Argumentative Essay: Does Smoking Cause Lung Cancer?

Death Defying Argument
“Come on Dad, you can do it,”cried Jack. “Don’t you even think about leaving us.”
Bob, Jack’s Dad, has been smoking since he was 13, and now he is 46. He always had chest pain and coughed a lot and everyday that passed it got worse. Bob was in the hospital because after all these years of smoking, he found out that he had lung cancer. This issue got everyone really worried, sad, but also mad because every single day that passed, his kids, wife, and even his elderly parents kept telling him to stop smoking. What made his situation worse was that not only he smoked, but he also drank alcohol every single night. That made his liver get really useless and in a bad condition. He used to get really drunk, but he claimed that

Arsenic, chromium and nickel, which cigarettes have in them, are what increase mostly increase the cancer. Cigarettes contain thousands of chemicals and at least 70 of the substances that cigarettes contain, cause cancer. For example, nicotine, hydrogen cyanide, formaldehyde, arsenic, ammonia etc. and if you keep inhaling cigarette smoke, then your normal cells that line your lungs, are really damaged. If you have a cough that doesn’t go away or it gets worse, or if you have a strong chest pain, that’s when you should know that you’re risk of getting cancer is at 90%. Coughing up blood is also when you’re getting cancer and you should immediately go to the doctor. As was mentioned, I said that I do understand why people smoke, it could be because of stress, anger, and that’s the only way,that some people think, that can calm them down. As big as the issue may be, it is still not that strong of a reason as to continue smoking and not

Discarded cigarette butts, frequently litter public streets. The biggest issue, besides the fact that it pollutes the air, is that those discarded cigarette butts, are accidently consumed by children or small animals. When you smoke around kids, it might make them have problems with their breathing too, since they’re inhaling the smoke. Emphysema and chronic bronchitis are the most common conditions that cause COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease). The damage that COPD can cause to the lungs, cannot be reversed! Some symptoms include, shortness of breath, wheezing, or a chronic breath. The most affected age is 60 and