Essay On Why Public Smoking Should Be Banned

Shirleen Simargi

Jim Warren

English 1B

May 7th, 2014

Why Public Smoking Should be Banned

For many decades, smoking is known as the world leading cause of preventable death and disease. Although hundreds and hundreds of studies have been conducted to prove how bad smoking is, people of various ages still do smoke. The controversy about smoking starts rising again, this issue is commonly known as second hand smoke or passive smoking. Smoke that is coming from burning a cigar or tobacco is called a mainstream smoke. Besides that, the smoke exhaled by the smoker is also considered as second hand smoke, commonly known as sidestream smoke. Both types of second hand smoke are dangerous because it is classified as a carcinogen, any substance that causes cancer (Sloan el al, 2004). In the18th century, the government started to intervene in regulating tobacco since many diseases are related to smoking. Nowadays, the government efforts are still present and proved by the regulations that ban smoking in public places. Smoking laws and regulations are crucial to reducing the number of smokers, which will help in reducing numerous diseases and deaths between the smokers and non smokers.

Smoking causes bad health not only to the smoker, but to others too. The exposure of the smoke can be categorized into two kinds: The short-term exposure causes eye irritation and respiratory track irritation. The long-term effects are causing the more lethal problems like lung cancer, coronary heart disease, and increases stroke. All of these diseases come from the 4,000 chemicals found in tobacco in which 60 of them are carcinogens. There is no level of tolerance of the second hand exposure (Cooper, 2004).

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...the state. The anti-smoker unfortunately has to face the fact that all of the smoking issues will always be there since cigarettes will always be put on sale. The tobacco industry would always in attempt to increase their sales with so many ways. The points that need to be emphasized are the consequences. Smoking brings tremendous harm in various forms of diseases not only to the smokers, but also to the people that are exposed to the smoke. The lethal consequences of smoking are incomparable to the short time of stress relief that the smokers might receive. The smoking ban and other means of tobacco control are required to help smokers stop smoking by limiting the frequency of smoking. The reducing number of smokers will reduce the exposure of secondhand smoke, which results in a healthier environment and smaller number of smoking related diseases and even death.