Smoking Informative Essay
Did you know smoking is the leading cause of death in America? Has anyone you’ve known or loved been effected by smoking. Such as my grandpa dying when I was nine, mine has and I do not support it at all and here’s why.
Health
Cigarette smoking is the number one cause of preventable disease and death worldwide. Smoking-related diseases claim more than 480,000 American lives each year. Smoking cost the U.S. at least $289 billion each year, including at least $150 billion in lost productivity and $130 billion in direct healthcare expenditures. This is an average of close to $7,000 per adult smoker.
One of the many areas nicotine affects is the brain. The Nicotine from cigarettes is as addictive as heroin. Nicotine addiction is hard to beat because it changes your brain. The brain develops extra nicotine receptors to accommodate the large doses of nicotine from tobacco. When the brain stops getting the nicotine it’s used to, the result is nicotine withdrawal. You may feel anxious, irritable, and have …show more content…
strong cravings for nicotine.
Another very important area it effects is the lungs.
Smoking causes inflammation in the small airways and tissues of your lungs. This can make your chest feel tight or cause you to wheeze or feel short of breath. Continued inflammation builds up scar tissue, which leads to physical changes to your lungs and airways that can make breathing hard. Years of lung irritation can give you a chronic cough with mucus.
There's no way around it. Smoking is bad for your health. Smoking harms nearly every organ of the body. Cigarette smoking causes 87 percent of lung cancer deaths. It is also responsible for many other cancers and health problems. These include lung disease, heart and blood vessel disease, stroke and cataracts. Women who smoke have a greater chance of certain pregnancy problems or having a baby die from sudden infant death syndrome .Your smoke is also bad for other people - they breathe in your smoke secondhand and can get many of the same problems as smokers
do.
Cancer
Another main problem with smoking is cancer which is another leading cause of death worldwide. Smoking increases the risk of one of the more deadly cancer’s the most Lung Cancer which breaks down the lungs and makes it hard to breathe. Another cancer is kind of a general area of cancer that I’m going to cover. Cancer in the larynx, mouth, and throat larynx is also known as the voice box. So you can guess what can happen if you get larynx cancer you can stop talking for good. Throat cancer is also rare but deadly, it can eventually cause you to stop breathing. Now mouth cancer effects my family more personally because my aunt has a form of mouth cancer that actually had to have part of her tongue cut off the cancerous part. As you can see a lot of cancer can be obtained by smoking. Another one of my family members that have passed away from cancer is my grandpa. He had colon cancer and it’s not normally deadly but he was stubborn and let it get so bad and kept smoking so it eventually got so bad we’re he was bed-ridden for the last of his days. So to me I don’t see why anyone would smoke if they knew the costs to your wallet and your health now this brings me to my next point
Money
Another big toll smoking causes is draining your wallet to fuel your addiction to it. No money means no smokes so people are willing now to go to extremes to pay for it. It can lead to very bad conditions especially if you don’t have much money anyways in 2014, a packet of 20 cigarettes costs around $18.70. That means if you smoke a pack a day you will spend more than $5,000 a year on cigarettes.
In 2012, a 30g packet of loose tobacco costs around $35.90. Someone smoking a pouch a week would spend more than $1,850 a year on tobacco.
According to the American Lung Association, tobacco kills nearly half a million Americans annually and costs the nation $333 billion per year in health-care expenses and lost productivity to boot. But it’s hard for the average person—specifically, the average smoker—to wrap one’s brain around such an enormous figure. So as you can see smoking costs you and this nation a lot. Most of this money is spent on healthcare cause of all the health risks of smoking.
Let’s have a look at what WalletHub did, exactly. By far, the largest expense incorporated into the per-person total is the “tobacco cost per smoker,” measured at $786,346 in South Carolina, up to roughly $1.5 million in Alaska. WalletHub came up with that figure by multiplying the average price of a pack of cigarettes in each state by the number of days in 51 years. Fair enough. There are cheaper ways to go about buying cigarettes, like buying smokes by the case, but many people purchase by the pack.
Overall smoking is a deadly habit and should be avoided if anything but it sometimes can only be the way of happiness for some people. They’ve become so addicted to it that they need it to be happy.
While smokers might go broke buying a pack of cigarettes, they can at least save money by avoiding knee-replacement surgery. Surprising results from a new study have revealed that men who smoke had less risk of undergoing total joint replacement surgery than those who never smoked.
The study, from the University of Adelaide in Australia, appears in the July issue of the journal Arthritis & Rheumatism. What could be the connection? Knee-replacement surgery was more common among joggers and the obese; smokers rarely jog, and they are less likely to be morbidly obese.
Smokers also have a lot less chance of becoming obese and having Parkinson’s disease.
Smoking — and, in particular, the nicotine in tobacco smoke — is an appetite suppressant. This has been known for centuries, dating back to indigenous cultures in America in the pre-Columbus era. Tobacco companies caught on by the 1920s and began targeting women with the lure that smoking would make them thinner.
A study published in the July 2011 issue of the journal Physiology & Behavior, in fact, is one of many stating that the inevitable weight gain upon quitting smoking is a major barrier in getting people to stop, second only to addiction.
The relationship between smoking and weight control is complex: Nicotine itself acts as both a stimulant and appetite suppressant; and the act of smoking triggers behavior modification that prompts smokers to snack less. Smoking also might make food less tasty for some smokers, further curbing appetite? As an appetite suppressant, nicotine appears to act on a part of the brain called the hypothalamus, at least in mice, as revealed in a study by Yale researchers published in the June 10, 2011, issue of the journal Science.
Conclusion
Overall I think that smoking is very bad for you. Although it can have some good things for it. It’s very bad though I still highly recommend you never start or stop. It’s a risk for your health wallet and family with the bills you can leave behind from cancer and other diseases you can get from smoking so overall I say no.
Health
Cigarette smoking is the number one cause of preventable disease and death worldwide. Smoking-related diseases claim more than 480,000 American lives each year. Smoking cost the U.S. at least $289 billion each year, including at least $150 billion in lost productivity and $130 billion in direct healthcare expenditures. This is an average of close to $7,000 per adult smoker.
One of the many areas nicotine affects is the brain. The Nicotine from cigarettes is as addictive as heroin. Nicotine addiction is hard to beat because it changes your brain. The brain develops extra nicotine receptors to accommodate the large doses of nicotine from tobacco. When the brain stops getting the nicotine it’s used to, the result is nicotine withdrawal. You may feel anxious, irritable, and have …show more content…
strong cravings for nicotine.
Another very important area it effects is the lungs.
Smoking causes inflammation in the small airways and tissues of your lungs. This can make your chest feel tight or cause you to wheeze or feel short of breath. Continued inflammation builds up scar tissue, which leads to physical changes to your lungs and airways that can make breathing hard. Years of lung irritation can give you a chronic cough with mucus.
There's no way around it. Smoking is bad for your health. Smoking harms nearly every organ of the body. Cigarette smoking causes 87 percent of lung cancer deaths. It is also responsible for many other cancers and health problems. These include lung disease, heart and blood vessel disease, stroke and cataracts. Women who smoke have a greater chance of certain pregnancy problems or having a baby die from sudden infant death syndrome .Your smoke is also bad for other people - they breathe in your smoke secondhand and can get many of the same problems as smokers
do.
Cancer
Another main problem with smoking is cancer which is another leading cause of death worldwide. Smoking increases the risk of one of the more deadly cancer’s the most Lung Cancer which breaks down the lungs and makes it hard to breathe. Another cancer is kind of a general area of cancer that I’m going to cover. Cancer in the larynx, mouth, and throat larynx is also known as the voice box. So you can guess what can happen if you get larynx cancer you can stop talking for good. Throat cancer is also rare but deadly, it can eventually cause you to stop breathing. Now mouth cancer effects my family more personally because my aunt has a form of mouth cancer that actually had to have part of her tongue cut off the cancerous part. As you can see a lot of cancer can be obtained by smoking. Another one of my family members that have passed away from cancer is my grandpa. He had colon cancer and it’s not normally deadly but he was stubborn and let it get so bad and kept smoking so it eventually got so bad we’re he was bed-ridden for the last of his days. So to me I don’t see why anyone would smoke if they knew the costs to your wallet and your health now this brings me to my next point
Money
Another big toll smoking causes is draining your wallet to fuel your addiction to it. No money means no smokes so people are willing now to go to extremes to pay for it. It can lead to very bad conditions especially if you don’t have much money anyways in 2014, a packet of 20 cigarettes costs around $18.70. That means if you smoke a pack a day you will spend more than $5,000 a year on cigarettes.
In 2012, a 30g packet of loose tobacco costs around $35.90. Someone smoking a pouch a week would spend more than $1,850 a year on tobacco.
According to the American Lung Association, tobacco kills nearly half a million Americans annually and costs the nation $333 billion per year in health-care expenses and lost productivity to boot. But it’s hard for the average person—specifically, the average smoker—to wrap one’s brain around such an enormous figure. So as you can see smoking costs you and this nation a lot. Most of this money is spent on healthcare cause of all the health risks of smoking.
Let’s have a look at what WalletHub did, exactly. By far, the largest expense incorporated into the per-person total is the “tobacco cost per smoker,” measured at $786,346 in South Carolina, up to roughly $1.5 million in Alaska. WalletHub came up with that figure by multiplying the average price of a pack of cigarettes in each state by the number of days in 51 years. Fair enough. There are cheaper ways to go about buying cigarettes, like buying smokes by the case, but many people purchase by the pack.
Overall smoking is a deadly habit and should be avoided if anything but it sometimes can only be the way of happiness for some people. They’ve become so addicted to it that they need it to be happy.
While smokers might go broke buying a pack of cigarettes, they can at least save money by avoiding knee-replacement surgery. Surprising results from a new study have revealed that men who smoke had less risk of undergoing total joint replacement surgery than those who never smoked.
The study, from the University of Adelaide in Australia, appears in the July issue of the journal Arthritis & Rheumatism. What could be the connection? Knee-replacement surgery was more common among joggers and the obese; smokers rarely jog, and they are less likely to be morbidly obese.
Smokers also have a lot less chance of becoming obese and having Parkinson’s disease.
Smoking — and, in particular, the nicotine in tobacco smoke — is an appetite suppressant. This has been known for centuries, dating back to indigenous cultures in America in the pre-Columbus era. Tobacco companies caught on by the 1920s and began targeting women with the lure that smoking would make them thinner.
A study published in the July 2011 issue of the journal Physiology & Behavior, in fact, is one of many stating that the inevitable weight gain upon quitting smoking is a major barrier in getting people to stop, second only to addiction.
The relationship between smoking and weight control is complex: Nicotine itself acts as both a stimulant and appetite suppressant; and the act of smoking triggers behavior modification that prompts smokers to snack less. Smoking also might make food less tasty for some smokers, further curbing appetite? As an appetite suppressant, nicotine appears to act on a part of the brain called the hypothalamus, at least in mice, as revealed in a study by Yale researchers published in the June 10, 2011, issue of the journal Science.
Conclusion
Overall I think that smoking is very bad for you. Although it can have some good things for it. It’s very bad though I still highly recommend you never start or stop. It’s a risk for your health wallet and family with the bills you can leave behind from cancer and other diseases you can get from smoking so overall I say no.