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Quit Smoking! - Term Paper

Quit Smoking!

SURGEON GENERALS WARNING: Smoking Causes Lung Cancer, Heart Disease, Emphysema, And May Complicate Pregnancy. Cigarette smoking has been proven to be hazardous to your health. It wasn’t until 1964 that the actual truth came out about cigarette use. From the years 1952-1956 Kent brand cigarettes was allowed to use a filter containing asbestos. Cigarette ads were allowed on television up until the year 1971, and it wasn’t until 1979 that it was discovered that women smokers could cause major damage to the fetus if they are pregnant. In 1964, the annual Surgeon General’s Report On Smoking And Health reported an overwhelming association between smoking and early death from lung cancer, ...

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the arteries harden which increases the chance for the artery to rupture. Another drug in cigarettes, nicotine, causes your blood pressure to rise, your heart rate to rise, and your heart increasingly requires more oxygen to keep pumping.
Along with heart disease, smokers are afflicted with life threatening cancers. “Cigarette smoking is the major cause of cancer of the lips, tongue, salivary glands, mouth, larynx, esophagus, and middle and lower pharynx”(Kim and Saltzberg 2). Stomach cancer has also been found to be directly related to cigarette smoking. Another cancer that is related to smoking is bladder cancer. In addition to these, leukemia is also directly related to cigarettes. Smoking is responsible for 30% of all cancer-related deaths. The carcinogens contained in tobacco smoke attach themselves to the DNA of the smoker. These carcinogens cause damage to the DNA, which in the long run can cause life-threatening cancer (Bailey 138-139).
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Added: 11/6/2006 08:18:42 AM
Category: Health & Medicine
Type: Premium Paper
Words: 926
Pages: 4

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