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Tobacco

It's time to Quit smoking For Good.

Momna Asif

Switzerland

MRs. BW & MR. Zisser

1 February , 2019
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​ As stated by ASA : “One person dies every 4.5 seconds from a tobacco related

disease”. Do people really understand, how serious smoking is? ​People already know that

smoking is dangerous for their health. Tobacco includes many toxic and harmful substances that

can cause major illnesses. The ​composition​ of Tobacco are:

“ Acetaldehyde, Acetone ,Acrolein, Acrylonitrile, 1 and 2-aminonaphthalene, Ammonia,

Benzene ,Nickel, Nitric Oxide, NNN, NNK, and NAT, Phenol, Propionaldehyde , Pyridine,

Quinoline , Resorcinol, Styrene ,Toluene, Nicotine, Carbon Monoxide, Tar, Benzo[a]pyrene,

-1,3-Butadiene, Butyraldehyde ,Cadmium, Catechol, Chromium ,Cresol, Crotonaldehyde,

Formaldehyde, Hydrogen Cyanide ,Hydroquinone,Isoprene ,Lead, and Methyl Ethyl Ketone

(MEK).”

Tobacco contains Nicotine, which is an extremely fast-acting drug, it is highly addictive and

not easy to quit. Nicotine controlled CNS, depression, seizure, and growth retardation. If

Tobacco and other cigarette products had no Nicotine, the number of people will drop and the

Tobacco company will collapse. Nicotine is the most dynamic ingredient in Tobacco. Carbon

Monoxide is a deadly gas, has no smell and taste. The body finds difficulties to differentiates

between Co and O2 and absorbs by bloodstreams. Carbon Monoxide decrease the heart and

Tissues function, cause exhaustion weakness and lung cancer when the babies in the womb.

People can go to Coma and can die. Tar can cause cancer and 70% of tar remains on your lungs

when you inhale the smoke. Tobacco can damage your liver, kidney. the poisonous gas can give

you irritation in eyes, can cause asthma, raise blood pressure, leukemia, skin cancer, headache

and, depression ​(Medical News Today).

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Peoples are just undergoing the problematical and stressful circumstances to quit

smoking. They looked at the problem and address the ​solution​ by a debate over healthy and

unhealthy options. People were pressed to choose two conflicting options but agreeable to them.

People become addicted and face a hard time to stop smoking or have two options whether to

quit or continue. ​Quitting is so difficult because it is not a bad habit it is an addiction. There will

be a transition in a person's behavior and in his physical appearance. Research shows that

smokeless tobacco faced more difficulties to give up rather than quitting smoking.​ People feel

uncomfortable but they have to do choose this situation, or leave their self in the mouth of death

( American Cancer Society).​ This situation is an ethical dilemma for people who want to stop but

find difficulties. A condition in which difficult choices made between two conflicting option.

​The tobacco industries have a history of denying the harmful effect of tobacco on people.

There are some factors that can make this product controversial such as; Smoking doesn't cause

cancer, it only causes for certain people, and cause certain diseases. People are still wondering

that smoking can cause cancer, emphysema, and another type of virus too. They kept claiming to

prove their point. In the back of days, tobacco companies don't believe the reality of using

tobacco or smoking can cause cancer and still, now they are denying the fact. People are

attempting to prove how they are getting cancer after using tobacco or smoking.

​Ethic might make things complicated​ by not getting the real purpose of the product and

the effect of the product. Based on the chemical structure of tobacco, this product would not be

ethical to market. Tobacco cause cancer that is not the right thing for people to do. Tobacco is
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killing the people but the companies are not admitting it till now. Tobacco is wasting the lives of

people, making them addict and take them to near the death.

“ Robinson’s husband ​Michael Johnson died in 1996 at age of 36 from lung cancer, and in her

lawsuit against R.J. Reynolds, she and her attorneys argued that the company was aware that

cigarettes were addictive and caused lung cancer, but was negligent in telling smokers like

Johnson about those risks.”

( Winner of Tobacco Company Lawsuit asks; Are You Awake ?). ​ This widow won money and

prove her point how and why her husband died. She also tells how he became addicted and

what's his condition after using tobacco. There is a story of a girl Amanda, who started smoking

in her fifth grade and want to quit but she becomes addicted. She got engaged and got pregnant,

she wanted to quit at that time for her child but was not able to. Her child lived in the hospital for

two months. She said she know what is going to happen, I was not able to stop myself and give

birth to an premature baby ​(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention). ​Tobacco is unethical to

advertise because it is destroying the lives of people and newborn babies.

The tobacco companies know what they are sel​ling to people but they really don’t care.

They only have interest in money. Philip Morris has acknowledged how toxic tobacco is, but

doesn’t care and still sells it, and five of the other top tobacco brands– British American

Tobacco, Japan Tobacco, Imperial Tobacco, Vector Group Tobacco, and China Tobacco–

acknowledge, on their websites, that tobacco destroys people’s health, and yet continue to sell

their products ​( Stop The Tobacco Industries). ​The annual death of smokers is near to 4 million.

By 2030 this amount will increase by 10 million.

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In 2016, ​estimated 37.8 million​ adult smoke in the United States. Smoking tobacco causes the

death of 480,000 people​ in the US each year. In addition, smoking-related illness in the United

States costs more than​ $300 billion a year, ​including nearly ​$170 billion i​n direct medical care

for adults and​ $156 billion in lost productivity.

There are also some solutions too, how to reduce the use of tobacco? By increasing the

price of tobacco, reducing the amount of advertisement on tobacco, allow them to have a certain

amount of tobacco, adopting the policies and strategies on reducing the cause of tobacco.

​ Tobacco is unethical to marketing because of all these reasons.​ Tobacco can reduce the life

expectancy and life quality too. It's time to quit smoking and take one small step towards

change.

“ There was a never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope”. ( Bernard

Williams)
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Citation page

​Nordqvist, Christian. “What Chemicals Are In Cigarette Smoke?” ​Medical News Today​,

MediLexicon International, 13 July 2015, www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/215420.php.

“Stop the Tobacco Industry!” ​SiOWfa15 Science in Our World Certainty and Controversy,​

sites.psu.edu/stopthetobaccoindustry/tobacco-companies-know-that-what-they-sell-is-poisono

us/.

“Introduction To Smoking.” ​Mental Help Early Childhood Cognitive Development Language

Development Comments​, www.mentalhelp.net/articles/introduction-to-smoking/.

“Why People Start Using Tobacco, and Why It's Hard to Stop.” ​American Cancer Society,​

www.cancer.org/cancer/cancer-causes/tobacco-and-cancer/why-people-start-using-tobacco.ht

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Sifferlin, Alexandra. “Winner of Tobacco Company Lawsuit Asks: ‘Are You Awake Now?".”

Time​, Time, 22 July 2014,

time.com/3016961/23-6-billion-lawsuit-winner-to-big-tobacco-are-you-awake-now/.

“Amanda's Story | Real Stories | Tips From Former Smokers | CDC.” ​Centers for Disease

Control and Prevention,​ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,

www.cdc.gov/tobacco/campaign/tips/stories/amanda.html.

“Burden of Tobacco Use in the U.S. | Data and Statistics | Campaign Resources | Tips From

Former Smokers | CDC.” ​Centers for Disease Control and Prevention​, Centers for Disease

Control and Prevention,

www.cdc.gov/tobacco/campaign/tips/resources/data/cigarette-smoking-in-united-states.html.
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