Social workers understand how diversity can characterize and shape someone's experience and how it is central to the formation of their identity. The elements of diversity are recognized as the crossroads of various components which include; age, class, color, culture, disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity and expression, immigration status, political ideology, race, religion, sex, and sexual orientation. Social workers appreciate that someone's life experiences can include abuse, poverty, marginalization and alienation, as well as privilege, power and consensus as consequences of differences. A social worker must understand human diversity to analyze and understand human behavior. in this diversified society to achieve the following objectives; respect cultural and ethnic origins, develop knowledge to understand individuals, families and communities in their socio-cultural and socio-economic aspects of life, develop the ability to bring individual and social change towards justice. This helps understand human behavior (University of Chicago). Smoking is a current problem, there has been and is here until now. It is the second leading cause of death in the world; kills nearly 6 million people every year. That is one person every 6 seconds. It is responsible for the deaths of one in ten adults and kills up to half of its users. Since it is the leading preventable cause of all deaths, it must be prevented. Despite the negative side effects of smoking such as; smoking kills, aggravates poverty, contributes to world hunger by diverting the use of land to its production, its production damages the environment and reduces economic productivity, many people still smoke tobacco every day. It's... half the paper... it's whole. Through tuition remission if offered at Barry University and I become one of the nominated students. With personal savings, I can also finance my education. Works CitedHuman Diversity Requirement, University of Chicago, accessed February 28, 2014 https://ssa.uchicago.edu/human-diversity-requirementShah A. (January 4, 2014). Tobacco, Global Issues, accessed February 28, 2014 http://www.globalissues.org/article/533/tobaccoTobacco, World Health Organization, accessed February 28, 2014, http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets /fs339/ en/Social Work, Mephis University, accessed February 28, 2014, http://memphis.edu/socialwork/whystudysocialwork.phpMethisen S. (July 12, 2011). The Importance of Social Work in Our Society, accessed February 28, 2014, http://www.sooperarticles.com/careers-articles/importance-social-work-our-society-541095.html