Babe Ruth's Responsibility In The Tobacco Industry

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Tobacco Company’s Responsibility’s George Harrison, the guitarist and singer for one of the most revolutionary bands in American history, The Beatles, died from advanced throat cancer at the age of 58. Babe Ruth, one of the greatest sports heroes in American culture, passed away at the age of 53 due to oral cancer. Both of the historical figures listed grew up in different time periods but still knew little about the harmful effects of partaking in the use of tobacco products. Neither of them could predict their impending doom. They are just two of the millions of people who have perished from using tobacco. Babe Ruth passed away many years before there was any knowledge of the detrimental effects of tobacco and by the time it was discovered…show more content…
The American Cancer Society states that lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death for both men and women. Cigarette smoking is directly responsible for 87% of lung cancer cases in the United States annually. Secondhand smoke, which is the inhalation of smoke from another’s smoking, is a cause of lung cancer in nonsmokers (“Lung Cancer and Smoking Cigarettes”). According to the American Cancer Society, an estimated 3,000 adults that do not smoke will die each year from lung cancer due to breathing in secondhand smoke. Smoking cigarettes is by far the main contributor to lung cancer. Cigarette smoke contains over 60 known carcinogens. The time a person smokes, as well as the rate of smoking, increases the person’s chance of developing lung cancer. If a person stops smoking, this chance steadily decreases as damage to the lungs is repaired and cancer causing agents are gradually removed. Tobacco companies are not responsible for what people do in their free time they are simply making a product that people like and making money in the meantime. The tobacco companies have a warning label on their product that expresses the harmful effects tobacco and the chemicals inside of tobacco products have on your body, therefore the consumers are fully aware of the damage they do to their health each time they use a tobacco product but simply do not care because they are…show more content…
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