FREE ESSAY ON SHOULD YOU USE TOBACCO

SHOULD YOU USE TOBACCO

Should You Use Tobacco?
There are about 1.5 million smokers that are age seventeen or younger. Many 
historians believe smoking started with the Native Americans. There are many uses of the

tobacco leaf. Also there are many things to consider if you thinking about using any type

of tobacco. First, one must realize there is illness associated with the use of tobacco.

Secondly, the cost of using tobacco keeps going up every year and often the amount being

used increases. Thirdly, if one is already a smoker and wishes to quit, there are places
one 
can turn to for help.
The Native Americans used to smoke for different purposes. When the Spanish came 
over to America from Spain, they enjoyed smoking and took the idea back to Spain with 
them. Sir Walter Raleigh is believed to have started people smoking in Europe. During 
World War I, smoking became more and more popular.
In Europe tobacco was smoked, used as snuff, and chewed. Cigarettes started in 
Mexico when tobacco was wrapped in corn husks and then smoked. Today there are 
cigarettes, pipes, cigars, chew, and snuff. Some stick the snuff straight up their noses.

Tobacco is very addicting. The nicotine in the tobacco is what causes the addiction.
There are many illness that one can acquire from using tobacco. Some of them are 
lung, breast, mouth, pharynx, esophagus, and heart cancer. Smoking can also cause 
strokes, severe respiratory problems that include; pneumonia, chronic bronchitis, 
emphusema, and more. Tobacco causes birth defects, reproductive disorders, stained 
teeth and fingernails, wrinkled skin, and bad breath. Cigarettes are a factor in many 
automobile accidents. Children who smoke are much more likely to become herion, 
cocaine, and crack addicts. Tobacco can even cause death! It kills more than eight 
thousand people per week, which is more than 400,000 per year. Second hand smoke 
causes non-smokers to have some problems as well. The use of tobacco kills more 
Americans per year than alcohol, herion, crack, automobile, plane, and train accidents, 
homicides, suicides, and AIDS combined! Each year almost 100,000 Americans die 
from lung cancer alone.
Experts have estimated that about twenty-four million men, about twenty-two 
million women, and about three million teen-agers smoke. Close to 3,000 teen-agers start

smoking every day. In 1994 Americans smoked about 485 billion cirgaretts. Teen-agers 
smoke about one billion packs of cigaretts every year. Americans spend twenty billion 
dollars each year to light over 600 billion cigaretts. 
There are places for smokers to turn to if they want to stop smoking. Here are a few
of 
the agencies; American Cancer Society, American Lung Association, American Heart 
Association, Smoke Enders. People can turn to hypnosis, filter packs, perscription drugs,

acypuncture, and a few other techniques to stop smoking.
So, after reading the information I have provided, do you want to use tobacco? Do
you 
have enough money to support a tobacco habit? Do you want to die early from cancer or 
another tobaccco related illness? If I were you, I would say no to all of these
questions! 
So, what is your answer? Hopefully it is NO!
Bibliography
Bibliography
Arkava, Morton and John Russel, Coping With Smoking, The Rosen Publishing 
Group, Inc., New York, 1984.
McMillan, Daniel, Teen Smoking, Understanding The Risk, Enslaw Publishers, Inc.,
Springfield, New Jersy, 1998.