There is no one real reason that causes people to smoke. There are actually several reasons that scientists believe is the cause for smoking. Some people may start smoking because they saw someone that they liked smoking and thought it was cool. Experimenting with friends is another reason one some people may smoke. In the 1930’s and 1940’s the people were told that smoking was good for you and that cigarettes wouldn’t harm you. After many generations of smoking because of that false allegation leads to more and more people smoking. If a person grows up in an environment where those all around them smoke, they are more likely to smoke as well. There are many reasons that may cause an individual to smoke but only the smoker can explain why he or she started to smoke.
What exactly are the effects of smoking besides addiction and ultimately death? Smoking causes more diseases that have ever been investigated in biomedical research. Smoking can cause lung cancer, heart disease, strokes, emphysema, heart murmurs, insomnia, asthma, and a wide variety of other diseases.
Lung cancer alone causes 27% of the deaths in smokers. Lung cancer may not appear immediately after an individual starts smoking. It may take years for lung cancer, or any other cancer to appear in one’s body after smoking, People with lung cancer may be eligible to try chemotherapy and other treatments to stop the cancer from growing; however, lung cancer is still the number one killer in smokers.
Heart disease causes about 24% of the deaths from smoking and emphysema causes about 23% of deaths in smokers. There are