Tobacco
Uploaded by hkfooey33 on Nov 28, 2000
Smoking is one of the most preventable causes of death in our society. About one in five deaths in the US are results from using tobacco. About half all of smokers between of 35 and 69 die ahead of time and new smokers like teenagers replace them. Smokers could be losing an average of 20 to 25 years of their life. Sometimes,while I am around an adult that smokes,the smoking makes the house smell awful and affects my breathing and respiratory system. I have many reasons to why I think this. Smoking gives you cancer, shortens your life,and affects others around you and yourself just from one cigarette. Every time you smoke, it’s like cutting 5 minutes of your life and never gives you your original looks back. About 430,000 people in the US die every year from smoking related problems.
Smoking is an expensive habit. The average cost of a pack is $4.00 and the average smoker smokes a pack a day. In one year that’s wasting about $1,460or more a year! The tobacco industry makes billions of dollars each year and they don’t even care about your existence.All they want is your money and for to keep buying they’re product. The company adds nicotine, which is highly addictive. You can’t stop buying the product and if you buy more cigarettes, the company earns more. The nicotine can raise your blood pressure, heart rate, and the oxygen demand for muscles, mainly in the heart. Second-hand smoke affects others as well as you.
Secondhand smoke comes from two places: smoke breathed out by the person who smokes, and smoke from the end of a burning cigarette. Secondhand smoke causes health effects, including cancer, breathing problems, and asthma. Secondhand smoke contains thousands of chemicals and 95 percent are poisons. Secondhand smoke is responsible for between 150,000 and 300,000 respiratory infections in infants and children under 18 months. About 37,000 non-smokers die each year because of it. A person who doesn’t smoke and is married to a smoker has a 30% greater chance of getting lung cancer than the wife/husband of a nonsmoker. People with asthma are at greater risk than to a person who doesn’t have asthma. It gives breathing complications and if they were to exercise, it could be almost three times more harder just to do simple exercises like walking,jumping jacks, and even stretching.
When you stop smoking you...