Smoking is the inhalation of the smoke of burning tobacco that is in cigarettes, pipes, and cigars. One in four people in the world today smoke and about 5.4 million people die each year from smoking. Smoking is the leading preventable cause of death to date. People with smoking habits have an increase chance of getting cancer (such as lung cancer and heart cancer), respiratory diseases (such as asthma), and cardiovascular disease (such as a heart attack, stroke, and high blood pressure). Also women who take birth control pills have a high risk of getting a stroke. So why do people smoke if it’s going to cause problems down the road? Well in most cases people smoke because they may be under stress and smoking slows your body down which helps them relax.
Smoking causes damage to your body as soon as you inhale. The damage occurs to the cilia in your body. Cilia are hair like extensions that help move cells around your body through fluid (such as blood). Symptoms of smoking include: - coughing
- wheezing
- fatigue
- lack of concentration
- insomnia
- hunger
Smoking can spread diseases throughout your body from head to toe; Mouth: smoking can cause mouth cancer. It can cause gum disease, tooth decay, and bad breath. Teeth start to turn yellow. If there are narrowed blood vessels to the brain it can lead to strokes. It also can cause headaches and lack of oxygen.
Lungs: lung cancer can occur. Smoke passes through the bronchi which can cause chronic coughing.
Heart: smoking can cause heart cancer and heart attacks. The nicotine that’s in cigarettes raises blood pressure and makes the blood clot more easily. There is also a loss of circulation in your fingers and toes.
Organs: The tar in smokes can cause cancer in your throat and esophagus. Smoking causes damage to your kidneys. Also people have a high rate of getting pancreatic cancer.
In conclusion, smoking is a deadly habit and people should know the consequences of being a smoker but the reality of it is no one seems to care. Even though our economy is at a down point right now people still chose to buy cigarettes even though they have no money to buy things that are important like food. All over the world stores sell these death sticks to people legally and pretty soon down the road when the death rate increases, we’re going to have no one to blame but ourselves for allowing this to happen.
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References
(1997) How Smoking Affects Your Body
http://www.quitsmoking.com/kopykit/reports/body.htm
Jordan Meyers (1999) How Does Smoking Affect Your Body?
http://www.ehow.com/how-does_4564385_smoking-affect-body.html
(2010) Smoking
http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/smoking
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ReplyDeleteI agree, smoking is a terrible habit many people have. I also like all the examples of cancers you can get and the other effects like the coughing and insomnia. However, I would have liked to hear more about how it effects the cilia in our body and exactly what that ends up doing to our body. Overall though I thought this was a great post and very informative.
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ReplyDeleteThis post was very well put together. The information was outstanding and all the consequences and examples were well described. I agree with all your point as i greatly disagree with the bad habit that alot of people have taken up. In my opinion, it's useless as there is no positive effects of it. Some people may say well it relieves stress, to be honest, that's just an excuse, there is many other ways out there to relieve stress on yourself, you just have to find something that works for your body that isn't going to do any damage.
Something little to add maybe could have been some kind of statistics, such as how much of our population is suffering from the consequecnces of smoking compared to the population of the world. This is because it seems we have a pretty weathly economy in general so it seems probable that our statistics of either ontario, or even just canada could be higher then the worlds.
In addition, i didn't know that smoking did damage to your cilia and kind of wonder how much damage it actually can do over time. Or how many smokes it takes for the damage to start taking place.
This post was very well written. It provided a lot of information, and some very good statistics. 1 in every 4 people is a lot! What's scarier is that every year the age of smokers seems to become younger and younger. Kids don't even have to be legal to smoke anymore because they manage to find a way to get smokes without being legal.
ReplyDeleteDid you know that in the US, over 54 000 people die annually from second-hand smoke?
What is your risk of getting heart cancer if you start smoking? Obviously not everyone does, but what is the risk amount that you will?