specific Purpose: To help my audience understand the amount of litter that is produced by cigarettes Thesis: Cigarette pollution is the worlds largest litter and it must be addressed. Introduction: 1. A man strolls casually down the street, looks around and takes one last puff from his Marlboro then he casually throws it in the direction of the nearest street drain. This is a situation we have all seen and maybe even performed. At best the cigarette lays there on the ground and a street sweeper may pick it up. However the more likely thing to happen is that he makes his shot in the drain or it soon rains and the water takes the cigarette but down the drain with it, it will follow the same path millions take every year. It flows underground and will eventually make it to out waterways. According to (www.cigarettelitter.org/) Globally, approximately 4.3 trillion cigarette butts are littered every year. Smokers in the USA account for over 250 billion cigarette butts, in the UK 200 tonnes of butts are discarded, and Australian smokers litter over 7 billion cigarette butts annually. In most Western countries cigarette butt litter accounts for around 50% of all litter. Cigarette butt litter is a major problem at our beaches, in the ocean and throughout the watersheds which carry water, trash and debris to our beaches. Cigarette butts discarded...
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...Smoking? I do not understand why people can put something that is so damaging into their bodies. Do people even think about what it can do to themselves and their surroundings, and how many chemicals there are in a cigarette? Smoking is a really bad habit and has become very common and fashionable among teenagers and young boys and girls. Smoking usually begins at school when students discover new things and its not only smoking, sometimes it is drugs too. Even though doctors warn against smoking, people continue to smoke. Some teenager’s smoke to be a part of society and some teenagers say that smoking makes them look and feel cool. It is something we as a society need to work on and try to prevent by teaching citizens about the consequences of smoking in an early age. The way teenagers typically start smoking is by taking a few puffs from their friends and those innocent puffs can lead to a smoking addiction. Many young teenagers start smoking because they look up to someone who smokes, such as a movie star or soccer player or a cool friend. The smoking begins to affect the health and it can lead to lung cancer and other diseases. What can we as a society do about this problem and how can we prevent more smokers? In Denmark it is really easy for minors to buy a pack of cigarettes. I do not think smoking should be allowed in public places because it affects those who want to have a healthy lifestyle. However, is that a choice I can make or it is a thing the government...
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...NAIROBI D.H.O. KWAMANGA, J.A. ODHIAMBO and E.I. AMUKOYE ABSTRACT Objectives: To determine the prevalence of smoking and investigate factors that may influence smoking behaviour in secondary school students in Nairobi. Design: Cross-sectional survey in which a self-administered questionnaire was issued to the students. Setting: Sampled public and private secondary schools in Nairobi. Participants: All the students in the selected secondary schools were included in the study. Results: Five thousand, three hundred and eleven(74. 1%) secondary school students were covered. There were 3658 boys and 1653 girls in the study. The mean age was 16.7 years SD ± 1.48. The study covered 3065(77.3%) and 2246 (70. 1%) of the public and private school students respectively. A total of 1709 (32.2%) were ever-smokers. The overall rate of eversmoking by gender among the students was 38.6% of males and 17.9% of the females. Experimentation with smoking started at five years and regular smoking at 10 years but majority of students (72.2%) started at between age 12 and 16 years. Parents’ and teachers’ smoking habits influenced initiation of smoking by young children while peer pressure, advertising and type of school influenced older children to smoking. About 67% of the eversmokers stopped the habit giving various reasons. There was a strong relationship between age of smoking initiation and stoppage. Majority of the students smoked either to enhance their personalities or for stimulation...
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...Smoking I don’t agree on smoking. Because it's harmful to health, also causes addiction and dependence on nicotine. Smoking leads to lung cancer, heart disease, strokes, asthma and wide variety of other diseases. Smokers experience more coughs and colds as compared to non-smokers. One of the main reasons for quitting smoking is its detrimental effect on our teeth. Smoking causes the destruction of tooth enamel, bad breath and disturbed of oral microflora. Also you have an increased risk of lung cancer and heart disease if you are exposed to other people smoking for long periods of time. Tobacco smoke is also an irritant and can make asthma and other conditions worse. Moreover, nicotine addiction is so strong that women continue to smoke even during pregnancy. Pregnant women who smoke cigarettes run an increased risk of miscarriage, stillborn or premature infants, or infants with low birth weight. Maternal smoking may also be associated with learning and behavioral problems in children. Smoking more than one pack of cigarettes per day during pregnancy nearly doubles the risk that the affected child will become addicted to tobacco if that child starts smoking. One reason for quitting smoking is that a person buys for their money these diseases, which are caused by smoking. Realizing this man quits smoking. After all, this money can be spent on more useful things or going to the movies. Ten years ago, there was a fashion for teenagers on smoking. But this fashion has disappeared...
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...CIGARS AND CIGAR-SMOKING HARMS Despite increases in cigar smoking, especially among youth, cigars are often overlooked by legislators and other policymakers who mistakenly believe that cigars are “not that harmful” compared to cigarettes and deserve special treatment. But cigars are addictive and deadly – causing lung cancer, other cancers, heart attacks and more – and they are often marketed in a wide variety of kid-friendly flavors. Cigar smokers also produce more secondhand smoke than cigarette smokers, and secondhand cigar smoke is often even more harmful and deadly than secondhand cigarette smoke. Health Harms to Users from Cigar Smoking Like cigarettes, cigars are smoked and contain the same toxic and carcinogenic compounds. 1 While many believe that cigars are safer than cigarettes because cigar smoke is not inhaled, studies have shown that cigar smokers actually do inhale – even when smoking large premium cigars – thereby absorbing smoke into their lungs and bloodstream, and depositing cigarette smoke particles in their lungs and even in their stomachs and digestive tract. Because large cigars do not have filters, smokers are exposed to more tobacco smoke and, especially, more toxins in the smoke. 2 Moreover, many youth and other smokers are now consuming cigars, especially smaller ones, just like cigarettes, with full inhalation. Accordingly, smoking cigars causes the same kinds of serious health consequences and premature death as cigarette smoking. For example: >...
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...children start smoking, 1 in 4 who turn into regular smokers by the age of 15. Would you want your child to become addicted to smoking? Cigarettes smoke contains over 4,800 chemicals and 69 are known to cause cancer. So why do people smoke? Why is smoking so harmful? 1. Nicotine: is a highly addictive drug which stimulates the nervous system. It also for a certain amount of time improves alertness, memory and much more. 2. Tar: is a Sticky substance contains many toxic chemicals and causes cancer. 3. Carbon monoxide: is a Poisonous gas which reduces amount of oxygen blood can carry. Sometimes leaving you breathless. Fact 30% of all cancer deaths are because of smoking. 2. If these don't work call 0800 169 01969 for help and advice. * Fact smokers have 2-3 times more of a chance of having a heart attack then non-smokers. * And 8 times more likely to die from lung cancer. Would you want to die before you were 20? In 1994 over 1154 million cigarettes were smoked by 11 to 15 year olds. Which cost around 135 million pounds and provided the government with 108 million pounds in tax revenue? That is more than 30 times than the amount the government spent to reduce the number of children smoking. * Fact in 1997 the Government earned 10 thousand 305 million pounds from tax revenue. So what did the government to with that money? But terminal illnesses from constant smoking weighs out this benefit as you still can get cancer from smoking. Look at how much smoking would cost you!...
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...The Effects of Cigarette Smoking No Smoking SignThere have been numerous campaigns against cigarette smoking communicating that this vice causes death. But a threat to health doesn’t seem to be a good reason for quitting anymore. People somehow block themselves and ignore all the information that is given to them. The purpose of this essay is to discuss three effects of cigarette smoking, besides the broadly mentioned possibility of developing cancer or dying, which are the smell of smoke, the stained teeth, and the cost of doing it. The first effect of cigarette smoking, and probably the one that the non-smokers hate the most, is that it permeates everything around it. Smokers usually have smelly hair, breath, clothes, and, if they smoke indoors, a smelly room. The stench of cigarette smoke is very penetrating and hard to remove. Even if the person quits smoking the odor remains for a long time. The second effect of cigarette smoking is one that most people don’t even take into consideration. It stains the teeth yellow or sometimes even brown. Since this effect is long term, most people are not aware of it when they begin smoking. The truth is that a cigarette stain is very hard to eliminate from the teeth, and it will probably end up costing a considerable amount of money. Yellow teeth are disgusting because they give an unhygienic image and make people look older. The third effect of smoking is that it will eventually end up affecting the smoker’s personal economy...
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...EFFECTS OF SMOKING The World Health Organization defines smoking as an addiction activities. Smoking is a habit that favored some people in this modern age.Smoking is the inhalation of the smoke of burning tobacco encased in cigarettes, pipes, and cigars. Casual smoking is the act of smoking only occasionally, usually in a social situation or to relieve stress. A smoking habit is a physical addiction to tobacco products. Many health experts now regard habitual smoking as a psychological addiction, too, and one with serious health consequences. Firstly, there is no safe level of tobacco use. Nicotine, the active ingredient in tobacco, is inhaled into the lungs, where most of it stays. The rest passes into the bloodstream, reaching the brain in about 10 seconds and dispersing throughout the body in about 20 seconds. Depending on the circumstances and the amount consumed, nicotine can act as either a stimulant or tranquilizer. This can explain why some people report that smoking gives them energy and stimulates their mental activity, while others note that smoking relieves anxiety and relaxes them. Beside that, Some of the long-term effects of smoking. Smoking is often associated with diseases such as coronary heart disease, lung cancer, emphysema and chronic brokintis and otherwise the effects of smoking. Effects of smoking-induced diseases, human beings can not live any longer. Since people will be exposed to a variety of diseases with their hobby on cigarettes. Lastly, Smoking...
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