Some people neither care about their own nor other people’s health. People do things everyday without caring how it will affect them or others. One of the things is smoking openly, especially in public places. Approximately one-fifth of all deaths in the United States can be blamed on smoking. Cigarette smoke delivers more than forty known cancer-causing chemicals. There is also compelling evidence that regular exposure to secondhand tobacco smoke threatens the health of those who don't smoke.Smoking is the most preventable cause of death in our society. In fact, nearly one in five deaths in the United States results from the use of tobacco. Based on research from the American Cancer Society, each year smoking claims more than 400,000 lives in the US. Almost half of all smokers between the ages of thirty-five and sixty-nine die prematurely. Smokers could be losing an average of twenty to twenty five years of their life. When you inhale the smoke of a cigarette, you are letting loose a chemical parade that will march through some of your body's vital organs like brain, lungs, heart and blood vessels. Your body is exposed to chemicals that cause cancer, coronary heart disease, stroke, and respiratory conditions such as emphysema and chronic bronchitis. Smoking is also linked to a variety of disorders and conditions including the slowed healing of wounds and infertility. One of the most powerful chemicals is nicotine. Nicotine is what keeps you smoking. The carbon monoxide you inhale from tobacco smoke replaces oxygen in your blood cells, robbing your heart, brain and the rest of your body of this life-giving element. Smoking also deadens your senses of taste and smell so food is not as good as it once was.A burning cigarette is a health risk to everyone in the same room. The scientificevidence of tobacco hazards is strongest for smokers themselves. However, there is compelling evidence that regular exposure to secondhand tobacco ...
