Cigarette smoking is the greatest single cause of illness and premature death in the UK. . A 2007 report states that about 4.9 million people worldwide each year die sadly, as a result of smoking. Cigarette smoking is the major cause of lung cancer. Tobacco smoking is the most popular practice by over one billion people in the majority of all human societies. About 30,000 people in the UK die from lung cancer each year. More than 8 in 10 cases are directly related to smoking. Lung cancer accounts for 29 percent of all cancer deaths in the United States and smoking accounts for about 87 percent of lung cancer deaths. The risks of dying from lung cancer are 23 times higher for male smokers and 11 times higher for female smokers than for non-smokers. Smoking-related deaths are mainly due to cancers, COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) and heart disease.
I believe smoking is a health hazard to not only the people who smoke, but the people around them. Now you don` t have to have a cigarette in your hand to be smoking, if your parents smoke you get second hand smoke which is technically the same thing because you are still inhaling irritating smoke actually even more. When I walk downstairs in my own house I walk into a room where smoke attacks me and my lungs. Then I end up having that awful stench follow me everywhere. Smoking affects your body in many different ways. You can get yellow teeth and bad breath from smoking. These are things I am sure you don't want to have. Yellow fingernails from the smoke looks like buttery popcorn. It will look ugly and messy when you want to look nice. Tar builds up in your lungs and makes them all black like soot. When you don't get enough cigarettes, your body can tell. People can shake and shiver when they don't get the amount of nicotine they are used to. Smoking doesn't only make you look bad, but it affects your body internally