Summary of Health Effects of Cigarette Smoking
Cigarette smoking is one of the aspects that affect almost all the people in the entire world today because of the introduction of tobacco. In accordance to the research report released by the international health centre, cigarette smoking is rated as the leading avoidable cause of death in the United States. This is for the key reason that most of the American citizens addicted to cigarette have an option to neglect the habit of cigarette smoking. However, because of the denial and negligence to stop the habit of cigarette smoking, most people are dying from diseases contributed by cigarette smoking. In accordance to the article written by the authors, Shoenfeld, and Skurnik almost two million (2,000,000) people die every year because of cigarette smoking (Shoenfeld & Skurnik, 1998). However, half the number of the deaths that arise from the cigarette smoking involves people that are below the age of seventy years. This is a risk especially to the future generation since the life span of the young people is reduced to less than seventy years.
In accordance to the article, Health effect of cigarette smoking in the developing countries, twenty percent (20%) of all the deaths in a year are contributed by cigarette smoking. The statistics conducted in the year 1995 reveal that the deaths in England attributed by smoking of cigarette are approximate 150,000 (Shoenfeld & Skurnik, 1998). In the developing nations, the deaths were estimated close to two million and in the United States, almost half a million of all the deaths were contributed by smoking of cigarette. Smoking in both the adults and the young contribute to almost seventy five percent (75%) of patients suffering from lung cancer (Shoenfeld & Skurnik, 1998). Lung cancer is the leading diseases cause by cigarette smoking thus increasing the number of deaths in the entire world.
In accordance to the articles, Health effect of cigarette smoking in the year 1988, fifty three thousand deaths in the entire United States was attributed by passive smoking (Shoenfeld & Skurnik, 1998). Active smokers refer to the people that smoke the cigarette while the passive smokers refer to the people next to the people-smoking cigarette. This implies that the passive smokers just like the active suffer from dangerous that emerge from exposure to smoking of cigarette. Continuous and excessive smoking of cigarette contributes to coronary heart diseases, lipid disorders, atherosclerotic diseases and hypertension (Shoenfeld & Skurnik, 1998). In most of the parts of the United States and industrial nations, it is true that coronary heart diseases are the chief cause of death. Almost seventy percent (70%) of the people that die from coronary disease are cigarette smokers (Shoenfeld & Skurnik, 1998).
An additional disease that arises from the smoking of cigarette is the pulmonary disease, which is closely related to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. The two diseases that are associated with pulmonary disease that arises from smoking comprises of emphysema and bronchitis. In regards to the authors of the article, “Health effect of cigarette smoking” smoking of cigarette contributes to eighty thousand (80,000) deaths in the United States of America (Shoenfeld & Skurnik, 1998).
Cancer is another lethal disease that smoking contributes to both the passive and active smoker hence contributing to thirty percent (30%) of deaths in the entire American society (Shoenfeld & Skurnik, 1998). Since the year 1950, lung cancer the common cause of death caused by smoking has increased with two hundred and fifty percent. Cigarette smoking also contributes to cancer of the pelvis, pancreases, esophagus, renal pelvis, stomach, myeloid leukemia (Shoenfeld & Skurnik, 1998). Most of the parts that affected by the cancer in the body of a smoker involves the parts cigarette smoke passes through before reaching the lungs. Another disease that is caused by cigarette smoking in the human body is osteoporosis, which refers to the reduction of the bone mass in the smokers. Gastrointestinal disorder, which involves gastric and duodenal ulcer, is mostly prevalent in the cigarette smokers (Shoenfeld & Skurnik, 1998).
Response
I support the argument proposed by the authors that the impact of cigarette smoking is intense in the entire world especially since it affects both passive and active smokers. In most cases, the passive smokers are at a higher danger of being infected with the cigarette smoking compared to the active smokers. I also agree with the article the need to reduce the amount of danger exposed to the passive smokers, will call for efforts by the friends and family need to avoid smokers especially during the smoking time interval. This is because the family background have an upper hand influencing an individual into smoking. It is also true that the members of a family also have a higher percentage of suffering from the effects of passive smoking hence their involvement will be crucial.
I also agree with the argument that cigarette smoking is a universal pandemic that is avoidable especially to both starters and addicts of tobacco. The habit of smoking in the entire world contributes to the attack of various killer diseases. Some of the diseases that emerge from cigarette smoking encompass of cardiovascular diseases. It is also true that cigarette smoking contributes to numerous deaths in the entire world but the addictive nature of the drug still pushes people in using the drug. The smoking of tobacco has diverse risks to the human body because of the content of tobacco
However, the article is not adequate in their explanation because of the shallow argument they give about the health effects. The authors only assert about the effect while not stating on the reasoning behind tobacco being harmful to the smokers’ health. They should have mention about the tar and nicotine content that makes the tobacco smoking be deadly to man. this is enough reasoning that can help in reducing the number of smokes since they are aware of the effects of tobacco smoking and at the same time they know why it is harmful to their health.
Reference
Shoenfeld, Yehuda & Skurnik, Yair (1998). Health effect of cigarette smoking. Kaplan Medical Center, Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel. Clinics in Dermatology [1998, 16(5):545-556]
