How Does Smoking Changed Over Time

The activity of smoking tobacco, although accepted in our culture with over one billion people worldwide smoking regularly, is a drug capable of adverse long-term health effects and addiction. Because of its mass popularity, smoking is the leading cause of deaths and illnesses in the UK today. In this short essay, the poor health effects and diseases resulting from smoking, how these can be tackled, and how the prevalence of smoking over time, will all be discussed.

With tobacco smoke containing more than 60 carcinogenic substances, the most deadly effects result for cancers. The most common, potentially fatal is lung cancer. About 10 – 20% of smokers contract fatal lung cancer in their lifetime, meaning the collection of lung cancer cases today are in fact around 90% smokers. Of course, other cancers can be a result and these include mouth, throat, liver, kidney and
These changes have also been a lot different across the world. First off, the number of smokers and cigarettes smoked has increased worldwide since 1980. This is however due to population growth and actually the net proportion of adults smoking has decreased across the globe. But as mentioned, in different countries, the trend in proportion of smokers to non-smokers varies quite considerably, with some values for countries staying constant, increasing or decreasing. There are two very suitable classifications of countries that share similar trends. These are developing and developed countries. Before containing, it must be made clear on the definition of these groupings in the following context. Developing world is countries of a non-established economy with medium to low living standards and income; most of these countries are in Africa, Southern and Central Asia. The developed world includes the other countries with more established economies with medium to high living standards and