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Health Hazards of Cigarettes

The dangers of smoking are well known to most Americans who still smoke in this decade, yet smokers still persist in the single most avoidable cancer risk. Smokers and nonsmokers alike are aware of the risks, as studies from each succeeding decade huild up a consistent body of evidence showing that smoke and second-hand smoke are detrimental to personal and public safety.

Although for the first time there are now more Americans who have quit smoking than who still smoke, and although the overall smoking rate among adults is now just below 25 percent, more than 43 million American men and women still smoke. Unfortunately, there has been no decline in smoking by teenagers, with 17 percent of high school seniors now smoking daily (Brody, 1993, p. 17).

The above statistics will be examined in view of the health hazards of cigarettes, smokeless tobacco, second-hand smoke, and the tobacco companies' reactions to the unprecedented wave of anti-smoking sentiment. In a desperate bid to fight back against an increasing wave of anti-smoking sentiment in America, tobacco companies are courting a very lucrative foreign market, as home sales begin to decline. The incidence of smoking is declining, at least among adults (teenage smoking is actually increasing--some would say because of the Joe Camel cartoon advertisements).

The evidence indicating cigarettes are a direct or contributory cause of cancer is staggering. Other forms of tobacco, such as smokeless tobacco, or "snuff," and second-hand smoke, also are carcinogens. Smokeless tobacco involves placing a chew of tobacco directly in a recess of the mouth against the cheek, and second-hand smoke involves emitting a stream of unfiltered smoke into the surrounding air.

For at least 25 years, the following types of studies have proved that to smoke is to court cancer: historical studies, comparative studies, and animal studies (Facts on File, 1994, p. 242). Historical studie...

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