Smoking has many negative health effects and causes over 480,000 deaths per year in the United States. While smoking is highly addictive due to chemicals like nicotine, there are many resources available to help people quit, such as smoking cessation classes and online advice pages. Laws around the world have also been put in place to discourage smoking and protect nonsmokers from secondhand smoke, though e-cigarettes are a newer option for some trying to quit conventional cigarettes. Continued public health campaigns and the rising costs of cigarettes are also helping to reduce smoking rates over time.

1. QUIT SMOKING ESSAY – LIAM HEELEY
Smokingis a common addiction in this modern day that gas many
negative effects to the user and also to the peoplearound them.
To representhow wideof an addiction smokingis, 480,000people
die from smokingtobacco in the United States every year…this
means1 in 5 deaths are caused from smoking. That is the reason why
you see so many billboards or advertspromotingand persuading
peopleto stop smoking.
Smokingcan cause many negative mental and physicaleffects, from
causing all differenttypesof cancer to your teeth rotting. However,
even though smokingis so negative, it is so easy to preventit! There
is so much supportoutthere for peoplewho wantto quit like classes
or even advicepages online that give information on waysto quit and
links to other organisations.
There are over 4000 compoundsin cigarette smokeand all these
together cause very bad effects on the human body, which is why
cancer is caused from smoking. In the UK, somebody diesfrom lung
cancer every 15 minutes, so this is why the effects of smokingare
advertised all over social media and billboards for example. Explicit
images are also printed on the boxes of cigarettes and peoplestill buy
them!! So many differenttechniques are used, all around the world,
to try to persuadepeopleto stop smokingor even to begin a course
that helps them to stop.
Cigarettes mainly contain Nicotine, Carbon Monoxideand Tar.
Nicotine is a highly addictive, fast acting drugthat reaches the brain
within 15 secondsof the substancebeing inhaled. Carbon monoxide
is a very poisonousgasthat has no smell or taste, which is why most
smokersare not actually awarethat this is in cigarettes, moreover
this is absorbed into the bloodstream and travels all around your
body, affecting your wholebody. Tar is a substance that contains
many cancer-causingchemicals, 70% of the substance is left in the
smokerslungs.
Heart disease and cancer is 2 of the main effects of smoking, this is
because of the high levels of substances that are left in your body
from inhaling the poisonousgases. Heart disease and strokes are
widely caused by the combination of taking the contraceptivepill and
smoking.

2. Aswellas all of the effects on the smoker, the peoplearound them are
also very badly affected from the smokethat is exhaled from the
cigarette. The effect is mainly on the children of the smokers, this is
on many quit smokingadverts to take the smoker down the guilt trip.
The law on smokingis very strict to keep the youngpeopleof society
away from smoking. In 2007 anew law was introduced which said
that smokingis banned in all enclosed places in the UK, for example
in pubs, restaurantsand bars. In London smokingisno longer
permitted in taxis, privatehire vehicles and also on buses…Smoking
at busstop is also notpermitted. It was also madeillegal to sell or
supply tobacco to peopleunder the age of 18; this helps prevent
youngpeoplefrom smoking, as they will end up becoming addicted.
Laws have been in place for a long time, they are very effective and
this is evidentfrom these figures…in 1979 45% of the British
population smoked and in 2013, itwasonly 19.3%, so this is a
massive decreasein the amountof smokers in the UK.
In the UK, the NHS have a ‘SmokeFree’ campaign, which started in
2006, this helps to promotequitting smoking. This is widely
advertised all over the UK, on social media, billboards, the radio and
lots of other sources. The NHS introduced this campaign because the
deaths that are caused by smokingcost them about £2.7 billion,
which is a massive amountof money for something that can be so
easily prevented. This campaign was created to remind smokers
what the effects of smokingare and why it is importantfor them to
stop smoking. It was also created to signpostand promotethe
supportavailable for peoplewho wantto stop smokingand to
representthat they are noton their own when tryingto quit. The
campaign has sponsors and it overall funded by PublicHealth
England, which allows thee campaign to producea number of
national campaignseach year, but supportfrom the community is
needed to help local people to stop smoking. The ‘SmokeFree’
campaign also have an online pagethat you can sign up to, which
allows them to receive emails and tips from PublicHealth England to
help stop smoking.
In this modern day E-cigarettes were recently introduced, which are
inspired by Hilbert A. Gilberts design in the 1960’s. Theseare
electronic devices that simulate the experienceof smokingtobacco
and the user can choose wether they wantthe substance being

3. inhaled and exhaled to contain tobacco or not. These devices were
originally made for peoplewho wantto quit smokingand have
proved to be very effectiveas many peoplestart usingthem with
tobacco in them and then they switch to the substancethat has 0%
tobacco, so therefore meansthey are notinhaling anything
dangerousor harmful.
The increasingprice of cigarettes are also persuadingpeopleto stop
because they simply cannotafford to spend money on them, the
governmentaresoon introducinganew scheme where only a 20
packet of cigarettes will be sold, so therefore will stop people
smokingbecause they wontbe able to afford it. The average US
citizen spent$1500 -$3000 lastyear on cigarettes, which is a
massive amountof money goneon something that is extremely
harmfulto their bodies. Smokingcost the US $330 billion per year in
healthcare expensesevery year.
Overall quitting smokingis being prompted every singleday in the
mediaand other traditional advertisingmethods and is helping most
smokersto stop, so therefore this will continueinto the future.