Is the implementation of a Smoking ban in public places a loss for smokers and a win for non smokers? Is a Smoking ban about the rights of a non-smoker versus the rights of a smoker? The fact is that a Smoking ban is not about a winner or loser; it’s about our air quality, our health and society’s obligation to protect those who are too young to protect themselves from second hand-smoke. Health Canada has stated that exposure to second-hand smoke is as harmful as if you were actually smoking because the nicotine, carcinogens and toxic chemicals are found in both tobacco smoke and second-hand smoke. More than two dozen diseases and conditions have been attributed to smoking; however the majority of these effects can reverse once you quit smoking. …show more content…
Emphysema limits your ability to breathe as a result of the lining of the lungs becomes damage beyond repair and the most common cause for this is from toxins in cigarette smoke.
Locations for implementing a smoking ban
Implementing a smoking ban is not a new concept; in fact, smoking bans have been implementing throughout Canada since 2003 in various degrees. Since these implementations begun, Canadians have become more aware of SHS and its effect on our health; however adhering to smoking bans is quite another thing. Even if we implement a smoking ban, who is to say that everyone will follow it, that people will enforce it and that it won’t just be ignored!
Public places (restaurants and bars)
As of January 1, 2015 a new Smoke-Free Strategy was implemented making it illegal to smoke on all bar and restaurant patios (covered or not). This Ontario strategy is focusing is on reducing tobacco use and ultimately lowering health risks to non-smokers. Because of strategies such as this, more smokers might decide to stop smoking, teenagers might never start and exposure to SHS will be
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The simple act of breathing is often taken for granted. As an automated function sustaining life, most of us do not have to think about the act of breathing. However, for many others, respiratory diseases make this simple act thought consuming. Emphysema is one such disease taking away the ease, but instead inflicting labored breathing and a hope for a cure.
The functioning of the chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases (COPD) is that it has a permanent decrease in the ability to force air out of the lungs. Consequently, it causes emphysema to become a more advanced disease with no cure. Emphysema is known for their permanent enlargement of the alveoli, which are accompanied by the destruction of the alveolar walls. The lungs lose their elasticity, so it loses its ability to recoil passively during expiration. People who have emphysema becomes exhausted fast because they need about fifteen to twenty percent of their body energy to breath which is more than what a healthy person needs. Smoking inhibits and destroys cilia in the conducting zone structures, which is the line of defense for the respiratory system.
There needs to be a policy to ban cigarettes, it kills the smoker, in addition, could kill the person exposed to the smoke from cigarettes. “The cigarette is also a defective product, meaning not just dangerous but unreasonably dangerous, killing half its long-term users” (Proctor), cigarettes are not healthy in any way making it a defective product, it mainly kills the smoker rather than helping them. It was produced to be inhalable smoke harming anyone who smokes them making it a defect because in the past the tobacco was too harsh to be inhaled. The policy would help cigarette smokers, especially since they don’t even like the habit of smoking cigarettes, knowing it harms them.
This year alone cigarettes will kill over 420,000 Americans, and many more will suffer from cancers, and circulatory and respiratory system diseases. These horrible illnesses were known to come from cigarettes for years. Recently the Food and Drug Administration declared nicotine, the main chemical in cigarettes, addictive. This explains why smokers continue to use cigarettes even though smokers are aware of the constantly warned about health dangers in cigarettes. Some researchers have also found out that smoking by pregnant women causes the deaths of over 5,000 babies and 115,000 miscarriages. The only way to get rid of the suffering and loss of life by cigarettes is to ban them. . For years cigarettes have been known to cause cancer, emphysema, and other horrible illnesses. The deaths of over 420,000 of Americans this year will be do to cigarettes. With all the other causes of deaths, alcohol, illegal drugs, AIDS, suicide, transportation accidents, fires, and guns, cigarettes still count for more deaths than those do combined. We can’t stand and watch people die because they smoke cigarettes. Thousands of smokers try to rid themselves of cigarettes but can't because of additive nicotine. Nicotine was recently declared addictive by the Food and Drug Administration, which explains why many smokers continue to smoke despite the health warnings on cigarette smoking. Nicotine makes it almost impossible for cigarette smokers to quit smoking because of its addictive nature, and with the cigarette manufacturers putting just enough nicotine in the so they cant be outlawed. The benefits of outlawing cigarettes greatly outnumber the disadvantages, for example, many scientists believe a link between smoking and a shortened life span exists between the two, a ban on cigarettes could increase life spans. Many studies suggest that billions of dollars now spent on smoking related. Smoking related illnesses could be reduced by outlawing cigarettes, families could save money by not purchasing cigarettes, and accidental fires costing millions of dollars caused by cigarettes would stop. Although a complete ban on cigarettes currently remains almost impossible, several organizations recently helped create a bill that could control cigarettes much in the same way the government now controls drugs. One such organization, the Food and Drug Administration, headed by David Kesslar drafted a major part, which would require manufacturers to disclose the 700 chemical additives in cigarettes, reduce the level of harmful chemicals, require cigarette companies to warn of the addictive nicotine, restrict tobacco advertising and promotion, and control the level of nicotine cigarettes contain.
One of the largest and most problematic health issues in our society is smoking. Smoking is currently the leading cause of death in our country, due to its harmful and addicting contents, such as nicotine and tobacco. Although millions die from it each year, smoking is the single most preventable cause of death as well. Without smoking, a tremendous amount of money and lives will be saved. I think that our country should ban smoking and the production of cigarettes in order to maintain a healthier nation, help save the environment, and prevent the almost 1000 deaths that they cause in fires each year.
Connectedness as explained by Slade (2013) is a crucial recovery principle that has shown to improve an individual’s quality of life. It is believed that improved quality of life can be achieved through relationships formed between others and the community (Price-Robertson, Obradovic & Morgan, 2017). An occupational therapist will need to come up with a collaboration with Trish to allow her to form relationships with people who can encourage her to have hope and also facilitate her in engaging into her meaningful occupations, which could assist in her integration into society (Tew et al., 2011). This can be performed by letting Trish participate in an activity based group program which allows relationships to be formed among people who has experienced similar condition or experiences (Gibson, D'Amico, Jaffe & Arbesman, 2011). Trish won’t only be able to access to networking opportunities but she could also improve her communication skills (Rouse & Hitch, 2014) as she mentioned that she doesn’t feel comfortable and awkward in reaching out to her community; such as her local church. Whereas in an environment that is safe and comfortable will encourage her in trying
Smoking is one of the leading killers in North America and innocent. people shouldn't die because of it. For years people have been smoking. in public thinking, "It's my body, I can do whatever I want to do." now that it has been proven that smoking not only harms the smoker.
Most specialists smoke in those days, correct? Along these lines, you ought to smoke cigarettes as well. In the event that specialists do it so might you be able to. However, is that the case in today 's general public? This particular notice is tending to the group of onlookers that smoking is alright in light of the fact that specialists are advancing that it is beneficial for you, and it will even upgrade your life; on the other hand, this is not genuine. In those days, individuals suspected that smoking a cigarette was not unsafe. In any case, in fact, throughout the years, it has been found that smoking is hurtful to one 's self, and possibly prompt genuine inconveniences.
Did you know three cigarettes could get one addicted? Every time one takes a puff of a cigarette
yet it is one of the most dangerous things you can do to yourself. Many people
The sale of cigarettes and tobacco is a multi-billion dollar industry, but is it truly worth all the problems that stem from their use. Health care costs are extremely high due to all the health problems associated with cigarettes and tobacco. Even though research has proven time and time again the harmful effects of cigarettes, and the rising cost of health care caused by cigarettes our government will not take a stand and stop all manufacturing of the horrible toxins.
Should cigarette smoking be banned for everyone in the United States? Why? Why not? Should those who chose their time smoking to relieve stress, personal enjoyment, or simply just because, have to lose their right to what makes them happy? Smoking tobacco products has been around for decades and in many different forms. Should personal rights be pushed aside to please those around us that disagree with the so called “disgusting habit”? In the paper The Washington Times an article caught my interest called”D.C. seeks bans on smoking in national parks” written by Steven Dinan. In this article he stated that “Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton wrote Park Service Regional Director Steve Whitesell saying she’s heard from constituents who fear breathing second-hand smoke while using national parks.”(Dinan, 2013) I don’t think they should. All throughout the world people do things that is not always agreed with in different cultures in communities but even religions. Some people believe eating red meat is a sin but should you take it away from those who enjoy it. We are living in the land of the free. Aren’t we? I am against the banning of tobacco products because not only is it a right as an American citizen to be able to smoke, it is a job for American citizens, and as long as smokers are knowledgeable about the product causes it should be a personal right to choose.
Those opposing a smoking ban say that freedom of choice would be affected by such legislation. Some people against a ban say that smoking bans damage business. A smoking ban could lead to a significant fall in earnings from bars, restaurants and casinos. Another argument is that the smoker has a basic human right to smoke in public places, and the ban is a limitation for smokers’ rights. Businesses, smokers, publicans, tobacco industries, stars, and some of the non-smokers oppose public smoking ban. Smokers light a cigarette because they need to smoke, not because they want it, because nicotine is physically addictive. Therefore, some smokers think that the public smoking ban is oppressiveness. They see the ban as a treatment to smokers as second-class citizens. Smokers agree that the smoking ban benefits the world, but cannot support the ban, because effects of nicotine obstruct them.
Smoking Should be Banned in All Public Places. Every year thousands of people die because of having cancer or other tobacco related illnesses due to smoking. Smoking is seen everywhere. from our own television screens to even the world wide web; the internet.