Why should stop smoking?

The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror - not the
glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry
try to portray

Many of us have smoked or we have seen somebody smoking. It is a

very ancient practice: The earliest forms of cigarettes were similar to
their predecessor, the cigar. Cigarettes appear to have had antecedents
in Mexico and Central America around the 9th century in the form of
reeds and smoking tubes. The Maya, and later the Aztecs, smoked
tobacco and various psychoactive drugs in religious rituals and
frequently depicted priests and deities smoking on pottery and temple
engravings. The cigarette and the cigar were the most common methods
of smoking in the Caribbean, Mexico and Central and South America
until recent times.1
Today, tobacco or better cigarettes industries is a colossal businessapproximately 5.5 trillion cigarettes are produced globally each year and
are smoked by over 1.1 billion people-, it is an amazing number, so that
we just can imagine how many dollars a tobacco company would earn in
a country like Indonesia or England.
On earth there are about 1250 of active smoker which represents onethird of the worlds population over 15 years old. Sex- and agedisaggregated data and analysis has showed that about 47 percent of
smokers are men and they consume 14 cigarettes per day, this means
that 5827 cigarettes are smoked per year.
However, there are bad news for tobacco companies, according to
World Health Organization (WHO)- which is a specialized agency of
1 Robicsek, Francis Smoke; Ritual Smoking in Central America pp. 3037

the United Nations (UN) that is concerned with international public

health-, many countries which have accepted that is vitally important to
inform the public about dangers of tobacco, they have achieved a
decrease of smoking. In the other hand, PANOS, an institutional
information agency from which is located in London, has said: In many
households, public places and factories or establishments, smoking is
not a socially acceptable habit, also many people cannot smoke in
public space due to legal restrictions which has been by their countys
law, for example, in Colombia smoking is Smoking is not allowed in any
of the governments buildings, discotheques, hospital, restaurants etc.
But there is something significant. This kind of restriction are more
developed in

First World than Third world, that situation has forces

tobacco companies to use more marketing in countries with a weak law

about smoking.
Why is smoking bad for you?
Smoking is responsible for several diseases, such as cancer, long-term
(chronic) respiratory diseases, and heart disease, as well as premature
death. Over 440,000 people in the USA and 100,000 in the UK die
because of smoking each year. According the US CDC (Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention), $92 billion is lost each year from lost
productivity resulting from smoking-related deaths.2
Of the more than 2.4 million deaths in the USA annually, over 440,000
are caused by smoking.
The reasons:

2Medical News Today, Smokers Die Ten Years Sooner Than Non-Smokers.
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/261091.php

1. Smoking is not only "a habit" is also an addiction, effects from

smoking are considered like effects from others substances like
marihuana, alcohol, drugs.
2. The main reason to stop smoking is cancer, and smoking might be
cause of a lot kind of cancer: 90 percent of lung cancer patients
developed their disease because of smoking. Lung cancer is one of
the most common causes of cancer deaths in the world. Smokers
also have a considerably higher risk of developing: Bladder cancer,
kidney cancer, cancers of the pharynx and larynx (throat cancer),
mouth cancer, esophagus cancer, cancer of the pancreas, stomach
cancer, some types of leukemia, cancer of the nose and sinuses,
cervical cancer, bowel cancer, ovarian cancer, also breast cancer.
3. Smoking causes an accumulation of fatty elements in the arteries,
well-known as atherosclerosis, the highest contributor to smokingrelated deaths. Smoking is also a important responsible factor in
coronary heart illness risk. People with coronary heart disease are
much more expected to have a heart attack.
4. Finally, I found an interesting personal reason to not smoking: The
last reason why you shouldnt smoke is out of respect for the
people around you. When you smoke, you not only harm yourself,
but you also harm all the people around you. So you mustnt be
selfish; you should at least avoid smoking in front of people who
dont smoke. Also, many people dont like the cigarettes smell, so
they wont enjoy your company3.

Finally, I want you to answer me a question:

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I am sure that you know that smoking harms your

body, and if you are not sure I just gave the reasons to
you. Then why do you continue smoking?

Why should I stop smoking?

English essay

Edwin Smith Gil Pieros

English IV

Rubn Mauricio Muoz Morales

English professor

Universidad Santo Tomas

Villavicencio

2014