Effects of Smoking Smoking is a proven health hazard‚ and there are many clear benefits to quitting. Yet‚ many ignore these benefits and continue to smoke‚ thinking “that won’t happen to me”‚ but it can‚ or if they don’t smoke as much‚ it won’t be as harmful. So‚ I’ll talk about some of the drawbacks to smoking. According to the American Lung Association website‚ each year smoking-related diseases claim an estimated 443‚000 American lives each year‚ including those affected
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Death Years ago‚ millions of people died of lung cancer because of smoking. It was a dreadful scene. Those families were sad‚ because they had went bankrupt because of the great expensive of treating the sick at the hospital but now they were despairing as their sons and daughters were dying. Cigarette smoking should be banned‚ because it’s hazardous for people’s health‚ and it is also very expensive. First of all‚ cigarettes contain four thousand chemicals in it‚ and 69 are known to cause cancer
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2013 Why Tobacco Is Bad Cigarettes‚ cigars‚ and pipe tobacco are made from dried tobacco leaves‚ as well as ingredients added for flavor and to make smoking more pleasant. The smoke from these products is a complex mixture of chemicals produced by the burning of tobacco and its additives. The smoke is made up of more than 7‚000 chemicals‚ including over 60 known to cause cancer (carcinogens). Some of these substances cause heart and lung diseases too‚ and all of them can be deadly. Tobacco smoke also
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Argumentative Essay The Banning of Smoking in Public Places Smoking is one of the most dangerous issues that people are rarely aware of. It causes a lot of diseases and deaths for both smokers and non-smokers. Smoking related-diseases kill one in ten adults globally‚ or cause four million deaths yearly.Those illnesses wouldn’t have spread out to the society if they kept their smoke away from people and where they always are (public places). Hence‚ smoking in public places should be completely
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The popularity of electronic cigarette is inevitable‚ in which it has changed the habit of heavy smokers of using conventional cigarettes. Chances are‚ they have found lots of benefits in using e-cigars. First‚ they don’t have to worry about using this device in various public places. Second‚ they can avoid the risk of suffering from chronic diseases‚ which are caused by nicotines. However‚ there is a shocking fact that heavy smokers‚ who turn out to be heavy ‘vapers’‚ consider themselves as vape
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overall economic costs of smoking cigarettes has become somewhat of an epidemic in society for a variety of reasons. It includes numerous private and social costs. The private cost to smokers goes far beyond the price of cigarettes alone. Smokers also pay with their health‚ life‚ and finances. Alongside the great cost to smokers‚ they enjoy benefits to the same degree. The total cost of smoking not only effects smokers‚ but society as well. The externalities from smoking are both negative and positive
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July 6‚ 2009 Eng 112 Causes and Effects of Smoking Scientists and health officials have been arguing the detrimental effects smoking has on our health for many years. Americans pay nearly $100 billion in added health care cost due to smoking. Each day about a thousand young people become regular smokers (President Barack Obama). Smoking can lead to serious complications including asthma‚ pancreas‚ lung and stomach cancer due to the large number of carcinogens (cancer causing
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Topic : Smoking Among Teenagers Thesis Statement : Smoking among teenagers has been increasing in an alarming rate. There are many effects on cigarette on the teenagers and the numerous ways to quit smoking. Fact : According to the American Lung Association‚ there are an estimated 50 million people who smoke. For some reason people just do not fully understand the risks they take by smoking. Cigatette smoking is a frequent cause for many health problem with smokers. To begin with‚ there are many
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The history of tobacco shows nothing but the positives but tobacco is actually harmful and potentially deadly. Tobacco was discovered by the American Indians and believed tobacco to be more than it actually was. It was used in many ways and all of them was thought to be totally positive effects‚ not knowing how harmful it really was. They had no idea that tobacco caused lung disease‚ buerger’s diseases and was also highly addictive. It was not until now that the world started to realize the major
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SMOKING: The enemy of life By-Rheiya Smoking! There isn’t any benefit of smoking and the problems are infinite still people don’t quit smoking. The main reason why people smoke is for fashion. Most of the smokers are the college students because that’s the time when one pays a lot of attention on fashion and tries to be cool. The effects of smoking are only harmful. The worst effect of smoking is it not only harms the smokers but even the one’s who did no fault‚ the one’s inhaling the harmful
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