Introduction
In this case study, I will try to show evidence for the good (if any), and bad points of smoking. How it affects your health, and others around you. I will also come up with a conclusion at the end, and all necessary links used will be shown on the Bibliography page.
What are cigarettes made of Cigarettes are not just made of tar, tobacco and nicotine.
More than 600 additives can legally be added to tobacco products. These include coffee extract, sugar, vanilla, cocoa, menthol, oil from clove stems, caramel and chlorophyll, the compound that gives plants their green colour. Many appear to be present simply to add flavour.
How smoking damages lungs
Cigarette smoke contains many substances, which can damage the lungs. The actual smoke has two parts: tiny solid pieces, which contain tar, and the gas, which contains carbon monoxide and nitrogen oxides. Smoking takes these poisonous substances directly into your lungs. The filters in most cigarettes are of some benefit, but they still let most of the harmful chemicals into your lungs.
The tar in cigarette smoke damages cells in the airways of your lungs. Eventually this damage can produce cells that grow uncontrollably – leading to cancer of the lung or voice box. Because of this, your body sends protecting cells to your lungs to try and defend them, but cigarette smoke destroys them. The dead cells then release substances that damage the structure of the lung. This leads to ‘Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease’ (COPD).
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Cigarette smoke also releases substances into your bloodstream that damage other organs. The arteries can be affected in your heart, brain and other places. This can lead to angina, heart attacks, strokes and poor circulation. It also increases your chances of developing cancer in other areas of the body, such as the gullet or bladder.
The cancer risks that come with smoking
Lung cancer
lung cancer is the most common cancer in the world with 1.2 million new cases diagnosed every year. Until recently, lung cancer was the most frequently occurring cancer in the UK; it has now been overtaken by breast cancer but it still accounts for 1 in 7 new cancer cases, that is, around 38,400 new patients annually. In Britain, one person every fifteen minutes is diagnosed with lung cancer. Lung cancer is the cancer most commonly associated with smoking: around 90% of all lung cancers are caused by smoking, either directly, or through indirect exposure. The risk of dying from lung cancer increases with the number of cigarettes smoked per day, although duration of smoking is the strongest factor in getting lung cancer.
Breast cancer
Some studies have demonstrated a link between both active and passive smoking and breast cancer. The IARC review found that most epidemiological studies have found no link between active smoking and breast cancer but since its publication a new study found that among women who had smoked for 40 years or longer the risk of breast cancer was 60% higher that that of women who had never smoked in their lifetime. Kidney cancer
kidney cancer has consistently been found to be more common in smokers than in non-smokers, and there is now proper evidence to show that smoking is a risk factor for the two main types of kidney cancer. There is a dose-response relationship with increasing numbers of cigarettes per day and risk appears to drop after you stop smoking. Approximately 24% of kidney cancer cases in men and 9% in women can be found to be caused by smoking.
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Passive smoking
Non-smokers are at risk of getting lung cancer from exposure to other people’s smoke. The UK’s Scientific Committee on Tobacco and Health (SCOTH) found that the findings were consistent with an increased risk of lung cancer in non-smokers of between 20% and 30%.A review of the evidence by ‘SCOTH’ in 2004 re-confirmed that the increased risk was in the order of 24%.This means that passive smoking causes several hundred lung cancer deaths in non-smokers each year in the UK. The IARC review confirmed, “the evidence is sufficient to conclude that involuntary smoking is a cause of lung cancer in non-smokers”.
Smoking when pregnant
Smoking while pregnant puts both mother’s and baby’s life at risk. Currently, about 13 percent of pregnant women in the U.S. smoke during pregnancy. If all pregnant women stopped smoking while pregnant, there would be an estimated 10 percent reduction in infant deaths in this country, according to the U.S. Public Health Service. Smoking while pregnant should be a cause for concern. Cigarette smoke contains more than 2,500 chemicals, with nicotine, tar, and carbon monoxide thought to be the most dangerous to the fetus. Conclusion
In conclusion, I think I can clearly say that smoking is, in fact, NOT good for your health. There are no good reasons to even start smoking. The consequences include many different types of cancer, blindness, and even infertility (not being able to make babies).
Bibliography
http://news.bbc.co.uk/
http://www.ash.org.uk
http://www.health.discovery.com
