“…..Nearly half the adult population regularly performs a bizarre act which is necessary neither for the maintenance of life nor for the satisfaction of social, sexual, cultural, or spiritual needs; an act which is acknowledged, even by its adherents, to be harmful to health and even distasteful” (Aston and Stepney 1982: VII). Regarding the above statement a vast majority of anti-smoking campaigners believe that the restriction on smoking in public locations should be increased and effective actions should be taken by governments in order to reduce the consumption of tobacco. On the other hand, addicted smokers consider smoking prohibition as interference in their civil freedom. Though they argue that they have the right to smoke whenever and wherever they want; governments consider passive smoking’s threats as a major priority to deal with. This essay will discuss the policies taken by governments to decrease or even stop smoking among the public. Moreover, it will present smoker’s arguments regarding their right to smoke in public places.
Passive smoking also known as second hand smoking is one of the major reasons of smoking restrictions in public places. It can be defined as inhalation of someone else’s smoke implicitly. It occurs when smoke infuses in the air, making people around to breathe it indirectly. The first global study into the effects of passive smoking was carried out by world health organization (WHO) in 2004 among 192 countries. The study found that, passive smoking kills around 600,000 humans worldwide every year, in which more than 34% are children and decreases the life expectancy by 10 years. The study concluded that passive smoking is responsible for majority of heart diseases, asthma, respiratory ill...
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...kes it quite hard for both parties to find a way from this calamity. There are a number of different way outs for both governments and smokers to give up smoking. Governments should try to make new polices against smoking, and correspondingly smokers should try to help their selves to leave up this nasty habit.
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The smoking issue is very complicated and some of the arguments are beyond the scope of this essay. Still, we can obtain a balanced outlook if we consider the following: the facts of smoking, individual right, societal responsibility, and the stigma of smoking. Haviland and King write essays which contain very important points, but seem to contain a bias which may alienate some people. To truly reach a consensus on the smoking issue, we must be willing to meet each other halfway. We must strike equilibrium between individual right and societal responsibility.
In the year 2000, smoking has fallen out of public favour and is seen as an undesirable social and physical health hab...
...ife. Furthermore smoker’s needs to be encouraged to quit thus it may take many attempts before victims can quit completely. However, good communication with smokers needs careful discussion to reduce the risk of earlier failure problems facing quitting. If nurses can make it their duty by reaching out to each of their patients about quitting smoking, then this would go a long wait in reaching a lot of people even if they don’t want to. There is already smoke free policy in the UK which is working and hopefully will still help in the reduction of smoking con gumption. It is important the government do more of anti-smoking campaigns to reach out to the manual and routine group and make follow up in regards to quitting completely. Furthermore, they need to increase tax rates on tobacco and put an end to shops that still advertising cigarette smoking in their shops
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