Good or Bad of Smokeing

GOOD OR BAD OF SMOKING 1Good or bad of smokingHand Wang091119 Class JJLU UniversityOctober 19, 2011Good or bad of smokingAt present, smoking is becoming a widespread habit all over the world. Issue we are facing is that not only the old, the male, but also the youth, the female have engaged in smoking. According to the statistic in the past 5 years, the rate of people smoking increased obviously. It rose from 35% in 2005 to 63.5% in 2010.When asked about smoking is good or bad? Many people argue that it’s good, but other people consider it’s bad.Smoking is goodMany of people think that smoking is a smart symbol or it is a kind of fashion. Smoking can change their image and temperament to be cool, melancholy. Young people feel that smoking cool. Naive people think that smoking can mature. Mature person is a addiction of smoking. Some people that smoke when the kinds of hobbies, like make-up loving the same woman. M ore and more people smoke and if they don’t smoke, they will be out.Smoking is a kind of spiritual sustenance. When smokers feel experience depression, severe headache, lonely, they will light up and take a puff at his cigarette, they feel better with smoke exhaled. Where the boys did not vent has encountered not only a silent smoke, not for anything else, just for a moment of relief. A smoker said :” In fact, I smoke not to break up the monotony, chic pull, and now this too much pressure on our society, has become a product of spiritual consolation, for example, they are drug addicts looking for a single extreme hallucinations and mental relax, forget everything else.”Tobacco also is considered a food, a drug. Smoking sometimes can lose a lot of weight, so smokers turn to food as a substitute. And smoking can refresh smokers. It can give them energy just like cordial.Every coin has its two sides. People may be right about smoking is good, but they seem to neglect the fact that the bad aspects are also apparent.Smoking is badFirstly, smoking is harmful to health, even it is threaten to life. Medical science has now proved that smoking can cause lung cancer and other diseases such as emphysema. The chances of having a heart attack also increase the more you smoke. Smoking is definitely a health hazard.” Facts: Fewer than 10% of lung cancer patients survive five years after diagnosis. Smokers who smoke between 1 and 14 cigarettes a day have eight times the risk of dying from lung cancer compared to non-smokers. It is estimated that several hundred cases of lung cancer and several thousand cases of heart disease in non-smokers in the UK every year are caused by passive smoking. Tobacco use kills around 120,000 people in the UK every year, about 330 every day - as if a plane crashed every day and killed all its passengers, around 20% of all deaths. Smoking causes at least 80% of all deaths from lung cancer, around 80% of all deaths from bronchitis and emphysema and around 17% of all deaths from heart disease. About half of all regular cigarette smokers will eventually be killed by their habit”(Unknown, n.d.).Secondly, smoking will impact our mind. “Many people around us have developed the habit of smo king and some of them are even addicted to it. It’s a report in the newspaper: a certain student in a middle school smoked and he wouldn't get rid of the bad habit though his teacher and friends warned him not to smoke any more. He even stole money to get cigarettes and was pat into prison in the end. This really gave people a shock.” As everyone knows, smoking is very harmful to our health. It does great harm not only to our health, but also to our mind, especially for teenagers. Teenagers smoke because their adolescent years are filled with psychological problems. One of these problems, for example, is establishing a sense of identity. The teen years are the time when young people want to be more independent from their parents and form their own values. The enormous mental pressures of these years can make some people turn to smoking.Thirdly, smoking, which may be a pleasure for some people, but is a series of discomforts for their friends and families. Medical scientists haveexpressed their concern about the effect of smoking on the health not only of those who are smoking but also of those who live in the air polluted by Secondhand smoke. “Secondhand smoke, also known as environmental tobacco smoke, consists of a mixture of gases and particles including smoke from burning cigarettes, cigars, pipe tobacco, and exhaled mainstream smoke”(Unknown, 2009). Studies show that non-smokers suffer more than the smokers themselves. Smoking causes many harmful diseases like lung cancer, heart attacks, high blood pressure, etc. “This passive smoking is more dangerous when compared to direct smoking. Every year many people who are dying due to diseases caused by smoking habit. It includes men and women. “ (Unknown, n.d.). Smoker’s mood is alway s variable and others unhappy. Some people will sink a large sum of money into smoking so that their life will get more complex and difficult.ConclusionAs we all know, smoking is harmful to one's health. “It contributes to lung cancer, from which many people have died in the past years. It can also cause many other diseases. In a word, if you smoke, you do have a much greater chance of losing your health. Furthermore, scientific research shows that smoking is not only harmful to smokers themselves, but also a threat to public health, e specially to women and children” (Unknown, n.d.).More and more people have come to realize how serious this problem is. But they are never bored with it. Many people have passed away for having smoked a lot so we call on people to give up smoking. Doct ors think it’s more important to call on the smoker to use good judgment and to show concern for others. In order to have a happy life, it is a good suggestion for you to be away from the cigarette and cherish your health.Reference1.Institute of Medicine.Secondhand Smoke Exposure andCardiovascular Effects: Making Sense of the Evidence. Washington: National Academy of Sciences, Institute of Medicine, 2009. Retrieved from /tobacco/data_statistics/sgr/2004/index.htm2.Unknown. (n.d.). Abuses Of Smoking.Retrieved from/guest4f45e9/abuses-of-smoking3.Unknown. (n.d.). Smoking and Health. Retrieved from/skill/paper/67194.html?&lang=en_us&output=json 4.Unknown. (n.d.). Smoking Is Harmful. Retrieved from/view/8f8f040bbb68a98271fefa70.html5.Unknown. (n.d.). Smoking.Retrieved from/view/cf23e80003d8ce2f006623a9.html。