Just imagine a family enjoying a calm sunny day at the park. The birds are singing
the breeze is cool and refreshing when all of a sudden puff-puff the magic dragon walks
by blowing smoke along the way. While they gag on someone else’s addiction and watch
as they take one last long draw from their chemical stick and drop it on what was once
the nice clean pavement, and snuff it out with their shoe leaving a black sooty stain
behind. This crude and possibly over exaggerated image is something that many people
go through every day. Is it fair for someone who works hard to keep their body healthy to
have to cross the street to avoid a smoker’s cloud of death? Smoking negatively impacts
people’s health, appearance and is hazardous to the other people around them. Smoking can lead to serious health defects, there is only one product that kills 1/3 of all the people who use it, and that product is tobacco. Tobacco is one of the many ingredients in cigarettes, along with thousands of other chemicals such as carcinogens, tar, ammonia formaldehyde, benzene and nicotine; all these lovely chemicals cause things such as growth of tumors in human tissue and cancer (Torr). Some other lovely diseases caused by smoking are chronic lung disease, coronary heart disease, and stroke (Chart). Even if a person is lucky and never gets one of these many deadly diseases this does not mean they get away scot free. Sounding like a frog is caught in their throat 24/7 with a nice side of whopping, phlegm filled cough is another side effect of smoking (Torr). Even with all these health effects affecting their daily life many people still decide to smoke. If parents do not know what cigarettes are doing to their health, they won’t know what smoking is also doing to their children. The EPA estimates that second hand smoke kills roughly 3,000 Americans from lung cancer (Torr). There is 150,000 to 300,000 children under 18 months who contract pneumonia or bronchitis as a result of second hand smoke (Torr). So this means parents making …show more content…
Smoking yellows people’s nails and teeth. There has been talk of raising the
taxes on cigarettes to help prevent or limit smokers from smoking. Young adults are
about twice as price sensitive as adults, estimates show that nearly 8% of all teen smokers
will reduce or quite their smoking habit if taxes for cigarettes is raised 10% (Leverett)
Now some people argue that all these anti-cigarette commercials are exaggerative
and even outlandish. Comparing a box of cigarettes to a rare alien looking monster,
which spits out poisonous chemicals to get a visual of how cigarettes really are, is a bit
too much. Some people will argue that it is their body and they can do with it what they
please; others will say it is a form of self-expression. One way smoking is over
exaggerated is in its statistics, according to the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC), nearly 400,000 people die from smoking each year (Torr). But what
confuses the numbers that many of the deaths are only associated with cigarettes not
necessary the cause of them. People who had other health problems to begin with who
also smoked, and died from their previous health problems, were stilled considered to be
deaths due to smoking.
the breeze is cool and refreshing when all of a sudden puff-puff the magic dragon walks
by blowing smoke along the way. While they gag on someone else’s addiction and watch
as they take one last long draw from their chemical stick and drop it on what was once
the nice clean pavement, and snuff it out with their shoe leaving a black sooty stain
behind. This crude and possibly over exaggerated image is something that many people
go through every day. Is it fair for someone who works hard to keep their body healthy to
have to cross the street to avoid a smoker’s cloud of death? Smoking negatively impacts
people’s health, appearance and is hazardous to the other people around them. Smoking can lead to serious health defects, there is only one product that kills 1/3 of all the people who use it, and that product is tobacco. Tobacco is one of the many ingredients in cigarettes, along with thousands of other chemicals such as carcinogens, tar, ammonia formaldehyde, benzene and nicotine; all these lovely chemicals cause things such as growth of tumors in human tissue and cancer (Torr). Some other lovely diseases caused by smoking are chronic lung disease, coronary heart disease, and stroke (Chart). Even if a person is lucky and never gets one of these many deadly diseases this does not mean they get away scot free. Sounding like a frog is caught in their throat 24/7 with a nice side of whopping, phlegm filled cough is another side effect of smoking (Torr). Even with all these health effects affecting their daily life many people still decide to smoke. If parents do not know what cigarettes are doing to their health, they won’t know what smoking is also doing to their children. The EPA estimates that second hand smoke kills roughly 3,000 Americans from lung cancer (Torr). There is 150,000 to 300,000 children under 18 months who contract pneumonia or bronchitis as a result of second hand smoke (Torr). So this means parents making …show more content…
Smoking yellows people’s nails and teeth. There has been talk of raising the
taxes on cigarettes to help prevent or limit smokers from smoking. Young adults are
about twice as price sensitive as adults, estimates show that nearly 8% of all teen smokers
will reduce or quite their smoking habit if taxes for cigarettes is raised 10% (Leverett)
Now some people argue that all these anti-cigarette commercials are exaggerative
and even outlandish. Comparing a box of cigarettes to a rare alien looking monster,
which spits out poisonous chemicals to get a visual of how cigarettes really are, is a bit
too much. Some people will argue that it is their body and they can do with it what they
please; others will say it is a form of self-expression. One way smoking is over
exaggerated is in its statistics, according to the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC), nearly 400,000 people die from smoking each year (Torr). But what
confuses the numbers that many of the deaths are only associated with cigarettes not
necessary the cause of them. People who had other health problems to begin with who
also smoked, and died from their previous health problems, were stilled considered to be
deaths due to smoking.