Cigarettes : America 's Most Detrimental Drug

The article gives information about the nationwide regulation restricting nicotine cigarettes in the U.S in terms of their promising outcomes such as reducing smoking among the youth and several trends of using tobacco-related products in a 10-year period. Furthermore, the authors also point put some possible challenges associated with cigarette withdrawal.

Tobacco has been around in the world for over 2.5 million years. It was not until a few hundred years ago when the tobacco industry decided to put these crops into use and conjure up tobacco products for the community. A popular tobacco product in society is cigarettes, as they are cheap and simple to use. As long as one is over eighteen, acquiring cigarettes is a straightforward process for a reasonable price, albeit the sin tax. It was not until recently when cigarettes became widely controversial due to the plant containing nicotine, an addictive drug to the body. Aside from containing nicotine and other hazardous chemicals to the body, cigarettes also cause a whole host of health implications

Cigarette contains different poisonous ingredients, and nicotine is the one that creates addiction and leads to different diseases. Smoking cigarette is one of the worst problems our world is facing and the main reason for this term to be stressful is its consequence. Cigarette can cause different diseases that can directly or indirectly lead to death; “tobacco use is responsible for nearly 1 in 5 deaths in the united states” (cigarette smoking). Most of the time this consequence highly exists on young smokers or victims can be affected by the consequence because they started smoking young. In the United States 18 is the legal age for smoking cigarette and people are still using this law, but it is now the right time for a

The use of tobacco is a very controversial topic here in the United States. The harmful side effects of tobacco are well known and consequently, many believe that it should be outlawed. Though this has not yet occurred, constant regulations on the industry and

There are over 1.1 billion smokers in the world-- fifteen percent of the entire population. It is said that one in every three adults is a chronic smoker. Even in America, one of the most progressive countries in the world, forty-two million (about 12.5%) people smoke chronically. Given this astonishing number, it is no surprise that smoking is the leading cause of preventable death in the United States, responsible for one in every five deaths. Only to add to that, more than 16 million Americans live with a smoking related disease. Since the 1960’s the United States government has attempted to curb these numbers as much as possible; from settling cases in the supreme court to passing new laws and regulations to counter the use of tobacco,

There is an overwhelming epidemic in the United States that some take for granted, with every puff of a cigarette or chew a person puts in their body they are condemning themselves slowly, but surely. The relation between tobacco use and cancer related diseases has been not only been proven by science, but there are even countless warning labels on the actual products with the hope of changing the individual’s mind when and before consuming the product. People pick up these dirty habits in the early stages of their lives, blaming stress or peer pressure as its influence. Regardless if an individual chooses to smoke or use smokeless tobacco products, the effects of both products are both detrimental to one’s health and longevity.

According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), one of the most greatly used addictive products in the United States is tobacco. In 2004, 70.3 million people used tobacco at least once in the month before being interviewed. That is more than 25 percent of the U.S. population 12 and older.

“Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times”-Mark Twain. Have you ever smoked or used any tobacco products? It is well known that tobacco has become a big issue in the 21st century, these issues include underage smoking and harmful effects to the body. Tobacco is been identified under the category of peppers, potatoes and the poisonous nightshade. Tobacco is a harmful leaf from an American plant that has been linked to deadly diseases, such as cancer or lung diseases. This paper will examine the history of tobacco, the causes and effects of tobacco-related items, and why it is still legal.

These days, tobacco is the most common and easily available drug of choice for the people who are addicted to it. While some argue that government has a prime role in controlling it, but others believe that it can be controlled by individual effort. My stance is that both governments and individuals need to take steps to discourage its use and fashion among people. This essay will examine both sides of the contention before reaching to a reasonable conclusion.

Tobacco is the leading cause of death in the United States. Studies record that 480,000 deaths from smoking cigarettes including second hand smoke. Men has 278,544 deaths annually including second hand smoke, and women have 201,773 deaths accoriding to the CDC (Center for Disease Control and Prevention.) Although some smokers still live, they suffer from cancers, and circulatory and respiratory system disease, and many more harmful effects of smoking cigarettres and other tobacco related products.According to Dr. Robert N Procter “The cigarette is the deadliest artefact in the history of human civilisation.”Smokers are aware of the constent damages of smoking due to advertisements, warning labels, and much more, but are addicted to the nicotine. The (FDA) Food and Drug Administration declared nicotine, the main chemical in cigarettes,

Smoking is one of the leading factors to death and illnesses among people around the world. Unfortunately about half of all American adults smoke. Research shows that more men smokes that women. Regarding consequences and complications of smoking, research shows that people who smokes have more chances of getting different types of cancers, such as esophageal cancer, lung cancer, throat cancer, bladders cancer, or mouth cancer. Other smoking complications are heart attack, COPD, asthma, and bronchitis. Regarding costs of tobacco use, research shows that there are many different advertisements regarding purchasing cigarettes (research shows that in recent years there were about ten billion dollars that was spend on advertising cigarettes) which

Cigarettes kill more Americans than suicide, vehicular accidents, alcohol, cocaine, heroin, ADIS, and homicides combined. Cigarettes do not support or benefit the public in a positive way. Cigarettes are filled with thousands of chemicals and are highly addictive. Cigarettes have caused numerous mental and physical problems for smokers and the people who surround them, impacting families, communities and society. Cigarettes and tobacco should become an illegal drug in North America. The negative traits of smoking outweigh the positive traits; tobacco should not be accessible to the public.

Cigarette smoking is one of the worst possible things you could do to your body. Cigarettes kill roughly “480,000 people a year in the United states” according to the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). So why do we still allow them to be sold? Why are we advertising cigarettes in a way that makes younger people want to start smoking? How is that the government know for a fact the cigarettes cause serious health and death, but still does almost nothing about it? In this essay I am going to tell you the facts about why cigarettes should be banned in the U.S. I'm going to talk about the effects smoking cigarettes has on the human body. How smokers cost the healthcare system almost 200 billion dollars a year. And how tobacco businesses are spending billions of dollars a year to keep people smoking

Cigarettes kill more Americans than suicide, vehicular accidents, alcohol, cocaine, heroin, ADIS, and homicides combined. Cigarettes do not support or benefit the public in a positive way. Cigarettes are filled with thousands of chemicals and are highly addictive. Cigarettes have caused numerous mental and physical problems for smokers and the people who surround them, impacting families, communities and society. Cigarettes and tobacco should become an illegal drug in North America. The negative traits of smoking outweigh the positive traits; tobacco should not be accessible to the public.

Regardless of the facts above, cigarette is still an interesting issue to be explored because of its two-side effects. For them who get benefit from it such as cigarette user or smokers may think that smoking is part of lifestyle, self-actualization and individual free will (Carrigan, 1995). Some sources also identify that smoking can lowers risk of knee-replacement surgery, Parkinson 's disease , obesity, death after some heart attacks and helps the heart drug clopidogrel work better (Allam, Campbell, Hofman, Del Castillo, & Fernández-Crehuet Navajas, 2004; Tanaka et al., 2010; tobaccoinaustralia.org.au, n.d.; Wanjek, 2011).