Tobacco Safety Movement
By: Dayanara Castellanos
Millions of people have died from using tobacco and are influencing smaller people to get addicted to tobacco. Tobacco has been going on for more then 400 years including 2014. Smoking can cause cancer, and can make you get diseases and can make you suffer a lot. Now we have less people that smoke because we have no ads,commercials and we also have health labels.
Tobacco affects your lungs and makes you have cancer. Almost 73% of people die each year from smoking tobacco. Tobacco can also make you get diseases and tobacco also makes you suffer of illnesses and can cause you death. Now we have health labels to warn people about cigars or tobacco. cigars have more Tobacco than a pack of cigarettes. if you can’t stop smoking cancer will take your health over.
Also your teeth can fall out. you can also get infection in parts of your body because of smoking tobacco. Smoking causes abdominal aortic aneurysm.Cigarette smoking causes coronary heart disease, the leading cause of death in the United States. Cigarette smokers are 2–4 times more likely to develop coronary heart disease than nonsmokers.
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in the United States for both men and women. Women smokers are 25.7 times more likely than women who never smoked to develop lung cancer. For men smokers, it’s 25 times the risk of men who never smoked. Besides lung cancer, tobacco use also increases the risk for cancers of the mouth, lips, nose and sinuses,
Damage to the lungs begins early in smokers, and cigarette smokers have a lower level of lung function than non-smokers of the same age. Lung function continues to worsen as long as the person smokes, but it may take years for the problem to become noticeable enough for lung disease to be diagnosed. Smoking causes many lung diseases that can be nearly as bad as lung cancer.
