Some people who don’t agree the cigarette should be banned might say that it is the people who are smoking choice. Smoking is not illegal, so that we cannot stop them. We don’t have right to stop them to do harm to their body, and to their lung either. However, have you ever heart about secondhand smoke? Smoking is not only harmful to people who smoke but also much more harmful to the people who stay around and inhale the smoke? According to American Lung Association, each year, there are more than 41,000 deaths because of secondhand smoke. In 41,000 deaths, about 7,330 deaths are from lung cancer and 33,950 deaths are from heart disease. We don’t need to smoke to have illness as the smoker. It is unfair for people who have the responsibility
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Some children who are expose to secondhand smoke may have many serious health problems such as ear infections, coughs and colds, respiratory problem and tooth decay. Some country they don’t even restrict the age to buy the cigarette. My country Vietnam is an example. We can buy anything including alcohol and cigarette when we have enough money no matter how old we are. The children don’t know what is right or wrong. When they see an adult smoke, first time they can feel uncomfortable, but it wont when they see it so many time. The worst thing about that is every child has curious. They want to try something new, something different from the other. However, they don’t know about the health problem of that habit. The only thing they know is the cigarette is legal. It is not banned, so that it is not bad. According to WHO, teenage smokers suffer from shortness of breath almost three times as often as teens who don’t smoke. The smoke also causes some of bad habits. “Teens who smoke are three time more likely than nonsmokers to use alcohol, eight times more likely to use marijuana, and 22 times more likely to use cocaine”(World Health …show more content…
One cigarette contain about 600 ingredients and when burn the cigarette, we are creating more than 7000 chemicals. In those chemicals, there are about 69 chemicals that increase the risk of cancer to our body. In addition, carbon monoxide is also one of 7000 chemicals in cigarette smoke (American Lung Association). Carbon monoxide is also found in released in car exhaust fumes. That chemical is caused of global warming. The reason that we don’t consider cigarette smoke as the main impact of global warming because there is very small amount of carbon monoxide can be releasing when we burn the cigarette. However, when the number of smoker is increasing significantly, it can be the real problem. According to the World Health Organization, “ about 1.1 billion people world wide smoke, and this number is expected to triple over the next 25 years”(Gosselin). Not only the cigarette smoke can impact the environment but also the tobacco farming also can impact the environment. Gosselin also pointed out that, “ the widespread monoculture inherent in growing tobacco extracts six times more potassium from the soil than growing other plants does”. Particularly, before the cigarette can be used, we have to dry the tobacco. In order to dry one kilogram of tobacco, we have to burn about 150 kilogram of wood. 150 kilogram of wood is about 1.2 million of hectares of forest and about 600 million trees.
Some children who are expose to secondhand smoke may have many serious health problems such as ear infections, coughs and colds, respiratory problem and tooth decay. Some country they don’t even restrict the age to buy the cigarette. My country Vietnam is an example. We can buy anything including alcohol and cigarette when we have enough money no matter how old we are. The children don’t know what is right or wrong. When they see an adult smoke, first time they can feel uncomfortable, but it wont when they see it so many time. The worst thing about that is every child has curious. They want to try something new, something different from the other. However, they don’t know about the health problem of that habit. The only thing they know is the cigarette is legal. It is not banned, so that it is not bad. According to WHO, teenage smokers suffer from shortness of breath almost three times as often as teens who don’t smoke. The smoke also causes some of bad habits. “Teens who smoke are three time more likely than nonsmokers to use alcohol, eight times more likely to use marijuana, and 22 times more likely to use cocaine”(World Health …show more content…
One cigarette contain about 600 ingredients and when burn the cigarette, we are creating more than 7000 chemicals. In those chemicals, there are about 69 chemicals that increase the risk of cancer to our body. In addition, carbon monoxide is also one of 7000 chemicals in cigarette smoke (American Lung Association). Carbon monoxide is also found in released in car exhaust fumes. That chemical is caused of global warming. The reason that we don’t consider cigarette smoke as the main impact of global warming because there is very small amount of carbon monoxide can be releasing when we burn the cigarette. However, when the number of smoker is increasing significantly, it can be the real problem. According to the World Health Organization, “ about 1.1 billion people world wide smoke, and this number is expected to triple over the next 25 years”(Gosselin). Not only the cigarette smoke can impact the environment but also the tobacco farming also can impact the environment. Gosselin also pointed out that, “ the widespread monoculture inherent in growing tobacco extracts six times more potassium from the soil than growing other plants does”. Particularly, before the cigarette can be used, we have to dry the tobacco. In order to dry one kilogram of tobacco, we have to burn about 150 kilogram of wood. 150 kilogram of wood is about 1.2 million of hectares of forest and about 600 million trees.