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12 pages in length. The writer discusses the physical problems associated with cigarette smoking, including lung cancer and cardiovascular disease. Statistics included. Bibliography lists 15 sources.
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become "perhaps the greatest morality play of late 20th-Century America" (Frankel, 1997, p. B04). Whether or not one smokes makes no difference as to the potential for contracting any
one of the vile diseases associated with smoking: emphysema, atherosclerosis, coronary heart disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and a multitude of cancers, including lung, throat and tongue. To bring
the point home, half million a year people die each year from cigarette-related causes (Whelan, 1994, p. 77), with 37,000 to 40,000 of those dying as a result of secondhand
smoke. A staggering $50 billion dollars is estimated to be the amount of associated health care costs. II. HEALTH HAZARDS Smoking
has been found to have a tremendous influence upon an individuals future risks of developing cardiovascular disease, which is hardly news to anyone in the health care industry who already
understands the correlation between tobacco and heart problems. "In 1991, I quit smoking cold turkey. I came to realize that smoking was bad for my health I
also realized that second-hand smoke was hurting my wife, who has severe type II diabetes with complications" (Anonymous, 1994, p. 64). It is interesting to note that the increase
of smoking in America has steadily correlated with the increasing incidence of lung cancer. Back at the turn of the century, when cigarette smoking was no more popular than
that of fifty per capita each year, lung cancer was virtually nonexistent. At that time, cigars, pipes and chewing tobacco were the primary methods of use for tobacco products.
As cigarette consumption grew over the next fifty years, the incidence of lung cancer skyrocketed to eighteen thousand cases by mid century, which "set off an alarm in the
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