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Tobacco Use:
An ‘Epidemic’?

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English 20 -1
Teacher
Date

The effects of smoking tobacco takes millions of lives yearly
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It can lead to the
development of many cancers and complications in the airways
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It can negatively impact the health of
the eyes, ears, heart and even the muscles
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​Millions of people worldwide die from smoking
tobacco every year, and 600,000 die from disease caused by indirectly inhaling tobacco
smoke, which is known as second-hand smoking
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By simply being in the same
vehicle or building as an avid smoker, a non-smoking individual’s life span can decrease
significantly
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The banning of smoking in
public places, such as bars and other enclosed work spaces, can help reduce the amount of
people who are at risk of second and third hand smoking
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Smoking tobacco is harmful to everyone and is a
growing danger that needs to be eliminated
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S, a whopping
480,000 Americans
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Of these premature deaths, 36% are from cancer, 39% are from
stroke and other heart related complications, and 24% are from lung diseases
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A
cigarette with tobacco can contain well over 4000 chemicals, of which 69 are known to cause
cancer
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Exposure to
ammonia can cause blindness, lung damage, and even death
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Tar, a black mixture produced from coal
and petroleum, can immediately affect the human body by permanently damaging your
airways, thereby reducing the oxygen capable of being effectively absorbed in your lungs
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Cyanide is a
chemical compound that is highly toxic and is extremely poisonous to humans: even minimal
consumption of this chemical can lead to death in a matter of minutes
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These chemical compounds
can also react with each other when smoked, resulting in many more diseases and cancers a
tobacco smoker can develop
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However, smoking tobacco does not only cause cancers
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With so many cancers and diseases causing chemicals in a tobacco
cigarette, tobacco smoking is an extremely dangerous threat to its consumers and

surroundings
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Second-hand smoke is both smoke
that is exhaled by a smoker, known as “mainstream” smoke and smoke that is created by the
burning of other tobacco products, also known as “sidestream” smoke
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All 69 cancer causing compounds in first-hand smoking are also available in
second-hand smoke
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People can be exposed to second-hand
smoke easily
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Second-hand smoke can easily infiltrate an
apartment through the hallways and stairwells
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The health effects
of second-hand smoke in adults are immediate harm to heart and blood vessels, a higher risk
of developing lung and nasal sinus cancer, and a much greater risk of having a stroke
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Being in a work environment or at home while exposed to second-hand smoking
increases the risk to develop a heart disease, lung cancer and stroke by 25%-30%
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Even when tobacco smoke is not directly smoked, it can still
have a disastrous impact on the human health and life
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Further enforcing the elimination of
smoking in public places and worksites can reduce the amount of people being affected by
second-hand smoke
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Public parks,
beaches and playgrounds are also areas where a smoke-free ban should be passed upon
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Increasing the legal age for smoking can help
youths, at their still relatively young age, stop smoking and give up the bad habit
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Eliminating advertisements that promote smoking will further help eliminate the exposure to
the idea of trying a smoke and becoming addicted to it
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High quality
government services that educate the citizens about the disastrous effects smoking has on the
human health can be implemented that help smokers quit smoking
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Campaigns that raise a local awareness to stop smoking and that
promote the benefits of quitting smoking tobacco need to also be implemented in
communities
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The effects of smoking are disastrous, taking the lives of millions and millions every

year
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Often the toxic and life threatening chemicals in a cigarette do not only
affect the user, but also the surrounding people
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However, many solutions are
available to reduce the amount of people who smoke and therefore decrease the risk of many
others being affected by second-hand smoke and developing a cancers or diseases that
cigarettes can cause
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Citations
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, McNeill A
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Ghana: a review of tobacco industry activity
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National Institutes of Health , 8 Apr
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Web
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2017
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CDC Publisher
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" ​Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention​
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2016
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14 Feb
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<​https://www
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gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/health_effects/effects_cig_smoking/​>
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"Child labour: the tobacco industry's smoking gun
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Guardian
News and Media, 14 Sept
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Web
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2017
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theguardian
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Smokefree
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Tobacco Free "Effects of Smoking on Your Health
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pdf​>



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