The passage is all about the dangers of smoking. It discussed the possible harmful health effects of tobacco use among the smokers and the secondhand smoke that their loved ones, such as family and friends, could inhale. This passage is all about preventing someone to use tobacco, by discussing its health consequences to everyone.

B. Smoking is a harmful habit.

Tobacco products have an active ingredient called Nicotine. It is the addictive substance produced by tobacco. Nicotine consumption causes the brain to release dopamine, a neurotransmitter that has a mood-altering characteristic that causes the feeling of pleasure and happiness. The pleasure that the smoker experience from nicotine consumption is the reason why smokers are addicted to tobacco products.

A. By explaining that nicotine makes users want more

Intro: Good morning, everyone! You are now listening to (podcast name) and this is (your name), (a catchy introduction about yourself), your host for this special day! (Podcast music) For today’s topic, we are going to talk about the things that you need to know about tobacco use and its health consequences. So without further ado, let us begin this discussion!
Topic 1: First of all, what is Tobacco? Tobacco is made from the leaves of tobacco plants from the Solanaceae family and Nicotiana genus, which is initially indigenous to America, but is now grown all over the world. Tobacco contain thousands of toxic substances and that includes carcinogens — cancer-causing substances, such as tar. Tar is the dark viscous fluid that is produced when tobacco burns. The tobacco leaves also contain high concentrations of nicotine — the addictive substance of tobacco.
Topic 2: But how does nicotine become addictive? Well, nicotine consumption stimulates the central nervous system, specifically the brain, to release a chemical called dopamine. Dopamine is a neurotransmitter that is responsible for mood-altering changes that provides pleasure to a person. This pleasure cause tobacco dependence, which eventually leads to addiction.
Topic 3: What is addiction? Addiction is a condition that is characterized by compulsive substance utilization regardless of its health consequences. Tobacco addiction causes various detrimental health consequences, not only for the tobacco users, but also to others.
Topic 4: Tobacco use can eventually endanger your social, environmental, emotional, psychological and physiological well-being. The long-term physiological effects of tobacco use includes respiratory and cardiovascular conditions. Tobacco use does not only causes drastic changes in your physical appearance, but it can also weaken your immune system and causes conditions such as asthma, chronic bronchitis, emphysema, lung cancer, coronary heart disease, arteriosclerosis, myocardial infarction and stroke.
Topic 5: Smoking affects your health and even other people’s health, because it stimulates environmental tobacco smoke (ETS). What is ETS? Environmental tobacco smoke or secondhand smoke is the smoke being exhaled from the smoker’s lungs and the smoke produced when the tobacco in the cigarette burns. ETS can also cause respiratory diseases, like lung cancer. And it is a significant health concern because there had been a constant increase in the death rate of the people who developed lung cancer due to smoking.
Outro: Tobacco use negatively affects your life and the people that surrounds you. Therefore, you should choose to live a healthy, quality life without the stress of having tobacco-related diseases that could be unbearable. Avoid tobacco use and educate others. Be a role model in your community and encourage the society to live in a smoke-free environment. This all for today’s podcast! I hope you have learned something from me. Once again, this is (your name) and thank you for listening to (podcast name)! (Podcast music)

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