“Smoking before surgery puts you at a higher risk for postoperative heart attacks, blood clots, pneumonia and even death,” says general surgeon Kevin El-Hayek, MD. “When I schedule surgery, I tell my patients they should stop smoking right away.” In comparing smokers with former smokers researchers found that smokers were not only 17 percent more likely to die, but also 53 percent more likely to have serious heart and lung problems (Smoking Before Surgery Increases Risk of Death). Cigarette smoking is extremely dangerous for a smoker and even those around the smoker. The smoke from the cigarette and the smoke exhaled by a smoker are causes of secondhand smoking. Each
Smoking and its effect on the circulatory system While there are many different types of drugs worldwide, nicotine is by far the most widely used drug of abuse and one of the most addictive. (National Institute on Drug Abuse, 2008; Psychology Today, 2010). US researchers have estimated that one in five deaths each year, more than 400,000 deaths are as a result of smoking. Illegal drug use and alcohol abuse are on the increase and so is the spread of sexually transmitted diseases like HIV The current economic situation has seen a rise in suicides and murders being committed. While these have presented large mortality rates, tobacco causes more deaths than all the above combined.
This group of drugs includes cocaine, methamphetamine, as well s nicotine. Though amphetamine does have some positive effects, including, a stimulation of cognitive activity and control of impulses, the greater effects are much ore detrimental. Due to is relative simplicity of manufacturing and overwhelming abundance; methamphetamine use is a plague on America. I personally have seen people deteriorate before my eyes due to methamphetamine use. Cocaine is another stimulant that often leads to dependence in users.
Additionally, more people have died from smoking cigarettes than from car accidents, or from Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). Once a person starts smoking cigarettes, it is really hard to quit. Also, smoking cigarettes is really harmful to people around them, especially pregnant women and children. Furthermore, government health
Introduction Big Tobacco, the leading tobacco companies in the industry strategically exploits the marginalized groups to maximize their bottom line. The marginalized community, which includes society, most socially and economically challenge such as youths, the homeless, the mentally challenged, those with substance-abuse problems, anxiety and depression are at a tremendous disadvantage and the habit of smoking brings significant financial and health burden to these individuals. Research has shown that 25 percent of the United States adult population has some form of mental illness or substance abuse disorder, 65.2 percent of adult smokers also use alcohol and 44.3 percent of all tobacco sold in the United States is consumed by this marginalized
Cigarettes are also one of the top purchased items in the world. “Worldwide, approximately 10 million cigarettes are purchased a minute, 15 billion are sold each day, and upwards of 5 trillion are produced and used on an annual basis” (Martin). Smoking is harmful to smokers and even the people and environment that surround them. The smoke from tobacco contains over 4,000 chemical, 450 of those chemicals are very harmful and even deadly to humans (“Tobacco”). Cigarette smoking should be banned because they are harmful to the smokers’ health, they’re harmful to nonsmokers’ health, as well as, being harmful to our environment; however, banning the use cigarettes could be very detrimental for our economy.
Your skin loses oxygen and minerals, which can cause premature aging. Nicotine also causes your skin, teeth and fingernails to turn yellow. Also, the opposing side may also say that smoking cigarettes relieves stress, but for those who are teenagers smoking cigarettes it causes a lot of depression. They are 15 more times likely than non smokers to get panic attacks. The nicotine constricts the blood vessels which prevents breathing, anxiety attacks are more
Good Morning class as you may already know of me and for those who don’t know me , today I will be presenting about smoking , Why people do it , What it does to your health and why we should prohibit it Why People Smoke First of all I would like to talk about "Why people smoke" , 1. Most people start smoking when they are in their teens and are addicted by the time they reach adulthood. Some have tried to quit but have returned to cigarettes because smoking is such a strong addiction. It is a habit that is very difficult to break. There are many different reasons why people smoke.
They do not realize that people die a lot more often from smoking than any illegal drug or alcohol-related problems. In fact over 440,000 deaths in America alone are caused by cigarettes and other tobacco products. Even though smoking is dangerous, we must be careful of those around as well. Second-hand smoke is even more dangerous than first-hand smoke. In fact, it can cause coronary heart disease in 25% to 30% more people who are around a someone who smokes.
]: Addiction is in a cigarette. Probing into what makes a cigarette so irresistible and addicting, it is for thenicotine found naturally in tobacco that the smoker smokes. Nicotine produces pleasurable feelings that make the smoker want to smoke more. However, it paralyzes breathing muscles, causes the resting heart rate of a smoker to increase 2 to 3 beats, and because nicotine also affects the chemistry of the brain and central nervous system, it affects the mood and temperament of the smoker. Hence, nicotine is in a cigarette.