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causes_and_effects_ofsmoking.pptxCauses and Effects of Smoking
Bader Alajmi & Saud Alotaibi
WRC 1013.01
Prof.Leath, M
8/12/2014
The University of Texas at San Antonio
Introduction
Smoking is a practice where a substance is burned and the resulting smoke inhaled
The most common substance is the dried leaves of tobacco rolled into a cigarette
Cigarettes are industry manufactured, or hand-rolled from tobacco leaves and a piece of paper
Other smoking implements include cigars, pipes, vaporizers, hookahs, and bongs.
A Cigar smoke contains nicotine, carbon monoxide and tar.
Did you know that?
There are 600 ingredients in one cigarette
Causes of Smoking
Smoking is an enjoyable activity for some people.
Observation and parental influence:
children learn smoking from their parents and adults
Peer pressure:
young children are influenced by their peers to smoke in schools
Ads-Smoking :
adverts are appealing to people and they tend to portray smoking as a very good recreational activity (Barnoya & Glantz, 2005).
Causes of Smoking
Genetic Predisposition:
medical genetic research suggests that addictions have genetic component (Klesges, Meyers, Klesges, & LaVasque, 1989).
Stress relief:
stressed people resolve to using cigars to release stress
Self-medication:
Some smokers use cigarettes to ease physical or mental pain (Barnoya & Glantz, 2005).
Causes of Smoking
Media Influence:
Media is the highest cause of smoking among the teens and youngsters.
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Effects of Smoking
There are numerous effects of smoking
It affects all the aspects of the human lives:
Physical, fetal and mental health, finances, environment, etc
The effects can be classified as short-term and long term effects (Heishma,Taylor, & Henningfield, 1994).
Short-Term Effects of Smoking
A puff of cigarette has a mixture of carbon monoxide and nicotine. With each puff the smoker increases his or her:
1. Blood Pressure
2. Heart Rate
3. Injures blood vessels and heart (Heishma,Taylor, & Henningfield, 1994).
Long term effects of smoking
Yellowing of teeth due to the tar and smoke from cigars.
Lung cancer:
smoking is the world’s biggest cause of cancer. It accounts for one in every five deaths in the United States and one in every four deaths in the United Kingdom. Smoking kills five times more than overdoses, road accidents, suicide, and murder
The American Cancer Society argues that about 443,000 early deaths in the United states between 2000 to 2004 were caused by cancer from smoking(Barnoya & Glantz, 2005).
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Smoking harms almost every part of the body
Long term effects
Heart disease:
Smokers tend to suffer from heart diseases and strokes because smoking deposits that block blood flow. This results to heart attack.
Premature aging:
smokers age quickly although not advanced in years
Low sperm count:
Men who smoke have low sperm count and low sex drive than those who do not smoke. They also have less frequent sex. Toxins from nicotine weaken and reduce the sperms count, mortality and lifespan.
Other long Term Effects
Loss of Appetite
bad Breath
Cancers of the throat and mouth.
Premature death
Wrinkles
Memory loss with passage of time
Second Hand Smokers
Second hand smokers are people who inhale the cigar smoke from nearby cigar smokers.
The inhaled smoke contains tar, carbon monoxide and nicotine
The effects of these substances affect the health of these people, just like the real smoker (Barnoya & Glantz, 2005).
Trend of smoking Amongst students
From a study, 15 students were interviewed
Among the students were 10 males and 5 females
It was found that 3 males and 1 female smoked.
About 30 percent of the male students smoke while 20 percent of the male students smoke.
Overall, about 27 percent of the students smoke.
Smokers 10 5 15 Males Females Total 3.0 1.0 4.0 Non-smokers 10 5 15 Males Females Total 7.0 4.0 11.0
conclusion
It is important for smokers to know that no matter what happens, the bad effects of smoking outweigh the benefits of smoking if existed by far.
It is hard for addicted smokers to quit, but through the proper channels and systems, they can manage to run away from this problem (Barnoya & Glantz, 2005).
Works Cited
Barnoya, Joaquin, and Glantz. "Cardiovascular effects of secondhand smoke nearly as large as smoking." Circulation 111.20 (2005): 2684-2698.
Klesges, Robert, et al. "Smoking, body weight, and their effects on smoking behavior: a comprehensive review of the literature." Psychological bulletin 106.2 (1989): 204.
Heishma, Stephen, Taylor, and Henningfield. "Nicotine and smoking: A review of effects on human performance." Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology 2.4 (1994): 345.
Ramón, José‐María, and José‐Javier Echeverría. "Effects of smoking on periodontal tissues." Journal of clinical periodontology 29.8 (2002): 771-776.
