Cigarette smoking is responsible for more than 480,000 deaths per year in the United States; not excluding getting lung, mouth or throat cancer. About 42,000 deaths result from secondhand smoke exposure yearly. However, drugstores and other stores worldwide still sell cigarettes and other tobacco products, while consumers still purchase it everyday. Drug stores should prohibit selling tobacco products, as it is counterproductive to the store’s purpose. It has been one year since CVS Pharmacy stopped selling tobacco in its stores and the company says the move has resulted in a decline in cigarette purchases over the last year. According to CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) “The past year cigarette smoking rates among high school …show more content…
I congratulate – and thank – the CEO of CVS Caremark, Larry Merlo, the board of directors, and all who helped make a choice that will have a profoundly positive impact on the health of our country". (“Tobacco-Free …show more content…
Going back to psychology, one learns that on the right side of your brain, an individual has the ability and functions for art, creativity, imagination, intuition, insight, holistic thoughts, music awareness, left hand control. (“Right-Brain Hemisphere”). Then, on the left side of your brain, an individual possesses the abilities and functions to develop analytic thought, logic, reasoning, language, science and math, writing, and right hand control; however, based on Researchers at the University of Chicago, they found that the nicotine in cigarettes does not just stimulate the brain’s reward system, but alters the balance inputs from two kinds of neuron, which develop a new form of satisfaction from smoking. Therefore, that is the reason why nicotine is as addictive and powerful as it is.
According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, it was stated that when Nicotine is released in the bloodstream it causes one to release a type of hormone called epinephrine or also known as adrenaline. This leads to an increase in blood pressure as well as heart rate. Once blood pressure is increased, breathing becomes rapid and shallow. As nicotine use continues, these effects can damage your heart, arteries, and lungs,which then increases the chance of getting a heart attack, stroke, and chronic lung