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Science Summary- The Concept of Stress, Sponsored by Big Tobacco

The founder of modern stress, physiologist Hans Selye has formed a settlement among Big Tobacco manufacturers that stress is the chilling factor responsible for resulted deadly health problems. Big Tobacco insists that stress is causing heart disease and lung cancer. Stress is defined as the physiological and psychological response to a condition that threatens or challenges an individual and requires some form of adaptation or adjustment. ( Wood, Samuel E., Ellen Green Wood, and Denise Boyd. "Sources of Stress." N.p.: n.p., n.d. 317+. Print.) Stressors responsible for an everyday individual (male or female) responsible for the constant use of tobacco can include school/college, peer pressure, family, or career issues. “Despite the success of the campaign to associate smoking with stress relief, the idea that smoking alleviates anxiety is almost certainly wrong. It tends to just relieve anxiety-provoking withdrawal and quitting smoking reduces overall anxiety levels. ” ("The Concept of Stress, Sponsored by Big Tobacco." Web log post. //Mind Hacks//. N.p., n.d. Web. 16 July 2014. ) Anxiety forms from fearful thoughts for the future (Wood, Samuel E., Ellen Green Wood, and Denise Boyd. "Anxiety Disorders." 2012. //Mastering the World of Psychology//. N.p.: n.p., n.d. 385+. Print. ), these anxiety levels can result from feeling anxious to smoke another cigarette just after quitting or having nicotine withdrawals. Although, it is possible to die from stress and anxiety related situations and disorders, I find it absolutely absurd that these trillion dollar companies constantly find new “evidence” to create scapegoats their deadly products.

References: "The Concept of Stress, Sponsored by Big Tobacco." Web log post. //Mind Hacks//. N.p., n.d. Web. 16 July 2014.

Wood, Samuel E., Ellen Green Wood, and Denise Boyd. "Sources of Stress." N.p.: n.p., n.d. 317+. Print.

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