Smoking Should Be Banned In The United States
Ashley Upchurch
Professor Garner
ENG1101
23 November 2012
Smoking Ban World Wide In the early years smoking in the United States was a very common occurrence. Adults were smoking anywhere they pleased. It was normal to see a couple puffing on a cigarette in the local grocery store, on the bus to work, or even in their office cubical. Back then there were no studies shown that smoking cased health problems or death. The people did not see cigarettes as a harmful thing. It was not until the late 1960’s that the world started realizing smoking was indeed harmful. Unfortunately, at first the Public Health Services rejected the idea of further tobacco related actions, such as placing warning labels on cigarettes, or creating educational …show more content…
Smoking is still a major part of the public’s life, but in a much different way due to the smoking ban laws in restaurants and bars. I do believe the laws are a very significant because not only does smoking effect the culprit it affects the people around them who are by choice non-smokers, and these laws will help to improve the health and appearance of society. In 2000 the idea of smoking ban laws was in action. The three venues of a bar, restaurant, and workplace were chosen because they are the major source for second hand smoke exposer for non-smoking employees and public. States around the United States were debating whether they should ban smoking in public areas. “Before Delaware passed its smoke-free law in 2002, no state had adopted a comprehensive law making private workplaces, restaurants, and bars smoke-free” (“State Smoke-Free Laws for Worksites, Restaurants, and Bars --- United States, 2000”). …show more content…
Cigarette smoking has been known as the most important health risk. Smoking greatly increases the chances of obtaining lung cancer. Individuals who smoke are thirty times more likely to get or even die from lung cancer. Cigarette smoking does cause many different cancers such as nose, mouth, throat, larynx, bladder, pancreatic, stomach, blood and bone marrow cancer. And the more years a person smokes the higher the risk. Smoking does suppress functions of the immune system, causing coughing, wheezing, asthma, emphysema, bronchitis and upper and lower respiratory tract infections. Living healthy lifestyles almost has no effect if you are a cigarette smoker. “Cigarettes contain more than 4000 chemical compounds and at least 400 toxic substances. When you inhale, a cigarette burns at 700°C at the tip and around 60°C in the core. This heat breaks down the tobacco to produce various toxins” (“Smoking – health risks”). Not only does smoking alone affect your health, many non-smokers suffer from cancers formed by cigarette
Professor Garner
ENG1101
23 November 2012
Smoking Ban World Wide In the early years smoking in the United States was a very common occurrence. Adults were smoking anywhere they pleased. It was normal to see a couple puffing on a cigarette in the local grocery store, on the bus to work, or even in their office cubical. Back then there were no studies shown that smoking cased health problems or death. The people did not see cigarettes as a harmful thing. It was not until the late 1960’s that the world started realizing smoking was indeed harmful. Unfortunately, at first the Public Health Services rejected the idea of further tobacco related actions, such as placing warning labels on cigarettes, or creating educational …show more content…
Smoking is still a major part of the public’s life, but in a much different way due to the smoking ban laws in restaurants and bars. I do believe the laws are a very significant because not only does smoking effect the culprit it affects the people around them who are by choice non-smokers, and these laws will help to improve the health and appearance of society. In 2000 the idea of smoking ban laws was in action. The three venues of a bar, restaurant, and workplace were chosen because they are the major source for second hand smoke exposer for non-smoking employees and public. States around the United States were debating whether they should ban smoking in public areas. “Before Delaware passed its smoke-free law in 2002, no state had adopted a comprehensive law making private workplaces, restaurants, and bars smoke-free” (“State Smoke-Free Laws for Worksites, Restaurants, and Bars --- United States, 2000”). …show more content…
Cigarette smoking has been known as the most important health risk. Smoking greatly increases the chances of obtaining lung cancer. Individuals who smoke are thirty times more likely to get or even die from lung cancer. Cigarette smoking does cause many different cancers such as nose, mouth, throat, larynx, bladder, pancreatic, stomach, blood and bone marrow cancer. And the more years a person smokes the higher the risk. Smoking does suppress functions of the immune system, causing coughing, wheezing, asthma, emphysema, bronchitis and upper and lower respiratory tract infections. Living healthy lifestyles almost has no effect if you are a cigarette smoker. “Cigarettes contain more than 4000 chemical compounds and at least 400 toxic substances. When you inhale, a cigarette burns at 700°C at the tip and around 60°C in the core. This heat breaks down the tobacco to produce various toxins” (“Smoking – health risks”). Not only does smoking alone affect your health, many non-smokers suffer from cancers formed by cigarette