drugs and their dangers: Cigarette

Introduction

The cigarette is one of the best selling consumer products in the world. Commands legions of loyal buyers and has a rapidly expanding market. At, the manufacturers are proud to have impressive profits, political influence and prestige. The only problem is that your best customers die off one by one.

The Economist magazine comments: "cigarettes are among the most profitable consumer products in the world. They are also the only (legal) products that used the book addictive, most consumers and often kill him. " This gives huge profits forthe tobacco industry, but huge losses for customers.

According to the Centers for disease control and prevention, the United States, the lives of American smokers is reduced,collectively, every year, about five million years ago, about a minute of life less for each minute spent smoking. " Smokingkills 420,000 Americans a year, "says Newsweek. "This is equivalent to 50 times more deaths than those caused by illegal drugs."

What's in Cigarettes

Up to seven hundred chemical additives maybe entering the ingredients used in the manufacture of cigarettes, but the lawallows manufacturers to keep the list secret. However, listed among the ingredients heavy matais, pesticides andinsecticides. Some are so toxic that it's illegal to dump them in landfills. That attractive spiral of smoke is packed with some4,000 chemicals, including acetone, arsenic, butane, carbon monoxide and cyanide. The lungs of smokers and those whoare near are exposed to at least 43 demonstrably carcinogenic substances.

hundreds of harmful substances are present in the cigarette.

What's behind the Cigarette

Worldwide, three million people per year-six per minute-live because of the smoke, according to the book Mortality FromSmoking in Developed Countries 1950-2000, published jointly by the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, of Great Britain, by the who (World Health Organization) and the American Cancer Society. This analysis of global trends with respect to smoking, the most comprehensive to date, encompasses 45 countries. "In most countries," warns Richard Peto, of theImperial Cancer Research Fund, "the worst is yet to come. If current smoking patterns persist, when the young smokers oftoday reach middle age or old age, there will be about 10 million deaths per year caused by smoking-one death every threeseconds.

The smoke is different from other hazards ", says Dr. Alan Lopez, of the who. "Finish killing one in two smokers". MartinVessey, Department of public health at the University of Oxford, says something like: "These findings within a period of 40years lead to the terrible conclusion that half of all smokers will end up dying because of this habit – a terrifying idea." Since the 50.60 million people died because of smoking. This idea is very terrifying for the tobacco industry. If every year,worldwide, three million people die for reasons linked to smoking, and many other stop smoking, so every year we must find three million new smokers.

A source of new smokers came about because of what the tobacco industry hails as women's lib. Smoking among women isa fact already for a few years in Western countries and is now gaining ground in places where you could see it a stigma.Cigarette makers want to change all that. Want to help women celebrate prosperity and releasing newly-conquered. Specialbrands of cigarettes which claim to have low nicotine and tar lime women who smoke and who find that kind of cigaretteless harmful. Other cigarettes are perfumed or so are long and thin – the visual that maybe women dream to get smoking.The cigarette ads in Asia feature Oriental models, young and chic, sleek and seductively dressed in Western style.

However, the balance of deaths related to smoking is gaining ground, along with the "release" of women. The number ofvictims of lung cancer among women has doubled in the last 20 years in Britain, in Japan, in Norway, in Poland and inSweden. In the United States and in Canada, the indexes have increased 300%. "You've come a long way, baby!", says an ad for cigarettes. Some cigarette manufacturers have their own strategy. A certain company in the Philippines, a predominantlyCatholic country, has distributed free calendars in which just below the image of the Virgin Mary appeared, brazenly, thecigarette logo.

"I've never seen anything like it," said Dr. Rosmarie Erban, Counsellor of the who health in Asia. "They were trying toconnect the icon to smoking, so women Philippines not to feel guilty on the idea of smoking." In China, it is estimated that61% of adult men fu.

Smoking and its derivatives are part of the Group of drugs considered of high dangerousness to human health. Lives areengulfed by the evils of smoke every minute. However the profit generated by the smoke moves billions of dollars every year. Thousands of hours of propaganda in favour of the smoke are broadcast in the mass media each week seeking newconsumer markets. If the smoke is bad for some, does very well to so many others that enjoy the profit generated by smoking and its derivatives. The vast majority however dies and gets sick every day. The smoke brings numerous costs to our society.