Opinion about smoking ?

Question

What is ur opinion about smoking aimed at young people ?
(advanced words would be preferable)

Answer 1

What problems are caused by smoking?
By smoking, you can cause health problems not only for yourself but also forthose around you.

Hurting Yourself
Smoking is an addiction. You see, tobacco contains nicotine, a drug that isaddictive. The nicotine, therefore, makes it very difficult (although notimpossible) to quit. In fact, since the U.S. Surgeon General's 1964 report on thedangers of smoking, millions of Americans have quit.

Still, more than 400,000 deaths occur in the U.S. each year fromsmoking-related illnesses. The reason for these deaths is that smoking greatlyincreases the risk of getting lung cancer, heart attack, chronic lung diseases, stroke, and many other cancers. Moreover, smoking is perhaps the mostpreventable cause of breathing (respiratory) diseases within the USA

Hurting Others
Smoking harms not just the smoker, but also family members, coworkers, andothers who breathe the smoker's cigarette smoke, called secondhand smoke. Amonginfants up to 18 months of age, secondhand smoke is associated with as many as300,000 cases of bronchitis and pneumonia each year. In addition, secondhandsmoke from a parent's cigarette increases a child's chances for middle earproblems, causes coughing and wheezing, and worsens asthma.

If both parents smoke, a teenager is more than twice as likely to smoke thana teenager whose parents are both nonsmokers. Even in households where only oneparent smokes, young people are also more likely to start smoking. Pregnantwomen who smoke are more likely to deliver babies whose weights are too low forthe babies' good health. In fact, it has been estimated that if all women quitsmoking during pregnancy, about 4,000 new babies would not die each year.-

Answer 2

I'm not really sure there is such a thing. Let's face it, in the next five years or less there won't be any smokers left, at least in the United States. They(the state or federal legislators) might as well make it an illegal substance and stop "pussy-footin" around. I can't smoke at work, I can't smoke in my apartment, and it probably won't be much longer until I can't smoke in my car. In some cities, like Chicago for instance, it won't be long before you can't even smoke in a bar.

So give me a break and quit imagining all this crap about smoking being aimed at young people. They're more likely to end up on meth, ecstasy, crack or cocaine. But cigarettes? I think not.

Answer 3

Any young person that is thinking about lighting that first cigarette should pay a visit to a nursing home. They are filled with people hooked to oxygen tanks. Most of them are former smokers dying from a lung disease. Visit with these people and tell us that they want to be living like that 30 or 40 years down the road, gasping for each breath of air.Lung cancer isn't the only disease brought on by smoking. It causes all kinds of lung problems. It wrinkles your skin, it causes gingivitis. It puts burns in your car seats, if you smoke in your car. It can give you throat cancer. You can lose your voice box and have to talk with an automated voice machine. These are just some of the dangers of smoking. Think about it before you light up and become addicted because it is very hard to quit.

Answer 4

I do not know what you mean by advance words, but this I know is about advanced as you can get, which could result in cancer then death. Smoking is Dangerous! If you sit in a smoking environment for 1 hour it is like smoking 4 cigarettes in that hour.
Smoke contains tar, nicotine, and carbon monoxide associated with lung cancer, and heart disease, and it also contains cyanide, lead, arsenic, radio active compound and over 4 thousand chemicals in it.
As for smoking aimed at young people it is for all people, We are trying to help you live longer.
I was a smoker for 25 years and then was delivered, so I understand what it is like, now I cannot stand to be around any smoke

I pray that this information will make people realize what they are doing to their bodies.
This has been researched by many and particular a Medical doctor, who also works with natural supplements, and I know this man has integrity.

Answer 5

Young people who start smoking knowing the consequences are probably suffering from that phase in life all teenagers go through where they think they are invincible and that the rules don't apply to them. The morbidity rate for lung cancer is staggering, yet even knowing that smoking is highly addictive and bad for your health young kids are starting a habit that will cost them thousands and thousands of dollars throughout their lifetime not just in cigarettes but in health care costs, especially later on.

Normally I avoid answering questions that are geared mostly towards doing someone's homework for them, but I just lost my mother to lung cancer -- they didn't know when she was 12 what 12 year olds know today. They found it when it was teeny tiny and by going through the h*ll of chemo and having a lobe of a lung removed she still hit bottom on the wrong side of the 50/50 chance that gave her of living more than 5 years beyond her diagnosis. She was only 72 and kept thinking when dad was settled or dad was gone (he died 6 months before her diagnosis) or when she was moved into her new house (1 week after she was diagnosed!) she'd quit. But life never quite shaped up to where she thought she could handle the quitting. Funny how she quit cold turkey when she was diagnosed.

Answer 6

When I was 9 years old, I saw 3 lungs of three dead smokers.
One lung smoked 5 years; it was yellow with some grey holes.
The other lung smoked 15 years; it was entirely grey with bigger holes
and finally the 20 year smoking lung was black with huge holes. This was the best education a young child could receive. I still remember 20years later. Smoking sucks!
TAKE A LOOK FOR YOURSELF
http://www.tqnyc.org/NYC040719/respir4.jpg

Answer 7

This sounds like it might be an essay question...but here goes anyway.

I don't think young people should smoke, nor should they be encouraged to smoke by the so-called "heroes" of today (movie stars, musicians, etc.). Most of these media attention grabbers don't think twice about being photographed with a cigarette in his/her hand and that sends out a message to young kids that it is cool to smoke.

It isn't "cool". In my opinion, it's a sign of weakness that someone is so hooked he/she can't even have a picture taken of them without the cancer stick in his/her hand.

Answer 8

If you go to any indigenous tribe that still exists anywhere in the world and they have no money or running water but just live life each day, they all smoke tobacco.
The American Indians smoked.
We got it from them.
They are supposed to be so spiritually connected to the source of all life, then if is alright with them, it is alright with me.
I tend not to care or listen to what people of no substance or culture have to say about subjects involving MY personal actions.

Answer 9

with everything that we know about the negative effects of smoking a person would have to be half retarded to voluntarily engage in that. there is not one single benefit. and with the way our society is so hung up on looks you would think that women would run far and fast from cigarettes. smoking is the #1 cause of premature aging of the face and hands in women.

Answer 10

I used to smoke when I was younger. I am so glad I quit. Not only does it cost way to much but you smell terrible, you taste like an ashtray when someone kisses you and it is bad for your health.