Then there's the most known "side-effect" oral cancer. Using chew tobacco has a direct effect on oral health. Cancers that distress the lips, gums, cheeks, or palate are quite frequent ("Smokeless"). Developing heart disease as a result of smokeless tobacco is not as familiar to folks as oral cancer. The user is at a greater risk of heart problems when using snuff.
Weed, Pot, Mary Jane. Those are just some of the slang terms for a very controversial problem with the youth of America. This problem is Marijuana. Whether someone is an experimental smoker, long-time, or every now and then, we are not %100 sure of the effects of this drug. There is evidence saying marijuana is very harmful to the body and there is also research that says it only harms the lungs, as done with the inhalation of any kind of smoke.
Sophie Zinolidis QUIT SMOKING Smoking is bad and we all know it. But not many knows why it’s so dangerous. They just know it’s a fact. And even more important, there are several bad things that comes with smoking and still so many people smoke. So why is smoking bad for you?
Drugs have been out of control in the past few years, and the numbers have just continued to grow. One of the main drugs being abused is Methamphetamine. In today’s society Methamphetamine has sky rocketed to abusers too people cooking this drug in their own homes the numbers are outrageous. Methamphetamine is a horror drug once you use it your addicted. Meth addiction harms the body in a horrific way, the drug is made up of chemicals that can kill a person also leading to the addiction, and in order to get over the drug it’s a continuous battle the person must want it for themself, and have the strength over their own mind they can’t be weak or they will fail and relapse.
Most e-cigarettes contain nicotine which is a highly addictive substance, on top of toxic chemicals like diethylene glycol (DEG), which it can be found in anti-freeze. DEG is a colorless,practically odorless, poisonous, and hygroscopic liquid with a sweetish taste. It can be contaminant in consumer products; this has resulted in numerous epidemics of poisoning since the early 20th century. Dr. Frank Leone, a pulmonary expert at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, said, “A top concern is the nicotine delivery rate, with nicotine patches and gum, nicotine is regulated, but with e-cigarettes, heat creates free base form of nicotine that is more addictive. Once addicted, the body will crave nicotine”.
8/21/2014 Diagnostic Assignment Is smoking really all that bad for adolescents? Some say that it does not affect the teenagers because they will stop before they are 20, however, that is not the case. Once you start smoking it is almost impossible to stop and you have already infested your lungs with the puffs of smoke. The moment the tobacco enters your lungs you are putting your health in danger. Lung cancer, bronchitis, and heart diseases are all effects of smoking tobacco.
Lori E. Miller English 102-47 Mrs. Vanderzell February 26, 2012 The Electronic Cigarette: Cure or New Form of Addiction We live in a world of advertisement and deceptive media that makes products appear to be healthier and more effective than they really may be. Advertiser’s associate products with qualities unrelated to the actual product like sexiness, success or status. For years the tobacco industry has sold us cigarettes by associating them with qualities like manliness and sophistication despite the emerging evidence that cigarettes are extremely harmful to our health and a major cause of cancer.. Not only are cigarettes a cause of many health conditions, it is also a very expensive habit in this day and age. Cigarettes cost nearly
More or less it’s been good and bad. I ask why hasn’t marijuana been legalized across the country only because America has accepted much worse. There are substances sold daily that are far more damaging to the people of United States and its communities. Alcohol and tobacco is a substance that can cause long-term and short-term damage to the body. Alcohol alone can cause “high blood pressure, heart disease, stroke, liver disease, digestive problems” as well as depression, anxiety, and more (Alcohol and Public Health, 2014).
According to the article rebuttal written by Ken L. Williams, “Marijuana Legalization”, he states,”From a health perspective, marijuana smoke is a highly toxic substance and associated with an increased risk of lung cancer. Unknown by many, the continued efforts by proponents to decriminalize marijuana use also is based on unscientific medical studies, poor research and other studies involving pharmaceutical-grade THC, not home-grown marijuana. The medical facts are: Marijuana is an unstable mixture of over 400 chemicals, including toxic psychoactive chemicals with uncontrolled strengths”.(K. Williams, 2011) “Smoking a marijuana cigarette sediment more or less three to five times additional tar into the lungs relatively one filtered cigarette. Smoking three to four joints daily, bringing about like as much damage to the respiratory system the same as smoking a full pack of cigarettes every day.
These percentages are extremely high and it almost seems as if people are happy with paying towards their own deaths. Many people don’t realize how serious the effects of smoking actually are, it not only affects the smoker, but the people around the smoker by secondhand smoke, also known as environmental tobacco smoke. Exposure to secondhand smoke does cause cancer as nonsmokers inhale the smoke. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the U.S. National Toxicology Program (NTP), the U.S. Surgeon General, and the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) have classified secondhand smoke as a known “human carcinogen (cancer-causing agent)”.