Smoking Cigarettes Research Paper

Smoking cigarettes is burning holes in your pockets. The money people spend on cigarettes, they could put towards something that they really want like cars, boats, houses and other recreational objects. This paper is going to include: cigarette taxes in Ohio, taxes in Ohio virus other states, effects of smoking and secondhand smoke on teen smokers, and adult smokers.

In Nebraska, 64 cents per pack is taxed on cigarettes . It is also lower than the national average by nearly one dollar” I(unmc.edu). That is crazy that the state only charges 64 cents on their taxes to cigarettes. “One dollar increase in the cigarette tax would avert 3,842 smoking-related premature deaths” (unmc.edu). That’s in Nebraska, but that could be in other states too.

Including more than 41,000 deaths resulting from secondhand smoking exposure. This is about one in five deaths annually or 1300 deaths everyday. On average, smokers die 10 years earlier than nonsmokers” (cdc.gov). So one that note, here’s another question, does secondhand smoke contain harmful chemicals? “Yes it does, among the more than 7000 chemicals that have been identified in secondhand tobacco smoke, at least 250 are know to be harmful , for example, hydrogen cyanide, carbon monoxide, and ammonia. At least 69 of the toxic chemicals in secondhand tobacco smoke cause cancer” (cancer.gov). Here are a few of these “chemicals including the following: arsenic, benzene, beryllium, cadmium, ethylene oxide, and nickel” (cancer.gov). just to name a few. Here are some other “toxic chemicals in secondhand smoke that are suspected to cause cancer including: formaldehyde, benzo{a}pyrene, and toluene. Many factors affect which chemicals are found in secondhand smoke such as the type of tobacco, the chemicals added to the tobacco, the way the tobacco product is smoked, and for cigarettes and cigars, the material in which the tobacco is wrapped” (cancer.gov). Here’s a good question for you , does exposure to secondhand smoke cause cancer? The answer is “yes the U.S. environmental protection agency, the U.S. national toxicology program. The U.S. surgeon general, and the International agency for research on cancer have all classified secondhand smoke as a known human carcinogen” (cancer.gov). “Inhaling secondhand smoke causes lung cancer in nonsmoking adults. Approximately 3000 lung cancer deaths occur each year among adult nonsmokers in the United States as a result of exposure to secondhand smoke. The U.S. surgeon general estimates that living with a smoker increases a non smoker 's chances of developing lung cancer by 20 to 30 percent” (cancer.gov). “Some research also