Smoking

Smoking and your Health

Smoking is an addiction. Tobacco smoke contains nicotine, which is very addictive and can make it very hard to quit. Smoking harms not just the smoker, but also family members, coworkers and others who breathe the smoker's cigarette smoke. Public health research had played an important role in passing laws and informing the public about the dangers associated with smoking.

According to an article published in the New York time in March of 1988, the article stated "The tobacco industry failed to exercise its moral responsibility to research the risks of smoking after independent studies in the 1930's began to link lung cancer to cigarettes, an epidemiologist testified in Federal District" (D. Jason 1988). This article shows that the tobacco industry is not concern about the health of smokers and care more about making a profit from the sales of cigarettes.

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The CDC states that, tobacco users are the single most preventable cause of disease, disability, and death in the United States. Each year, an estimated 443,000 people die prematurely from smoking or exposure to secondhand smoke, and another 8.6 million have a serious illness caused by smoking. The harmful effects of smoking do not end with the smoker. More than 126 million nonsmoking Americans, including children and adults, are regularly exposed to secondhand smoke (CDC 2009).

Public health is trying very hard in passing the word to the public that smoking is very dangerous and second hand smoke is even worse. They had implemented warning labels on cigarette cartons or packs to warn the public of the dangers of smoking. Some countries like Canada implemented warning picture labels on the cigarettes boxes. Cigarette advertisements promote smoking and have a huge effect on children and teenagers.

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