Effects of Smoking
Estontee Glee
Everest University
There are so many different effects of smoking. Although we know all the problems that smoking can cause do we stop? No people continue to smoke. Not only causing harm to themselves but to the people around them. Studies have shown that cigarette smoking causes more than 480,000 deaths each year in the United States. (Centers for Disease Control Prevention, page 1) This is about one in five deaths. Smoking causes more deaths each year than all of these combined: HIV virus, illegal drug use, alcohol use, motor vehicle injuries and firearm related incidents. One in two lifetime smokers will die from their habit. Half of these deaths will occur in middle age.
Smoking harms nearly every organ in your body. Smoking causes so many diseases and reduces the health of smokers in general. People should know that by quitting smoking can lower your risk for smoke related diseases and can add years to your life. Smoking is the leading preventable cause of death in the United States says the U.S Department of Health and Human Services.
One fact is that more than 10 times as many U.S. citizens have died prematurely from cigarette smoking than have died in all the wars fought by the United States during its history (Terry Martin, 3).
Smoking cause about 9 out of 10 lung cancer deaths in both men and women. Lung cancer from smoking is caused by the tar in tobacco smoke. About 8 out of 10 deaths are caused from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and that comes from smoking. The risk of dying from cigarette smoking has increased over the last 50 years in men and women in the United States. Smokers are more likely than nonsmokers to develop heart disease, stroke, and lung cancer.
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Smoking is estimated to increase the risk for coronary heart disease by 2 to 4 times. Smoking causes diminished overall health, such as self-reported poor health, increased absenteeism from work, and increased health care utilization and cost says the article How Tabaco Causes Disease. Even people who smoke fewer than five cigarettes a day can have early signs of cardiovascular disease. So it really doesn’t matter how much or little you smoke it’s still bad for your body.
Smoking damages blood vessels and can make them thicken and grow narrower. This makes your heart beat faster and your blood pressure go up. Clots will also form in some cases. Smoking can cause lung disease by damaging your airways and the small air sacs (alveoli) found in your lungs. Smoking can cause cancer almost anywhere in your body like your bladder, blood, cervix, colorectal, liver, pancreas, ETC. If nobody smoked, one of every three cancer deaths in the United States would not happen. Smoking increases the risk of dying from cancer and other diseases in cancer patients and survivors.
What people don’t know it that heart disease holds the top slot in the list of diseases that kills smokers. (Terry Martin) This is a very big health risk. Hearth disease is the leading cause of death in the United States. Smoking is very hard on the heart, but the fact is, tobacco use plays a role in a multitude of diseases that ultimately lead to disability and or death. Smoking has a negative Impact on our body from head to toe.
Quitting smoking cuts cardiovascular risks. Just 1 year after quitting smoking, your risk for a heart attack drops sharply. Within 2 to 5 years after quitting smoking, your risk for stroke could fall to about the same as a nonsmoker’s. Ten years after quitting smoking, your risk for lung cancer drops half. (Fred H. Kelley) Quitting makes sense for many reasons but simply put: smoking kills and the effects of second hand smoke are also bad for the health of those around you.
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Maybe there’s a way to get people to stop smoking. Maybe there’s more we can do by going out and showing these people exactly what smoking is doing to their health and the health of others. There can be more campaigns in our communities to help people stop smoking. In these campaigns when can do slides shows with information as well as pictures to show what smoking does to your health and maybe getting a better look will help people stop smoking. If it doesn’t bring light to the adults it may help teenagers make better decisions when it comes to smoking. We can also trying get better smoking laws.
References
http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/health_effects/effects_cig_smoking
http://www.cdc.gov/nceh/radiation/fallon/polonium_factsheet.pd
http://www.quitguide.com/effects-of-smoking.html
http://betobaccofree.hhs.gov/health-effects/smoking-health/index.html
