The Air We Breathe: Second-Hand Killer
How many times have you walked down a street, sat in a park, or waited outside a restaurant and have been engulfed by a cloud of smoke? This is something non-smokers must endure in their daily lives. It is unreasonable for someone to just be subjected or to not give consent to breathing in the toxic fumes that are released when another person is smoking. This is known as passive smoking, which is the involuntary inhaling of smoke from someone else’s cigarette, pipe, or cigar. It is unfortunate that even though there are designated areas for smokers have a cigarette or two, they do not always respect the space of others. Not only are adults dealing with the health repercussions of second-hand smoke but children are being subjected to this as well. There have been studies done to show the correlation between the effects of second-hand smoking that lead to cancers and respiratory problems. Smoking in public places should be banned because second-hand smoke causes serious health consequences. Solution to this problem would be banning cigarettes and only allowing electronic cigarettes in designated areas.
Cigarette smoke is made up of about seven thousand chemicals, …show more content…
21% of the population chooses to smoke out of 45 million adults in the U.S. Also when smokers pay for cigarettes or cigars they assume the health risks of the fume they put into their bodies out of the enjoyment they receive from smoking. Smokers are also paying nearly have the retail price of cigarettes just on taxes, which is twice as much in state taxes from non-smokers. Some see the anti-smoking industry as a campaign against the rights of a minority, the smokers, to make the government bigger and powerful. Anti-smoking lobbyists want to go even further by banning smoking in the few places left for smokers to go to enjoy their habit and relieve their stress (Bast, Joseph par.
How many times have you walked down a street, sat in a park, or waited outside a restaurant and have been engulfed by a cloud of smoke? This is something non-smokers must endure in their daily lives. It is unreasonable for someone to just be subjected or to not give consent to breathing in the toxic fumes that are released when another person is smoking. This is known as passive smoking, which is the involuntary inhaling of smoke from someone else’s cigarette, pipe, or cigar. It is unfortunate that even though there are designated areas for smokers have a cigarette or two, they do not always respect the space of others. Not only are adults dealing with the health repercussions of second-hand smoke but children are being subjected to this as well. There have been studies done to show the correlation between the effects of second-hand smoking that lead to cancers and respiratory problems. Smoking in public places should be banned because second-hand smoke causes serious health consequences. Solution to this problem would be banning cigarettes and only allowing electronic cigarettes in designated areas.
Cigarette smoke is made up of about seven thousand chemicals, …show more content…
21% of the population chooses to smoke out of 45 million adults in the U.S. Also when smokers pay for cigarettes or cigars they assume the health risks of the fume they put into their bodies out of the enjoyment they receive from smoking. Smokers are also paying nearly have the retail price of cigarettes just on taxes, which is twice as much in state taxes from non-smokers. Some see the anti-smoking industry as a campaign against the rights of a minority, the smokers, to make the government bigger and powerful. Anti-smoking lobbyists want to go even further by banning smoking in the few places left for smokers to go to enjoy their habit and relieve their stress (Bast, Joseph par.