Nick Sylvester
English 110
Dr. Christopher
11/4/2013

Tobacco Use Is it possible to place a given value on time? According to the Center of Disease Control and Prevention, smoking a single cigarette removes an estimated fourteen minutes from the average person’s lifespan. It should be obvious that time is precious and should not be thrown away after every cigarette. However, forty-three million people in the United States still make the decision to smoke habitually. In the modern American society, the dangerous of tobacco use has become moderately common knowledge. It is strongly reinforced through education, the media, and impacting examples. If an individual is given this knowledge, it is difficult to discover proper rationale for the desire or continuation of tobacco use. Despite the present facts, tobacco is still used by a mass amount of Americans, and remains to be one of the leading killers in the country. In spite of the efforts to raise awareness, exponential amounts of people still indulge in smoking and chewing tobacco. Tobacco may cause serious and fatal health risks for the user and those who may obtain it unintentionally from secondhand smoke, and may cause serious problems psychologically, physically, and hygienically.
Smoking tobacco indisputably leads to many different health risks and seriously increases a person’s opportunity to develop a wide range of diseases. According to the Centers for Disease and Control Prevention, smoking damages nearly every organ in the human body and will greatly diminish a person’s overall health. The main health concern from smoking is the development of cancer. Tobacco has been proven to cause acute myeloid leukemia, bladder cancer, cervical cancer, stomach cancer, pharynx or throat cancer, pancreatic cancer, kidney cancer, lung cancer, oral cancer, and cancer of the larynx or voice box. In