Smoking

What causes the problem?
Each year about 48,000 people in the States die from illnesses related to tobacco use. A Cigarette is made up of 4,000 chemicals but the most is tobacco, nicotine and tar. Smoking leads to cancer, it cancers of the lung, kidney, esophagus, larynx and many more.

Nicotine and Tar
Nicotine is a highly addictive drug that acts in the brain and throughout the body. Within 10 seconds of entering your body, then nicotine reaches the brain. It causes the brain to release adrenaline. This leaves you feeling tired and wanting to smoke again. This feeling is what makes people want to light another cigarette. The sticky tar in cigarettes coats your lungs turning them black over time. Tar can also cause yellow-brown stains on fingers and teeth.

What are the effects of the problem?
No matter how you smoke, tobacco is dangerous to your health and can effect your whole body. There are 27 main effects of smoking in the body.

Some of the effects

• Mood Stimulation
• Poor vision
• Coughing
• Yellow-brown teeth, nails and fingers
• Appetite Suppressant
• Lung, Blood Cancer/Heart Disease
• Wrinkly Skin, Smelly hair
• Problems with pregnancy, newborns having hard time

When you inhale smoke, you’re taking in substances that can damage your lungs. Over time, your lungs lose their ability to remover chemicals from the cigarette. Coughing can’t clear them out sufficiently, so so these chemical get trapped in the lungs.
Children whose parents smoke can start to cough, wheez, and get asthma attacks easier than children whose parents don’t. They also tend to have more ear infections. Children of smokers have higher rates of pneumonia and bronchitis.

What is being done to reduce the problem?
To prevent people getting cancer due to smoking, people need to stop. But smoking is really addictive as a cigarette contains nicotine. To overcome this addiction, many scientists have researched ways to help people recover. For example: next page

Ways smoking is being reduced

• Commercials are banned because they want to protect the population being against it.
• Scientists have made electronic cigarettes. They don't contain tobacco or nicotine.
• Taxes on cigarettes have increased all over the world. It became $4.35(New York)

How/why does the solution work?/Disadvantages of the solution
The solution I have chosen is increasing taxes to pay for a cigarette packet. I think this is a very good idea because young teenagers/adults won't be able to afford a packet. Although, this solution doesn't quite work yet. Because about 48.1 million people in the United States currently smoke cigarettes. It is about just less than 10 times more than the whole population of Singapore.

Does the solution have any ethical / social / cultural / environmental/ political or economic factors associated with it?


My solution has 2 different factors included; social and economical.

Economical Impact
The picture behind shows, 1 packet of cigarettes is $20.50 and you buy your groceries for 2 days with only $19.80. This shows that people are wasting a lot of money on a packet of cigarettes which will kill you anyways. And you could save about 70 cents which will make you healthier.

Social Impact
Since the taxes have increased, people may get disturbed. Increasing taxes may sound like it doesn't even connect to the community. This can effect their community by having riots or gang fights.

Refernces

• "What's In a Cigarette, 599 Ingredients in a Cigarette." Web. 30 Aug. 2015.
• "Harms of Cigarette Smoking and Health Benefits of Quitting." National Cancer Institute. Web. 30 Aug. 2015.
• Nicotine Addiction and Your Health." Nicotine and Tobacco Addiction. Web. 31 Aug. 2015.
• "The Effects of Smoking on the Body." Healthline. Web. 1 Sept. 2015.

References

• Assessment task sheet
• "Electronic Cigarettes: Reports Commissioned by PHE." - Publications. 15 May 2014. Web. 3 Sept. 2015.
• "2014 Population in Brief." - Publications. 1 Sept. 2014. Web. 3 Sept. 2015.
• "What's Being Done to Protect People from the Hazards of Smoking?" American Cancer Society, 13 Feb. 2014. Web. 3 Sept. 2015.

References

• "Costs of Smoking | Smokefree." Health Promotion Agency. Web. 3 Sept. 2015.