Tobacco products kill more than 400,000 people in the United States a year. That is more than the number deaths from homicides, fires, AIDS, alcohol, car accidents, suicides, and illegal drugs put together. It is by far the number one cause of preventable death in the United States. Action should ...

There are an assortment of effects of smoking that can harm a smoker. They can affect not only the smoker's health but also the non-smokers around the smoker. Why should the people around the smoker suffer when they made the decision not to smoke? It slowly kills the smokers and non-smokers. Pe...

Imagine the air that you and your children breathe is being polluted with hundreds of chemicals and toxic substances, but if you smoke you don't have to imagine. With each cigarette you smoke you are polluting your lungs and the air around you with over four thousand chemical compounds and over...

Government steps in when Tobacco Industry steps out Back a few years ago, all we heard on the news was John Doe vs. Big tobacco industries. Every day, people who had been harmed by smoke-related illnesses sued tobacco companies for liability in respect that they would compensate the medical bills...

More than 25% of Americans smoke cigarettes now than 30 years ago and the amount of smokers are increasing as you read this paper. Only you can stop the amount of smokers from climbing any higher. I am going to give you some hard facts and reasons why you should not smoke. Tobacco companies are ma...

1) What are the benefits if you stop smoking today? Your blood pressure, body temperature, and pulse rate will drop back to normal within twenty minutes. Smoker¡¯s breath will disappear, and carbon monoxide levels in your blood drops within eight hours. Your chance of a heart attack decrea...

America's Teens Up in Smoke On every street corner in America, you will find a teen smoking. Even though a number of commercials and school orientations have given the effects of smoking, the kids feel they are invincible to the effects smoking can cause. "Tobacco companies have ta...

As the cancer slowly ate away the smoker's lungs, three teenagers picked up their first pack of cigarettes. Only one product kills 1/3 of its users... Tobacco. As you finish reading this paragraph an estimated 21 people will have died because of tobacco. Tobacco is addictive and extremely harm...

We learn and are taught about the dangers of smoking as young children. We hear about it on television, radio and in print. It's all around us and completely unavoidable. Just about everyone knows someone who has died from a smoking related disease. And not only are smokers putting their ow...

Second hand smoke. I'm sure that everyone in this room has gone out to eat sometime in the past for a formal or special occasion. Things like these take time: you have to dress up nice, make reservations, make sure you have your best manners, etc... Now, imagine you're going out to eat an expensiv...

Approximately one half of the world population uses some form of tobacco. Smoking cigarettes is a common social habit, and is done often out of bordom. Most people smoke in the US, but it is become a habit all over the world. It is known that tobacco is dangerous to our health and is the main cause ...

Should smoking really be banned in public places? Tobacco which had been discovered more than five hundred years affects our daily life deeply. It was used as effective medicine initially, the relationship between illness and cigarette had been found until the early 20th century. Since then, the di...

Passive smoking is the inhaling of second hand smoke. It is damaging the lungs of thousands of innocent Australians every year. All because some people are addicted and protest that it there right to smoke and endanger fellow workmates in public places. Banns are currently in discussion to finally p...

Dear smokers, Do you believe smoking is harmful and destructive to your body? I do. 430,000 people die with smoking related illnesses such as cancer and lung disease. According to 2001 data collected by the American Cancer society, teen smoking rates have gradually increased through...

Steps to a Better Life The decision to quit smoking is one decision a person will never regret! Smoking causes around 419,000 deaths each year, just in the United States. Quitting smoking cuts the risk of lung cancer, many other cancers, heart disease, stroke, other lung diseases, and other res...

Second Hand Smoke Kills Some of you may say that you don't smoke and consider you selves very healthy. Well if you hang out with a lot of people who smoke, you may not be much better off then your friends that smoke. Second hand smoke is also called Environmental Tobacco Smoke ...

A man, well into his forties, lies helplessly in the cold room of the hospital. He eagerly waits for the results of his tests that are to be hand delivered by the warm-hearted doctor. He lies there, his skin is pasty white, his body is slowly deteriorating both inside and out, and his hair is g...

Many smokers don not like the new by-laws, but others support them. Secondhand tobacco smoke is a cause of disease, including lung cancer, strokes, heart disease and asthma, in otherwise healthy nonsmokers. They should not be able to completely outlaw smoking. If one wants to smoke they sho...

America was formed with the ideology of being free. Americans usually do what they like, even if they're hurting themselves, as long as they're not hurting anyone else. The law only steps in if an innocent bystander is being harmed. This leaves the door open for the second hand smoke attack on smoke...

Smoking INTRODUCTION: ATTENTION GETTER: When I was about thirteen years old I started smoking. At first it was just to look cool, but then it became a habit I would soon pay the consequence for. At first it would just be when my friends would do it, but then I began to start doing it on m...

There are many problems in people who smoke, such as environmental tobacco smoke or most commonly known as secondhand smoke. Secondhand smoke is a combination of the smoke coming from the lit end of a cigarette plus the smoke exhaled by a person smoking. As everyone knows secondhand smoke is bad fo...

Every year, 440,000 Americans die from cancers caused by smoking. Cigarette smokers have twice the risk of a heart attack than non-smokers. Also, smokers have 2 to 4 times the chance to get lung cancer, than non-smokers. Smoking causes different types of cancer. You can develop lung cancer, cancer o...

I support smoking bans. I am so happy a lot of countries are banning smoking in public places. I don't smoke cigarettes but I grew up in a house of cigarette smokers. I am proud to say that tobacco smoking is one habit I did not pick up. I'm sure everyone has smelled that unpleasant odor o...

What is Lung Cancer? The lungs are two sponge-like organs found in the chest cavity. The right lung has three sections, called lobes. The left lung has two lobes. It is smaller because the heart takes up more room on that side of the body. The lungs bring air in and out, taking in oxygen and gettin...

For a long time now many people have different views about smoking in public places. Smokers feel it is their right to smoke where and when they want. On the other hand, non-smokers feel smokers violate their rights and endanger their life. Smoking causes heart disease, lung cancer and other seriou...