Smoking (Cigarettes and Tobacco)

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Smoking (Cigarettes and Tobacco)

Ever Since the European explores came to Canada, discovered tobacco and how to smoke it, people have wondered a great many thing; such as health concerns and morality. While some people argue that smoking hasn't damaged them or their children, others relate to very specific scientific evidence to back up the health concerns of smoking or chewing tobacco. Clearly, when considered, Tobacco is an unnecessary and dangerous product.

Tobacco and smoking started with the native Americans in the U.S. and Canada, mainly for ceremonies and rituals.Then, when European explorers came, they started to use it, if a bit more casually than the Natives. Not everyone used tobacco back then, and it wasn't laced with all the chemicals a modern cigarette would have. They were normally powdered or made from dried tobacco leaves. Although some considered it immoral or unhealthy it still grew as a fad. Tobacco, in itself, isn't the most harmful thing you could induce, and you could live to an old age, healthy if you only smoked tobacco. However, today's cigarette is usually laced with over 4,000 chemicals. These chemicals include: carbon monoxide (car exhaust), nicotine (in it's pure form, a drop on the tongue will kill), arsenic (rat poison), and sulfuric acid (used in car batteries) to name a few. Don't think that smoking affects only you. It affects everyone around you. If you smoke openly around anyone, you give them what's called "second hand smoke". Breathing in second hand smoke is basically the same as letting anyone around you smoke. This is basically letting your child, friends, family, or complete strangers to inhale the same chemicals and drugs you're ingesting; which puts them at risks of the same diseases as you.There are upsides and downsides to smoking, but the downsides heavily outweigh the upsides.

Regardless of this background, people still believe the use of cigarettes are ethical and fair to use. Yes, statistics have shown that it does calm you down after any rough day. Smoking will suppress your appetite, therefore, if you're looking to lose weight, smoking can help with that. The Nicotine inside is a reactant stimulant, which will increase your reflexes; plus, if you're in a rock band, you'll get a really deep singing voice ( Not necessarily a good thing). Most importantly, though, the tobacco industry is huge. The government heavily relies on it, because of taxes it. It is a massive part of our economy. If we were to take it away, it'd be like taking a nicotine addict's smokes and flushing it all down the toilet. The economy would collapse and most likely be thrown into a great depression. However, like nicotine, an economy could be weaned off the destructive influence the tobacco industry has over it.

As stated above, the cons of smoking greatly outweigh the pros. For instance, it is proven to be the leading cause of lung disease.

On the left is how a lung should look, whereas on the left is a diseased lung, how you start to look after smoking for a good while. Lung cancer isn't the only major problem associated with smoking, however. Two other major lung diseases include cardiovascular disease and emphysema or chronic bronchitis. The two most contributing chemicals in a cigarette are nicotine and carbon monoxide. Nicotine is a stimulant drug. It hooks your brain on cigarettes and slowly breaks down your immunity until it has you totally reliant and can't go through a day without lighting up. Carbon monoxide is the other part of the problem. It is the product of Car Exhaust. It reduces the amount of oxygen in your body, this is why you see so many smokers always coughing.   

Smoking causes several cardiovascular diseases, cigarettes are laced with too many dangerous chemicals and drugs, although the economy is reliant on the industry, it could be weaned off. Second hand smoke lets anyone around you smoke, and puts them at risk of everything you're at risk of. If cigarettes were banned, death rates would be dropped and cancer would be a lot less common. Clearly, after consideration, cigarettes and related products are unnecessary and dangerous.