Smoking Effect Essay

Usage of tobacco have always been discussed since it first has been used. Before the middle of
1960s, tobacco’s harmful effects was not known and was being used in everywhere even for some treatments and experiments. But after some studies and researchs, in 1964, in Surgeon General’s statement, smoking’s harmful effects was understood. Smoking causes serious health and economical issues with it’s effects such as causing huge financial losses in country budgets, leading to many kinds of health problems and affecting either smokers and non-smokers. First of all, causing health problems is the most dangerous effect of smoking when be thought surfacely. Smoking causes many health problems but the most important and fatal one is lung-cancer.
Lung cancer is responsible for one over three of all deaths caused by smoking and the other ones are heart trouble, chronic lung and respiratory diseases, other types of cancer such as bladder, pancreas and kidney cancer. Lung-cancer is one of the most deadly disease in today’s world. Nearly 90% of people who had suffered from lung-cancer could not have survived. Afflictive part is, victims of lung- cancer are intensifying as the years passed by. In 1950, 18,313 people suffered from and died because of the lung-cancer. This year, it is expected nearly 111,000. Dr. C. Everett Koop, who was Surgeon
General between 21 January 1982 and 1 October 1989, stated that: “If it were not for lung-cancer deaths, the overall cancer mortality would have fallen, reflecting improved diagnosis, treatment and survival times for other forms of the disease.”(Mar. 08,1982). Smoking also causes addiction after several usage. Cigarettes contains over 4000 poisonous materials, and nicotine, which leads to addiction, ,s one of them. Addiction is actually the main reason why humankind suffers from smoking that much. Without frequently usage, smoking does not affect human body too much and does not cause serious health issues. Secondly, causing financial problems is one of the most harmful, and when be thought generally, is the most important effect of smoking. People, who are addicted to smoking, needs to smoke all the time and can buy cigarette from anywhere. This leads to huge amount of usage of tobacco products and that cause enormous financial losses. Also smoking-related health care causes incredible financial issues. Every year, millions of people goes to hospitals to be recovered from diseases which are caused by smoking and pay lots of money to the hospitals. Former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop stated that: “This can only presage human tragedy in the years ahead and enormous economic loss to our country.”(Mar.08,1982). He also underlined that, in the U.S., more than 25 billion dollars spent for tobacco production and at least 13 billion dollars for the health care which is related to smoking. Thirdly, smoking does not affect only smokers, it also affects non-smokers with it’s smoke which carry poisonous materials. It is known that there are over 4000 poisonous materials in a cigarette. Over
2000 of that materials are carried with cigarette’s smoke and spreads to everywhere. That poisonous smoke affects non-smokers too. That means, non-smokers can be caught any disease that can caught, with only be exposed to cigarette smoke. Smoking is also like contagious disease. Addiction of smoking can be spread between friens with elaborating on smoking and in the family if there is a smoker in the family. Even non-smoker who has exposed to cigarette smoke too much can turn into a smoker. Studies shows that children who has at least one smoker in the family is twice likely to start smoking. In conclusion, leading to financial issues, causing many kinds of diseases and affecting non- smokers are the main reasons which causes discussions about smoking. Today, everyone knows simply what are the harms of smoking and there are a lot of people who tries to quit smoking, but still millions of people who suffers from smoking and can not get rid of that disease which could possibly kill them.