Some people smoke and some people do not, each group defends their own values. People who smoke often think that it does no immediate harm so it is okay or they make up excuses such as, “It helps with stress.” There are many more disadvantages to smoking than advantages in my opinion. One such negative point would be the risk of one's own health. There would also be a risk to the health of others! Also, if a child grows up in a stressful environment wear adults smoke, they often start smoking at an early age themselves.
Smoking harms nearly organ of the body. Smoking affects everything from the functioning of organs to the efficiency of the body's immune system. The effects of cigarette smoking are destructive and widespread. Smoking causes many diseases and reduces the health of smokers in general. In the United States, “smoking accounts for an estimated 90% of all lung cancer deaths in men and 80% of all lung cancer deaths in women and an estimated 90% of all deaths from chronic obstructive lung disease are caused by smoking”.
Also, secondhand smoke could be a problem too. A couple solutions to this problem are to stop the media promoting smoking and to educate teens about smoking and how it's bad for you. Cigarette smoking is the greatest preventable cause of disease and premature death in the United States. Secondhand smoke causes numerous lung cancer deaths annually. Measures have been taken in both workplaces and public places to limit exposure to secondhand smoke.
Effect of Warning Labels on Smoker Author Note Effect of Warning Labels on Smokers Smoking is one of the leading causes of death in nowadays (World Health Organization, 2012), but people continue to smoke. Governments attempt to discourage smoking by different ways. In many countries, the warning labels printed on the cigarette packs. In some countries illustrate just image labels, in some just text-only warning labels. Therefore a lot of experiments have shown that warning labels on cigarette packs are more effective in engaging smokers.
However much of the damage is done to the health of smokers when they begin to use it as a substitute for depression, stress or even anxiety. There has been many interventions by local, national and international communities to warn the people about the dangers of smoking, the long term effect and health implications it has on the human body. The result of such interventions has highlighted that some decide to carry on smoking as a form of habit. Health promotional theories have identified that there are other more deep seated issues that influence the reason for a person to take up certain habits and are commonly stemmed from social, cultural, environmental, political and economic influences (Raingruber, Year). Hence careful attention must be taken when dealing with health promotion with any environment as not one size fits all.
c Most people know that smoking can cause lung cancer, but it can also cause many other cancers and illnesses. Smoking harms nearly every organ of the body. The most obvious effect is the deterioration of a smoker's health. This is not just for smokers but to nonsmokers too, because you do not have to have a cigarette in your hand to be smoking, for example, if your parents smoke you get second hand smoke which is technically the same thing because you are still inhaling smoke actually even more. Smoking increases the risk of lung disease, for instance, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) that is a collective term for a group of diseases such as emphysema, chronic bronchitis.
There are many consequences to smoking like health problems, addiction, and economic costs. Second hand smoke is a major problem, since smoking is allowed in a lot of places. Second hand smoke has fifty cancer causing chemicals which are inhaled by non-smokers. Second hand tobacco smoke is also called Environment Tobacco Smoke (ETS). ETS is made up of the smoke that comes from the end of a cigarette, pipe or cigar called side-stream smoke.
While a cloud of smoke irritates non-smokers and makes it difficult to breathe that dense smoke, smokers feel jittery, anxious, and inconvenienced when they must go outside and distance themselves from public places. These common places are for people to socialize and to have a good time. The truth is everyone has encountered an uncomfortable situation like this before. Although many people may agree or disagree with the fact that smoking in public places is affecting everybody, it was happening until recently when the government banned smoking in public places, and this has created controversies between smokers and nonsmokers. Although smokers have needs, nonsmokers have a right to clean air and to a safe environment; including the fact that smoking is a huge risk for both smokers and nonsmokers, inconvenience, and a bad influence on younger generation.
There currently is no cure for COPD however, treatment and lifestyle changes can help patients to feel better and slow down the advancement of the disease. The leading causes of COPD are smoking, exposure to secondhand smoke, and chemicals. People who suffer from COPD have blocked tubes that carry air back and forth from the lungs. Side effects caused by the disease include coughing that causes large amounts of phlegm, wheezing, shortness of breath, frequent respiratory infections, and chest tightness (National Heart Lung and Blood Institute,
Cigarette smoking has caused lung cancer to many smokers and even non-smokers. Cigarette tobacco smoke is released from the burning end of a cigarette and the smoke exhaled by the smoker. Tobacco smoke pollution causes or exacerbates a wide range of adverse health effects, including cancer, respiratory infections, and asthma. Secondhand smoke contains over 4,000 chemicals. Two hundred of the chemicals are poisons and at least 69 cause cancer and other diseases (Tobacco Smoke Pollution).