Cigarettes: The Harmful Effects Of Smoking

Annually, over 480000 people passed away in the United States as a result of cigarette-related diseases (Seymour, 2017). People smoking on the streets, at home, or even at public places are familiar with everyone nowadays. Many individuals believe that cigarettes could bring benefits like making them more conscious or more efficient in work. Nevertheless, others argue that smoking harms your health and it is a waste of money. And there are also many solutions to reduce the consumption of cigarettes. In my opinion, due to the harmful effects of cigarettes such as damaging smokers’ health, secondhand smoke, and polluting the environment, so the cigarettes’ price should be increased in order to decrease the number of people buying and using it. Cigarettes can really cause a huge damage to the smokers’ physical condition. There are two factors that are carbon monoxide and tar; they affect greatly to the people’s health. They impact on the heart and circulation, the brain, the lung and other organs of the body. For example, smoking weakens the immune system and makes infections and diseases penetrate into the body easier (Seymour 2017). A study of an international team of scientists states that the cells that contact to the cigarette smoke appears have the appearance of mutations; and the part most likely to meet the smoke is the lung, and that’s why smoking people have a high chance to get lung cancer. The mentioned examples are typical cases of effects of cigarettes on health,