There are millions American current and former smokers living with a disease related to their smoking habit. In 2014, Brian Rostron, PhD has revised the figures for smoking-related diseases and deaths from 1998 to 2014, which were given by CDC, in the article: Smoking-Attributable Mortality by Cause in the United States: Revising the CDC’s Data and Estimates. In particular, the article points out that the number of respiratory diseases has increased through the 6-year period, ending at nearly 785,000 cases. Chronic airway obstruction, which account for nearly 28%, seemed to be the most common one within this type of diseases, but the most serious one was Bronchitis, which had the lowest rate of recovery (6.8%) (Rostron, 2014, p. 3). Moreover,
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The 2014 Annual Report conducted by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) reveals that nearly haft as many related diseases can involve second-hand smokers. When one is smoking, people around may inhale unintentionally the smoke, which retains roughly 40 percent the poisonous chemicals compared with the first-hand smoke, and 17 percent of them might have breathing problems such as emphysema and chronic bronchitis. Constantly inhaling second-hand smoke for a considerably long period of time results in serious health problems, e.g. heart-attack, lung diseases and immune system’s issues, and certainly is responsible for a substantial number of tobacco-related mortalities. If a person passively smoke in a long period of time, the possibility that he or she has lung cancer will soar up by 48 per cent, whereas the risk of having heart-attack will increase by 25 per cent (Lonergan, Meaney, Perry, Comber, 2014, p. 2). The figures given by the article also indicated that children and pregnant women are more likely to be the innocent victims of the diseased ensued by smoking involuntarily. Despite the fact that passive smoking poses a major threat to public health, there has been an obvious lack of awareness among general population of it. In America, although the Synar Amendment and other regulations restricting the number of tobacco products
The 2014 Annual Report conducted by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) reveals that nearly haft as many related diseases can involve second-hand smokers. When one is smoking, people around may inhale unintentionally the smoke, which retains roughly 40 percent the poisonous chemicals compared with the first-hand smoke, and 17 percent of them might have breathing problems such as emphysema and chronic bronchitis. Constantly inhaling second-hand smoke for a considerably long period of time results in serious health problems, e.g. heart-attack, lung diseases and immune system’s issues, and certainly is responsible for a substantial number of tobacco-related mortalities. If a person passively smoke in a long period of time, the possibility that he or she has lung cancer will soar up by 48 per cent, whereas the risk of having heart-attack will increase by 25 per cent (Lonergan, Meaney, Perry, Comber, 2014, p. 2). The figures given by the article also indicated that children and pregnant women are more likely to be the innocent victims of the diseased ensued by smoking involuntarily. Despite the fact that passive smoking poses a major threat to public health, there has been an obvious lack of awareness among general population of it. In America, although the Synar Amendment and other regulations restricting the number of tobacco products