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    Smoking causes over 440,000 deaths in the United States each year and is one of the most preventable causes of disease. While the harms of smoking are well known, it remains widespread due to nicotine addiction and decades of marketing by cigarette companies promoting smoking. Quitting smoking is difficult due to both physical and psychological addiction, and the cigarette industry has used tactics like advertising, celebrity endorsements, and focusing on youth to boost sales for many years. In order to protect public health, efforts should focus on preventing youth from starting to smoke and helping current smokers to quit.

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    Smoking causes over 440,000 deaths in the United States each year and is one of the most preventable causes of disease. While the harms of smoking are well known, it remains widespread due to nicotine addiction and decades of marketing by cigarette companies promoting smoking. Quitting smoking is difficult due to both physical and psychological addiction, and the cigarette industry has used tactics like advertising, celebrity endorsements, and focusing on youth to boost sales for many years. In order to protect public health, efforts should focus on preventing youth from starting to smoke and helping current smokers to quit.

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    Smoking causes over 440,000 deaths in the United States each year and is one of the most preventable causes of disease. While the harms of smoking are well known, it remains widespread due to nicotine addiction and decades of marketing by cigarette companies promoting smoking. Quitting smoking is difficult due to both physical and psychological addiction, and the cigarette industry has used tactics like advertising, celebrity endorsements, and focusing on youth to boost sales for many years. In order to protect public health, efforts should focus on preventing youth from starting to smoke and helping current smokers to quit.

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    WHY SMOKING IS BAD

    Did you know that smoking is among the most preventable diseases in the United

    States? Also according to cancer.org, tobacco causes several 440,000 deaths in a year. The

    question that is mostly asked is how people have access to such information and yet smoking still

    happens to be a problem. Smoking not only affects your health, but it also moves deeper to ruin

    your appearance and destabilize you economically. Looking simply at the facts, you find that

    buying cigarettes will cost you money, and when you want to quit smoking, it will cost you even

    way more. By the end of this speech, I hope we will be together to the conclusion that smoking is

    destroying the lives of many.

    Confucius once said, “Study the past if you would like to define the future.” What better

    way to know more about smoking than by looking briefly at its origin. Various substances are

    smoked globally, the likes as tobacco, opium, and cannabis. However, before the arrival of

    tobacco by the Europeans, cannabis and opium were mostly smoked. The interesting thing is that

    these substances were not smoked directly, rather they would be burned as incense then inhaled

    directly. By observing that history we can see how far smoking has come presently it has taken a

    revolution and now we have electronic cigarettes. In an article by Jenssen et al (2019), these

    electronic cigarettes have targeted the youth. This advancement could be advantageous to the

    cigarette industry but for the youths, it is worrying.

    For electronic cigarettes, there is still more research needed to prove their harmful

    habits. Researchers like Gotts et al (2019), have argued that electronic cigarettes will come to

    take over the whole market displacing tobacco cigarettes. Münzel et al (2020), have ranked

    tobacco smoking as the number one cause of non-communicable disease, which according to the

    events we have been witnessing could be true. Tobacco smoking causes a lot of problems to
    people, with number one on the list being cancer. Since tobacco smoke contains about 4000

    chemicals a smoker and also people who get affected by the smoke can get more than one cancer

    type. Smoking goes on to ruin one’s appearance, having bad breath, yellow teeth and fingertips,

    and wrinkling skin. Smokers also face inconveniences since a lot of places do not allow

    smoking. The sad part is that it becomes even more difficult to quit smoking. Due to the

    addictive agent called nicotine in tobacco, smokers find it hard to quit smoking no matter how

    hard they want to. Apart from nicotine, other factors make it hard to eradicate smoking. In the

    early 1960s, cigarette manufacturers found a strategy that boosted the sales of cigarettes around

    the globe. This strategy is what we call today advertising. Cigarettes were being promoted to

    have health benefits for people and they made people feel and look good. The industry later

    started using doctors, celebrities, and beautiful women in their advertisements which motivated a

    lot of people to start smoking.

    As I mentioned earlier quitting smoking is the hard part. A lot of people have tried

    quitting the habit but later fall back to smoking. Various people have even suggested that

    individuals who quit smoking, live for a short time after quitting the habit. People addicted to

    smoking can get assistance from their doctors to help them get through the addiction. It is not

    easy so support from families and friends will help make progress. However, the best way of

    solving smoking habits is by prevention. Never starting the habit.

    This brings me to the end of my speech and from what we have seen and heard,

    smoking is ruining a lot of lives with the youth being in line for the next phase due to electronic

    cigarettes. The best way is to save the young generations coming. Cigarette manufacturers put a

    lot of effort to discover means to make sales and profits, therefore we are the ones to take care of

    our health. Let us all be alert.

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