The Safety Of Tobacco Safety

By: Pooyan Hashemi

When Did Smoking Start and What It Does

Smoking or the use of tobacco has started almost 400 years ago and it still goes on today. Smoking can seriously damage your body, you’ll have to attach a machine inside of your body. Everyday people die because of smoking. People think that smoking is cool. Also kids that have a family member who smoke, they are more likely to smoke when they get older and then it will happen again and more people will die. Advertisement companies have banned and took off smoking ads. Ads are the most popular way to get peoples attention and smoke. Smoking can make you grumpy and angry. There have been many changes in the United States towards tobacco, let’s get started at the beginning.

 

Why Is Tobacco Bad For You

Tobacco is a plant made on farms and sold in stores. Cigarettes, tobacco and cigars are very bad for your heart. Smoking can cause heart, lung, cancer and disease. Tobacco has chemicals that weren’t in tobacco 400 years ago. Tobacco has nicotine that gets people addicted to smoking pipes, cigars, cigarettes, and tobacco. 7.3% people smoke. Firsthand smoking is worse than second hand smoking. It is worse because the smoke that you are smoking goes to your lungs and all of the organs in your body and will cause diseases that can keep you from being healthy or from breathing properly. Tobacco killed 1 billion people in the 21st century. The action on smoking of health (ASH) has been against smoking and has been taking out anything that involves smoking.

 

The Tobacco Protester

 

People have known for a long time that smoking is bad for you.  Mohammed Hassan Husayni Nouri Shirazi was Iranian (میرزای شیرازی). He was against tobacco and was called the “Tobacco protest”.  “The Tobacco Protest, was by the Shah to Great britain

 

Smoking also tar and carbon dioxide.

Tobacco, cigarettes and cigars are made up with dried leaves and has over 7,000 chemicals. Tobacco has chemicals such as

  • Methanol (wood alcohol)
  • cyanide
  • benzene
  • formaldehyde
  • acetylene (the fuel used in welding torches)
  • ammonia
  • nicotine

 

Cigars have as much as tobacco than 1 pack of cigarettes. THAT IS A LOT OF TOBACCO!!. People who smoke cigars everyday will have a better chance of getting heart cancer or heart disease.

Who Smokes

  • Each day, 3,200 people under 18 smoke their first cigarette and 2,100 youth and young adults become daily smokers.
  • 9 out of 10 people smoke before the age of 18 and 98% of people start smoking until age 26.
  • 1 in 5 adults and teenagers smoke.
  • In 2011, an estimated 19% of U.S. adults were cigarette smokers.
  • Approximately 18% of high school students smoke cigarettes.
  • In 2011, nearly 18% of high school boys were current cigar users.
  • From 1964 to 2014, the proportion of adult smokers declined from 42.0% to 18.0%.

Why is smoking harmful to smokers?

General Health

  • More than 16 million people already have at least one disease from smoking.
  • More than 20 million Americans have died because of smoking since 1964, including approximately 2.5 million deaths due to exposure to secondhand smoke.
  • 8.6 million people live with a serious illness caused by smoking.
  • On average, smokers die 13 to 14 years earlier than nonsmokers.

Cancer

  • Smoking causes many other types of cancer, including cancers of the throat, mouth, nasal cavity, esophagus, stomach, pancreas, kidney, bladder, and cervix, as well as acute myeloid leukemia.
  • Men with prostate cancer who smoke may be more likely to die from the disease than nonsmokers.

Children

  • 5.6 million children alive today will ultimately die early from smoking. That is equal to 1 child out of every 13 alive in the U.S. today.

Overall smoking isn’t something to do if someone else is doing it. People do it to get attention that they like. If you smoke then it will be a daily habit to you or maybe even your friends. Next time you were planning on smoking with your friends, DON’T. It is really bad for you and will keep you fat or overweight. To sum up all of the reasons of smoking. If smoking needs to be stopped then ask a doctor, pharmacists or even friends and family members can help for your life and healthiness and for love of your loved ones. Remember smoking has consequences for your actions that you do with friends or alone.

 

Why Is Smoking Bad For The Environment
Smoking is bad for the environment because smoking destroys the air that we breathe through. Smoking can give people allergies when you smoke in front of them. There are lots of fines where people smoke such as elevators, malls, stores, cars, playgrounds and in other countries, you can smoke at all or you get arrested or a big fine. Smoking kill plants and trees.