Smoking

According to a recent estimation by the World Health Organization or “WHO”, it was found that there are about 1.1 billion smokers in the world today. This number is steadily increasing and it is expected to rise to about 1.64 billion by the year 2025. The W.H.O. estimated some four million deaths each year that are caused by tobacco use. It is expected that if smoking were not reduced, then there would be about ten million people dead per year by 2030. If the current smoking trends continue, tobacco is expected to become the leading cause of death worldwide, causing more deaths than HIV, maternal mortality, automobile accidents, homicide and suicide combined. But these implications lie beyond the smoker. Those who are exposed to the smoke are usually innocent bystanders in public places where there is or are smokers present. Not only smokers endanger themselves, but everybody around them. This is cause for enough concern to suggest a ban in public places. This paper will explain that smoking is bad for people and that it should be banned from public places.
Since the tobacco industry is quite a large one and it affects almost everybody that resides in the United States of America, the rules and regulations for the tobacco industry to follow have to be very carefully and implemented. It is the aim of many organizations, such as the American Lung Association (ALA) to minimize the consumption of cigarettes all over the United States. Smoking, and smoking related inflictions, is responsible for over four hundred thousand deaths in America each year. In addition to these priceless losses of lives, smoking costs “the United States approximately $97.2 billion each year in health-care costs and lost productivity. It is directly responsible for 87 percent of lung cancer cases and causes most cases of emphysema and chronic bronchitis.” (ALA) So in effect, the ALA has some proposed rules and guidelines through which it manipulates the advertisement as well as the