Secondhand Smoking Essay

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    Disadvantages Of Smoking

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    Smoking is very dangerous to an individual’s life. Smokers’ population is increasing immensely in day to day life. Not only adults but also underage children also started smoking in today 's world. Cigarettes contain toxins and chemicals which are poisonous to humans’ body. Smoking is a silent killer which can kill an individual slow and steadily by giving more agony before their death. Their fantasy of smoking will lead to destruction of health and their lives. Smokers can never become happy…

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    Secondhand smoke contains thousands of harmful chemicals, that may cause cancer. Nonsmokers who breathe in secondhand smoke take in nicotine, by the same way smokers do. It may cause diseases in children and in adults who do not smoke. Secondhand smoke is a serious health hazard that causes 50,000 deaths per year. Secondhand smoke, also known as environmental tobacco smoke, is especially harmful to children and babies because their lungs are still developing. Millions of children breath in…

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    No matter what age you are smoking tobacco is the leading cause of early death. “There are more than 480,000 deaths per year in the America, and 42,000 deaths that happens just for being victims of secondhand smoke” (CDC). Lastly, smoking tobacco can also not only harm yourself but it can also harm your unborn child. SIDS which is short for sudden infant’s disease syndrome is mothers who smoked during their pregnancy or babies that was exposed to some type of secondhand smoke are likely to die…

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    Cigarettes, tobacco, smoking these things bring up thoughts of bad habits, horrible cigarette smell, cancer, and secondhand smoke. Recently there has been an influx of the use of non-tobacco smoking replacement devices also known as electronic cigarettes and vaporizers. Many individuals have switched to these devices as a way to quit smoking. Many of these people have found that the way people and business treat non tobacco smokers is the same as traditional smokers. These individuals made the…

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    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…

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    through a commercial about children and the detrimental effects of secondhand smoke on their health. A student at the Arts Institute of Tampa named Dominic Smith made the commercial. This video with the title “Anti Smoking Commercial” can be found on Dominic’s YouTube channel. In this commercial, a child is shown as she grows up around a parent who is a heavy smoker. This video accurately shows the negative effects that secondhand smoke creates, as the child grows older. Many children…

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    specifically, 10,300 adults die of smoking related diseases each year (Irimina, 2017). The CDC gave the state of Virginia approximately $1.3 million in 2016 to help prevent and control tobacco use. Virginia has also taken steps to prevent secondhand smoking by enforcing smoke free zone in public areas, on school property, and college campuses. Since 2012, 7 out of 10 adults wished to quit smoking. This expansion of awareness is shown through the increase of calls to the smoking quitline by an…

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    Deadly Cigarettes

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    Americans have died prematurely from cigarette smoking than have died in all the wars fought by the United States during its history (“Health Effects of Cigarette Smoking”). At first, one would find this hard to believe when they think about all the wars this country has been through over the years and the fact that many people have died from something as simple as cigarettes. However, when one looks at the research and statistics, the damaging effects of smoking are not as difficult to…

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    bad habits. Whether it is biting your nails or smoking, habits such as these can be harmful to your body which causes severe difficulties in the future for you, and sometimes, those around you. Not all habits can be harmful to our bodies, for example washing your hands after handling raw meat is a good habit that leads to preventing infection; however, smoking is extremely dangerous for every individual involved directly, as well as indirectly. “Smoking causes more deaths each year than the…

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    The Smoking Gun: The Ban of Smoking in Public In a country as great and free as the United States of America, rights are an important piece of the country’s foundation. When it comes to smoking in public, one must ponder, who is more deserving of the right? Is it the citizen who is for smoking in public or is for the citizen who is against it? While many people are convinced that it should be the right of a legal age smoker to smoke wherever they wish, smoking in public should be banned due…

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