Cigarette Smoking Should Be Banned
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Cigarette Smoking Should Be Banned
Introduction
It has become fashionable in the world today to condemn smoking. Smoking should be banned because it destroys people’s health, finances and families.
Smoking has been shown to be dangerous to health of the people. Heart disease, bronchitis and lung cancer have all been linked. A further issue is that smoking costs governments millions of rands because of the large number of people who need treatment in hospitals for smoking related problems. There is also concern today about passive smoking. Recent research has shown that non-smokers can suffer health problems if they spend long periods of time among people who do smoke.
The other factor is the finances. You find that some irresponsible father who smoke rather have a smoke than buying a groceries, furniture or paying a child school trip. The little money that they have they save it for the cigarette. On that note, cigarette price is being increased now and then.
Smoking also damages productivity and families as parents die young because of tobacco related illnesses. The report says that poor people spend a disproportionately high amount of their income on cigarettes. For example, in Kenya it an average of two hours and 40 minutes to earn enough to buy a packet for imported cigarettes, while in the United Kingdom it takes just 40 minutes.
One of the most important factor is families where you find that a pregnant women smoke without even thinking about the well being of the new life that she is caring. You find that when a particular child is born, he or she is born with the disease which delays the development. Therefore, the family suffers and loses a lot of money because of the effect of the cigarette.
The other factor which affects the families is the matter of teenage kids smoking. These kids smoke because they think that it is fun which goes with alcohol which then leads to unprotected sex and result in the high rate of
Cigarette Smoking Should Be Banned
Introduction
It has become fashionable in the world today to condemn smoking. Smoking should be banned because it destroys people’s health, finances and families.
Smoking has been shown to be dangerous to health of the people. Heart disease, bronchitis and lung cancer have all been linked. A further issue is that smoking costs governments millions of rands because of the large number of people who need treatment in hospitals for smoking related problems. There is also concern today about passive smoking. Recent research has shown that non-smokers can suffer health problems if they spend long periods of time among people who do smoke.
The other factor is the finances. You find that some irresponsible father who smoke rather have a smoke than buying a groceries, furniture or paying a child school trip. The little money that they have they save it for the cigarette. On that note, cigarette price is being increased now and then.
Smoking also damages productivity and families as parents die young because of tobacco related illnesses. The report says that poor people spend a disproportionately high amount of their income on cigarettes. For example, in Kenya it an average of two hours and 40 minutes to earn enough to buy a packet for imported cigarettes, while in the United Kingdom it takes just 40 minutes.
One of the most important factor is families where you find that a pregnant women smoke without even thinking about the well being of the new life that she is caring. You find that when a particular child is born, he or she is born with the disease which delays the development. Therefore, the family suffers and loses a lot of money because of the effect of the cigarette.
The other factor which affects the families is the matter of teenage kids smoking. These kids smoke because they think that it is fun which goes with alcohol which then leads to unprotected sex and result in the high rate of