...SMOKING KILLS! Contents of a cigarette What are the effects of smoking on the lungs? Lung cancer is the most common form of cancer caused by smoking. More than 80% of cases of lung cancer are due to smoking. Cigarette smoke contains many chemicals that interfere with the body's method of filtering air and cleaning out the lungs. The smoke irritates the lungs and leads to overproduction of mucus. It also paralyses the cilia - tiny hair-like structures that line the airways and clean out dust and dirt. Paralysis of the cilia means mucus and toxic substances accumulate, resulting in congestion of the lungs. This extra mucus means smokers are more likely to suffer from chronic bronchitis and what is known as 'smoker's cough'. Cigarette smoke is one of the best known triggers of asthma. When people suffer from asthma their inflamed air passages, which are very sensitive, narrow when exposed to cigarette smoke. This causes an asthma attack. Long term exposure of the lungs to the irritants in tobacco smoke destroys the normal lung structure. The elastic walls of the small airways within the lungs are broken down. This reduces the amount of lung tissue available for the transfer of oxygen from the air to the blood. This condition is called emphysema. Some degree of emphysema is found in almost all people who are long-term smokers; however the severity will...
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...Natural Resources and Environmental Regulations Natural Resources- Healthy Ecosystems Recognizing healthy ecosystems as the basis for sustainable water resources, and stable food security can help produce more food per unit of agricultural land, improve resilience to climate change, and provide economic benefits for poor communities. According to, a report, from the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) and The International Water Management Institute (IWMI): in partnership with 19 other organizations. As well as, the Stockholm Environment Institute, the Stockholm Resilience Centre. The report shows how managing and investing in the connections between ecosystems, water and food, through diversifying crops, planting trees on farmland improving rainwater collection, and other practical steps, could help avoid water scarcity, and meet the growing food demands of a global population set to reach 9 billion by 2050 (sei-international.org, 2011). When Scientist tries to understand how ecosystems function, it is not simply out of curiosity about the world. They also know that human society depends on healthy, functioning ecosystems. When Earth’s ecosystems function normally and undisturbed, the provide good and services that we could not survive without (Wilcott, Brennan, 2011, p 121). Nutrients to our farmlands, waters and air help ecosystems cycle through the chemical elements and compounds, that we need such as carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, water, and many more that cycle...
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...SMOKING IN PUBLIC PLACES Have you ever been in outdoor restaurant, and there was someone bothering you by smoking while you are eating?, what is your impression?. Smoking in public places must be removed or forbidden, because, people cannot have an healthy life, it wastes of money, and it wastes time in our life. First of all, people could not have an healthy life. For example, most of the smokers have an unusual problems in their bodies causing a lot of disease. Moreover, according to the results of smoking outdoor, majority of smokers transfer their disease for other innocent lives. Second, as my cousin always says to me, “Smoking is only a waste of money”. For instance, many smokers are spending five dollars for each day, and that only for one box of cigarette. They did not realized that all of these sums will become such as a huge amount of money. Third, as we know, to use the time in your life in things that are useful instead wastes it in smoking is surly better. For example, who has an addiction in smoking will uses his time in smoking and kill his self gradually. Furthermore, majority of the smokers are wondering why is hard for us to live long time as many people as did, absolutely the answer because they are causing harms for their lungs, and all their bodies. All in all, this topic has many opinions are different among the people, but my thoughts are stander in this argument. To smoke in public places is not good because, the people cannot have a healthy...
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...Why smoking is bad not only for you also for everybody else Why smoking is bad not only for you also for everybody else It is being proofproven that smoking can not only give you cancer and it kill you. Several reasons may involve why people conscious about it still decide to smoke, also it is being proofproven when you smoke not only you are hurting yourself also you are affecting those who are around you. If you smoke, your physical condition will be negatively affected, so it will be very difficult for you to succeed in physical activities. Maybe you don’t notice all the physical effects of smoking immediately, but you surely will be sorry one day. Do not leave extra space Another reason why you should not smoke is because of all the money that you spend on it. Maybe you start smoking only when someone offers you a cigarette, but there will be a day when you will feel the need of a cigarette. By this time, you will spend more money. All the money you would spend in something better, don’t you think? Do not leave extra space Considering the last reason why you shouldn’t smoke is out of respect for the people around you. When you smoke, you not only harm yourself, but you also harm all the people around you. So you mustn’t be selfish; you should at least avoid smoking in front of people who don’t smoke. Also many people don’t like the cigarettes smell, so they won’t enjoy your company. Do not leave extra space I gave you some reasons of why you shouldn’t smoke, so...
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...Smoking has been very popular throughout the years all over the world. It’s quite common to see people smoke cigarettes on the street and other nonpublic areas. Smoking has been seen in the movies, TV shows and so forth, from which we could see how commonly it is applied in human behavior and life habit. I wouldn’t be surprised if my dad or uncle smokes, and from what I’ve noticed, the population of women that smoke increases nowadays. So here comes the question, why do people smoke cigarettes? Don’t they know the consequences? What are the good reasons people choose to smoke or what are the disadvantages? Smoking as we have heard of, is judged as an unhealthy behavior that could lead to a lot of diseases and impairment of the health. There are a lot of associations and offices that actually help people quit cigarettes because they are bad for our health. It would harm our lungs, heart and immune system by using cigarettes too frequently. Smoking cigarettes could cause cancer, chronic respiratory diseases, aging, lung, heart, stomach, kidney, nose, bladder, mouth and so forth of the diseases that could be deadly and dangerous. As we learned before, tobacco is the largest cause of preventable death now and for the past in world. Even second-hand smoke could be detrimental. For the health part, smoke is definitely the most dangerous. Due to the nicotine and carbon monoxide it has in it that could actually kill a person if using too much of the amount accumulatively. Smoking usually...
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...amongst ______ students to get their insights on smoking and also their personal experiences with it. We divided the questionnaire for smokers and non-smokers. We managed to get a total of 50 participants in which 60% were non-smokers and 40% were smokers. The questions regarding smoking facts were answered by both sides. Both smokers and non-smokers seem to have just a slight understanding on what smoking really does to the body and to those around them. Based on the findings, we recommend that students be exposed to the real dangers of smoking. We suggest exhibitions, competitions, talks or maybe even a health class. TABLE OF CONTENTS LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS-----------------------------------------------------vi EXECUTIVE SUMMARY-------------------------------------------------------vii I. INTRODUCTION-------------------------------------------------------1 Background Statement of the Problem Purpose of the Study Scope II. RELATED LITERATURE-------------------------------------------- III. PROCEDURES--------------------------------------------------------- IV. FINDINGS AND ANALYSIS---------------------------------------- V. CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS----------------- REFERENCES LIST------------------------------------------------------------- APPENDIX—SURVEY INSTRUMENT------------------------------------ LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS TABLES 1. EFFECTS THAT ARE CAUSED BY SMOKING------------------------------- 2. MEDIA...
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...Smoking Advertisements and Commercials For this assignment, I will be writing about anti-smoking advertisements and commercials that I see a lot on television while I am trying to watch the Big Bang Theory and sometimes banners on an Internet page. Lately, I have been noticing a lot of anti-smoking commercials from the CDC interviewing people whom have been smoking for a long time. People, whom are being interviewed, have serious health problems due to the effects of smoking. These ads will explain how the ex-smokers live their life’s differently because of the damage from smoking. Terrie Hall was the most well known person in these CDC commercials. Terrie started smoking when she was in high school, and now she is facing the consequences for doing it for so long. Terrie was working with the CDC to show not only to teens but also to adults what smoking did to her. Terrie’s condition with cancer was getting worst and she requested the CDC to interview her while on her deathbed to show that smoking took her life away. Terrie Hall died in September of last year. It has been said that the last commercial of Terrie made a big impact to society because the emotion appeal it delivered to the audience. The emotional appeal was evoking negative emotions like fear, guilt, sadness, and anger towards smoking. The audience might develop the fear of smoking, knowing what kind of damage it can do to someone’s body. Audiences might build up the emotion guilt for the current smokers. Audience...
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...it must be legal for anybody. Heart disease, cancers and lung disease are only few of the hundreds of harmful impacts of smoking. What amazes me is why anybody would like to smoke if they truly know how it annihilates their body, also why society wants to keep it legal in any case. In this article, I would say smoking must be made illegal. Various people argue that smoking must not be banned; perhaps the reason is that it’s their personal freedom since smoking is exceptionally addictive and individuals get to be dependent to it. So we will find out in this essay that what makes them saying this. However, if what just leaves smoking is joy, shouldn't the government set health over delight? 2.1 Background of the study Around 400,000 deaths every year in U.S. alone are due to smoking ailments. Why might somebody even get a cigarette without focusing the effects it can cause him or her? Banning of cigarettes must be made legal as cigarettes are an addicting and effective drug which is extremely unsafe to the individuals who smoke them, to the people who like to inhale the second hand smoke, as well as to the environment. Cigarette is a kind of drug and smoking the cigarette has around 4,000 chemical ingredients and more than 30 of them are identified as the reason of cancer in people. Few specialists said that usually it’s not the nicotine which kills but these different chemicals....
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...E-Cigarettes Cigarette smoking is perhaps the world’s worst addiction. This health hazard has been and continues to ravage millions of humans cutting across the boundaries of civilization, geography, economy and social strata. It not only, sooner or later, kills the smoker, but, has negative effects on the passive smoking community as well. Having said that, we must bear in mind that quitting smoking is one of the most difficult things for a smoker. The addiction is so overpowering that the smoker is, willingly or unwillingly, driven back to the death stick. It is truly a herculean task to kick the habit, once and for all. Electronic cigarettes or E-cigarettes, as they are popularly known, are one of the many devices tried out by smokers to give up smoking. These come in variety of sizes and shapes – cigarettes, cigars, pipes, ballpoint pens, screwdrivers etc. Both disposable and refillable models exist. The quintessential idea is that the actual experience of smoking a tobacco cigarette is simulated, as closely as possible, in the E-cigarette, to retain the sense of déjà vu. E-liquid or the nicotine solution is the combustible medium used. The solution is generally flavored in the traditional tobacco smoke aroma as also in newer strains such as chocolate, vanilla, wine and so on. The flavoring, nicotine and the polypropylene glycol (which creates the visible smoke) is called the E-liquid. When the e-cigarette is smoked, the liquid is heated using...
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...SETTING Introduction Teens smoke for many reasons and often for the same reasons as adults do: to cope with stress, to control their weight, as a social habit and to combat boredom. One of the biggest reasons teens start to smoke is peer influence: smoker’s friends do it. Studies show that this is especially true for girls. There's clear evidence that tobacco companies target children in their marketing. Some of the most effective are sports sponsorships - for example, boys are twice as likely to smoke if they follow car racing. Movies too: the more kids see their favorite movie stars smoking on the screen, the more likely they'll try it themselves. Some researchers think that tobacco advertising carries even more weight than peer influence. Teenagers usually smoke cigarettes because they are seeking the answer to try to be "cool" or try to be "adult". Sometimes, teens see their parents smoking and want to do it. This is a major problem because they want to be like their parents and sense they are adults, teens also want to feel like adults. A lot of adults and teens have depression and when they feel sad, smokers find cigarettes to "help" them go through their sadness. Not all people with depression smoke though. Take homeless people as an example. Smokers want to forget about their troubles and smoke weed or get drunk because homeless people think that getting high or drunk will make them happier. Sometimes, teens see their friends do it. Smoker’s friends are cool to them. Then...
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...Raeven Kaynette G. Benamer 9-St. James Equilibrated Life The advances on both health and technology that humanity has achieved as of today is one proof of how skilled and adept we have become. We keep inventing and discovering things that will help us and make our lives easier and tranquil. But, as time passes by we tend to be more dependent on these certain advances. We choose to be blind and not see how beneficial it is if we would take initiative if we would start acting right. We misuse, abuse and exhaust our body to its extent. Others do it for money, for a particular goal or purpose, the lack cautiousness and others simply because of boredom. If this will continue, I wouldn’t be shock if one day our ignorance will kill us. Our poor and irresponsible actions affect the people around us and ourselves of course. It damages our body externally and internally. The effects may not be obvious now but sooner or later it will be and we will start regretting the foolish actions we have done. We will only realize the value of preventing when cure is not obtainable anymore. Do not dig your own grave. One of the things which we don’t pay attention to is the Circulatory and Respiratory System. The health of the respiratory and circulatory system is critical and vital to our overall health. They both play a very important role in sustaining our body with its essential needs and enabling them to work accordingly without fail. We are not unfamiliar with these two systems;...
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...Would You Still Light Up? The current electronic cigarette was introduced to the world in 2004. It had an initial optimistic objective to offer smokers a third choice, other than quitting or suffering the consequences of smoking. The new device almost seemed unreal; it was an electronic device resembling the look of a normal cigarette with inhalable doses from a vaporized solution of nicotine. This invention allowed the e-cigarette companies to thrive from drastically multiplying sales rates. However, as popularity of these devices were booming, researchers and experts in the medical and scientific field started throwing doubts and questions about the safety of the products that we should not disregard. The United States Food and Drug Administration was not able to provide us with a clear answer, however, the negative indication hinted that electronic cigarettes were not as safe as they sounded or seemed. The risks and dangers of electronic cigarettes seem too high before any further research because of the posed threats towards children, questionable effectiveness for smokers themselves, and the produced harmful secondhand vapor. Although there was not enough emphasis on the level of danger yet, the use of electronic cigarettes have proven to be harmful for children and young adults in many ways. For example, recently there was an incident in Kansas that curious children have swallowed the refill liquids of electronic cigarettes. This consumption of the liquids containing...
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...Annotated Bibliography Toni Pease Ivy Tech Community College Cunha, D. (2014, September). Why Drug Testing Welfare Recipients Is a Waste of Taxpayer Money. In The Washington Post. Retrieved February 17, 2016, from http://web.b.ebscohost.com The findings of drug testing the recipients before giving them the benefits of welfare was proven to be a waste of tax payers’ money rather than helping ensure their money isn’t being wasted on the less desirable. The state of Tennessee did a case study on drug testing people before receiving benefits. Their study came out with the results that it’s actually less beneficial to do the drug testing because only 2.6% of applicants tested positive for drugs. They found that most of the recipients were actually taxpayers themselves who didn’t do drugs. Cunha and her husband fell in that category because they had been working many years. Just two weeks before they had their twins, prematurely, her husband got fired from his job. She had no choice but to apply for assistance for the sake of the children. The qualifications for getting assistance for children on the WIC program are based off of your household income and the amount of people in your household. Cunha states that “It’s not just a phone call and done,” it entails a lot more paperwork than that. There are lots of women who need to use the WIC program because their work doesn’t pay enough salary pay when they go on maternity leave for a couple months at a time to be with the baby. Honestly...
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...A SCIENTIFIC PAPER ON: THE SMOKING SYNDROME AND THE IMPEDIMENTS TO QUITTING SUBMITTED BY: THOMAS FE DEPARTMENT OF GENERAL MEDICINE & SURGERY NANJING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY, CHINA 1.1: ABSTRACT: This paper outlines the various impediments to quitting smoking and also attempts to recommend useful measures towards overcoming such difficulties. It thus became necessary to first assess the issue of smoking in terms of the geometrically increasing demographics, as well as the outstanding risks involved. However, it is both common knowledge and a well established fact that smoking has become a global practice and even a life style in some human communities, and hence herein referred to as the global smoking syndrome. This could be classified into varieties of styles brands and fashions cutting across but not limited to the classes of cigar, pipe and cigarette. The numerous terminal effects to human health, life and longevity are also assessed as established in already existing records and daily occurring incidences. However, from due assessment of all gathered facts, it thus becomes expedient that all the inter-playing forces of tradition, economy as well as social and psychological etiquettes must be duly addressed, if this global smoking syndrome must be curbed, as well as enhancing the poise to quit. 1.2: INTRODUCTION: Based on the ambition of furthering my medical studies in the perspective of cardiology, to...
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...world. I will get to that later on this paper. I feel like for you to talk about this type of situation you have to go through it. I first smoke marijuana when I was twenty-six or twenty-seven. But I started drinking when I was fifteen or sixteen. I tried smoking cigarettes but my body didn’t agree with that. I even tried cocaine two or three times in my life time. I definitely didn’t like that. I even tried ectasy for a while until I find out what it do to the brain cells. Out of all these drugs ectasy is the most deadliest drug that kill the most brain cell. They put all kinds of stuff in that pill, which is very scary. Out of all those that I tried, the only thing that I agree with is marijuana. Yes, I did started drinking before I did any of these things. But who didn’t, alcohol is the gateway drug. I don’t even like taking pills for headaches or colds, when my body aches. The only pills I take is for my high blood pressure. When I smoke I feel so relax and for some reason I can feel everybody vibe. It sounds weird but I do. It lets me know on what I need to do and things not to do. The only thing frightens me, when I smoke. My heart rate goes up when I have high blood pressure. After like thirty minutes after smoking, I’m cool. I have my composure, and I am back focus. I think the reason my heart rate race like that is because I have a lot of things on my mind. Stress is not good for your health. But why I stress to much when I am here the next day to make...
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