Secondhand Smoke Research Paper

Professor and Classmates, According to Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention (CDC), secondhand smoke can cause serious health problems in children. Older children whose parents smoke get sick more often and the children that inhale secondhand smoke get bronchitis and pneumonia, and the lungs grow less than the children who do not breathe secondhand smoke. Wheezing, coughing and asthma can also trigger in a child who are around parents who smoke (severe asthma can put child's life in danger). Ear infection and having fluid on child's ear and have more operations to put in ear tubes for drainage, are effect of secondhand smoke. In adult secondhand smoke can cause heart disease (nearly 34,000 heart disease deaths each year during 2005–2009 …show more content…
I do not think smokers should allow to smoke in public, it is not just they are harming people around them that breath the secondhand smoke it also increase the pollution. In addition, people that smoke leave their cigarette everywhere they can (on the ground, in the grass on the plants) The government should be responsible for regulating where individual can smokes, but then again smoking is personal choice, I mean even if the government tell us where to smoke, people who smoke will always insists that it is a free country, they can do/smoke wherever they want (selfish). I definitely agreed that smoker should not smoke in their cars and own homes especially when non-smoker is around them. "Smoking in a small-enclosed space like car because people are exposed to toxic air that is many times higher than what EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) considers hazardous air quality event if the windows are down. The gaseous and particulate components of tobacco smoke absorb into the upholstery and other surfaces inside a car, and then off-gas back into the air over the course of many days, exposing passengers to toxins long after anyone actually smoked in the car" (American for Nonsmokers' Right,