Essays on Tobacco

Nobody wants to have their health put at risk, especially involuntarily. One may ask, why would anybody voluntarily put their health at risk? Whether they are driving irresponsibly, drinking excessively, of –-the topic of this paper—smoking tobacco products, many people choose to take risks daily and face the consequences accordingly. The common factor between these…

Upon entering the body of a healthy man, tobacco attacks every aspect that influences his health. Slowly over the years, It coats his lungs in a thick black tar that, with time, completely engulfs his lungs, emitting a stench that can be compared to that of a mix of coal and the remains of a…

In the United States, about 660,000 people are diagnosed annually with complications stemming from chronic tobacco usage (‘Policy Issue Brief: Tobacco and Cancer’, 2017). In addition, each year about 343,000 deaths are attributed to tobacco usage (‘Policy Issue Brief: Tobacco and Cancer’, 2017). Smoking has been linked to several types of cancer, heart disease, and…

Tobacco use is associated with over 400,000 annual U.S. deaths. and one third of all U.S. cancer deaths (Pesko et al., 2017). Although cigarette smoking has declined in the United States (US), smoking prevalence remains high in specific subpopulations and continues to be the country’s leading cause of preventable disease and death (Rogers, Forster, &…

Introduction With one fifth of the world population, China consumes a third of the world’s cigarettes and contributes to a third of lung cancer cases in the world (Stone & Zhou, 2016; Chen, 2015). Although the smoking rate of females is lower than the smoking rate of males in China, lung cancer rates are increasing…

“The first commercial cigarettes were made in 1865 by James Buchanan Duke. It was not until 1881 when James Bonsack invented the cigarette making machine” (Quora). Duke and Bonsack worked as a team and started making a lot of profit from the production of cigarettes, for they were first intended for the men in the…

Tobacco use remains the leading cause of death and preventable disease in the United States. On the other hand, some people may say they use tobacco for weight loss, others for stress management.  Tobacco is a drug that is cut leaves from the tobacco plant that are rolled into thin paper for smoking. Tobacco can…

Since the 1970s, the UK has shown a sharp declining trend over the prevalence of smoking amongst its population. A striking fact, given that in the year 1950 the UK was amongst the 7 nations with the largest cigarette smoking rates per capita (Pampel, 2019). In fact, the country has made astounding progress over time,…

This subject Tobacco in today’s society is considered the world’s greatest cause of death that can be prevented. It’s a substance that gets addictive and will kill a person little by little with no warnings. So many diseases comes from smoking like lung cancer, COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease), and heart disease. Cigarettes has been…

“The true face of smoking is disease, death, and horror – not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray.” (Byrnes). This was told by a very wise man named David Byrne. This statement causes us to think about how tobacco really impacts our lives. Moreover, tobacco is an uprising…