smoking tobacco effects

smoking tobacco effects

Around 2000 years ago, tobacco started to be smoked in America in cultural and religious ceremonies. Since then, the rate of tobacco abuse has increased in the world. Tobacco is used by people of all ages groups including the youth and the adults. Also, both males and females use tobacco for different reasons. Peer pressure and influence is the primary cause that makes the youth to start smoking tobacco for recreational purposes. Smoking tobacco has numerous adverse health effects to the smokers. Lung cancer is one of the harmful diseases that are caused by smoking of tobacco. Due to health effects caused by tobacco, several interventions have been implemented to assist community members who are addicts of smoking tobacco, and they wish to stop the behavior. Smoking tobacco for recreational purposes has many long term and short term health effects on smokers.

Tobacco is one of the earliest drugs to be discovered by human beings. Christopher Columbus was the first European to discover tobacco (Motofei, 55). Tobacco was first cultivated in Europe as early as 1531 at Santo Domingo. In 1600, tobacco spread to most of the European countries where it was used as a monetary standard. By 1700s, tobacco smoking had become a common practice in Europe and tobacco industries had already been established for producing tobacco-related products. Tobacco has adverse health effects on tobacco smokers. Tobacco was discovered to be a dangerous substance to human health in the year 1602 when an English author published an essay that stated that soot produced by smoking tobacco-caused health effects to smokers.

In the year 1975, tobacco smoking was discovered to be a major cause of cancer among tobacco smokers. A series of publications about the effects of smoking tobacco have since then been published. Tobacco is mostly abused in the form of cigarette where the smokers take the substance through smoking. Cigarette making tobacco machines were first established in the 1880s. The first cigarette making machines produced 200 cigarettes per minute. The current cigarette machines produce 9000 cigarettes per minute. The mass production of cigarettes has contributed to an increased rate of tobacco smoking. Different factors cause people to start smoking tobacco for recreational purposes.

Research has shown that most people start smoking tobacco while at their adolescent stage. At the teen stage, teens always want to experiment everything that comes across them. In the process of experimenting with smoking tobacco, most people become addicted, and they become regular smokers. Influence is another factor that makes most teens start smoking tobacco for recreational purposes. Children who are brought up by parents who smoke tobacco are likely to start smoking tobacco because of the influence of their parents. Teenagers at school are easily influenced by their schoolmates who smoke tobacco because of peer pressure, which is a major challenge facing the youth in the world. Tobacco producing companies spend billions of dollars every year in the process of advertising tobacco products. Tobacco industry uses social media marketing strategy to advertise tobacco products. Facebook Ads that shows people enjoying smoking tobacco tempts many people to start smoking tobacco. Also, tobacco industries post several videos on YouTube showing how people enjoy smoking tobacco, which attracts many YouTube users to start smoking tobacco so that they can have the same feelings as the people they saw smoking tobacco in the videos. Children who watch movies with many smoking activities are also influenced to start smoking of tobacco. Cigarette producing companies have increased across the world, which has led to the cost of cigarettes to lower because of mass production. Due to the low costs of cigarettes, most youths can afford to buy the product hence increasing the number of tobacco smokers. Introduction of e-cigarettes has caused many youths to start smoking tobacco (Wills, 35). E-cigarettes are considered to be modern, and many youths use them because they have no health effect, which prepares them to start smoking tobacco. Tobacco has been found to have nicotine substance that has an addictive effect on tobacco smokers. The addictive nature of smoking tobacco has caused the number of tobacco smokers to increase year in year out. The rate of smoking tobacco has reached epidemic proportions where an estimated 8 billion people in the world smoke tobacco. Smoking tobacco has adverse health effects on tobacco smokers.

Smoking tobacco has adverse health effects on tobacco smokers. Tobacco smokers cause both short term effects and long term effects on tobacco smokers (Banks, 38). The effects of smoking tobacco vary from one person to another depending on the age and the weight of the smoker. Smoking tobacco causes different types of cancer, which is one of the long term effects of smoking tobacco. Lung cancer is mostly caused by smoking tobacco, and it results in death of tobacco smokers. In the United States, smoking tobacco results in 480,000 deaths that translate to 1 death of 5 deaths in the United States is caused by the tobacco-related disease. Smoking tobacco affects most of the body organs of tobacco smokers. Coronary disease and other diseases can be caused by smoking of tobacco (Sumanasekera, 2). Tobacco smoking causes blood vessels to become narrower, hence resulting to heart-related diseases. Smoking tobacco causes lung airways to close because of the smoke leading to respiratory problems. Increased alertness and concentration is one of the short term effects caused by tobacco smoking. Quitting smoking tobacco causes health effects on tobacco smokers.

People who are used to smoking tobacco regularly for many years develop withdrawal symptoms when they stop the behavior of smoking tobacco (Ashare, 2560). Also, reducing the rate of smoking tobacco causes withdrawal symptoms among tobacco smokers. Nicotine withdrawal affects tobacco smokers both physically and mentally. Physically, the body of the tobacco smokers reacts because of nicotine withdrawal, which makes tobacco smokers to feel uncomfortable. Mentally, someone who quits smoking tobacco is faced by a tough decision on whether to continue smoking tobacco or stop the behavior. Dizziness, depression, trouble sleeping, and reduced concentration are common symptoms of nicotine withdrawal that affects tobacco smokers who quits from smoking tobacco.

In conclusion, tobacco was first cultivated in Europe in the year 1531. Around two thousand years ago, tobacco was being smoked in America during religious and cultural ceremonies. Tobacco smokers range from males to females, and from youths to adults. Most adults who smoke tobacco started the habit of smoking when they were adolescents. Peer pressure and influence exposes many adolescents to the behavior of smoking tobacco. Tobacco has nicotine substance that has an addictive effect and makes it difficult for tobacco smokers to quit from smoking tobacco. As, a result, the number of people smoking tobacco has currently increased to an epidemic level. People who quit smoking tobacco suffer from withdrawal symptoms. Lung cancer is one of the adverse health effects caused by smoking tobacco.

 

 

 

 

 

Works Cited

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Banks, Emily, et al. “Tobacco smoking and all-cause mortality in a large Australian cohort study: findings from a mature epidemic with current low smoking prevalence.” BMC          medicine 13.1 (2015): 38.

Motofei, Ion G. “Social, medical and economic implications of tobacco consumption.” Journal     of Applied Economics 1.1 (2017): 55-62.

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