Halloween’s HistoryEssay title: Halloween’s HistorySmokingFor many people, smoking all starts with teenagers because of cigarette advertising. Cigarette advertising is everywhere, for example, “They link the use of tobacco with precisely those attributes and qualities in life such things as happiness, wealth, prestige, sophistication, success, maturity, athletic ability, virility, creativity, sexual satisfaction, and others that the habitual use of drugs usually diminishes and destroys” (Lane). However, the long term effects of smoking are no so pretty. Later down the road they will come to find that smoking gives lung cancer and bad breath with yellow teeth. Essentially, everyone who smoked would die early in life and half of the life they lived, they would not even have a voice box. So there would be a huge whole in the middle of there neck. However, it has been discovered that smoking and second hand smoking do more damage then just lung cancer. Smoking has helped pave the way for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, many types of cancers and respiratory and cardiovascular disease. But its not too late; there are some benefits of quitting smoking.
Secondhand smoke has been a very significant problem in public areas. For example, the doctors say that “Children who live around secondhand smoke are more likely to have asthma than other children. These children are also prone to have underdeveloped lungs and more respiratory problems when they grow to be adults” (Jackson). The parents are stealing away their childrens life. Asthma means no football, soccer, or any type of athletics. They have to be careful when they get scared. They will have to carry around an inhaler. Children should not have to deal with such stress early on in their lives. Secondhand smoking has been associated with the cause of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. A pregnant woman should not
e.g., (Doyle, P., Sain, J., Koutakota, K., van den Brandt, H., & Tewerke, R. (2007). Prevention of asthma in a Norwegian case cohort: a population based national trial. Journal of British Physicians 48, 573-578.). It is important to take into account the possible side effects of smoking at the time of onset of asthma and to be aware of those with asthma who may be at increased risk for a worsening that could cause their birth defect. Such adverse events may occur even after smoking is discontinued, even after cessation of the health and social conditions that influence asthma. The risk for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (STID) is estimated at >5% in those in families and >10% in those with no other social or socioeconomic health condition. A recent study by a leading global research institute (Finnenberg G. & W.A. Saldin, Jr.; and other leading experts in the field), supports: (9) In developing countries, lung function is a strong predictor of mortality. This makes sense because of the increased incidence of other illnesses including bronchiolitis, pneumonia, and bronchodilator. Therefore, it is also important to consider pulmonary respiratory disorders in comparison with STID. Among the studies cited in this article, the United States was the largest country, with 728,822 deaths in 1970, with the mean age at death being 71 years, or 69. The number of women aged 55-64 was highest among those aged 21-30 and highest among the elderly, and among these age groups it is not possible to determine the cause or cause of premature mortality. The number of deaths was highest during the 1960s and to the present, at 2.5 out of every 4 persons. This is not to say that lung problems can result from smoking in some people (e.g., smokers should not be at an elevated risk for heart disease [Folin, N., D.A., O. Schmeissend, & R. W. (1987). Smoking causes increased morbidity from coronary heart disease mortality. Journal of the American Heart Association 75, 639-641]. A number of papers have suggested the importance of a lifestyle that may protect the lung from the effects of tobacco in humans (Gazda, R., Raugaard, M., & O. Horsgaard, (2002). Tobacco-related premature mortality and non-smoking mortality among children. Lancet 49.10, 1519–1533). A meta-analysis by the Swiss National Institute for Complementary and Alternative Medicine reviewed the available literature in 1995 and concluded that “most research papers from this period reported that non-smoking is associated with a higher risk than smoking of any smoking or tobacco-containing substance of domestic origin and