Cigarettes Persuasive Essay

“The Black Widow spider's bite can cause coma and even death. The African Black Mamba can kill a man with one bite. But there's an even deadlier predator: cigarettes, produced by big tobacco companies, kill someone every 6 seconds. Don't be tobacco's next victim." (Tim Melwech) By being tobacco’s victim, it jeopardizes one’s health, future, and it convinces someone that they are helpful, but never are. Cigarette smoking doesn’t just harm one’s health, but ruins it. Smoking leads to disease and disability and harms nearly every organ of the body. There are over 10 cancers that can occur because of smoking. One of those cancers is chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a progressive lung cancer that over time makes it harder to breathe. “Cigarette smoking causes more than 480,000 deaths each year in the United States. This is nearly one in five deaths.” ( Fast Facts and Fact Sheets) Smoking is the leading cause of preventable death, just quitting now would add years to one’s life.
Smoking makes it harder for a woman to get pregnant and it makes the baby more susceptible to have birth defects during pregnancy. According to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in one cigarette there are for 4,000 chemicals, 60 cancer causing compounds, and when the blood gets filled with toxins, the baby’s only source of oxygen and nutrients, it affects the baby’s growth system. These birth defects include, early delivery, death of the baby before birth, low birth weight, sudden infant death syndrome (known as SIDS or crib death), ectopic pregnancy, orofacial clefts in infants. Smoking kills someone before they even get a chance to