Smoking, Acceptable Risk

The risks of smoking are very well known. However, millions of people still smoke. Why? I can¡¦t say why other people still smoke even though the effects of cigarette smoke are well know, but I can say why I still decide to smoke cigarettes. In this paper I will try to attempt to give the reader some information on cigarette smoking and then explain why I consider smoking an acceptable risk. Most of this …showed first 75 words of 823 total…

…showed last 75 words of 823 total…must agree with the doctor. The RAND institute in Santa Monica found that obese adults have more chronic health problems than smokers, heavy drinkers or the poor. Roland Sturm, a RAND economist and lead author of the survey, which was published in the latest edition of the British journal Public Health, said, ¡§We didn¡¦t expect this bid difference.¡¨ The study showed the obese tend to have far more health problems than daily smokers do.