To smoke or not to smoke? These days, most people know the answer "and yet 46 million Americans lit up last year, at least 1 million for the first time (Levingston 96). Despite the mounting evidence, the tobacco industry stubbornly defends its products, contending that no one has proved a cause-and-effect link between smoking and disease. On the contrary medical evidence now proves a multitude of diseases traced to smoking.
Heart Disease: More Americans die of coronary artery disease than any other illness, and smokers face twice the risk of dying from cardiac ailments. Smoking causes death by stroke and aneurysm and also leads to peripheral vascular disease.
Cancer: Studies today definitively show that smoking causes lung cancer "America's leading cancer killer "in both men and women. The risk of dying from the disease is twenty-two times higher for male smokers and twelve times higher for female smokers (Hollbrook 26).
Other Diseases: Smoking is the major cause of chromic obstructive lung diseases (including emphysema). It increases the risk of pneumonia and of gastric and duodenal ulcers. Smoking has been linked with prenatal deaths (due to respiratory difficulties and premature births) and with marked loss of hipbone density in both men and women (Hollbrook 26).
Aging: "Cigarette smoking increases wrinkling and speeds up skin aging, especially of combined with excessive sun exposure,"" says Dr. John H. Holbrook, a professor of internal medicine at the University of Utah School of Medicine. And smoking can make wrinkles, especially crows-feet, much more prominent (26).
Tooth Loss: Smokers are one and a half times more likely to suffer tooth loss that nonsmokers: tooth decay and gum disease are also more prevalent among smokers (Hollbrook 26).
Infertility: For reason that are still unclear, smoking seems to hamper the union of ovum and sperm. Early findings indicate that smoking diminishes sperm motility (Hollbrook 26).
Many of the characters from the novel Moth Smoke by Mohsin Hamid seem to be heading on an incendiary path to destruction. ... Moth smoke lingers. (151. ... He'll end up as nothing but moth smoke. Mumtaz, on the other hand, has not much to lose because this affair. ... He does not care for his actions because he knows his power protects him from being in trouble. ...
However, in watching the movie Smoke Signals, a movie that depicts the modern Native American culture, I learned many other things. ... The movie Smoke Signals was set in 1998, with reoccurring flashbacks to the 1980's on the Corde'line Indian reservation. ... I also saw that the clothing that the characters wore in this movie were clothes that many people wear, and although the cars they had might not be the best, they were not that behind most Americans, technology wise. ... Luckily, Thomas and Victor were okay; however, Arnold's problem with alcohol does not stop with this ...
I just smoke to ease the pain.aE This has been heard many times on television interviews of people giving a reason why they smoke marijuana. ... The psychoactive ingredient in marijuana is, however, currently available from pharmacies, there are many studies disproving the positive effects of smoking marijuana, and ingesting a "medicineaE by smoke inhalation is not good for the body. ... A dosage of the medication could help control the pain by regulating the time it is administered.Next, people should automatically realize that a drug ingested by smoke inhalation could not be g...
When smoke enters the ionization chamber, the smoke particles attach to the ions and neutralize them, so they do not reach the plate. ... Under smoke free conditions, the light beam crosses the top of the T in an uninterrupted straight line, not striking the photocell position at a right angle below the beam. ... The battery does not have to be replaced as frequently as a 9-volt powered smoke detector. ... The advantages are because they do not use batteries, electrical smoke detectors are easier to maintain, and the smoke detector is never disabled because of the lack of a battery. ... Howev...
There is no one who smokes that has not heard of this warning. ... Although such a warning exists in every cigarette pack, teenagers are not fully aware of the long term and short term affects of smoking. ... Therefore, more nonsmokers will choose not to start smoking and more smokers will choose to quit especially teenagers because of their low income. ... Furthermore, minors who smoke nowadays, when caught are only given a citation. ... When the definition of being "cool" is not to smoke, teenagers will adherently give away from smoking. ...
It is Immoral to Smoke Smoking is immoral. ... Smoking also kills people who do not smoke, whether you know it or not, whenever you are in contact with a smoking you are breathing in what they are breathing out. ... No one really thinks before they smoke. ... When I have smoked I did not care about dying or not; I did not care whether the person I was smoking next to was going to develop cancer either. ... He smoked on a regular basis for 10 years. ...
So why do so many people smoke? ... Also noted, was that regular smokers report adverse mood swings when they have not smoked recently, with feelings of stress and irritability building up during periods of nicotine withdrawal. "Smoking doesn't make the smoker less irritable or vulnerable to annoyance, not smoking or insufficient nicotine makes him more vulnerable." ... Cigarette smoke contains over 4,000 known chemical compounds (U.S. ... (Kassel, 2003) Even though stress could be factored as the main reason of smoking, you should not factor that as the main reason one smokes. ...
The tobacco industry currently seems to not be trying to completely rebuke the effects of secondhand smoke, but appear to be trying to downplay the evidence. ... Despite all the attention given to lung cancer, it may not be the most significant health effect of secondhand smoke. ... The evidence on the effects of secondhand smoke and heart disease is not as abundant as that on lung cancer, but of the studies conducted, they consistently show an elevated risk of heart disease with exposure to secondhand smoke. ... If that does not work, ask them and visitors who smoke to do so outside of you...
The molecules from the smoke remain in the air hours after smoking, so even if the home seems to be smoke-free, it really is not (Koerber 2). ... Parents who smoke in their child's environment may believe that their smoke is not child abuse when in reality, it is abuse. ... Courts now may tell a smoking parent not to smoke in the home or car, for the benefit of the child (Rutter 2). ... Children under eighteen years old do not have a choice but to inhale the smoke forced upon them. ... Smokers can choose not to smoke, but non-smokers cannot choose not to breathe because it is a necessity ...