I’ve grown up in a time where cannabis has been greatly talked about in positive ways. Some of my friends have used it before and they've told me that it was very beneficial to their mental and physical health. Many people benefit from using this drug and some just enjoy doing it. I feel that people lose some of their personal freedom when they’re not allowed to use cannabis. Im sure that you, a government official, would be concerned about the people's view on marijuana.…
The Center for disease Control reports that cigarette smoke causes more than 480,000 deaths each year in the United States. This is about one in five deaths. The center adds that smoking causes more deaths every year than Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), illegal drug use, alcohol use, motor vehicle injuries, and firearm- related incidents. With this being a known fact there are still smokers in today’s world. The question that should be asked is why do people smoke cigarettes despite their proven dangers? Smoking cannot only damage or bring harm to every organ in the human body, but it can cause countless diseases. If people just stopped smoking altogether, they would decrease the risk of smoke-related diseases and most importantly…
Smoking causes many health risks and is hazardous to your life. Smoking is responsible for several diseases, such as cancer, long-term (chronic) respiratory diseases, and heart disease, as well as premature death. “Over 440,000 people in the USA and 100,000 in the UK die because of smoking each year. According the US CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), $92 billion are lost each year from lost productivity resulting from smoking-related deaths”(MNT).…
There is some truth in this, but it is highly unlikely. If you are mixing your own liquid nicotine formula, then you do need to pay attention to dosages, and make sure that your ecigarette cartridges do not contain more than an 18 mg strength of nicotine. This is a wise safety precaution, which most people seem willing to follow. If you purchase a liquid that is a higher strength, say 36 mg, then the mixture should be diluted before you smoke it. Other substances in the home can be just as dangerous as nicotine.…
assive smoke is when non-smokers are breathing in the smoke that a smoker is smoking. Passive smoking is not good, because non-smokers breathe it in, as well as the smoker, and it is very harmful for the non-smokers as well as the smoker. It is also a huge source of indoor air pollution. Four-fifths of the smoke that builds up in a room with a smoker is the more harmful "sidestream" type. Tobacco smoke has over 4,000 chemical compounds, which includes 40 carcinogenic agents that are cancer-causing. Tobacco smoke also has carbon monoxide, which is a poisonous gas, that inhibits the transportation of someone's oxygen to their body's vital organs via the blood. Also, the smoke that is emitted from the tip of a cigarette has almost double the concentration…
The health consequences of smoking have become evident since early 1960s and numerous techniques to help smokers to become non-smokers have developed. Smoking is the largest preventable cause of cancer, and is responsible for more cancer deaths in Australia. It is also directly responsible for many heart and lung diseases. Smoking has effects on the smoker, as well as those around them. Changing health-risk behaviour has been shown to decrease morbidity and mortality and enhance a better quality of life. This essay aims to describe theories and models that are effective interventions to help the cessation of smoking, and relapses. Most of the mortality and morbidity is caused by individual behavioural lifestyle, smoking, alcohol and recreational drugs. The theories I am going to discuss are The Theory of Planned Behaviour and the Trans theoretical Model changes. Also this assignment will…
Tobacco was the first crop grown for money in North America. In 1964 the Surgeon General of the U.S. wrote a report about the dangers of cigarette smoking. He said that the nicotine and tar in cigarettes cause lung cancer. Due to his report by the 1980’s they developed new cigarettes with lower amounts of nicotine and better filters (History & Economics of Tobacco).The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) launched the first ever paid national tobacco campaign. In March of 2012 they began to use real people instead of actors (Centers of Disease Control and Prevention). The illustration of loading a revolver with cigarettes is a strong visual way to get people’s attention on the harms of smoking. Also, the facts listed are making…
hundred lives of course. I don't see how this is worth it, but who am I to the tobacco…
According to the filmmakers and their research, tobacco smoke contains carcinogens, which are cancer producing substances. When interviewing a representative of the Philip Morris International Inc., Dr. Helmut Wakeham (V.P. Science & Technology), he was asked questions about the negative side effects and ingredients and asked if they, the company, denied it or if their research showed otherwise; ultimately, he did not disagree with or deny the claims. He was more specifically questioned about whether he could “say that cigarettes do no harm to the cigarette smoker”, but he completely dodged the question by stating, “I’m not in a position to say, I don’t know what harms a cigarette smoker or what doesn’t harm him…you must be trying to get me to admit that cigarette smoking is harmful”. This simply shows that these tobacco companies know exactly what their product is, and what harm it can cause, and despite the shocking facts revealed or known, they continue to grow their businesses and continue to sell the harmful product to the naive public. In fact, once Marlboro became recognized as the number one selling cigarette brand, after twenty-five years of hard work and research, the World Health Organization named smoking as one of the primary causes of Lung Cancer, Bronchitis, Emphysema, and Heart Disease.…
Cigarettes are made up of dried tobacco leaves and other things to make up for the flavor. Scientists have found up to 3,000 compounds in tobacco and cigarette smoke. With the total 3,000 compounds, there are about sixty carcinogens. There are a numerous amount of bad chemicals found in cigarettes. Here are just a list of few: Ammonia: Household cleaner, Agelica root extract: Known to cause cancer in animals Arsenic: Used in rat poisons Benzene: Used in making dyes, synthetic rubber Butane: Gas; used in lighter fluid Carbon monoxide: Poisonous gas Cadmium: Used in batteries Cyanide: Deadly poison DDT: A banned insecticide Ethyl Furoate: Causes liver damage in animals Lead: Poisonous in high doses Formaldehiyde: Used to preserve dead specimens Methoprene: Insecticide Megastigmatrienone: Chemical naturally found in grapefruit juice Maltitol: Sweetener for diabetics Napthalene: Ingredient in mothballs Methyl isocyanate: Its accidental release killed 2000 people in Bhopal, India in 1984 Polonium: Cancer-causing radioactive element. All of these chemicals have taken a toll on current smokers, ex-smokers, and people exposed to second hand smoke.…
From approximately 1950-1980, law firms defending tobacco companies really had their work cut out for them because around this time smoking tobacco was beginning to be linked to lung cancer and other diseases. The Tobacco Institute reassured people for decades that there was no link between smoking cigarettes and any diseases, however the Industry knew there was a chance for disease and chose to deny the risks and misrepresent tobacco. Research and studies were conducted, however they could not get proof that cigarette smoking was a cause of cancer. A full page statement was released and ran in over 450 American newspapers and was aimed at over 43 million people in 1954. It was called “A Frank Statement to Cigarette Smokers,” and was written by the Tobacco Industry Research Committee to help ease the mind of American smokers, and show that there was no direct link between cigarette smoking and cancer found by researchers (“Tobacco News”, 2012).…
You might say that is obvious, but what many of you may not know is that smoking tobacco can cause over a dozen other cancers.…
Growing up in a neighborhood where there was a negative influence of people smoking marijuana. I never smoked the substance and never will. But I always thought there was nothing wrong with it because the fact that everyone I knew that smoked marijuana nothing bad had happened to them but except they would go to jail which I think was down right stupid. I always had the thought of that, if you could smoke tobacco and not go to jail, why go to jail for smoking marijuana.…
I would hazard a guess that one of the main problems most people face when they try to stop smoking weed is the probability of getting sucked backed in - or a relapse. How easy is it to just have one quick puff? Surely, it can't do any harm, can it? Unfortunately, many marijuana smokers have had the habit for years, and therefore being drawn back into weed addiction is extremely hard to ignore.…
than nonsmoking males. A person’s reflex to cough is a defensive action that prevents foreign…