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Annotated Bibliography on the Effects of Smoking
Harris, Jeffery E. "Cigarette Smoke Components, and Disease: Cigarette Smoke Is More Than a
Triad of Tar, Nicotine, and Carbon Monoxide.” Smoking and Tobacco Control
Monograph. Vol. 7. (1996): 59-75.
In this article, the effects of tobacco on the human body is explored. Tobacco is
illustrated to affect most parts of the body and cause various complications such as cancer, lung
diseases, diseases of the heart as well as the blood vessels which end up destroying even the
human reproductive systems. According to Jeffrey Harris, “cigarette smoking is the primary
cause of lung cancer in the United States contributing to over 90% of lung cancer cases in men
and 79% in women. He also adds that smoking behavior primarily causes most of the Chronic
Obstructive Lung Diseases (COLD)behaviour. Smoking causes mutation of the cells in the body,
and this leads to blockage of cilia that plays a key role in the breathing passages in human.
According to Jeffrey Harris, cigarette smoking can cause further abnormalities in the human
digestive and respiratory systems which can result in the inflammation of the digestive and
respiratory tract.
