Tobacco use is a huge public health concern for many reasons. It can cause cancer of all kinds, heart disease and stroke, lung diseases, and more. Users of tobacco can suffer many reproductive effects such as ectopic pregnancy, premature birth, low birth weight, stillbirth, reduced fertility in women, and erectile dysfunction; and birth defects, including cleft-lip and/or cleft palate. There are many other serious effects of Tobacco usage like Type 2 diabetes, age-related macular degeneration, rheumatoid arthritis, blindness, cataracts, hip fractures, impaired immune function, and periodontitis. Tobacco overall diminishes peoples health which is why it is such an enormous health concern. Not only does tobacco affect the person smoking, it …show more content…
Another issue is that tobacco use by teens and young adults remains shockingly high in the United States. Today, over 3.6 million middle and high school students smoke cigarettes. In fact, for every person who dies due to smoking which is more than 1,200 each day, at least two youth or young adults become regular smokers. Nearly 90% of these replacement smokers try their first cigarette by age 18. In order to solve these issues companies and programs have decided to take some measurements that will reduce tobacco use to the point that it is no longer a public health problem for the Nation. These strategies include increasing the price of tobacco products which enacts comprehensive smoke-free policies, expanding cessation treatment in clinical care settings and providing access to proven cessation treatment to all smokers, implementing hard-hitting anti-tobacco media campaigns, fully funding tobacco control programs at CDC-recommended levels, controlling access to tobacco products, including e-cigarettes and combustible and noncombustible products, and reducing tobacco advertising and promotion directed at