Smoking is one of the major issues that have raised much debate and concern in the United States. According to the statistics by the Center for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC), there are more than 400,000 people who lose their lives annually because of reasons related to smoking tobacco. The figure is equivalent to one out of every five people in America. According to health analysts, smoking is considered as one of the leading causes of death in the society alongside cancer related ailments. Smoking causes various health effects on an individual as well as the people around them better known as secondhand smoking, causes environmental pollution and eventually leading to death.

Smoking cause various types of cancer in the body. Cigarettes contains more than 7,000 different chemical compounds that also contain 400 toxic substances that are very detrimental to the body. In addition, secondhand smoking, which is causes by smoking tobacco products, is also an issue of concern in the American society. Research indicates that secondhand smokers inhale the smoke from smokers hence putting their lives and health at a higher risk of getting diseases such as cancer the even the smokers themselves.

Smoking in public places especially in colleges has also raised concern. Many institutions of higher learning in the US have banned smoking in colleges or they have developed policies and regulations that provide smokers specific designated areas for smoking. Since smoking is a problem that affects everyone in the society, it is important to come up with feasible solutions in order to help the smokers themselves so that to eliminate or reduces cases of deaths causes by smoking of tobacco products. This can be achieved by proving education for the youths and teenagers on the effects of smoking, banning advertisements of tobacco products on mainstream media, and proving assistance for the smokers in order for them to quit smoking.