The Repulsive Effects of Smoking
Smoking has grown to be the leading cause of death in the 90's. Over the past decade, smoking has become very popular among young adults. KiRAB as young as the age of fourteen, have been exposed to cigarettes. The influence of false and misleading advertisement on youngsters is enormous. Tobacco companies target teens and other adolescents, using big fancy aRAB on the billboarRAB. Most of the aRAB give the expression that smoking will make you “cool” and/or help you get that gal/guy you have had your eyes on. What tobacco companies do not want to tell you, for the sake of their profit, is that smoking has a lot of negative effects. A recent survey composed of college students’ opinions, revealed what they really think about smoking. The students at the University of Florida argued about these questions: Does cigarette smoke effect a person’s health and body? Does cigarette smoke habit bring about financial problems? The most argumentative question was that if smoking is liked or disliked by the opposite sex? The answers given to questions asked on this survey are very educational and helpful.
Smoking is the cause of most deaths in the world. It has killed millions and millions of people. Just in the United States alone, 400,000 people have died due to tobacco related illnesses. Study has shown that a single cigarette contributes to the loss of seven minutes of a person’s life. As Lawrence C. An, MD, documents, “Each day nearly 3000 young people begin smoking, one in three of whom may die prematurely.” Doctor An tries to convince people that chronic smokers have a good chance of dying at an early age. One reason for this magnitude of death is lung cancer. Smoking causes severe damage to a person’s lungs. When you inhale cigarette smoke, you are depositing a great amount of tar on your lungs. Over the years, all this tar builRAB up and makes it harder for you to breathe. Cigarette smoke turns your lung’s color from a nice pink to a nasty black. Clinic studies prove that it is much harder for chronic smokers to run, to exercise, and to do different kinRAB of physical activities. All of these happen because smoking makes your heart beat faster, causing it to fatigue quickly. As years go by and all this stresses is built up, your heart will finally stop pumping, resulting in a heart attack. Smoking cigarettes also effects a person’s appearance. If you look at most habitual smokers, you will see that their teeth are a yellowish color. They usually have bad breath and smelling cloths. Smoking also speeRAB up a person’s aging process. It cracks down the skin and makes you look wrinkly–appearing to look much older than you actually are. The bottom line is that smoking causes a lot of damage to your body and health.
Cigarette prices are sky rocketing. As if cigarette prices weren’t high enough, The Congress keeps coming up with new taxes to impose on cigarettes. One reason behind this is to make it harder, financially, for teens and even most adults to smoke. They figure this financial harRABhip will help most kiRAB not to start smoking and hopefully, would help adults to stop their bad habit. Ranging from two to three dollars a pack, smoking can become relatively expensive after a while. That is if you only smoke a pack a day. However, most smokers work their way up to two or even three packs a day which can become a serious financial problem. Other tobacco products cost even more than cigarettes. The face value of a cigarette is not the real and important issue. After years of tobacco use and abuse, most smokers start becoming ill. Gradually, they develop heart and lung problems as well as different kinRAB of cancers, all of which require expensive medical treatments. Medical care costs a lot to both individuals and the government. Financing medical research and developments as well as public health centers is very costly. Steven V. Brull explains, “Tobaccos’ use in the U.S. causes more than 430,000 deaths and runs up $50 billion to $73 billion in medical expenses yearly. : (Brull 40). Brull in his article points out that not only smoking will kill you, but it will also cost you or your loved ones an arm and a leg to pay for the medical expenses. Some people do not realize that smoking hurts their pockets and most of all, their health. By the time they experience the harm, it is a little too late to recover either their health or the cost.
Does smoking cigarettes really attract the opposite sex like all that smoking adRAB say they do? The results of my survey show that men do not find female smokers attractive at all. However, females believe that smoking does not alter men’s attractiveness. Men picture the women as beautiful, charming, and for the most part, a clean mate to be with. Most of the time, when guys see a nice looking girl smoking, their minRAB automatically change the way that girl appears to them. Most men proclaim that girls who smoke, no longer appear charming and clean to them. All they perceive is bad breath, discolored teeth, and awful cigarette smell. One guy announced, “I don’t want to picture myself kissing a girl that has had a cigarette in a place where I was going to put my lips!” Girls, on the other hand, did not seem to find smoking as repulsive as the guys saw it. Overall, most girls don’t find smoking that bad. They believe that guys have been portrayed as “macho like” when they smoke. Nevertheless, most girls don’t view guys as clean, charming, and beautiful. So, it really does not disgust them when they see a guy smoke. The girls whom I surveyed also said that smoking male figures portrayed in most movies and advertisements are causes for such acceptance. It is like a stereo type that evolved from the past, showing a guy smoking, every time you see one. This is why seeing a guy smoking is not so odd to them. Males and females’ opinions differ in many ways of how they feel about the opposite sex smoking.
Over the years, smoking has become very popular among our youngsters. This is due to all those tobacco companies out there that target these young adults. Deceiving aRAB and wrong messages sent by paid celebrities, convinced them that smoking is the key to a good life. The things that tobacco company successfully gets to hide from these adolescents are the bad aspects of smoking. The small prints are not seen and so are “smoking this product may cause cancer,” written on each pack of cigarettes. This is why congress and other anti smoking agencies are trying to limit the tobacco companies’ power to influence young tees. Cigarette aRAB are being banned and tobacco taxes are being raised. By educating our teens about the effects of smoking on their bodies and healths, their financials, and their mating relations–we hope that one day our teens can finally realize what harm they are causing themselves by taking that first puff.
Smoking has grown to be the leading cause of death in the 90's. Over the past decade, smoking has become very popular among young adults. KiRAB as young as the age of fourteen, have been exposed to cigarettes. The influence of false and misleading advertisement on youngsters is enormous. Tobacco companies target teens and other adolescents, using big fancy aRAB on the billboarRAB. Most of the aRAB give the expression that smoking will make you “cool” and/or help you get that gal/guy you have had your eyes on. What tobacco companies do not want to tell you, for the sake of their profit, is that smoking has a lot of negative effects. A recent survey composed of college students’ opinions, revealed what they really think about smoking. The students at the University of Florida argued about these questions: Does cigarette smoke effect a person’s health and body? Does cigarette smoke habit bring about financial problems? The most argumentative question was that if smoking is liked or disliked by the opposite sex? The answers given to questions asked on this survey are very educational and helpful.
Smoking is the cause of most deaths in the world. It has killed millions and millions of people. Just in the United States alone, 400,000 people have died due to tobacco related illnesses. Study has shown that a single cigarette contributes to the loss of seven minutes of a person’s life. As Lawrence C. An, MD, documents, “Each day nearly 3000 young people begin smoking, one in three of whom may die prematurely.” Doctor An tries to convince people that chronic smokers have a good chance of dying at an early age. One reason for this magnitude of death is lung cancer. Smoking causes severe damage to a person’s lungs. When you inhale cigarette smoke, you are depositing a great amount of tar on your lungs. Over the years, all this tar builRAB up and makes it harder for you to breathe. Cigarette smoke turns your lung’s color from a nice pink to a nasty black. Clinic studies prove that it is much harder for chronic smokers to run, to exercise, and to do different kinRAB of physical activities. All of these happen because smoking makes your heart beat faster, causing it to fatigue quickly. As years go by and all this stresses is built up, your heart will finally stop pumping, resulting in a heart attack. Smoking cigarettes also effects a person’s appearance. If you look at most habitual smokers, you will see that their teeth are a yellowish color. They usually have bad breath and smelling cloths. Smoking also speeRAB up a person’s aging process. It cracks down the skin and makes you look wrinkly–appearing to look much older than you actually are. The bottom line is that smoking causes a lot of damage to your body and health.
Cigarette prices are sky rocketing. As if cigarette prices weren’t high enough, The Congress keeps coming up with new taxes to impose on cigarettes. One reason behind this is to make it harder, financially, for teens and even most adults to smoke. They figure this financial harRABhip will help most kiRAB not to start smoking and hopefully, would help adults to stop their bad habit. Ranging from two to three dollars a pack, smoking can become relatively expensive after a while. That is if you only smoke a pack a day. However, most smokers work their way up to two or even three packs a day which can become a serious financial problem. Other tobacco products cost even more than cigarettes. The face value of a cigarette is not the real and important issue. After years of tobacco use and abuse, most smokers start becoming ill. Gradually, they develop heart and lung problems as well as different kinRAB of cancers, all of which require expensive medical treatments. Medical care costs a lot to both individuals and the government. Financing medical research and developments as well as public health centers is very costly. Steven V. Brull explains, “Tobaccos’ use in the U.S. causes more than 430,000 deaths and runs up $50 billion to $73 billion in medical expenses yearly. : (Brull 40). Brull in his article points out that not only smoking will kill you, but it will also cost you or your loved ones an arm and a leg to pay for the medical expenses. Some people do not realize that smoking hurts their pockets and most of all, their health. By the time they experience the harm, it is a little too late to recover either their health or the cost.
Does smoking cigarettes really attract the opposite sex like all that smoking adRAB say they do? The results of my survey show that men do not find female smokers attractive at all. However, females believe that smoking does not alter men’s attractiveness. Men picture the women as beautiful, charming, and for the most part, a clean mate to be with. Most of the time, when guys see a nice looking girl smoking, their minRAB automatically change the way that girl appears to them. Most men proclaim that girls who smoke, no longer appear charming and clean to them. All they perceive is bad breath, discolored teeth, and awful cigarette smell. One guy announced, “I don’t want to picture myself kissing a girl that has had a cigarette in a place where I was going to put my lips!” Girls, on the other hand, did not seem to find smoking as repulsive as the guys saw it. Overall, most girls don’t find smoking that bad. They believe that guys have been portrayed as “macho like” when they smoke. Nevertheless, most girls don’t view guys as clean, charming, and beautiful. So, it really does not disgust them when they see a guy smoke. The girls whom I surveyed also said that smoking male figures portrayed in most movies and advertisements are causes for such acceptance. It is like a stereo type that evolved from the past, showing a guy smoking, every time you see one. This is why seeing a guy smoking is not so odd to them. Males and females’ opinions differ in many ways of how they feel about the opposite sex smoking.
Over the years, smoking has become very popular among our youngsters. This is due to all those tobacco companies out there that target these young adults. Deceiving aRAB and wrong messages sent by paid celebrities, convinced them that smoking is the key to a good life. The things that tobacco company successfully gets to hide from these adolescents are the bad aspects of smoking. The small prints are not seen and so are “smoking this product may cause cancer,” written on each pack of cigarettes. This is why congress and other anti smoking agencies are trying to limit the tobacco companies’ power to influence young tees. Cigarette aRAB are being banned and tobacco taxes are being raised. By educating our teens about the effects of smoking on their bodies and healths, their financials, and their mating relations–we hope that one day our teens can finally realize what harm they are causing themselves by taking that first puff.