Smoking Persuasive Research Paper

“More than 400,000 deaths in the United States each year are from smoking-related illnesses.” This is a quote from the National Institutes of Health regarding smoking. Smoking is a practice that a person does where a substance is burned and the smoke is either tasted or inhaled. Most of the time people use it as a recreational drug because it releases nicotine and is absorbed through the lungs. It has been said that smoking related diseases kills one half of all long term smokers but these diseases may also appear in non-smokers. For those of us who are non-smokers, it is disturbing to find out that even though you do not smoke, you can still get diseases that are caused from smoking; this is thanks to second hand smoke. As a non-smoker, when one breathes in second hand smoke they take in nicotine and other toxic chemicals just like a smoker does. The more secondhand smoke that a person is exposed to the level of harmful chemicals in their body is also very high. Second hand smoke is a very big problem recently. Stores, restaurants, and other public places are beginning to ban smoking inside and ask that if someone wants to smoke they must step outside so many feet from the building. There are four major places where smoking is a very big problem: at work, in public place, at home,
Second hand smoke in the workplace has been linked to an increased risk for heart disease and lung cancer among non-smokers. By placing restrictions on smoking at work, that protects non-smokers from second hand smoke and also helps encourage those who do smoke to quit. I believe that there should be a ban put in the workplace when it comes to smoking. I know that when I go to work I do not want to show up to the smell of smoke, and leave to go home smelling like smoke. If I was to walk into work where people were smoking I would feel as if I could not breathe or work because of the