It is known that over 1.1 Billion people globally use tobacco in some form or another. This is over 1/6 of the worlds population. Now i am not trying to preach here because i believe that people should be able to do whatever they want, but i would like to talk about the health effects of using tobacco in its most popular form.
Generally tobacco is smoked in the form if cigarettes, so this is what i will focus on. There are a multitude of health concerns that can happen to a person when they smoke. Generally speaking the part of the body that is most affected is the cardiovascular system. Particularly things like heart attacks, cardiovascular disease, asthma, emphysema, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, and cancer in the form of lung, larynx, and tongue. I wont explain individually what each of these health risks are, but for a rule of thumb, they are all very bad and could easily kill you or severely cut down on your quality of life.
Another key to your chance of developing these problems is the amount you smoke. For example if you have less than half a pack (10) a day, your mortality rate increases by 40% over a non smoker. Double that amount to around a pack a day and it increases to 70%. For a pack and a half a day is shoots up to 90%, and for two packs a day it increases to 120%. This mortality rate is essentially the chance of you getting lung cancer for instance over a non smoker. If you look at those numbers they are pretty bleak.
I could go on forever with all of the risks, carcinogens, SIDS, etc. but i think that you can get the picture from just what i have already said. You can smoke if you please but you just need to know that it is a gamble, and your life is at stake.
2 comments:
I think that this was a good topic to choose because if affects so many people. It is crazy how much smoking affects the cancer rate. I agree with you about not trying to preach about smoking because I've tried to get my mom to stop since I was really little and nothing seems to work.
Tobacco use is always a good topic to discuss about, especially the effects it has on the smoker and second hand smokers. After reading the morality rate for people who smoke just half a pack to the people who smoke almost 2 packs a day is so high. I don’t think that many people who smoke even know about the morality rate. Hopefully people who smoke will see these stats and at least think twice about what they are doing.
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