Cigarette Smoking: Annotated Bibliography

Annotated Bibliography
Gold, D. R., Wang, X., Wypij, D., Speizer, F. E., Ware, J. H., & Dockery, D. W. (1996).
Effects of Cigarette Smoking on Lung Function in Adolescent Boys and Girls. New England Journal of Medicine, 335(13), 931-937. doi:10.1056/nejm199609263351304
A scholarly article named “Effects of Cigarette Smoking on Lung Function in Adolescent Boys and Girls” that is published by the “New England Journal of Medicine” investigates the relationship between cigarette smoking and lung function in both boys and girls between 10 to 18 years of age. This article shows that 5158 boys and 4902 girls from six different areas of schools in the United States were participated in this cohort study. At the beginning of this study, parents or guardians
It examines whether or not cigarette smoking is associated with the risk of completed suicide. In this study, the researchers professionally used PubMed and EMbase databases to search for relevant studies by searching the related terms, such as “smoking”, “suicide”, and “prospective”. In this meta-analysis study, 15 full publications of prospective cohort studies involving 2395 cases among 1,369,807 participants were considered and used. After all the data and information were collected and evaluated from those studies, the result suggests that “cigarette smoking significantly increased the risk of completed suicide”. I found this article interesting and helpful because suicide rate has gradually increased in today’s world. Obviously, this is one of the serious issues that we need to be concerned about. Also, it is important to find a way to effectively reduce the risk of completed suicide. From this scholarly journal, it shows that the risk of completed suicide can be decreased by reducing the rate of cigarette smoking. I would like to use this article and apply it to my future writing to show how cigarette smoking impacts on the rate of suicide, as well as how it threatens our
In this article, it states that “there are approximately 600 ingredients in cigarettes. When burned, they create more than 7,000 chemicals. At least 69 of these chemicals are known to cause cancer, and many are poisonous”. This article also gives a fact that cigarette smoking greatly increased the risk of cancers (especially lung cancer), heart disease, respiratory system diseases, and stroke. Also, it shows that cigarette smoking caused more than 450,000 deaths every year in the United States. This article can be useful for my future project because it provides an overview of cigarette smoking. It also gives people a better understanding of the basic information about cigarette smoking. I personally think that people need to know how cigarette smoking can affect their health in order to prevent or quit smoking