Hello, I’m here to discuss the deadly consequences of smoking and why I believe it should be prohibited. Even in the most impoverished regions across the world, millions of individuals are smoking. Every minute of every day, these smokers, both young and old, are paying for cigarettes to feed their deadly addiction. It is a well-known fact that smoking is the number one preventable cause of death in the world, yet people continue to pick up the habit every day.
Cigarettes contains over 4,000 chemicals, including at least 43 known cancer-causing (carcinogenic) compounds and 400 other toxins. These harmful substances immediately begin to damage your body as soon as you start smoking.
Smoking is the leading cause of preventable death in the United States, accounting for more than 480,000 deaths every year.
Cigarette smoking is estimated to cause the following:
– 25% of all cancer deaths in the US (about 150,000 deaths per year)
– 30% of all heart disease deaths (about 200,000 per year)
– 87% of all lung cancer cases
In 2016, over 42,000 individuals died from lung carcinoma, a shocking number to be lost. What surprises me are the people who continue to smoke despite knowing the affects. If we don’t get rid of this hazard entirely, our future looks bleak.
When you smoke, you put yourself at risk of problems that may influence your daily routine. Smokers’ teeth acquire an unattractive yellow tint when they are addicted to cigarettes, and frequent smokers can even develop yellow fingernails.
Moreover, not only does it damage your appearance, but it also harms your respiratory system.
Cigarette smoke consists of more than 7,000 chemicals, including at least 70 known to cause cancer. Of these chemicals, tobacco-specific N-nitrosamines (TSNAs) and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are the most carcinogenic.
These substances attach themselves to cells in the body and damage their DNA, which can lead to cancer.
Smoking also increases your risk of developing other types of cancer, including cancers of the throat, mouth, nasal cavity, esophagus, stomach, pancreas, kidney, bladder, and cervix.
In addition to causing cancer, smoking also increases your risk of having a stroke or heart attack.
Smokers could be turned down by businesses for a job because of the high price but long usage of cigarettes; as a result of this, they may not be able to afford housing.
If a smoker is trying to quit, the presence of smokers can trigger a relapse. In short, smoking should be banned in public places because it is unfair to those who do not smoke and it causes many problems for smokers themselves.
Smoking tobacco is harmful to your health; this is common knowledge. It’s addictiveness is also well-known. So why do people still smoke? Some say it calms them down, some say it helps them concentrate and others claim it assist them in social situations. However, what most smokers don’t seem to realise is that there are other ways to deal with stress and anxiety that don’t involve slowly killing yourself. There are many support groups designed to help people quit smoking, and these have been proven to be effective.
The cost of smoking is also quite high, not just to the smoker’s health but also to their wallet. In Australia, a pack of cigarettes can cost up to $35, and most smokers will go through at least one pack a day. This means that over the course of a year, a smoker could easily spend over $12,000 on cigarettes. That’s a significant amount of money that could be better spent elsewhere.
Finally, it’s important to consider the effect that smoking has on those around the smoker. Second-hand smoke is just as harmful as smoking itself, and it’s unfair to subject non-smokers to this. In fact, second-hand smoke is estimated to cause the death of around 3,000 nonsmokers in Australia each year.
So what can be done about this problem? The best solution would be to ban smoking in all public places. This would protect non-smokers from exposure to second-hand smoke, and it would also make it more difficult for smokers to smoke, which might help some of them quit.
Of course, this proposal is not without its critics. Some people argue that smoking should not be banned because it’s a personal choice and smokers have a right to smoke if they want to. However, this argument ignores the fact that smoking is not just harmful to the smoker but also to those around them. Second-hand smoke is a real problem, and it’s one that can be solved by banning smoking in public places.
The manufacturing of cigarettes is a source of stress on the environment. In an hour, manufacturers that produce them utilize four miles of paper to roll and package their cigarettes. Only 300 cigarettes are created in one hour, necessitating the destruction of a tree. This paper could be used to provide school books and stationary to underprivileged children throughout the world, allowing them a brighter future.
Cigarettes also produce a lot of toxic chemicals when burned. When these toxins are breathed in, they go into the lungs and from there enter the bloodstream. The list of these harmful substances is large and includes: nicotine, cyanide, carbon monoxide, ammonia, arsenic, formaldehyde, hydrogen cyanide, lead, and toluene.
Smoking is not only dangerous to the smoker, but to those around them as well. Second-hand smoke is the combination of smoke that comes from the burning end of a cigarette and the smoke exhaled by the smoker. It is this second-hand smoke that is extremely harmful to nonsmokers. Nonsmokers who are regularly exposed to second-hand smoke increase their risk of developing lung cancer by 20% to 30%.
Cigarette smoking is the leading cause of preventable death in the United States. Each year, smoking causes about 443,000 premature deaths, including 38,000 deaths from secondhand smoke exposure.
Smoking not only takes a toll on human health, it also exacts a significant financial burden. In the United States alone, tobacco use costs more than $300 billion each year in direct medical care and lost productivity.
It is not only being supplied as a result of addiction but also to satisfy smokers’ deadly hunger, which will bring an end to life. It takes approximately 25 years for a cigarette butt to decompose once it has been flung on the ground. The industries’ chemical pollutants are likewise dumped into the soil, poisoning it. Smoking isn’t simply killing people; it’s also harming the environment.
Cigarettes contain over 4,000 chemicals, and at least 69 of those chemicals are known to cause cancer. There are many health risks when it comes to smoking such as; lung cancer, throat cancer, heart disease, and emphysema. People who smoke usually start around the ages of 12-18 years old, which is a very crucial time for brain development.
Smoking is also addictive because it contains nicotine. Nicotine is as addictive as heroin or cocaine. Once someone starts smoking it is hard for them to quit because their body becomes physically dependent on the nicotine in cigarettes. In fact, tobacco is the leading preventable cause of death in the United States. Every year, smoking kills more people than alcohol, car accidents, suicide, AIDS, murder, and illegal drugs combined.
Secondhand smoke is just as harmful as smoking a cigarette yourself. It causes numerous health problems in children and adults, including cancer and heart disease. In the United States, secondhand smoke exposure causes approximately 3,400 lung cancer deaths and 46,000 heart disease deaths each year.
Smoking should be illegal because it endangers people’s lives, it’s addictive, and secondhand smoke exposure is deadly. Cigarette smoking has many negative consequences that affect not only the smoker, but also those around them. Quitting smoking is the best thing smokers can do for themselves and their loved ones.