E.+Persuasive+Research+Essay

Isaiah Martin January 20, 2011 1A  About Forty-five million adults in the United States currently smoke cigarettes (“How many people smoke”). There are too many people in the world dying from smoking, and the number constantly grows more and more each day. Many health problems have been caused from tobacco, yet people continue to consume their products. The tobacco company should be demolished, because their products are harmful to one’s body, it can cause diseases, and tobacco kills millions of people.  Tobacco is harmful the human body. Nicotine is one of the major chemicals in cigarettes, however, there are approximately 4,000 chemicals in a cigarette, and hundreds of them are toxic (“Smoking Effects”). Most of the people that smoke are addicted purely because cigarettes contain nicotine. After years of smoking, it becomes harder to quit. In order to quit, one must make a life decision and be determined. Smoking can affect the way blood flows in your body, Carbon monoxide attaches it’s self to hemoglobin in the red blood cells, and it prevents affected cells from functioning correctly (“Smoking Effects”).  Smoking in order to fit in with the crowd is not worth the life it can lead to. Tobacco can cause numerous amounts of diseases, such as lung cancer, heart disease, and other illnesses. A lot of people smoke, thinking there is a small chance of them dying from a related disease. However, smoking killed 100 million people in the 20th century (“Smoking will kill”). No one knows when their time to die will come, so you should not risk your life for a bad habit.  Tobacco causes too many people to die. It is predicted that “one billion people will die from tobacco-related diseases causes by the end of the century if current consumption continues” (“Smoking will kill”). Everyday there are young people shortening their lives from smoking, mainly just to look “cool”. Statistics show that 5.4 million people die each year. That turns out to be one every six seconds (“Smoking will kill”). Smoking does not seem worth an early death.  Tobacco has only been detrimental to the world. Smoking has badly affected the human body, has caused many diseases, and has killed an over whelming an=mount of people. However, there are people who strongly believe that smoking is good. One person believes that smoking increases concentration (“Smoking is good for you”). More concentration is not worth the risk you take from smoking. Slowly the government has tried to prevent people from smoking. For instances, the taxes for tobacco has increased, nevertheless, people have already become too addicted for that to affect them. Commercials are shown on television to show the bad affects of smocking. Keep the one’s you care about from smoking!