A commercial created to show how smoking is not worth it.
Smoking Statistics
- “In 2007 19.8% of US adults are smokers and 23% of high school students.”
- “Smoking causes 30% of all cancer deaths in the US, mostly lung cancer.”
- “Men who smoke are 23 times more likely to get lung cancer and women are 13 times more likely.”
- “Smoking causes 87% of lung cancer deaths.”
All of these statisics were pulled out from http://www.smokingstatistics.org/smoking_and_cancer_Know_the_Facts.asp
Tobacco: A Growth Industry
In 1776, during the American Revolutionary War, tobacco helped finance the revolution by serving as collateral for loans the Americans borrowed from France!
Over the years, more and more scientists begin to understand the chemicals in tobacco, as well as the…
This is just a little overview on the casue and effects of events and tobacco smoking in the past. Why do you think people still smoked even after scientists concluded that nicotene was poisonous? This question can be related back to certain events in history.
~ Etiquette and the Usages of Society; with A Glance At Bad Habits, by Charles Wm. Day, 1843
via Internet ArchiveThis shows how some smoke just to follow the bandwagon to be a “psuedo-fashionable” persion.They feel as if smoking will bring them attention and raise their status maybe in society. Which might be true for a moment but it’ll lower your status on your health records.
Only one I’ve ever gotten with that on there…
People smoke every instant they get a chance to. Because of the nicotine that is placed in cigarettes, trying it once can cause you to become addicted. When you are that addicted it is extremely hard to quit, since you feel like you need cigarettes to survive.
“Tobacco”
A weed among the plants we find
That hurts the body and the mind,
Yet in the way of self-abuse,
We see it constantly in use.
Unpleasant to the smell and taste,
Yet men for it their money waste;
The reason why I scarce can tell
For none at first do like it well.
Some do it chew and some it smoke
Whilst others in their nose it poke…
-William B. Shockley, Nobel Laureate
Is this attractive at all to you? Why do you want something so gross-looking like that in your body? Not only are you hurting yourself by smoking, but you are also affecting those that are around you when you smoke. Second hand smoke has more than 4,000 chemicals in it which increase the risk of heart diseases, and of course cancer.
Statistics show that about 9 out of 10 tobacco users began smoking before they were 18. They have had this terrible addiction for years, and it has completely taking over their lives.
